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  • 29 Apr 2008
  • Research Event

Venture Capital

of the industry cannot be over­emphasized: they included pioneering players who launched important firms and invested in some of society's most important companies. As VC increasingly becomes a worldwide phenomenon, moreover, HBS will continue to have a View Details
Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services
  • February 2011
  • Article

Understanding Analysts’ Use and Under-use of Stock Returns and Other Analysts’ Forecasts when Forecasting Earnings

By: Michael B. Clement, Jeffrey Hales and Yanfeng Xue
We investigate analysts' use of stock returns and other analysts' forecast revisions in revising their own forecasts after an earnings announcement. We find that analysts respond more strongly to these signals when the signals are more informative about future earnings... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Forecasting and Prediction; Performance Evaluation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Financial Services Industry
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  • Profile

Juan Pablo Moncayo

to make decisions with conviction, but without all the necessary information." As he worked his way up at Goldman, from banking to private equity, HBS remained in the back of his mind. Finally, in 2013, JP realized "it was now... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
  • January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
  • Case

Pioneer Natural Resources: Enhancing the Capital Return Strategy with Variable Dividends

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Elisabeth Kempf and E. Scott Mayfield
In February 2021, Scott Sheffield, the CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources (an independent oil and gas company based in Texas), was considering the possibility of enhancing the firm’s capital return strategy by introducing a variable dividend tied to cash flows in... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Finance; Cash Flow; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Value Creation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Return; Profit; Policy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Energy Industry; United States; North America; Texas
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  • 30 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell

the family business. The portrait of the business would also typically represent more than 90 percent of the owners' wealth. “If this transition is not managed well, the family has a higher risk of losing its wealth through bad investment View Details
Keywords: by Jonathan Pellegrin; Food & Beverage; Retail
  • Web

Donaldson Room | About

influential Harvard Business School professor, mentor, researcher, and administrator from 1955 to 1993. An expert in corporate financial management, Donaldson held the Willard Prescott Smith Professorship of Corporate Finance. Donaldson’s... View Details
  • 16 Dec 2016
  • News

Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff

Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff Kurt Wulff (MBA 1967) credits Harvard Business School with changing the way he viewed decision making. Even after 50 years, he remembers Dr. Howard Raifa’s courses on game theory and View Details
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

creative new markets. Lessons in Corporate Finance: A Case Studies Approach to Financial Tools, Financial Policies, and Valuation by Paul Asquith and Lawrence A. Weiss (DBA 1989) (Wiley) This book explains... View Details
  • 24 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

On August 15th, Aetna announced that it would reduce by 80 percent its participation in the Obama administration’s public exchanges for health insurance policies in 2017, citing significant financial losses. The move came just a few weeks... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health
  • 1972
  • Chapter

Optimal Utilization of Market Forecasts and the Evaluation of Portfolio Performance

By: Michael Jensen
Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Performance Evaluation
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  • 20 Mar 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Bubbles for Fama

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You
  • September 2007
  • Case

Dice-K: The Hundred (Plus) Million Dollar Man

By: Randolph B. Cohen
Describes the efforts made by the Boston Red Sox to sign superstar Japanese pitcher Daisuke (Dice-K) Matsuzaka within the context of the team's attempts to keep pace with longtime rival, the New York Yankees. In late 2006, Dice-K is viewed as the prize of the free... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Cash Flow; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Strategy; Sports Industry
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  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”

point to history to make their case. The country's first major financial crisis—the Great Depression—led to the Securities Acts of 1933 and 1934, which effectively regulated the stock market for nearly seventy years, noted Goldschmid.... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
  • January 2020 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

Salary Finance US

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In October 2019, Dan Macklin, the newly-appointed chief executive of Salary Finance Inc., was weighing his options for the future of the business. The company’s value proposition was quite simple: partner with employers to offer employees affordable loans that were... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Credit; Financing and Loans; Wages; Innovation and Invention; Expansion; Growth Management; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Decoding Inside Information

By: Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy and Lukasz Pomorski
Using a simple empirical strategy, we decode the information in insider trades. Exploiting the fact that insiders trade for a variety of reasons, we show that there is predictable, identifiable "routine" insider trading that is not informative for the future of firms.... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Stocks; Financial Markets; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Market Transactions
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  • 18 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

internal coordination issues with the company's sales force, and the financial returns versus other uses of capital for the company. The case raises issues in aligning business strategy and sales management systems, motivating and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along

from the same party and some with partners from the other party. A control group played without knowing their anonymous partners’ political leanings. In the game, Player A could keep $5 and give $5 to Player B, or pass the decision to... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Financial Services; Financial Services
  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

Against All Odds

never accomplished by any other European country, despite 150 years of trying). If it sounds almost as difficult as bringing a profitable drug to market, maybe that’s why Ernesto Bertarelli (MBA ’93), CEO of the Swiss biotech company Serono International, was equal to... View Details
Keywords: America's Cup; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses

sustainability, values alignment, and impact, creating a market that has grown almost 25 percent since 2014; it now represents $23 trillion in assets globally. “The potential to deploy capital to obtain financial returns while also doing... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 22 Dec 2015
  • News

Bain Capital Managing Director to Retire

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments