Filter Results:
(1,918)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,873)
- People (2)
- News (577)
- Research (1,918)
- Events (9)
- Multimedia (27)
- Faculty Publications (1,232)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,873)
- People (2)
- News (577)
- Research (1,918)
- Events (9)
- Multimedia (27)
- Faculty Publications (1,232)
Sort by
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
stores, TCS went public in late 2013. Since its IPO, same store sales have suffered, and the company's stock in early 2016 was trading well below its IPO price. As such, the company's culture and Foundation Principles were being put to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
Business School Case 215-026 Longbow Capital Partners Longbow Capital Partners is a value-oriented long/short hedge fund focused on stocks in the energy sector. In January 2011, Longbow had invested in NiSource, a Fortune 500 company that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
for smart phones in the U.S. and the position of one player, Research In Motion (RIM), who manufactures the popular Blackberry line of products. Early in 2011, RIM is in trouble. Its stock price has plummeted, amidst poor business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
firms. However, once a lawsuit-triggering event like an accounting restatement, missing management guidance, or a sharp stock price decline occurs, there is no difference in the litigation rates between a foreign and comparable U.S. firm.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
supply chains, installing ERP (enterprise resource planning systems, as exemplified by SAP), and worrying about Y2K. The threat posed to our economy by Japan and Germany had eased, the stock market was going crazy, and everybody was... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
the United States and use this list to analyze the relationship between insider ownership and firm value. Our data have two useful features. First, since dual-class stock separates cash-flow rights from voting rights, we can separately... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
entrepreneurial enterprises. And yet they are subject to exactly the same rules and conditions as large companies. A second example. There has been a lot of discussion about stock options and expensing them through regulatory action and... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
consumption Euler equation, commonly assumed in New Keynesian models. Estimating the model separately for 1979–2001 and 2001–2011 explains why the exposure of U.S. Treasury bonds to the stock market changed from positive to negative. A... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
consider the life of a guy who was twenty years old and living in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Such a young man was facing a very different reality. Factory jobs had mostly disappeared and now he was looking at a life stocking shelves in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
to stop chasing stock price and shareholder value. Maybe they shouldn't have as many users. Maybe they have to expunge a lot of those users and clean up their site a lot more. Kenny: You review that decision to go public. Was that a... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1960-2011, it was unusually high in the 1980s and negative in the 2000s, a period during which Treasury bonds enabled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
the worst of the crisis was over. With the global financial system no longer spiraling into an abyss, government officials, business leaders, and American taxpayers could now take stock of where they had been and where they should be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
level," says Chua. "Then you really want to reflect and systematically take stock of those experiences." Those who do that, he says, will not only be more comfortable interacting with someone from a different culture, but... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm payout policy. Retail investors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
billionaire Russian investor Roustam Tariko, has proposed an out of court exchange offer for CEDC's publicly traded bonds and investment in CEDC's stock that would give him full ownership of the company. If the exchange offer fails, the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
16% greater measurement error variance and imply an average performance penalty of 106 to 277 basis points in annual returns. Finally, reduced-form estimates suggest that ineffective and index-based RPE benchmarks are associated with poorer corporate governance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
double-digit drop in stock price overnight. Questions were raised on the company's strategies pursued to meet such targets and on the validity of its three-year planning process. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
companies that are owned by private equity. They are composed of the CEO and six directors, all of whom have relevant industry expertise. The directors make the time commitment, spending several days each month at the company. And they all have significant View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
announcements on trading behavior in a simulated and real stock market setting. I find evidence that the involvement of stars impacts movies' expected theatrical revenues, and I provide insight into the magnitude of that effect. For... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace