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  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

stagnating sales, accounting losses, or a falling stock price. In extreme cases such poor performance may cause the company to default on its debt, resulting in bankruptcy. Restructuring the debt can be difficult and costly, although in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

and $12 billion, which equates to between 1.3% and 8.7% of the stock of prepackaged software in private fixed investment in the United States and a very high rate of return to the original federal investment in the Internet. We argue that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

supposed to be bad, and there was little debate about what companies or managers could do about it. For me this just sounded too simplistic. Moreover, the focus on national laws led to policy recommendations that were sometimes too... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

of an estimated secular increase in the cross-country correlations of both stock and bond returns since the late 1990s. Increased correlations of inflation shocks are also an important source of the shift in bond correlations. By... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform

difficult challenges ahead, he said, will be persuading people around the world that their trust in the private sector, rather than the government, could be well placed. "It becomes a lot more difficult when internal documents show that analysts were View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We document widespread ex-post changes to the historical contents of the I/B/E/S analyst stock recommendations database. Across a sequence of seven... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 1

their stock recommendations when they have an educational link to the company. A simple portfolio strategy of going long the buy recommendations with school ties and going... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

Development (TvT) of Amsterdam, Holland, was deeply worried about the status of his largest ongoing project: the Amsterdam World Trade Center (WTC). As the discretionary developer, van Tartwijk needed to present his firm's recommendations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jul 2015
  • Blog Post

On the Road: Zurich, Warsaw, and Istanbul

whole day in Warsaw with Krzysztof Daniewski, HBS ‘99 and President of the Harvard Club of Poland.  We explored Old Town, spotted peacocks in Lazienki Park, tasted our way through Hale Mirowskie food market and ended the day meeting over eighty prospective students at... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

much mid-cap European stock you should have in your portfolio, any more than it would enable you to perform surgery on yourself." Intelligence is not the issue, he emphasizes; it really is a question of knowledge and time. Retirement... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 03 Nov 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?

Section 404, which will become common knowledge from Wall Street to Main Street, as well as rules promulgated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in recent years. This is not an issue of interest only to those of us in the U.S., as suggested by a number... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Jul 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

assumption that continuity is more desirable. The problem apparently has much to do with the narrow definition of success, the ability to outperform the stock market that the authors use as the primary criterion for their study. Jonathan... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 11 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

bottom lines, ultimately depressing stock prices. To circumvent this problem, some firms issue "tracking stock," hoping that capital markets will perceive them much like traditional start-up stocks. So when should a company... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

America the Difficult

bad about the return experience of foreign investors taking a controlling position in American companies. In short, America is a beautiful country for stock portfolio investors and a very difficult one for direct investors. Why is it so... View Details
Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; foreign investors; Finance
  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

that the Chinese wall was no protection at all for the independence of the analysts. Trying to sell IPOs, analysts gave glowing recommendations to firms which collapsed within months. Trying to support the View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 12 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

agents over eight weeks to examine how differing types of guidance and training impact the agents' inventory management. We find agents who are trained in person and receive an explicit, personalized, daily text message recommendation of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

and senior officers of firms, we test the hypothesis that analysts' school ties to senior officers impart comparative information advantages in the production of analyst research. We find evidence that analysts outperform on their stock... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Nov 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

spending more money to hire a firm like Merrill Lynch that has people actively managing their stock portfolios. “Neither one of these approaches is better or worse than the other,” Quelch said. “They cater to two different types of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health
  • 07 Dec 2016
  • HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

faith in the power of technology to solve their problems. (In fact, the Occupy Wall Street generation may be more likely to trust a fintech company than a big New York banking firm.) Moreover, millennials are heavy users of social media, and apt to View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Sam Hayes

interest, and we've seen companies stray over the edge of ethical impropriety before. This time, however, the tendency to test the limits was exacerbated by the enormous surge in stock values, profits, and economic activity during the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
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