Float - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

annually and acquired 15 million customers—more than a third of the country’s population—within five years of launch. A woman checks her mobile phone at a floating market in the Mekong River, Vietnam. Mobile phone use is widespread in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

06 Dec 2021
News

New Wave

Shendure, who stepped down as CEO in 2016 but continues to serve as chair of the company’s board. The Oscilla team therefore abandoned its original approach and began modifying off-the-shelf generators for use with its Triton system. The generators are packed into a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

19 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

MaterialsChina: To Float or Not To Float? (F)- Alcatel and Strong Chinese Competition Harvard Business School Case 706-036 The Chinese operations of Alcatel, a global communications solution provider based in France, were faced with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

holders for your stock because they do not trade much. Getting back to Japan, the stock splits can be thought of a form of float manipulation. By limiting the number of shares on the market, and making it difficult to sell, prices can... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology

01 Sep 2007
News

To The Rescue

accident, which means they are “worse than dead” because they lose their earning power and become a burden for the rest of the family to support. Raju floated the idea to various colleagues, including his friend Krishna Palepu, the Ross... View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Telecommunications; Information

22 Apr 2015
Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

attract FDI, I believe two of them were the primary determinants: Political uncertainty. Lacking strategy and vision the country has floated with no sense of direction. Policies change constantly. To make things worse, the polyphony... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

17 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Resisting the Seductions of Success

and the reason Tony takes the bribe. Recall that Tony is excited, not scared, when Max presents Lassatta's offer. Later that night, as he lies awake in bed, Tony thinks he will be reborn the next day. For forty-three years, he had "existed like something View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

01 Mar 2007
News

The Winning Season

float DeWitt a loan for $3.5 million, which he used to buy the team in 1961. It’s hard to imagine better circumstances for absorbing the many financial, legal, and political details that go into the successful management of a professional... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

strategy is to give the other party an out. If someone says, "Take it or leave it," simply treat the statement as untrue for the moment and make a counterproposal. The truth of an ultimatum is tested by whether the person making it is willing to consider... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

01 Jun 2014
News

Screen Saver

however, Lopez is pleased. "We didn't want to quadruple the stock price on the first day," he says. "When that happens, it means the company left a lot of money on the table. We priced it at $18. The shares opened at $19.18 and change, and View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy

proposals floating around, people have less time to consider and evaluate them all. A successful company like Yahoo! is inundated with business proposals from hopeful start-ups. When there is a wealth of opportunities, there is a poverty... View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Henry W. Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria & Donald N. Sull

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

What longer-term good would this possibly accomplish? Isn’t it clear that Wall Street goes through mood swings, that what might float the market’s boat this week might sink it the next? And might not an artificially inflated stock price... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

14 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating Love @ HBS in 2021

we've been doing this, my breath always catches when he picks up and his face floats onto the phone screen. "Hello, beautiful!" he always says. It never gets old, and always makes me miss him more.Charles and I met at a housewarming party... View Details

23 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

and conduct of operations. Burnham was unsure how the market would react to a company with such government-dependent revenue streams. Additionally, the recent collapse of the "dot-com" boom in 2000 might make it impossible to View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Sep 2017
News

The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice

float up. And so I got the big telescoping net and I held it up against the seawall. And I urged her to go and call the Channel 7 news truck. I remember that that ad that said, if you see news in the making, call—whatever it was—... View Details

15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

1991): to provide continuous Internet access to the planet’s unconnected billions through, in Cassidy’s words, a “complex choreography where thousands of balloons are being steered and programmed all in an automated fashion.” The wind-blown balloons View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

Web

Commencement 2015 Address | About

think of Perspective, I think back to an event that happened on our campus last month. Terry Virts, a graduate of the General Management Program in Executive Education, addressed one of our classes. He is probably the only speaker I’ve seen who, while answering a... View Details

07 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

This case consists primarily of excerpts from term sheets and prospectuses for six securities offerings made by U.S. companies during 2009-2010, just after the financial crisis and recession of 2008-2009. There are three issues of senior unsecured notes, one View Details