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Investment
the spending of money on stocks and other securities, or on assets such as plant and machinery
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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...
Tags: Foreign direct investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign exchange, Investment, Harvard Business School, foreign direct investment, outsource
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...
Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Harvard Business School, disagreement, bias, analyst, earnings forecast, stock, stock price, equity
White papers 2004-06-01
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...
Tags: Investment, Harvard Business School, liquidity, private equity, theory, investor, security
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...
Tags: Harvard Business School, change management, vision, acquisition, knowledge, strategy
White papers 2003-03-07
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...
Tags: Investment, Harvard Business School, venture capital
White papers 2002-03-01

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Uniforms Help Companies Gain Market Share During Economic Downturns; Improve Bottom Lines
WILMINGTON, Mass., May 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- With signs of a recession all around us, now more than ever is an ideal time for the success-minded company to pro-actively advertise their business image and brand to gain market share. As Harvard Business School professor John A. Quelch notes: "It is...
Articles 2008-05-21
When professionals have to lead; a new model for high performance
When professionals have to lead; a new model for high performance. DeLong, Thomas J. et al. Harvard Bus. School Press 2007 232 pages $35.00 Hardcover HD62 Professional service firms PSFs are facing a more...
Articles 2008-05-01
CUES INSTITUTE SCHOOLS RATE HIGH WITH FORBES
In developing its executive education programs, CUES set out to create a level of prestige that couldn't be matched within the credit union industry. Maintaining that level is much easier when the universities you partner with rank among the top 10 business schools in the U.S., as were all four...
Articles 2008-04-30
Investors-Aid: Canadians Kicking the High-Fat Mutual Fund Habit.
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Jan 30, 2008 Marketwire via COMTEX -- Like doughnuts and double-doubles, we just love our high-fat mutual funds. But recent industry figures show we're starting to kick the habit. Consumer watchdog Investors-Aid says Canadians pay the highest investment costs...
Articles 2008-01-30
Private Equity Council Issues Statement on New PE Research Conducted by Prof. Josh Lerner for the World Economic Forum
WASHINGTON -- The Private Equity Council today issued the following statement on new research on private equity conducted for the World Economic Forum by a team of researchers led by Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School. The studies are available on the...
Articles 2008-01-25
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
Executing Your Strategy: How to Break It Down and Get It Done
Executing Your Strategy: How to Break It Down and Get It Done By Mark Morgan, Raymond E. Levitt, and William Malek [Harvard Business School Press, 270 pp., $29.95] This book explores why businesses consistently fail to execute their strategies. According to the authors, corporations spend about $1 billion a...
Articles 2008-01-01
The Price Is Right
The U.S. dollar may be plummeting fast, but Anand G. Mahindra is moving faster. As CEO of India’s $6 billion Mahindra Group (which introduced the Jeep to India and now leads the nation’s SUV market), he intends to use the weak dollar to buy manufacturing plants in “bargain basement” America....
Articles 2007-12-10
Panel discussion: health information technology and return on investment: fact or fantasy?
Moderator: Murray N. Ross, Ph.D., Director of Health Policy Analysis and Research, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, Oakland, CA. Panelists: Douglas A. Conrad, Ph.D., Professor, Health Services; Professor, Dental Public Health Sciences; Adjunct Professor, Finance and Business Economics and Director, Center for Health Management Research, University of...
Articles 2007-12-01
One Ron Paul Supporter Foots Bill for Full-Page Ad in 'USA Today' / Hopes Well-Timed and Well-Placed Ad Will Wake America Up
To: FEATURES EDITORS Contact: Liz Comeau of TheWriteAgency.com for Larry Lepard,Office, +1-603-343-4321, Cell, +1-603-969-0176,liz@thewriteagency.com, lwlepard@gmail.com BOSTON, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Larry Lepard, a 50-year-oldinvestment manager, Harvard Business School MBA, and Ron Paulsupporter, is bringing the concept of "grassroots" to a whole newlevel. After collaborating on design and copy with...
Articles 2007-11-21
Anglo Irish Bank
Anglo Irish Bank announced the appointment of Katherine Rowley, CCIM, to vice president, Inward Investment. In this position, Rowley will source commercial property acquisitions in the United States on behalf of the Bank's private banking clients in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Prior to joining Anglo Irish Bank, Rowley spent...
Articles 2007-11-07
Cantel Medical Appoints New Director
LITTLE FALLS, N.J. -- CANTEL MEDICAL CORP. (NYSE:CMN) Announced the appointment of Mark N. Diker to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Dr. Spencer Foreman as a director on June 25, 2007. Mr. Diker is co-founder of Diker Management LLC, a registered investment adviser which focuses on healthcare...
Articles 2007-10-31
Harvard University Research Team Secures Funding From Allied Minds to Commercialize Novel Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Technology
Wireless News10-22-2007Harvard University Research Team Secures Funding From Allied Minds to Commercialize Novel Solid Oxide Fuel Cell TechnologyWIRELESS NEWS-October 22, 2007-Harvard University Research Team Secures Funding From Allied Minds to Commercialize Novel Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Technology C2007 10Meters - http://www.10meters.com Harvard University's Office of Technology Development OTD and...
Articles 2007-10-22
4 - WHY THE WORLD ISN'T FLAT (GHEMAWAT)
In The World Is Flat, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman asserts that 10 forces - most of which enable connectivity and collaboration at a distance - are "flattening" the Earth and leveling a playing field of global competitiveness, the likes of which the world has never before seen. It...
Articles 2007-10-01
Portfolio Philanthropy
How philanthropists can apply portfolio theory to make wiser social investments In 2003, after a career in business, I began searching for the best ways to apply my time, money, and talents for the benefit of others. I quickly realized that I was not alone. Millions of...
Articles 2007-10-01
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