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- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
intrinsically good and not subject to reevaluation on a case-by-case basis," writes Harvard Business School professor Lynn Sharp Paine in Value Shift: Why Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives to Achieve Superior... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
companies deliver only about 50-60% of the financial performance their strategies promise. That's a lot of wasted money and managerial effort. Cespedes, the MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business... View Details
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
leverage have to include large institutional investors. I was reminded of this when I read of David Swenson’s recent message to organizations managing Yale’s money under Swenson’s highly successful supervision. He told them that their View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Bertini (DBA 2006) and Oded Koenigsberg The MIT Press Would you rather pay for health care or for better health? For school or education? For groceries or nutrition? A car or transportation? A theater performance or entertainment? In The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
foreign market share therefore increased five-fold between 1997 and 2007. We construct and analyze a panel of Mexican bank financial data covering this period and find no evidence that foreign entry increases the availability of credit.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
monitor my investments as often as I like, and that I can perform all kinds of financial transactions from my home computer at a fraction of the cost I would have had to pay twenty years ago. In this sense,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
doesn't have a global perspective on access to resources. Its customers include Wal-Mart, Kmart, and Target; it has 60 percent market share in the U.S. But, like many Korean firms, Jinwoong financed itself with lots of debt from Korean banks. "The Asian View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51879 Structural GARCH: The Volatility-Leverage Connection By: Engle, Robert F., and Emil N. Siriwardane Abstract—During the financial crisis, financial firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
Working PapersTesting Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24 Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, Susan L. Kulp, and V.G. Narayanan Abstract We analyze balanced scorecard data... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
good projects and good returns. Esty's interest in project finance evolved out of his doctoral thesis on risk-taking in the savings and loan (S&L) industry during the 1980s. "I have been intrigued with high leverage and its effects on managerial incentives and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
of results we want to achieve in the next round—more of the same, or more of other kinds of results. An investor may say that she wishes to continue to build her financial assets, so she would check the column for "want more of the... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
day long and would often shut off the monitors. When a Boston-area bank first tried out videoconferencing kiosks to sell financial services, customers refused to use them. The systems were located in closed booths that granted privacy but... View Details
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
2000 respectively, GE Capital and Citi Financial both acquired Japanese consumer-lending companies. In 2006, when the Japanese Supreme Court rules that one of the big Japanese consumer lenders must repay a borrower for "excess... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
"focused factories." An example is the Shouldice Hospital in Canada, which performs hernia operations exclusively. Its operations are substantially cheaper and higher quality than those in a traditional hospital because it focuses its... View Details
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
maintenance and repair parts and equipment in the U.S., had just held its November 2014 board meeting. The meeting had been productive but not without some soul searching for both the company’s management team and financial sponsors. Was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
performance to provide quantitative insight into the link between a firm's business model choices and its profit consequences. The method is applied to Walmart by building a qualitative representation of its business model and mapping... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
people with the right attitude (one that fits with the organization's culture), and proper training and organization (often in teams). Financial targets are given no more or less emphasis than targets associated with employee and customer... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
understand how to scale economic mobility and alleviate poverty through state and federal educational policy reform. After graduation, he moved to North Carolina to teach with Teach for America, so he could perform a “360-degree analysis... View Details
- 07 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India
rounds of funding. This financial backing underscores the confidence and belief in Log 9's strategic vision, which is steadfastly aligned with creating a future where mobility and energy consumption are clean, efficient, and sustainable.... View Details
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
strengthened. These changes may reflect the growing role for the euro as a reserve currency in the international financial system. The risk-minimizing currency strategy for a global bond investor is close to a full currency hedge, with a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace