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  • 27 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

Man, and operates ships that travel around the world. In analyzing the choices he faces, students must consider how the initial capitalization of Navigator contributed to its financial distress, evaluate several restructuring plans from a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006

pursued flexible business strategies beyond its "core" business, even distributing condoms. It maintained a high standard of corporate ethics. It was effective at building contacts with local business and government elites,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

  Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have offered a combination of low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

over the first thirty-four years of the FASB (1973-2006). We examine the influence of auditors' lobbying incentives arising from three basic factors: managing expected litigation and regulatory costs; catering to clients' preferences for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

Business Administration and author of Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups As United States equity markets and corporate balance sheets continue their remarkable comeback from the View Details
Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

forthcoming Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, Mathias F. Hoeyer, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract— The well-known weak empirical relationship between beta risk and the cost of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

decision by the Bush White House to provide more than $20 billion to GM, Chrysler, and their financial subsidiaries, the auto task force put together by President Obama managed a restructuring of both companies at a breathtaking pace.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

similar to that of advertising. A major challenge is that privacy laws prevent us from observing information about the applicant pool. I overcome this challenge by using order statistic distribution to infer applicant quality from information on enrolled students.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

has chosen to examine make them difficult to manage and generate conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. Indeed, he points out that managers often forgo large, risky projects—even those that are expected to add shareholder value. An inherent lack of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

  Publications March 2015 Journal of Financial Economics Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors By: Hanson, Samuel G., Andrei Shleifer, Jeremy C. Stein, and Robert W. Vishny Abstract—We examine the business model of traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

prescriptive suggestions for candidates to approach job negotiations as a two-level game and to minimize disadvantageous effects of gender on job negotiation outcomes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-095.pdf Optimal Life-Cycle Investing with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

multiple identities as a result. The outcomes of relational pluralism can include greater flexibility in building network ties, more stable exchange relationships, and the ability to adopt tailored innovations. We develop a typology of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

Interactive Controls: Which, When, and Why? Author:Anette Mikes Abstract Taking a multiple-control perspective, I investigate a control debacle and its aftermath at a financial services company (MultiBank), focusing on an insurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 12, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607010 Note on Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Health Reimbursement Account Vendors Harvard Business School Note 307-034 Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

billable hours. How does that hurt productivity? A: The most obvious answer is that there is a negative financial incentive to solving problems quickly and efficiently. Hourly billing is a deeply ingrained model of measuring work, but it... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

While the knowledge sharing benefits of clusters takes off, the liability of institutionalization rise steadily as a function of time. These costs consist primarily of foregone flexibility resulting from persistence of established... View Details
Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

firms, which are most equity dependent, and is larger in industries with higher exposure to misvaluation shocks. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1719204 A Methodology for Operationalizing Enterprise Architecture and Evaluating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

for consumers. So it’s also likely that NFTs will help (finally!) take crypto mainstream. Scott Duke Kominers is the MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration. Robert S. Huckman: Flexibility in health care could... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

by market forces. We recognize the advantage of using fair values in circumstances where these are based on observable prices in liquid secondary markets but caution against expanding fair values to financial reporting more generally. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

Innovation Authors:Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Financial Economics Abstract We find that VC-backed firms receiving their initial investment in hot markets are more likely to go bankrupt, but conditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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