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- July 2017
- Article
What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us About Earnings Surprises and Post-announcement Returns?
By: Kenneth A. Froot, Namho Kang, Gideon Ozik and Ronnie Sadka
We develop real-time proxies of retail corporate sales from multiple sources, including approximately 50 million mobile devices. These measures contain information from both the earnings quarter (within quarter) and the period between that quarter's end and the...
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Froot, Kenneth A., Namho Kang, Gideon Ozik, and Ronnie Sadka. "What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us About Earnings Surprises and Post-announcement Returns?" Journal of Financial Economics 125, no. 1 (July 2017): 143–162. (Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 22366, June 2016, Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 16-123, April 2016.)
- Program
Investment Management Workshop
with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Download Brochure Who Should Attend Executives in investment management organizations—including hedge fund firms, View Details
- June 2023
- Teaching Note
From Cradle to Heaven: Taikang Insurance Group
By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 320-088. The case explores the rise of Taikang Insurance Group and its quest to be a leader of one of China's fastest-growing industries. Due to China's underdeveloped social welfare state, Taikang saw an opportunity for the private...
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- January 2003 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
The State of Connecticut: Strategy for Economic Development
By: Michael E. Porter and Kaia Miller
Describes the history of Connecticut's economy, its competitive challenges in the 1990s, and the steps taken to develop an economic plan for the state. A prominent issue is the competitive position of Connecticut's industry clusters and the efforts to create a formal...
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Keywords:
Economic Growth;
Economy;
Government and Politics;
Industry Clusters;
Competition;
Connecticut
Porter, Michael E., and Kaia Miller. "The State of Connecticut: Strategy for Economic Development." Harvard Business School Case 703-426, January 2003. (Revised March 2009.)
- 11 May 2013
- News
How the Rich Play the Market
- Program
Senior Executive Leadership Program—India
presence in South Asia Nonprofit organizations Government agencies, especially those working closely with the private sector An Exceptional Learning Experience When you participate in an HBS Executive Education program, you enter an...
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA
is the designer and chairman of the T1D Fund, an impact investment fund he co-founded in 2016 that has used a venture philanthropic model to catalyze over $700 million of private capital investment in type one diabetes (T1D) cure...
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- January 2019
- Case
First Aid Beauty
By: Karen Mills and Annie Dang
In 2008, Lilli Gordon, an experienced financial and skincare entrepreneur, founded First Aid Beauty (FAB). She had discovered a white space in the prestige beauty market: high-end skin solutions that were suitable for sensitive skin. After initial success through...
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Keywords:
Prestige Beauty;
Skincare;
Preferred Shares;
Common Stock;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Private Equity;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
Mills, Karen, and Annie Dang. "First Aid Beauty." Harvard Business School Case 319-082, January 2019.
George A. Riedel
George A. Riedel is the Henry B. Arthur Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit, where he currently teaches TEM (The Entrepreneurial Manager) and acts as a Section Chair in the Required Curriculum (RC). He has also taught TOM (Technology and... View Details
- October 2019
- Case
Hony Capital and Jushi Group
By: Josh Lerner, Shai Bernstein and Ann Leamon
Hony Capital, a multi-billion dollar private equity firm based in China, is investing in a subsidiary of Jushi Group, a Chinese company that is one of the world's largest fiberglass producers. The specific project will build a plant in the United States. In this case,...
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Keywords:
Real Estate;
Investing;
Fundraising;
Manufacturing;
Private Equity;
Asset Management;
Finance;
Investment;
Venture Capital;
China;
United States
Lerner, Josh, Shai Bernstein, and Ann Leamon. "Hony Capital and Jushi Group." Harvard Business School Case 820-040, October 2019.
- February 2024
- Course Overview Note
The Anatomy of Fraud
By: Jonas Heese
Corporate fraud remains a serious problem. Learning how to detect and prevent it, and make better investment decisions has broad applicability for private and public market investors, as well as for people joining or running companies. This course note describes a...
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Heese, Jonas. "The Anatomy of Fraud." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 124-076, February 2024.
- 2016
- Blog
Building A Culture of Health - John A. Quelch: Creating A Culture of Health
By: John A. Quelch
All American companies are in the health business whether they like it or not. The private sector directly pays for one-fifth of the whopping 17.5% of GDP spent on healthcare in the United States. Rather than viewing health merely as an insurance expense to be...
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Keywords:
Building A Culture Of Health;
Intersection Of Healthcare And Business;
Impact Of Healthcare On Business;
Population Health Footprint;
Healthcare As An Investment;
Change;
Education;
Health;
Human Resources;
Labor;
Leadership;
Management;
Marketing;
Operations;
Performance;
Personal Development and Career;
Problems and Challenges;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Strategy;
Value;
Health Industry;
Insurance Industry;
Canada;
North America;
United States
Quelch, John A. "Creating A Culture of Health." Building A Culture of Health - John A. Quelch (blog). May 31, 2016. http://johnquelch.org/creating-a-culture-of-health/.
- 25 Apr 2013
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The business strategy in plausible deniability
- 21 Jul 2006
- News
Open-Door Policy Works Best
- 04 Apr 2016
- News
Businesses Pledge Millions to Boost Baltimore Economy
Asim I. Khwaja
Asim Ijaz Khwaja is the Director of the Center for International Development and the Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance and Development at the Harvard Kennedy School, and co-founder of the
- January 2007 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
National Logistics Management: Founder Decisions
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
Scott Taylor, CEO & founder of NLM, is a serial entrepreneur faced with an important decision. As his industry consolidates, he knows that his company must grow quickly, yet he believes he has reached the limit of what organic growth can achieve. Should he accept the...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Supply and Industry;
Supply Chain
Applegate, Lynda M., and Elizabeth Collins. "National Logistics Management: Founder Decisions." Harvard Business School Case 807-125, January 2007. (Revised May 2008.)
- January 1997 (Revised November 1997)
- Case
IBM and Siemens: Revitalizing the Rolm Division (A)
By: Ashish Nanda, Antonio Davila and Georgia Levenson
The case opens with a discussion of the evolution of the private branch exchange industry in the 1970s and 1980s. It follows the path of Rolm from an independent company to an IBM acquisition and its problem as an IBM division. Then describes Siemens' growing interest...
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Keywords:
Communication Technology;
Restructuring;
Joint Ventures;
Negotiation Participants;
Business Divisions;
Problems and Challenges;
Acquisition;
Telecommunications Industry
Nanda, Ashish, Antonio Davila, and Georgia Levenson. "IBM and Siemens: Revitalizing the Rolm Division (A)." Harvard Business School Case 397-058, January 1997. (Revised November 1997.)
- 08 Oct 2010
- News