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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
spending needs as well as economic factors such as rising interest rates that affect different assets in different ways. Viceira's research analyzes asset allocation strategies for personal and institutional investors. He teaches...
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by Ann Cullen
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
with Microsoft (The Free Press), Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano of MIT's Sloan School of Management use this high-tech confrontation to outline a comprehensive approach to strategy in the ultracompetitive...
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by Daniel Penrice
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i) reduce the number of positions between the CEO and...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
latent or explicit. It involves branding these products and services, communicating their benefits to intermediaries and end consumers, and distributing them. All of these...
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- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
acquisitions and the price paid per employee are once again fueling headlines. (A better yardstick might be price per user, which in the case of WhatsApp was about $40 for a...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report
Despite a sluggish economy that constrained revenue growth for a second year, HBS finished fiscal year 2003 last June with a balanced budget and double-digit growth in its endowment funds. “Through careful...
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- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
most platform launches fail, what mistakes should managers and entrepreneurs avoid? Yoffie: We see four common problems across the data. The number one problem is how to price...
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by Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
favorable to authors who have garnered other attention in the press (as measured by number of media mentions outside of the review) and who have won book prizes. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45339...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
We propose and test a catering theory of nominal stock prices. The theory predicts that when investors place higher valuation on low-price firms, managers will maintain share View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
of great experience managing a couple billion dollars in revenue and 1,500 salespeople. Our VP of engineering and our CFO are also like that. It...
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- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
competitive vigilance that ultimately pushes them down a path of conformity. They will notice, for example, that competitor A has decided to offer a couple of new features in this market, or that competitor B has raised its prices in that...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- November 2016 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
Deutsche Bank: Structured Retail Products
By: Boris Vallée and Jérôme Lenhardt
Describes how Deutsche Bank, a leading European bank, is deciding whether or not to launch a new structured retail product in Germany: an autocallable note. Will this product find a market and how does it fit into the bank’s product portfolio? The case investigates how...
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Structured Products;
Structured Retail Products;
Germany;
Auto Callable Note;
Financial Product;
Financial Product Development;
Financial Product Marketing;
Financial Product Launch;
Financial Product Positioning;
Finance;
Assets;
Asset Pricing;
Asset Management;
Capital Markets;
Financial Institutions;
Banks and Banking;
Commercial Banking;
Financial Instruments;
Annuities;
Bonds;
Stocks;
Financial Management;
Financial Markets;
Financial Strategy;
Interest Rates;
Investment
Vallée, Boris, and Jérôme Lenhardt. "Deutsche Bank: Structured Retail Products." Harvard Business School Case 217-037, November 2016. (Revised March 2018.)
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
circumstances, including human purposes, evolved. While the invisible hand of the pricing mechanism can balance supply and demand on a global basis, or in subunits thereof, the visible hand of political...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
to power smaller ones. Small and midsized companies create the vast majority of jobs, but they often depend on big company purchases for their revenues and growth. Large...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
the world are trying to reinvent themselves for digital success. Indeed, few strategic problems are as hard as those confronting newspapers—declining print revenues, even greater declines in advertising revenue (mostly due to the loss of...
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Nikki Skovran
Africa. “I was impressed by the entrepreneurial energy there,” she says. “It was great to see that on the ground.” Her team worked with the Awethu Project, a startup incubator that exchanges business skills training for equity stakes in new ventures. Nikki View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
of forced dismissal for both CEOs and CFOs during the period 1993-2004. These results are obtained after controlling for several proxies for earnings and stock return performance suggesting that boards...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
morbidity measures from the Demographic and Health Surveys and health facility based mortality data as reported in the national Health Management Information System. While we...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
provider" offering financing solutions including debt and equity, investment banking, brokerage, and asset management services to clients in the infrastructure sector....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Siebel Addresses HBS Northern California Club
Northern California, took place at the Hyatt Regency in Burlingame. In his introduction, Sean W. Jacobsohn (MBA '98) noted, "Siebel Systems was founded in 1993 with no venture capital and needed only $1.8 million in View Details