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- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
venture capital and private equity by announcing the Vision Fund, the largest tech investment fund in the world at close to $100 billion. The reputation of legendary SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son depended on...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
with a request for proposal, the company's largest customer performs a routine evaluation and ranks PV Technologies third behind two key competitors. The director of sales and marketing must weigh the possible consequences of the report on the company's View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
owned interests in TV broadcasting and digital media, was carrying high levels of debt despite deep workforce and capital expenditure cuts. It was a situation that led its CFO to express doubt that Media General could remain in compliance...
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- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
"specializing" in misconduct and catering to unsophisticated consumers, while others use their clean reputation to attract sophisticated consumers. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53404 October 5, 2017 New...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
commodity, the major actors have focused primarily on lowering and shifting costs, increasing their bargaining power, and restricting services. Providers have offered broad and undifferentiated services, competing based on convenience and historical View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
that corporate and capital market short-termism are related. Moreover, consistent with analytical models that emphasize the costly nature of short-termism, we find that short-term oriented firms exhibit lower future accounting and stock...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
important, companies must contend with a lack of formal institutions regarding the "rules of the game." This means that company success may rely on local leaders and community agents who have the social capital to bring people...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
still had to justify its existence through profits. He hired the best engineers available, yet expected them to run their areas of responsibility with commercial acumen as "ordinary businessmen." He despised cartels and gained a View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
Case 209-097 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...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
annual Cyberposium conference held at Harvard Business School on November 19. As an industry, he suggested, venture capital has little to recommend it. "In the future, I see a median rate of return of zero or less," stated...
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- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
of intermediaries create safe "money-like" claims, they go about this in different ways. Traditional banks create money-like claims by holding illiquid fixed-income assets to maturity, and they rely on deposit insurance and costly equity View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Modigliani-Miller capital structure irrelevance propositions. The case focuses on two questions: (1) From a shareholder's perspective, how is Apple's cash different from cash in a bank or money market account? (2) Can Apple create...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local or national government can...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
performance after they go public. These results stem from the professional ownership, tighter monitoring, and reputational considerations exhibited by PE sponsors. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-104.pdf Elections...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
investment against cash flow to survive in a highly cyclical business. Such skills are usually transferable to new environments—and are the most portable type of human capital other than general management skills—but they won't offer an...
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- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
Many people today are focused on the global economic crisis, but Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter sees also a global crisis of business. The model of American capitalism that worked so well to raise the fortunes of...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
corporate strategy—create value by becoming known for better governance and greater transparency to external providers? Can they lower their cost of capital and perhaps get a valuation premium based on the View Details
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by Robert S. Kaplan
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
services with annual revenues of $7 billion and a market capitalization of nearly $26 billion in 2012. The company, headquartered in Bangalore, India, had built its reputation as the Indian IT bellwether...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
spontaneous portion of the calls (i.e., management discussion). The capital market responds positively to optimistic tone yet does not distinguish between the optimism in tone of managers from different ethnic backgrounds. The findings...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
“She also offered medical advice, delivery services, and prescription compounding—services not offered by department stores,” writes Sawyer. “Gleason also cultivated a reputation for providing indigent community members with medical...
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