Publications

December 2007
Article

The Roles of Task-Specific Experience and Innate Ability in Understanding Analyst Performance

By: Michael B. Clement, Lisa Koonce and Thomas Lopez

Considerable debate exists about what analyst experience measures and whether analysts learn from their experiences. Extant research has argued that once innate ability is considered, analysts’ general and firm-specific experiences are not relevant to understanding... View Details

Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Learning; Performance Evaluation; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Services Industry

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01 Sep 2020
News

3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)

different perspectives. But I’m also willing to take ownership. That’s not in contradiction to the first point. Leaders have to make decisions and provide vision and direction to motivate people to execute. Unlike the last crisis, which... View Details

Keywords: April White; Photo by: Michael Bucher; banking; diversity; COVID-19; leadership; African American; career advice; Finance

Profile

Andrew Goldin

faculty were." Though a relative newcomer to business, Andrew has found his teaching experience relevant to his class work. "In case after case," he says, "my experiences as a teacher have been directly applicable to the View Details

January 2008
Teaching Note

Credit Risk: Valuing Risky Debt & CDOs (TN)

By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford

Teaching Note for [208111] and [208113]. View Details

Keywords: Price; Credit; Risk Management; Investment; Bonds; Borrowing and Debt; Decisions

March 2013 (Revised March 2014)
Case

Brazos Partners and the Tri-Northern Exit

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Nathaniel Burbank

Randall Fojtasek, a partner at the Dallas-based Brazos Private Equity Partners, must decide whether now is the time to sell his firm's investment in Tri-Northern Distribution. Brazos, a middle-market leveraged buyout group, created the company two years earlier through... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity Exit; LBO; Leveraged Buyout Transaction; Texas; Security; Brazos; Tri-Northern; Tri-Ed; Northern Video; Private Equity; Partners and Partnerships; Distribution; Leveraged Buyouts; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Texas

07 Sep 2021
News

Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

Afya Pamoja cofounders Patrick Anyanga, Robert Smith, Dr. Helga Mutasingwa, and Simon DeBere at the company’s office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In Tanzania, women are 100 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than women in high income... View Details

Keywords: April White

09 Nov 2017
News

A Chance to Lead

in the mutual fund business. An opportunity that in many ways you couldn't make up. Somebody came and went as the president pretty quickly in that era, and I sort of quickly replaced him. I was young—30, I guess—and formally became the chief View Details

Profile

Patrick Connolly

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? In my life before business school, I was a concert pianist and music theorist-disciplines that require truly deep, vertical expertise. My decision to attend HBS was consciously designed to... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services

April 1985 (Revised September 1986)
Case

CML Group, Inc.: Going Public (B)

By: William A. Sahlman

Contains a description of some issues confronting management of CML Group as the company progresses toward making an initial public offering. Among the issues and topics addressed in the case are: considerations in choosing an underwriting team, the initial public... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Initial Public Offering; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Planning; Cost vs Benefits; Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry

May 2008
Article

Regulation and Bonding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Flow of International Listings

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Joseph Piotroski

In this paper, we examine the economic impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) by analyzing foreign listing behavior onto U.S. and U.K. stock exchanges before and after the enactment of the Act in 2002. Using a sample of all listing events onto U.S. and U.K. exchanges... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Stocks; Government Legislation; Market Transactions; Motivation and Incentives; United Kingdom; United States

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10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

different work patterns and decision rules required in the new business. Print reps were used to selling in long cycles, to an established customer base, with a generic, nontargeted advertising product. Online advertising customers bought... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower

February 2019 (Revised January 2021)
Case

Quiksilver Inc. and Oaktree Capital Management

By: Kristin Mugford and Mike Harmon

Sports lifestyle company Quiksilver filed for bankruptcy in September 2015. Oaktree is considering an additional investment in the company to facilitate the restructuring. Students must consider whether Oaktree should invest given the risks of the turnaround... View Details

Keywords: Bankruptcy; Bankruptcy Reorganization; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Acquisition; Restructuring; Debt Securities; Transformation; Decision Making; Borrowing and Debt; Investment Return; Crisis Management; Negotiation; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; France; United States