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- 24 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Bernie Madoff Explains Himself
service of buying shares; now Madoff had turned the practice upside down and was paying them to trade. That innovation diverted trading away from the New York Stock Exchange floor, and by the early 1990s,... View Details
- 30 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?
classes left us energized, refreshed, stronger, and ready to take on anything,” Foley explained in Peloton’s 2019 registration filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But “we were often left without time, without options, and... View Details
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
building on intense lobbying to encourage further domestic deregulation and limit federal oversight of the energy industry, Skilling encouraged Enron executives to exploit to the hilt recent Securities and Exchange Commission rule changes... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
restructuring process be managed and the many barriers to restructuring overcome so that as much value is created as possible? 3. Marketing. How should the restructuring be explained and portrayed to investors so that value created inside the company is fully credited... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
1970s, but its governments systematically discouraged wholly owned FDI [foreign direct investment], and restricted it to a low level. During the 1940s and early 1950s only the U.S. dollar was available as a major convertible currency. Elsewhere View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
January 2017 Review of Financial Studies Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns By: Chang, Tom Y., Samuel M. Hartzmark, David H. Solomon, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—We present evidence consistent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?
Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 13 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?
Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 07 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams
likely to call on colleagues than were male and younger managers. Sharing the spotlight pays off The willingness to engage colleagues in the boardroom appears to also pay dividends in the stock market. Firms with CEOs who made a habit of... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
If they didn't understand it already, executives and corporate managers have learned one huge lesson over the past couple of years: macroeconomics matters. Interest rates. Exchange rates. Trade deficits. The Gross Domestic Product.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?
investigators cited MCAS as the cause. Still, Boeing did not ground the 737 MAX, forcing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to do so. FAA took 20 months and numerous changes before the 737 MAX was approved for flights again. In September 2022, the Securities and... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 30 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
Recruiters: Highlight Your Company’s Diversity, Not Just Perks and Pay
Employers are dangling all sorts of sparkling lures to capture hot job candidates in the battle for top talent: Generous compensation. Stock options. Lofty titles. But Harvard Business School research suggests that many companies fail to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
degree of coordination required in the relationship, and that the effect of dispute approach on resolution costs is moderated by the degree of power asymmetry between the parties. Thus, even after controlling for various attributes of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
down as chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange following weeks of intense public criticism over the size of his $190 million compensation package. As chairman of the committee that oversaw Grasso's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
achieving or strengthening a distinctive strategic positioning. Operational Effectiveness. The Internet is arguably the most powerful tool available today for enhancing operational effectiveness. By easing and speeding the exchange of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
power. For example, movie studios are probably more confident that a Tom Cruise movie will emerge as the winner of a competitive July 4 opening weekend than a movie with an unknown actor, and will adjust their release strategy accordingly. Q: What is the Hollywood... View Details
- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
and stock exchanges in recent years have championed elevating more women to executive teams, the increase in gender diversity has not altered the political bent of many organizations.” “If you tell somebody... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
years. The British merchants also sometimes formed locally registered firms, especially in British colonies where the company legislation was modelled on Britain, which mobilized the pools of capital accumulated by resident Europeans in Asia and elsewhere. The colonies... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 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 View Details
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
platform to outside developers, Facebook’s success had been based on an open exchange between users, designers of apps posted on the site, and particularly advertisers making use of user information to design messages, access potential... View Details