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  • 07 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School

signature insight which established his reputation permanently. To be brief: John Lintner—the capital asset pricing model. Howard Raiffa—Bayesian decision theory. Georges Doriot—venture capital. Theodore... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Education
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

demand reimbursement from the poor. And they have fought arbitration decisions that they believe have not take into account the one-sided nature of deals, underlying corruption, and the impact of economic crises. Q: What are some of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

available at positive prices. We characterize the size of the p2p network as a function of the firm's pricing strategy and show that the firm may be better off setting high prices, allowing the network to survive, and acknowledging that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 11, 2006

and, eventually, through its decision to execute a management buyout to exit the public market. Explored at the corporate level is the tension between Edison's effort to generate profits and achieve excellent educational outcomes. Brief... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 7

publicly announced their intention to sell their 76.7% stake in Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A., an iconic Italian producer of sport performance motorcycles. The decision followed a six-year turnaround during which Ducati returned to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 10, 2009

of natural gas. With the price of oil doubling every 10 years between 1970 and the 2000s, the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) had enjoyed an era of increasing profitability. Another state-owned firm, Abu Dhabi... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

available to its customer-facing employees. In the spring of 2003, Bankinter introduced an Excel-based program called the Mortgage Simulator that helped branch managers calculate the price of a mortgage and estimate the customer lifetime... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Profile

James Reinhart

One of the toughest challenges for young entrepreneurs is figuring out the most effective strategy to turn a good idea into a great venture. A bad decision early in the game, such as sticking to an original concept despite evidence that... View Details
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age

affords them greater control over service quality and customer experience, in return for which they accept the added costs of being employers. Hornet's nest The decision by some marketplaces-for-services to treat their workers as... View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Transportation; Web Services
  • 27 Nov 2023
  • Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction

interventions, pursuing a strategy to “inform the public of preventive measures that save lives and reduce damage to property and infrastructure.”[2] However, in the absence of substantial international action on climate change, how can the Nigerian public pay the... View Details
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

sent P&G's main competitor in oral care, Colgate Palmolive Co., scrambling because several patents protected the strips, making it difficult for Colgate to copy the invention. But in September 2002, the tables turned. Colgate introduced Simply White, a favorably... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 10

abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=6747   Working Papers Price Coherence and Excessive Intermediation By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Julian Wright Abstract—Suppose an intermediary provides a benefit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

Abstract—This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

delayed price discovery). This isolates a setting wherein observed strategic trading behavior more likely reflects insiders' private information regarding goodwill, as opposed to other (non-goodwill related) economic performance. Overall,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

matters in the investment decisions made in financing a project. Could you explain this further? A: Modigliani and Miller's (M&M) "irrelevance" proposition is one of the foundations of modern finance. It states that... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

meant that the manufacturing floor was increasingly allocating more space to microprocessors. As that more profitable market grew, Intel became a microprocessor company, not a memory company. These operating level decisions changed the de... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609043 New Century Financial Corporation Harvard Business School Case 109-034 After years of rapid growth and stock price appreciation, New Century... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

lower than expected revenues and earnings for the second quarter of 2012. In response to the announcement, its stock price fell 29% (its stock price had fallen from $77 to $11 in the past 18 months). The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/articles/2010/fall/52118/how-to-do-well-and-do-good/ Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors Authors:Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We examine CEO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

decision score. This allows us to observe the local effect of samples in which we drop the best recipients and the worst non-recipients. Our results suggest that while receiving the grant does bring an injection of funding that alleviates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne