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- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
more likely to use equity in the transaction, and buy companies in a related industry. The market tends to react more negatively to the announcement of the acquisition of a venture capital-backed company, but the long-run View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Investment Strategies - Course Catalog
bonds outstanding. Every day, public markets set prices for CEOs and CFOs, financial institutions, and investors, all seeking to raise and invest money in a way that drives the economy forward. A public exit - whether through an initial... View Details
- Web
Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month | Baker Library
Quick Research Resources Use Capital IQ to explore key professionals, financial operating metrics, M&A/private placement, and more in the Latin America and Caribbean market. Go to: Markets > Geographies > Latin America and Caribbean Learn... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
investigated the influence of outcome information on ethical judgment. Participants read a series of vignettes describing ethically-questionable behaviors. We manipulated whether those behaviors were followed by a negative or positive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n 1960, ARD invested $3.6 million in 18 companies and, by 1961, the firm became the first venture capital firm with shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In the article "Scientific... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
which was sourcing originals for its new hotel in Oakland, for example, and a florist who was staging a large-scale but short-term installation at Instagram’s headquarters. At first Giridharadas was simply hoping to build a better market... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
A decade ago, Porsche, the luxury car company, found itself at a crossroads. Renowned for its classy (and expensive) sports cars, the firm had taken a hit in the wake of the 1987 stock market crash and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
tight coupling of the "real" market (business) with the "expectations" market (the stock market). Using the analogy of the NFL's strict separation of actual games from betting,... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
tomorrow's version of this technique will be based on the analysis of massive files of individual profiles, from which predictions will be built that establish stock levels needed to support 30-minute deliveries. Personalized logistics... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
emerging markets has been part of a larger effort to understand how local business environments influence company strategy. Thus far, strategy scholars have emphasized the importance of industry and firm-specific characteristics in... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
safety net for emergencies, but also would reduce financial stress and improve their quality of life. "In the private sector, a lot of startups fail, and the market provides a signal about whether the product is viable," says... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 21 Oct 2010
- News
Hell? Maybe Not.
breakfast buffet available in the recruiters’ lounge (the students have a space of their own, stocked with the quantity and variety of snacks and caffeinated beverages such a situation demands). I’m curious about this annual ritual, which... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
democratize information and change the way that stocks are traded, threatening the industry's product and business model. There were upheavals and stagnation in established core financial markets such as the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
CGLV Plenary Session
academia and focused on executive compensation, limits to board effectiveness, capital market intermediaries, and management education. A principal goal of CGLV is to encourage specific actions that will lead to changes in practice.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
down ideas and offered counter-critiques. While discussions sometimes got heated, she noticed that participants were careful to critique a person’s ideas and not the person (another rule). Although messy and sometimes chaotic, the... View Details
- February 2006 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
Auctioning Morningstar
By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn
Morningstar, a publisher of data and ratings for mutual fund investors, is considering an auction-based approach to the company's upcoming IPO, with management weighing the risks and benefits of the auction approach vs. a traditional underwritten offering. View Details
Keywords: Financial Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Stock Shares; Cost vs Benefits; Strategy; Auctions; Business or Company Management; Conflict of Interests; Publishing Industry
Baker, Malcolm P., and James Quinn. "Auctioning Morningstar." Harvard Business School Case 206-023, February 2006. (Revised August 2006.)
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
where top execs tested whether the current business model was robust enough for the challenges lying ahead. While LEGO has sold toys in Asia for three decades, there is serious potential to improve market share and maybe even outgrow... View Details
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Speculation and Credit - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
speculation in the stock market and lottery is a recurring theme in the following prints. "Before and after" depictions of shareholders were a particular favorite—admonishing the viewer that fortunes made... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
traditional U.S. public companies by more R&D–intensive firms is key to understanding the secular trend in average cash holdings. Over the last 35 years, an increasing share of R&D–intensive firms has entered the stock View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
increase in the cross-country correlations of stock and government bond returns since the late 1990s. We show that for global equities this increase has been driven primarily by increased cross-country correlations of discount rate... View Details