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- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
“ it is not an either/or but a coordinated process.” Art Stewart added, “In my view, culture must now be treated as an integrated strategy and viewed as a core asset for contributing to marketplace value and corporate valuation as well as... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
spending four years aggressively moving the fifth largest pension fund in the United States into alternative asset classes, Harris felt that TRS shouldn't just participate in private equity funds as a typical limited partner. Rather,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
Harris, of Playing2Win Technology can also be used to bridge the asset gap and drive down the cost of programs designed to help low-income families, said HBS professor Peter Tufano (HBS MBA '84), who teaches financial management. Tufano... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
information. Social networking on Facebook would be of little value if users provided no personal information, and digital assistants such as Apple's Siri require access to consumers' location, contact lists, and calendar to be helpful. A consumer's shopping data is a... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
funds and closed-end funds. The U.S. ETF industry had reached $36 billion in assets under management, growing rapidly over the past few years. Because ETFs were exclusively index-tracking products, Vanguard, the largest index mutual fund... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
Consistent with predictions, results reveal that portfolios of level 3 financial assets have higher implied betas and lead to larger bid-ask spreads relative to those designated as level 1 or level 2 assets. Both results are consistent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework predicts, we find that leverage is inversely related to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- March 2011
- Supplement
Countrywide plc (CW)
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
One of the world's leading investors in distressed companies, Oaktree Capital Management is contemplating a "loan to own" investment in the debt f Countrywide plc, a financially troubled residential real estate agent based in the U.K. Only sixteen months earlier,... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
various systems and structures is critical to executing the strategy. Capacity is a large category that includes the knowledge, skill, and time of people in the organization, the financial resources available, as well as the material View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
formation in which investors learn about the fundamental value of an asset and trade it. We study the interaction of diagnostic expectations with two well-known mechanisms: learning from prices and speculation (buying for resale). With... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
History Review (forthcoming) Abstract This article uses the records of nineteenth-century Scottish banks in an attempt to understand investor behaviour in the early British capital market. It presents four main findings, some of which do not conform to the basic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
latter view has coalesced around two themes. The first, based on research in strategy, suggests that dynamic capabilities, the ability of a firm to reconfigure assets and existing capabilities, explains long-term competitive advantage.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
Hare said, “Should we do better in investing in people? They’re an asset of course we should!” Guy Higgins and Lewisman agreed, with conditions: “ (as with the GI Bill) make the offer to men and women who have some life experience and... View Details
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
contribute to this gap, Mills says, and it's where she's focusing some of her early attention. "For the bankers, there's the cost of making the loan, the fact that we have fewer banks now than we did before 2008, and the toll that the recession took on the... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007
costs; create options; protect and enhance the realizable value of knowledge assets and certain other resources; and convert regulatory constraints into opportunities. Behavioral Decision Research, Legislation, and Society: Three Cases... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
Years Ago How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Image by HBSWK with assets from AdobeStock/Yulia Raneva, AdobeStock/Siarhei, and... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
that have led to asset impairments. More recently, the Bulgarian energy regulator announced its intentions to seek a 30% price reduction on a power purchase agreement signed over ten years ago with AES. Accordingly, AES' management is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
benefit of increasing equity risk declines. We show that there is an interior optimum and that it is reached at lower leverage for firms with high asset risk. Empirically, the risk anomaly tradeoff theory and the traditional tradeoff... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2017
- Case
Vicki Fuller: Chief Investment Officer of New York State's $150+ Billion Employee Pension Fund
By: Steven Rogers and Valerie Mosley
Vicki Fuller traveled from a four-room tenement bordering Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects to speaking at conferences around the world and typically holding court wherever she went. As a teenager, she helped raise her siblings. As a Wall Street... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Public Sector; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Governance; Government Administration; Employee Relationship Management; Compensation and Benefits; Selection and Staffing; Leading Change; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Experience and Expertise; Asset Management; Financial Strategy; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Recruitment; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Attitudes; Trust; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
Rogers, Steven, and Valerie Mosley. "Vicki Fuller: Chief Investment Officer of New York State's $150+ Billion Employee Pension Fund." Harvard Business School Case 317-044, May 2017.
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
Case 312-106 When MF Global failed in October 2011, it was discovered that $1.6 billion of segregated customer assets was missing. Safeguarding these assets was the firm's responsibility, and in the words of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne