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- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
shareholders as a category are not well positioned to guide corporate decisions or to discipline management. They also discuss problems in two other roles shareholders play with respect to corporations, as a source of funds and as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- December 2010
- Compilation
VCPE Strategy Vignettes I
By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ann Leamon and Lisa Strope
These three vignettes present various issues around the strategy and management of venture capital and private equity firms. In one, the general partners must decide whether to invest in an intriguing opportunity that lies outside the firm's carefully developed...
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Venture Capital;
Private Equity;
Financial Strategy;
Projects;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Partners and Partnerships;
Opportunities;
Investment Portfolio;
Business or Company Management;
China
Lerner, Josh, G. Felda Hardymon, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Ann Leamon, and Lisa Strope. "VCPE Strategy Vignettes I." Harvard Business School Compilation 811-043, December 2010.
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
stock and see if it is positive or negative.” Finance is another field in which Teodorescu predicts that machine learning will become more common, as banks and financial companies will use data about how customers use money to predict...
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1.4.1 HBS Learning Model - MBA
Materials 1.22 Disability Access 1.23 Pregnancy, Childbirth & Adoption during Business School 1.24 Commencement 2. Integrity & Standards of Conduct 3. Financial Obligations 4. General Policies 5. Technology, Copyright, & Publishing...
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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...
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- 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...
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Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency of marketing...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog
Through cases that put you in the shoes of executives, directors, shareholders, and other players in the corporate governance ecosystem, you will learn about the work that boards do and the critical decisions they make; how boards select...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
advertising over his first four years with the club. Matsui's presence reportedly brought $500 million in five years to New York City, measured by everything from hotel bookings to restaurant sales. Of course, no amount of marketing in the world can save teams from the...
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- 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...
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by Mihir Desai
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Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog
capabilities that have morphed into rigidities, and reining in disorganized innovation efforts. Finance : The financial dimension is central to most turnarounds. The course will present situations where leaders must make critical View Details
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
many early employees will adjust to the scale of the business and the founders letting go of the details, some can become frustrated. They no longer feel “in the know” or recognized as the CEO’s trusted adviser on particular decisions for...
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by Julia Austin
- November 2008
- Journal Article
Can Research Committees Add Value for Investors? An Analysis of Lehman Brothers' Ten Uncommon Values® Recommendations
By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Yang Gui
Since 1949 Lehman Brothers has used an investment committee to select the top ten recommendations made by its analysts each year. We examine the performance of this committee's recommendations and find that on average its selections generated abnormal returns of 2.7%...
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Forecasting and Prediction;
Stocks;
Financial Markets;
Investment;
Investment Return;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Performance Expectations;
Groups and Teams;
Research;
Value Creation
Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, and Yang Gui. "Can Research Committees Add Value for Investors? An Analysis of Lehman Brothers' Ten Uncommon Values® Recommendations." Journal of Financial Transformation 24 (November 2008): 123–130.
- August 2008
- Article
Economic Links and Predictable Returns
By: Lauren Cohen and Andrea Frazzini
This paper finds evidence of return predictability across economically linked firms. We test the hypothesis that in the presence of investors subject to attention constraints, stock prices do not promptly incorporate news about economically related firms, generating...
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Economics;
Price;
Assets;
Analytics and Data Science;
Customers;
Stocks;
Equity;
Strategy;
Investment Return;
Forecasting and Prediction
Cohen, Lauren, and Andrea Frazzini. "Economic Links and Predictable Returns." Journal of Finance 63, no. 4 (August 2008). (Winner of Smith Breeden Prize for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Finance in Asset Pricing (Distinguished Paper) 2008. Winner of Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Paper Competition. First Prize presented by Chicago Quantitative Alliance. Winner of BSI Gamma Foundation Research Grant presented by BSI Gamma Foundation.)
- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Publication: Il Sole 24 Ore S.p.A., in press Abstract A collection of papers on ethics, translated into Italian. Social Decision Making: Social Dilemmas, Social Values, and Ethical Judgments Editors: R. M. Kramer, A. E. Tenbrunsel, and M....
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Building a DTC Brand Through COVID
blog series in which she details her trials and tribulations through starting a company. Today, she shares a special version for HBS. As my fellow HBS classmates flew off to their hometowns for their remote internships, I thought about their jobs and View Details
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Ann Chao
at my disposal to pursue my passions. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your goals & career path? From the beginning, the consistent message I received from HBS and my classmates was to pursue my passions and resist the pressure to go into a View Details
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- 11 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Opportunities in the Plant-Based Economy
eager to discuss the real implications behind their companies, in addition to being critical of businesses that they saw as only financially driven. We were inspired by the scrappiness of the group: so many of them had no formal training...
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- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2024
is shaping industries and markets, where the biggest financial and operational risks lie, and what promising innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities are emerging. The theme for ClimateCAP 2024 was Sustainability in Motion which...
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