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- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
history that year was Dr. Andrea Lluch, from Argentina. This was the origins of a research program and conference series which led to this collaborative volume, and the Creating Emerging Markets oral history project, which began with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
Sustainability firms and 90 as Low Sustainability firms, in order to examine issues of governance, culture, and performance. Findings for an 18-year period show that High Sustainability firms dramatically outperformed the Low Sustainability ones in terms of both View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We show that characteristics of stock issuers can be used to forecast important common factors in stocks' returns such as those associated with book-to-market, size, and industry.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
unknown entrepreneurs in markets where he saw great potential. Unlike other venture capitalists of the time that focused on finding outstanding entrepreneurs or groundbreaking technology, Valentine took a different approach. He focused... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
will take place.” The departure of Dennis Muilenburg, Boeing’s CEO, was announced on December 23. Boeing’s stock rallied on the news. Clearly, the departure of one person is not a solution to an endemic problem. The question remains: How... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
I’ve heard many ideas for reducing gun violence in the United States, but this was a new one on me. Mihir Desai, a finance professor at Harvard Business School, noted in a recent podcast that stock prices of gun manufacturers are severely... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
government has the resources necessary to address the magnitude of the market imbalance that exists." Gould, who was the director of two homeless shelters before enrolling at HBS, was vividly reminded of that imbalance at the recent... View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
stake in a number of portfolio companies at Fair Market Value. As they conside whether to exercise their option to purchase Bain Capital's stake in Artisan Entertainment, the company has an extremely successful launch of "The Blair... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
a year after he has been in office. It also gives an overview of Japan's earlier economic performance, focusing primarily on the period after it suffered a stock market and real estate crash in 1989-1992.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
boardrooms to be corporate statespeople,” he commented. Investors may or may not be enthusiastic about CEO activism. (In Merck’s case, it doesn’t seem to have affected its stock value much. However, the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
companies that are owned by private equity. They are composed of the CEO and six directors, all of whom have relevant industry expertise. The directors make the time commitment, spending several days each month at the company. And they all have significant View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
Cyberspace is indeed a brave new world, but it's not the only new world. There have been other moments in time that undoubtedly felt very much like the present era, other moments when technology raced faster than governments and called forth whole new View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
traditional U.S. public companies by more R&D–intensive firms is key to understanding the secular trend in average cash holdings. Over the last 35 years, an increasing share of R&D–intensive firms has entered the stock View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
the board take into account? Bagley: The Business Roundtable is to be commended for its clear stand on the importance of selecting an ethical CEO. Anyone who ever wondered whether ethics matters need only look at the outflow of funds from the equity View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
innovation portrayed in the census data differed from what she had read in the press. "It was clear that firms were actually doing far less of it than you would think if you read the newspaper." The e-business that was being done among survey participants matched the... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
that the Chinese wall was no protection at all for the independence of the analysts. Trying to sell IPOs, analysts gave glowing recommendations to firms which collapsed within months. Trying to support the stocks of firms previously sold... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Moreover, there is something resembling "intelligent design" in finance, whereby regulators and legislators act in a quasidivine capacity, putting dinosaurs on life support. The danger is that such interventions in the natural processes of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
can be used to evaluate the implications of marketing actions, consumer heterogeneity, competition, successive technology generations, and globalization. The exposition is filled with vivid examples from a wide array of domains (video... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
governments by oil and gas firms, and negative stock price reactions for affected firms at the announcement of regulations mandating disclosure. This suggests that sample firm managers and their investors perceive that there are private... View Details
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
Michael W. Toffel Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne