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Waves in Ship Prices and Investment

By: Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson
We study the link between investment boom and bust cycles and returns on capital in the dry bulk shipping industry. We show that high current ship earnings are associated with high used ship prices and heightened industry investment in new ships, but forecast low... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Price; Investment; Shipping Industry
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    Kevin P. Mohan

    Kevin Mohan joined the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit at Harvard Business School in 2012 after a long career as a private equity investor. He teaches Negotiation in the MBA program and the Owners, Presidents, and Managers program. He also teaches War... View Details

    • 07 Jul 2015
    • News

    What Makes You So Special?

      Debora L. Spar

      Debora Spar is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society. Her current research focuses on issues of gender and technology, and the interplay between... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; broadcasting; communications; entertainment; federal government; health care; information; internet; music; pharmaceuticals
      • January 1988 (Revised January 1997)
      • Case

      Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (A)

      By: David A. Garvin
      Describes a comprehensive manufacturing strategy designed to reduce substantially the cycle time of orders (i.e. the time between the placement of an order by a customer and its delivery to the customer). To launch the strategy Digital has adopted manufacturing... View Details
      Keywords: Business Plan; Information; Time Management; Production; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
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      • 2001
      • Case

      Analog Devices (B)

      By: Vijay Govindarajan, Chris Trimble and Jesse Johnson
      In 2000, ADI posted an unprecedented 78 percent growth rate. Their participation was growing in new consumer markets (electronics and communications) with shorter life cycles and high volatility. ADI had to rethink their scorecard for more dynamic environments. View Details
      Keywords: Adaptation; Business Strategy
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      • 08 Sep 2016
      • Working Paper Summaries

      A Model of Credit Market Sentiment

      Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson, and Lawrence J. Jin; Financial Services
      • 14 Dec 2021
      • News

      Red Light, Green Light

      • 29 Sep 2020
      • News

      Do debates matter? Do they change minds about elections? Here’s what the data say

        Geoffrey G. Jones

        Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration... View Details

        Keywords: banking; beauty products; construction; consumer products; energy; entertainment; fashion; financial services; food; food processing; green technology; petroleum; service industry

          James L. Heskett

          James L. Heskett is UPS Foundation Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author of his latest book, With From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive... View Details

          • September 2015 (Revised March 2016)
          • Case

          Intuit: Turbo Tax PersonalPro - A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs

          By: Shikhar Ghosh, Joseph Fuller and Michael Roberts
          The case provides a vehicle for teaching about both corporate intrapreneurship and the use of lean startup methods. It tells the story of a product manager within Intuit who develops an idea for a new product that spans two of the company's existing business... View Details
          Keywords: Business Units; Business or Company Management; Applications and Software; Accounting; Product Development; Financial Services Industry
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            Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship

            Venture Capital, Private Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship explores the exciting world of active investing and lays out in a clear and readily accessible way their key features, ways of doing business and likely evolution. The book follows the... View Details
            • June 1992 (Revised March 1993)
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            Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc. 1990

            By: Timothy A. Luehrman
            The CFO of Fleetwood Enterprises is considering whether to recommend a large share repurchase to the board of directors. Fleetwood's core businesses, manufactured housing and recreational vehicles, are very sensitive to business cycles and oil prices. Following Iraq's... View Details
            Keywords: Business Cycles; Capital Structure; Stock Shares; Price; Crisis Management; Production; Manufacturing Industry; Iraq; Kuwait
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            Scaling Ventures, HBS Online

            By: Jeffrey F. Rayport
            This course is for startup founders and senior leaders who have achieved product-market fit and now need to successfully guide their company through cycles of rapid growth and organizational change. Topics include optimal growth rate, recruiting and motivating... View Details
            • 07 Dec 2011
            • News

            Cautious capitalism

            • February 2008 (Revised December 2023)
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            Digital Music: From MP3 to Streaming

            By: Willy Shih
            The emergence of the MP3 file-based music format not only disrupted the market for portable audio players, it also impacted the business models of major record labels. Modularity, and the commoditization spillover enabled by modularity in the personal computer... View Details
            Keywords: Recording; Digital Devices; Digital Media; Digital Music; Digital; Digital Economics; Consumer Electronics; Customer Value and Value Chain; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Music Industry; Technology Industry; Electronics Industry; United States
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            • 2012
            • Working Paper

            An Outside-Inside Evolution in Gender and Professional Work

            By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Kathleen McGinn and Deborah Kolb
            We study the process by which a professional service firm reshaped its activities and beliefs over nearly two decades as it adapted to shifts in the social discourse regarding gender and work. Analyzing archival data from the firm over eighteen years and... View Details
            Keywords: Professional Service Firms; Social Institutions; Organizational Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employment; Gender; Society; Service Industry
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            • May 2024
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            Production Complementarity and Information Transmission Across Industries

            By: Charles M.C. Lee, Terrence Tianshuo Shi, Stephen Teng Sun and Ran Zhang
            Economic theory suggests that production complementarity is an important driver of sectoral co-movements and business cycle fluctuations. We operationalize this concept using a measure of production complementarity proximity (COMPL) between any two companies. We show... View Details
            Keywords: Financial Markets; Networks; Investment Return; Business Cycles
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            • 2022
            • Working Paper

            The Fed and the Secular Decline in Interest Rates

            By: Sebastian Hillenbrand
            In this paper I document a striking fact: a narrow window around Fed meetings fully captures the secular decline in U.S. Treasury yields since 1980. By contrast, yield movements outside this window are transitory and wash out over time. This is surprising because the... View Details
            Keywords: United States Treasury; Monetary Policy; Yield Curve; Central Banking; Interest Rates; Valuation
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