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- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
professionals with an existing track record.” New employees relocate to Baltimore, where the firm is based. Investment teams are composed of generalists, not specialists, which maximizes knowledge sharing. The approach breaks with the View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
company badly needs a jolt of energy and expertise to grow and to resuscitate its declining stock price. The chief executive who promoted Barton is hopeful but hard-nosed; and Barton's IT group—while talented and tech-savvy—is impatient,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
Use this period as an opportunity to take stock of your own life. Does your work reflect your values? Have you let some important relationships languish? Did you give up on a dream too soon? You're not going to be a good business leader... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
through a process of valuation. Is the proposed investment justified? How much should you pay? But after an acquisition, it’s fairly common for the stock of the acquirer to fall, indicating that it likely... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
recently announced plans to launch an expert panel to discuss Japan’s new form of capitalism as his key policy platform, inviting a descendant of Shibusawa to serve as a core member. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/f1bJQkzpzD20ttOCW1Jt][/div] Why is Shibusawa so... View Details
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
are broader. When Grushka-Cockayne refers to averaging the forecasts, she is not necessarily referring to a mathematical average but any number of ways to combine them. Various methods can include weighting certain ones or trimming results to get a more precise range.... View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
management practices and the company's stockholders, who were more likely to hold stock for short periods of time compared to other stocks. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/06/short-termism-dont-blame-investors/ar/1 Leadership Is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
in Washington politicians. Fairly or not, people have become willing to believe that executives, as a class, are greedy and dishonest. However natural it might be to ask how so many executives—not to mention accountants, investment bankers, View Details
- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
getting bigger or richer; “growth involves changes to the internal ‘machinery’ of the firm itself,” according to the paper. The researchers used Compustat, a dataset of all United States companies listed on the stock exchange from 1959 to... View Details
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
takers who had dealt with corruption worked for firms based in countries infamous for rampant bribery, including Russia, Ukraine, and South Africa. But there were also on-the-take reports from firms based in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, where... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
that we don't allow our decisions to get sidetracked (or sidetrack them ourselves). In their book Decisive, the Heath brothers cite four major reasons—all linked to common human traits—why we make poor choices and how to avoid doing it.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
interest to find common ground on a plan that restructures the company’s debts and allows the business to continue. Even though creditors will typically be asked to make some financial sacrifices, such as accepting a reduction in what... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
77 percent of its profits from outside North America. But Goizueta's strategy soon ran into trouble, due in large part to the Asian currency crisis. By the end of 1999, when Douglas Daft took the reins, earnings had slumped, and Coke's View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
in preferred equity from the United States government via the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Yet, the stock had continued to slide in early 2009. In late February, the company announced that it would convert as much as $50 billion... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Professors Introduce Valuation Software
In an age when mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs are increasingly common in business, you need a new skill in your kit bag: the ability to analyze and value potential partners, deals, investments—even your own company. The Business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
desires) ... Why should it be any different for the high-flyers? If they are truly good, is it really necessary to pay them more than they can ever hope to spend?" As Stever Robbins says, "Alignment is still a great idea. We've not seen alignment with recent... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
size of stock markets across countries and on the ownership structure of railways and other companies in France. In one of his books he argues that France was the largest "financial democracy" in the world, because of the large... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
and 90%. Executives can dramatically increase their odds of success, the authors argue, if they understand how to select targets, how much to pay for them, and whether and how to integrate them. The most common reasons for making an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-044.pdf See No Evil: When We Overlook Other People's Unethical Behavior Authors:Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract It is common for people to be more critical of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace