[Assam] Harvard MBA Newsletter: How the Univs get higher returns on fin. investment ; The Silo Lives! Analyzing Multiunit Companies

Wed Sep 24 09:35:42 PDT 2008

Working Paper: Secrets of the Academy—The Drivers of University Endowment Success
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6017.html
Download the paper. University endowments are important and interesting institutions both in the investing community and society at large. They play a role in maintaining the academic excellence of many universities that rely heavily on income from their endowments. In contrast, poor finances can undermine a school's ability to provide academic services altogether. Endowments have also received much attention recently for their superior investment returns compared with other institutional investors. In this study, HBS professor Josh Lerner and colleagues document the trends in college and university endowment returns and investments in the United States between 1992 and 2005.

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Subject: Newsletter: The Silo Lives! Analyzing Multiunit Companies
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Date: Monday, 22 September, 2008, 10:30 AM

Highlights this Week
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
Working paper: Drivers of University Endowment Success
Working Paper: The Internalization of Advertising Services
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New on the Site
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6011.html
A new Harvard Business School working paper looks inside the communications "black box" of a large company to understand who talks to whom, and finds the corporate silo as impenetrable as ever. Q&A with professor Toby E. Stuart.

Working Paper: Secrets of the Academy—The Drivers of University Endowment Success
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6017.html
Download the paper. University endowments are important and interesting institutions both in the investing community and society at large. They play a role in maintaining the academic excellence of many universities that rely heavily on income from their endowments. In contrast, poor finances can undermine a school's ability to provide academic services altogether. Endowments have also received much attention recently for their superior investment returns compared with other institutional investors. In this study, HBS professor Josh Lerner and colleagues document the trends in college and university endowment returns and investments in the United States between 1992 and 2005.

Working Paper: The Internalization of Advertising Services: An Inter-Industry Analysis
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5996.html
Download the paper. When are advertisers more likely to establish and maintain their own in-house agencies? Despite occasional indications to the contrary, such self-sufficiency has long been viewed by industry observers and scholars as more the exception than the rule in the U.S. advertising and marketing services business. With the background that vertical integration in this industry is a neglected domain of research, analysis by HBS professor emeritus Alvin J. Silk and colleagues suggests that while most large U.S. advertisers rely primarily on independent agencies for advertising services, many other advertisers operate in-house advertising units.

What Do You Think? Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6001.html
The case method of teaching business management has come under criticism on a number of fronts as educators rethink how to incorporate new teaching tools and methods made available by technology. Professor Jim Heskett asks: Is too much emphasis being placed on cases as opposed to other forms of instruction in training decision makers? What application do cases have in preparing leaders versus managers? Is case method instruction due for an overhaul? What do YOU think?

First Look: New Research by HBS Faculty
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6016.html
Perception matters: The rise of successful entrepreneurs ... Strategies to dislodge rival platforms ... Dealing with a massive recall of toys manufactured in China.

Most Popular Stories
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5986.html

Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6014.html

Working paper: How Can Decision Making Be Improved?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5976.html

What Do You Think? Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6001.html

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5916.html

Best of Faculty Q&As
Making the Move to General Manager
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5608.html

Elsewhere at Harvard Business School
Join the Conversation: Managing and Improving Healthcare
http://www.hbs.edu/centennial/conversation/managinghealthcare/
Online discussion with Professors Robert S. Huckman and Richard G. Hamermesh

HBS Health Industry Alumni Conference
http://www.hbshealthconference.org/
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
November 6–8, 2008

Achieving Breakthrough Service
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/abs_wk/
HBS Executive Education Program
November 9–14, 2008

Effective Strategies for Media Companies
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/med_wk/
HBS Executive Education Program
December 3–6, 2008

Governing for Nonprofit Excellence
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/gne_wk/
HBS Executive Education Program
December 3–6, 2008

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
http://www.exed.hbs.edu/redirects/lcor_wk/
HBS Executive Education Program
March 1–6, 2009

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