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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Wall Street has left the caffeinated powerhouse virtually untouched. The price of Starbucks stock has climbed steadily over the past ten years, gaining approximately 2,200 percent on the ten-year anniversary of the company's 1992 IPO. Net revenues for fiscal 2002 are... View Details
- April 1998 (Revised November 1999)
- Case
Hamilton Financial Investments: A Franchise Built on Trust
By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
Provides a vehicle for students to evaluate risk management in the fast-paced mutual funds industry. A new risk manager has been hired to install new management controls and procedures. A series of decisions will determine how much business and franchise risk the... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Funds; Performance Evaluation; Corporate Strategy; Change Management; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry
Simons, Robert L., and Antonio Davila. "Hamilton Financial Investments: A Franchise Built on Trust." Harvard Business School Case 198-089, April 1998. (Revised November 1999.)
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
pure-play stores can’t directly match. Ramon Casadesus-Masanell is the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration. Rembrand M. Koning: Think like a startup and experiment Given that every week feels like a year in 2020, I think it will be incredibly hard... View Details
- February 2024
- Supplement
ReNew (B): A New Direction
By: Gunnar Trumbull and Malini Sen
The global renewables sector was in a slump, but the Indian market was booming. India’s largest renewable electricity generator, ReNew, faced a dilemma: it traded on the Nasdaq in New York, but saw huge opportunity in the Indian market. In response, CEO Sumant Sinha... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Forecasting and Prediction; Trends; Transformation; Private Ownership; Environmental Sustainability; Mission and Purpose; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Energy Industry; Asia; India
Trumbull, Gunnar, and Malini Sen. "ReNew (B): A New Direction." Harvard Business School Supplement 724-032, February 2024.
- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
importance of return on equity in forecasting future stock returns depends on the quality of the accounting information. This extension also reconciles our model with alternative characteristic-based forecasters. These findings suggest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
by GBS, Alan Torres, vice president of North America Fabric Care, must finalize the forecast for P&G's laundry detergent sales. Results for the two months since introducing concentrated powder laundry detergent in select retailers saw... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Limits of Algorithmic Measures of Race in Studies of Outcome Disparities
By: David S. Scharfstein and Sergey Chernenko
We show that the use of algorithms to predict race has significant limitations in measuring and understanding the sources of racial disparities in finance, economics, and other contexts. First, we derive theoretically the direction and magnitude of measurement bias in... View Details
Keywords: Racial Disparity; Paycheck Protection Program; Measurement Error; AI and Machine Learning; Race; Measurement and Metrics; Equality and Inequality; Prejudice and Bias; Forecasting and Prediction; Outcome or Result
Scharfstein, David S., and Sergey Chernenko. "The Limits of Algorithmic Measures of Race in Studies of Outcome Disparities." Working Paper, April 2023.
- August 2008
- Article
Economic Links and Predictable Returns
By: Lauren Cohen and Andrea Frazzini
This paper finds evidence of return predictability across economically linked firms. We test the hypothesis that in the presence of investors subject to attention constraints, stock prices do not promptly incorporate news about economically related firms, generating... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Price; Assets; Analytics and Data Science; Customers; Stocks; Equity; Strategy; Investment Return; Forecasting and Prediction
Cohen, Lauren, and Andrea Frazzini. "Economic Links and Predictable Returns." Journal of Finance 63, no. 4 (August 2008). (Winner of Smith Breeden Prize for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Finance in Asset Pricing (Distinguished Paper) 2008. Winner of Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Paper Competition. First Prize presented by Chicago Quantitative Alliance. Winner of BSI Gamma Foundation Research Grant presented by BSI Gamma Foundation.)
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
credit-market sentiment in year t – 2 also forecasts a change in the composition of external finance: net debt issuance falls in year t, while net equity issuance increases, patterns consistent with the reversal in credit-market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
potential payoffs of e-commerce investments. Measuring returns on e-commerce projects can be a daunting challenge. Predicting customer behavior is difficult, because using the Web to do business is still relatively new to many businesses and thus View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
(HBSAHK) recently held its Sixth Annual Signature Conference, attracting more than 350 participants to network, explore and discuss business trends and forecasts both regionally and globally. “With this annual conference, we aim to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- June 2010
- Teaching Note
The Southeast Bank of Texas in the Financial Crisis (TN)
By: Robert C. Pozen and Benjamin Greff Schneider
Teaching Note for 310141. View Details
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
businesses often have less than 20 days’ worth. While forecasts vary, many public health experts don’t expect the coronavirus outbreak to subside for at least eight weeks, assuming that social distancing and other mitigation efforts can... View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
harder for breweries to fall into bailout loans, which happened to many teams last year, Casadesus-Masanell says. Enhanced graphics include waterfall charts for just about every metric imaginable on a team’s own brewery and its competitors. Teams can drill down via a... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
laid the blame at the foot of "an engineer who had difficulty forecasting simple activities and (the) time to accomplish them." Joseph Mello commented that " part of the problem comes from the view of an organization as a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax
India is continuing to deploy new fossil fuel power generation, largely because of (a) the tremendous energy demand forecasts of the country and (b) inadequacies in grid infrastructure and energy storage. After the office presentation, we... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
specializing in building and managing prisons. Students must assess the firm's strategy and risks, evaluate key financial reports, derive forecasts of future performance, and use these forecasts to value the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
protecting its local focus and traditions? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-031 Caesars Entertainment This case describes the introduction of a regression analysis model for View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
that offers a $24 million prize pool for one tournament, bracketed levels of competition, and tournaments that yield almost $17 million in sponsorship revenue? These numbers aren’t referring to golf or tennis, but eSports. ESports sponsorship revenue and viewership... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
employed more than 10 million American workers and generated $1.8 trillion in revenue in 2003, concluded a study by Global Insight, a leading economic and forecasting firm. HBS professors Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner, in their 2001 book,... View Details