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- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
failing adequately to make the case for change? What is too early or too late? How does a leader determine the timing of the most important decisions for his or her organization? Jim Collins has suggested, for example, that “any deterioration in gross margins, current... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
extent. For a start, it's possible to apply different strategies to different elements of a business. CEMEX pursued a financial strategy of arbitraging capital cost differences even as it implemented a standardized operational strategy.... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
than smaller menus, as measured by the maximum Sharpe ratio achievable. We propose a model in which menu setters differ in their ability to pre-select the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the menu size is sufficiently small,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51635 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital By: Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
the financial security of being able to roll over debt in a credit line, shifted slowly to term debt. The researchers found: Fewer than 10 percent of the firms were "truly financially constrained" with View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
increase in borrowing cost, paralleling that of their respective sovereigns, while their collateral is decreasing in value. Since the amount of leverage in the system is still high, equity valuations and capital ratios are squeezed. The... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Professors Introduce Valuation Software
financial data to perform accounting analysis, ratio analysis, forecasted financials, and valuation. It also provides benchmarking for comparable firms. It was created by Harvard Business School faculty... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
into market manipulation, especially in Japan? Robin Greenwood: Generally speaking, market manipulation comes in two forms: manipulating investor expectations, or manipulating investors' ability to trade. Financial economists know a lot... View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
to be known as the Black-Scholes option pricing model. "Don't misunderstand me—getting some education about your financial affairs is a good idea, just as having some understanding of your medical needs is a good idea," Merton... View Details
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
focused on housing and household debt for good reason: In the United States, a residential housing loan collapse touched off the deep financial crisis of 2008. But in the decade-plus since, the focus on household debt may mean... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
involved a developed economy, "That would (suggest) a new type of fourth world country, a developed economy which just turned into a developing one." Should world financial policy essentially reflect a philosophy of "let... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
operating with decentralized authority,” and utilize “social technologies” that “foster horizontal interactions in vertically organized companies.” As a result, ExO’s such as Google, Netflix, Airbnb, and Amazon double in price/performance View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
social returns when they succeed. The problem, says Esty, is that many of the largest products have hit financial turbulence. Esty, whose new book Modern Project Finance: A Casebook, was published recently, teaches the "Large-Scale... View Details
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
Summing Up The Dodd-Frank legislation provision requiring the publication of the ratio of CEO compensation to that of the average compensation level of all employees in public companies will have little or no impact on CEO compensation... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
long-term view change this? A: Traditional asset allocation models—I am thinking here of mean-variance models, which are very popular in the asset management industry—typically recommend that the mix of risky assets (e.g., the ratio of... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
where I sit as an economist, it's still all about the economy and the long-term impact of the problems laid bare by the Great Recession. During the financial crisis, the world came to the apparently shocking realization that debt... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
slightly increased to 2.61 [5, 10], while the best upper bound remained unchanged. In this paper we show the optimal lower bound on truthful anonymous mechanisms: no such mechanism can guarantee an approximation ratio better than m. This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
data in percentage form (common-size balance sheets) and other selected financial ratios for a set of 12 unidentified firms from 12 different industries (all 12 companies are listed on the Australian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
investment banking analyst seeks to reconstruct which financial ratios go with which companies. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812129-PDF-ENG COSCO: Implementing Sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
measured by the maximum Sharpe ratio achievable. We propose a model in which menu setters differ in their ability to preselect the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the menu size is sufficiently small, a lower-ability menu... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne