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- Keep Emotion Out of Decision Making
- We've all had the experience of letting our emotions get the better of our actions. But in a business setting, emotional decisions can be costly -- and a quick way to lose your job. But how do you keep cool, calm, and collected in the high pressure...
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment
- We identify a new type of vertical Foreign Direct Investment FDI made up of multinational subsidiaries which are producing intermediate inputs of similar skill intensity to the final goods produced by their parents, and where this production is primarily located in high skill countries. These subsidiaries make up more than...
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Analyst Disagreement, Forecast Bias and Stock Returns
- This paper presents evidence of inefficient information processing in equity markets by documenting that biases in analysts' earnings forecasts are reflected in stock prices. In particular, it shows that investors fail to fully account for optimistic bias associated with analyst disagreement. This bias arises for two reasons. First, analysts issue...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Medical Devices: The New Hot Property for Private Equity Investors
- For investors stepping off the big-pharma roller coaster, the medical device market is looking unusually attractive, according to Julie Jette, of HBS Working Knowledge. Venture capital firms are increasingly being drawn to the lower-risk profile of this industry, which was once considered a poor relation to the pharmaceuticals sector has...
- White papers 2004-05-14
- How Do Family Ownership, Management, and Control Affect Firm Value?
- Using proxy data on all Fortune-500 firms during 1994-2000, this report finds that family ownership creates value only when the founder serves as the CEO of the family firm or as its chairman with a hired CEO. Dual share classes, pyramids, and voting agreements reduce the founder premium. When descendants...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- The Illiquidity Puzzle: Theory and Evidence From Private Equity
- This paper presents a theory, where managers can use the liquidity of securities as a choice variable to screen for deep pocket investors, those that have a low likelihood of facing liquidity shock. The paper assumes that there is information asymmetry about the quality of the manager between the existing...
- White papers 2003-04-08
- Creating A Change Management Knowledge Infrastructure
- Learning is on a natural evolutionary path. Once understood, the path is predictable, and it will drive the vision, strategy and deployment for acquisition and distribution of knowledge. We're on the threshold of the next stage of evolution in learning. Those who can see it will be able to harness...
- White papers 2003-03-07
- Background Paper on Evolving Trends in the Supervision of Financial Conglomerates
- This background paper is divided into two parts. The first begins with a review of the emergence of financial conglomerates in the past two decades and then presents an overview of recent policy debates over the question of how these enterprises should be supervised. The second part offers a more...
- White papers 2002-11-04
- Making Sense of the Corporate Venture Capital
- In the late 1990s many investors had invested in new ventures but then there was a hasty retreat as the economy turned. Nearly one-third of the company's actively investing corporate funds in start-ups in September 2000 had stopped making such investments 12 months later. Thus, companies have at best, mixed...
- White papers 2002-03-01
- Value Creation and Process Management: Evidence From Retail Banking
- This paper summarizes a multi-year research effort to understand the role of process performance in the overall efficiency of banks. By focusing on the process as the unit of analysis, the paper considers how technology, human resources, and most importantly, the interaction between these factors of production contribute to overall...
- White papers 2002-01-03
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- A GIG WITH SPECIAL MEANING
- When pop singer Bettina sings for cadets, opening for the rock band Smash Mouth at the Air Force Academy on Wednesday, it'll be more than just another gig. It will have special meaning because her father, Charles Bush, was among the first black cadets to attend...
- Articles 2008-05-17
- Financial Illiteracy and Debt Go Hand-in-Hand
- DEBT With the November elections rapidly approaching, millions of Americans are examining each candidate's views on the country's economic situation. Americans with unmanageable levels of debt, which, according to a recent TNS survey conducted in partnership with professors at Harvard Business School and Dartmouth College, include more...
- Articles 2008-05-01
- Improving financial reporting.(financial reporting)
- This issue features a viewpoint by Robert A. Howell that is excerpted from the letter he addressed to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's SEC Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting CIFiR last November. Professor Howell is the David T. McLaughlin, D'54, T'55 Distinguished Visiting Professor...
- Articles 2008-04-01
- Wave Uranium Adds Two Members to Advisory Board
- LAS VEGAS -- Wave Uranium (OTCBB:WAVU) today announced the addition of Frederick Cardin and James Burns to its advisory board. Dr. Frederick Cardin earned his MBA and Doctorate in finance from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He earned a BA in economics, summa cum laude, from...
- Articles 2008-02-21
- HR happenings
- Entrepreneur Tom Ward has been named director of the Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. Ward will report to the school's dean, Michael Johnson. The institute supports innovation and new businesses in the industry. Ward, a 1990...
- Articles 2008-02-11
- Professor Jens Hilscher Named Senior Research Fellow at Kamakura Corporation
- Kamakura Corporation reported today thatProfessor Jens Hilscher has been appointed Senior Research Fellow atKamakura Corporation. Professor Hilscher will continue to serve asAssistant Professor of Finance at Brandeis International Business School,located in Waltham, Massachusetts, while working with Kamakura. ProfessorHilscher earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 2005...
- Articles 2008-02-06
- There are also some new faces at Terra Networks, specifically those of Mark Lopez, new COO, and Angel Sepulveda, executive director of programming
- There are also some new faces at Terra Networks, specifically those of Mark Lopez, new COO, and Angel Sepulveda, executive director of programming. Mark is one of the original team members who helped Terra launch their portal in 2000. Angel previously served as director of original programming in music and...
- Articles 2008-02-01
- Global edge; using the opacity index to manage the risks of cross-border business
- Global edge; using the opacity index to manage the risks of cross-border business. Kurtzman, Joel and Glenn Yago. Harvard Bus. School Press 2007 220 pages $29.95 Hardcover HD62 In this volume, the authors discuss...
- Articles 2008-02-01
- Arent Fox LLP
- Arent Fox LLP announced that Peter J. Fitzpatrick has joined the firm's corporate group as a partner in the New York office. His practice focuses on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and corporate recapitalizations and restructurings relating to both public and private businesses. Prior to joining Arent Fox,...
- Articles 2008-01-09
- Aradigm Appoints Timothy Lynch to Board of Directors
- HAYWARD, Calif. -- Aradigm Corporation (OTCBB:ARDM) today announced it appointed Timothy Lynch to its board of directors. Mr. Lynch served as the Chief Financial Officer of biopharmaceutical company Tercica and before that, InterMune. Prior to his CFO roles, Mr. Lynch worked at Elan Corporation as Director of Strategic Planning and...
- Articles 2008-01-02
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