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  • January 2005 (Revised March 2008)
  • Case

Kohler Co. (A)

Kohler Co., best known for its plumbing fixtures, is a large, private family firm. As part of a recapitalization aimed at preserving family ownership of Kohler Co., nonfamily shareholders, who held 4% of common stock, were required to sell their shares to the company.... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Stocks; Price; Family Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation
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South Asia - Global

However, linear models, common in the literature, likely produce biased estimates. We propose an alternative procedure, using two-stage least squares. In settings without attrition, this approach obtains lower statistical power than... View Details
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Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

asymmetry manifests in analysts’ forecasts, stock returns on earnings announcement days, and even in the tone that analysts adopt in earnings conference calls. I argue these patterns have a common origin in... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research

actions from a nonpecuniary perspective. Our core findings, based on large-scale online surveys, are that (i) self-reported nonpecuniary concerns are large, both for stock market investors and non-investors; (ii) concerns about the... View Details
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

Districts: Common Roots, Different Perspectives Authors:Michael E. Porter and Christian Ketels Publication:In Handbook of Industrial Districts, edited by Giacomo Becattini, Marco Bellandi, and Lisa De Propois. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

States severely affected the flow of goods, manufacturing, and job growth in Europe and Asia. Stock markets plunged, resulting in the worst economic downturn in global markets since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Major debt crises... View Details
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

  Working PapersMarket Reaction to the Adoption of IFRS in Europe Authors:Christopher S. Armstrong, Mary E. Barth, Alan D. Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Abstract This study examines the European stock market reaction to sixteen events... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Bernie Madoff Explains Himself

three-minute recording, we hear Madoff describe a multitude of common biases,” says Soltes, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS. “They’re amplified—biases on steroids, in Madoff’s case. But they’re... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
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Measuring Sentiment & Expectations - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

updates and corrections of the data by Mergent. Current version update: Sept 2020. Equity Market Sentiment "Sent" Baker and Wurgler developed an index of equity market sentiment that captures the common variation in a number of different... View Details
  • 11 Jan 2011
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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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

The following excerpt is taken from the "Lessons of Restructuring" section of Gilson's introduction to Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring. Although the case studies in this book span a wide range of companies, industries, and contexts, some View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

organizations and in society disrupts the learning cycle at the heart of becoming a leader. Women must establish credibility in a culture that is deeply conflicted about whether, when, and how they should exercise authority. Practices that equate leadership with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

and Varieties of Climate Policy." Art. 9942. Nature Communications 15 (2024). Climate Solutions, Transition Risk, and Stock Returns By: Shirley Lu , Edward J. Riedl, Simon Xu and George Serafeim 2024 | Working Paper | Faculty Research... View Details
  • 22 Nov 2023
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So You Want to Join a Startup

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels of an underground hotel... View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Preserving Brain Health Professor Rudolph Tanzi + More Info – Less Info Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, impacting 1 in 5 families in the United States. It causes profound suffering for patients, and is... View Details
  • 18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18

12-month horizon) in short- and long-term interest rates, which was quite strong before 2000, has weakened substantially in recent years. As a result, "conundrums"—defined as 6- or 12-month periods in which short rates and long rates move in opposite directions—have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2001
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What Makes a Good Leader

business leadership can benefit society." photo courtesy HBS Communications The ability to render that judgment can sometimes make or break a company. "The phrase 'public confidence, private doubt' comes to mind," observes Joe Badaracco. "If leaders disclosed all their... View Details
Keywords: Management
  • 09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007

R&D organizations, a clear relationship emerges: more long-term incentives (e.g., stock options and restricted stock) are associated with more heavily cited patents. These incentives also appear to be associated with more patent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

of the process of reducing trade barriers and a limitation on it. The European Economic Community (later known as the EC, and, from 1993, the European Union) was formed in 1957, and initially consisted of six Western European countries. It developed View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

vacancies he had created needed to sign on to his philosophy: that shareholder value was the single objective to which a corporation should dedicate itself. To focus executives single-mindedly on shareholder interests, he used financial incentives, mainly View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria