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- 27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27
case asks students to evaluate the pricing of preferred stock relative to common stock at this time. As the case takes place during a period of considerable uncertainty in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
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India - Industry specific research
promotes the textile industry. Site includes information about commercial policy, developments in various sectors of the industry and production and price information. View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
backdated stock options, insufficiently independent corporate board members, poor responsiveness to shareholders concerns, and a lack of transparency in the activities and decisions of boards. The AFL-CIO believes that such problems were... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
performance of a comprehensive set of alternative peer identification schemes. Our results show the peer firms identified from aggregation of informed agents' revealed choices in Lee, Ma, and Wang (2014) perform best, followed by peers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
information is to be exchanged over whiskey, let us get it rather than give it.” “An auditor is like a tailor: He can make a fat man look thinner or taller or younger.” “You will get nowhere if you do not inspire people.” “Always remember... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
founder. Under his management, product demand was so high at times that executives actually found themselves discussing ways to slow sales. That all changed in the early 1990s as seismic shifts pounded the toy market. Big-box toy discounters lowered View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
to be known as the Black-Scholes option pricing model. "Don't misunderstand me—getting some education about your financial affairs is a good idea, just as having some understanding of your medical needs is a good idea," Merton... View Details
- September 2000 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
Amazon.com: 1994-2000
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Meredith Collura
Enables a thorough analysis of Amazon.com and the company's value proposition, in terms of its business concept, digital business capabilities, and community and shareholder value. Examines the company's complex set of business models and web of business relationships,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Asset Pricing; Capital; Financial Strategy; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Meredith Collura. "Amazon.com: 1994-2000." Harvard Business School Case 801-194, September 2000. (Revised November 2002.)
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
Organized in conjunction with the Centennial, the event drew nearly ninety faculty and practitioners from around the world. A conversation with Khurana follows. What was your goal in organizing this event? We wanted to lay a foundation, to take View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Averting Crisis
website can see the probability that a given sector within a certain country is currently experiencing a bubble. For users seeking a longer-term perspective, the site also includes a historical database of banking, stock market, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
2003, the group fans out to test the idea with some 2,500 farmers in the area; after this outreach, MME has 729 members willing to make the minimum investment of $20,000 and 10,000 bushels of corn annually. For the farmers, MME offers a potential hedge against the... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22
in investment, changed tax evasion behavior, or changes in stock prices associated (or contemporaneous) with JGTRRA. Download the paper from SSRN ($5):... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008
non-connected stocks by up to 7.8% per year. Returns are concentrated around corporate news announcements, consistent with mutual fund managers gaining an informational advantage through the education... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24
to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
stock price are discussed. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112058-PDF-ENG Gracious Eloise: What Do Angels Want? (A) Lena G. Goldberg, Janet Kraus, and Mary Beth FindlayHarvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Emily Hoffman
you care who I am friends with?" Later, my questions were deeper, and often somewhat probing. Things like: "Why does my consulting firm not support my furniture design pursuits?"; "Why do New York City housing prices... View Details
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Trade Cards - The Art of American Advertising
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
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Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
Andresen's 1986 departure). Andresen took time out to attend Harvard's Advanced Management Program in 1974 in order "to test my standards of management," he says. "I had been working nonstop for over five years and felt the need to take View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
veteran of the company. “It’s a matter of thinking about how to take all of this wonderful entertainment and news programming and make it available to different consumers at different price points. That’s an endlessly challenging puzzle.... View Details