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  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

votes receive relatively little media attention yet may foster investor risk perceptions. This research presents a multifaceted view of activists and their tactics and suggests that this approach in examining activists and their tactics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

What You Know Depends on Where You Go

resources and risk within a parent company generally outweigh the possible inefficiencies created through administrative overhead or being sheltered from competition. Among the many other HBS faculty conducting international research, two... View Details
  • October 2018
  • Supplement

Zenefits Board of Directors (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Business Model; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Leadership; Risk Management; Venture Capital; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; California
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  • May 2010 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

Friend Bank: The Time for Hope

By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
In 2010, Friend Bank was entering the fifth year of Hope Harris Johnson's ambitious 20-year growth plan to transform her family's one branch community bank into an institution with a substantial presence in southeastern Alabama. Harris Johnson was pleased, so far, with... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development Strategy; Risk Management; Family Ownership; Competitive Advantage; Banking Industry; Alabama
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  • 21 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 21

duration function as large-scale shocks to the quantity of interest rate risk that must be borne by professional bond investors. I develop a simple model in which the risk tolerance of bond investors is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

more than 3,000 American transnationals suggests that JVs are falling out of favor. Why? Increasing forces of globalization such as increasingly fragmented production processes make the decision not to collaborate pay off. That's one finding from work done by Mihir A.... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Lesson from the Fall

where the rules are ambiguous (as in structured finance transactions) and the risks to reputation high (as in opaque financial reporting); Continuous monitoring of senior executives for evidence of what... View Details
Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • February 2022 (Revised May 2022)
  • Case

Jaypee Infratech and the Indian Bankruptcy Code

By: Kristin Mugford, William Vrattos and Radhika Kak
In 2016, India passed a new bankruptcy law (IBC) to counter a brewing bank crisis and increased corporate distress. Homebuilder Jaypee Infratech, one of India largest distressed companies (the “dirty dozen”) began restructuring under the IBC in 2017. Two years later,... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Decisions; Judgments; Voting; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Crisis; Public Sector; Asset Pricing; Borrowing and Debt; Corporate Finance; Credit; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Debt Securities; Bonds; Investment Return; Price; Government Legislation; Laws and Statutes; Bids and Bidding; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; India; Delhi
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  • 01 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.

straightforward equation: climate instability exacerbates the risk of armed conflict around the world. Examples are happening around the world every day. They include mass migration as food and water resources literally dry up; mass death... View Details
  • 24 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say (Part 2)

2019) is the Senior Director of Digital Talent/Strategy and Instructor at Barry’s If you were to describe your HBS experience in 3 words what would they be? Epic, amazing, and transformational. Was an HBS MBA worth it? 10000% worth it. As I reflect back on navigating... View Details
  • 19 Feb 2020
  • News

Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

sustainability risks and opportunities, has heard from a major technology company that they are considering the availability of renewable energy resources in site selection. “It has moved from being tenth on the list of siting criteria to... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
  • 20 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

such as stable value funds, balanced funds, and life-cycle (or target date) funds. We find that life-cycle funds designed to match the risk tolerance and investment horizon of investors have small welfare costs. All other choices,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them

By: Kevin J. Murphy and Michael C. Jensen
Almost all CEO and executive bonus plans have serious design flaws that limit their benefits dramatically. Such poorly designed executive bonus plans destroy value by providing incentives to manipulate the timing of earnings, mislead the board about organizational... View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Competency and Skills; Cost of Capital; Executive Compensation; Risk Management; Performance Evaluation; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Value
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  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

gap” was a problem in Nigeria as in many parts of the world. Infrastructure projects like power plants and dams were very large capital investments that could generate long-term consistent cash flows, but their financing and delivery... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

competition frequently requires previously agreed-upon issues to be renegotiated." Add in the risks of costly misunderstanding and conflict from globalization and a diverse U.S. workforce, Sebenius continues, and it's clear why students... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

The Camel and the Unicorn

we’re going to examine why Silicon Valley is at risk of losing its startup crown and what that could mean for the future of innovation. READ MORE If you were asked to name some of the greatest entrepreneurial failures in history, you... View Details
  • 26 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 26, 2016

coming from an increase in new hires and the balance from an increase in earnings. Importantly, however, we document substantial crowding out of non-treated firms employment, particularly in counties with low rates of unemployment. Our results highlight an important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

large, established, highly-regarded business firms. Khurana then proceeds to outline significant events that led to the dilution and destruction of this ideal, to the replacement of "managerial capitalism" by "shareholder capitalism." At the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 17 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

seems likely that Brazil will work with Canada to arrive at mutually agreeable financing packages to be used by each country. HBS professors Rawi Abdelal and Laura Alfaro recently co-wrote a business case with Brett Laschinger on the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 27 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

Tingle on board, they made great use of their summer and built the Harlem Capital platform, taking that work into their second year at HBS. The risk paid off and by graduation in 2019, they were both able to make Managing Partner at... View Details