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Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
change ingrained habits and emerge as industry leaders. One such firm was the renowned Waltham Watch Company, which pioneered the production of watches from interchangeable parts. Like all manufacturers of non-essential products, Waltham leadership faced difficult... View Details
- 09 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 9
http://hbr.org/search/813144-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-045 The Private Company Council Financial Accounting Foundation chairman Jack Brennan is under pressure from private-company interests to set up a new body-the Private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
Business School from the 1960s onward marks the decisive ascendancy of economics, and particularly financial economics, in business education over the other behavioral disciplines, as well as the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
also value in applying TDABC to low-volume care conditions. Since TDABC facilitates comparisons of costs with outcomes managers will be better able to make decisions about whether to expand or limit resources allocated to those low-volume... View Details
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
rational assessment of ethicality should not depend on the identifiability of the victim of wrongdoing or the actual harm caused if the judge and the decision maker have the same information. Yet in five laboratory studies, we show that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Andrew Kletzing
for general management — for making decisions and owning the consequences." In addition, Andrew participated in the Korea-United States Friendship Council, a joint group of Army officers and South Korean businessmen who, Andrew says,... View Details
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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020
new friends right away when they stopped in to see what smelled so good. Everyone who tried my ramen really loved it, and that inspired my decision to launch a ramen business in Boston.” “ Most restaurant owners can cook, but they don’t... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
effectively. At Soldiers Field we learned how to gauge uncertainty, weigh aftereffects, and make decisions without reinventing the wheel. Above all, the School supported us in becoming leaders who could make a difference. More than a few... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- November 2010
- Supplement
Magna International, Inc. (B)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Yuhai Xuan
Magna International, Inc., a Canadian-based automotive parts manufacturer, is considering whether and how to unwind its dual-class ownership structure. A family trust controlled by the founder owns a 0.65% economic interest in the company but has 66% of the votes via a... View Details
Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Value Creation; Voting; Family Ownership; Cost; Cost vs Benefits; Stock Shares; Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Canada
Luehrman, Timothy A., and Yuhai Xuan. "Magna International, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 211-045, November 2010.
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
Publications In press Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes When Doing Good Is Bad in Gift-giving: Mis-predicting Appreciation of Socially-responsible Gifts By: Cavanaugh, A., F. Gino, and G.J. Fitzsimons Abstract—Gifts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2014
- Teaching Note
Mylan Lab's Proposed Merger with King Pharmaceuticals
By: Lucy White
Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price using derivatives. The price at which Mylan proposes to merge with King is generous to King shareholders,... View Details
- January 2009 (Revised February 2014)
- Case
Mylan Lab's Proposed Merger with King Pharmaceutical (Abridged)
By: Lucy White
Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price using derivatives. The price at which Mylan proposes to merge with King is generous to King shareholders,... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Voting; Ethics; Stock Shares; Investment; Lawsuits and Litigation; Ownership Stake
White, Lucy. "Mylan Lab's Proposed Merger with King Pharmaceutical (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 209-097, January 2009. (Revised February 2014.)
- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
coverage of mutual fund management misdeeds. And part may be in the general ignorance about how funds are managed and investors charged for the services. Whatever the cause, according to William Donoghue, "The financial McCarthyism... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
navigating a range of personalities and egos to ensure “the right information was in the right place, at the right time, for decisions to be made. “Paige has a real commitment to public service, whether it’s global View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
financial services companies as it determines its stand on a matter of increasing public prominence. Oberholzer-Gee teaches the case in Strategies Beyond the Market, a second-year elective that focuses on the interplay between business... View Details
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
four-plus years and has come into conflict with the company's founder. Should the Board's nominating committee re-nominate the VC investor, and should the board go along with the VC's push for a stock buy-back in the midst of the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a choice between whether control rights over a non-contractible decision variable (the level of marketing activities) are better held by suppliers (the marketplace-mode) or by the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- August 2006
- Article
Investor Sentiment and the Cross Section of Stock Returns
By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
We examine how investor sentiment affects the cross-section of stock returns. Theory predicts that a broad wave of sentiment will disproportionately affect stocks whose valuations are highly subjective and are difficult to arbitrage. We test this prediction by... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Finance; Stocks; Investment Return; Forecasting and Prediction; Motivation and Incentives; Risk and Uncertainty; Volatility
Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Investor Sentiment and the Cross Section of Stock Returns." Journal of Finance 61, no. 4 (August 2006): 1645–1680.
- 27 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: HBS Visits Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Steel Dolvi Plant
workers than the large players. Until the government takes decisive action, the large steel producers will continue investing on only the financially viable projects, which in the current state will not move... View Details