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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
financial information induces a trade externality: if speculators refrain from trading, hedgers do the same, depressing the asset price. Market transparency reinforces this mechanism, by making speculators’ trades more visible to hedgers....
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
and vertical mergers. Our model highlights a collective action problem: what is good for an individual firm is often not good for the cluster. We speculate that this conflict may be a source of strategic tension in platform firms....
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
With national vacancy rates still in the 14 percent range and the economy generating fewer new jobs than in previous recoveries, no one sees much chance of a speculative building bubble for office space. “New construction just hasn’t gone...
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- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
company, confirmed that it had begun selling A2 infant formula in China, and people speculated that it would start selling A2 products in Australia and New Zealand later in the year. a2MC's retiring CEO Geoffrey Babidge and newly...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
new manufacturing system, the industry experiences a catastrophic downturn. Should he continue to invest in a highly speculative strategy or rein in investment and preserve cash? Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Shanoff also wondered what the MBA Class of '42 might have been thinking about "right around first-term exams in December 1941, when the attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the country into World War." As students struggled with a new sense of vulnerability, a number of...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309093 Chronology of the Asian Financial Crisis Harvard Business School Case 708-001 In July 1997, Thailand became the first Asian "tiger" economy to abandon its fixed exchange rate system in...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
balances provides the company with maximum safety and flexibility. Sales growth has been steady but unspectacular. As the CEO approaches retirement, investors and analysts speculate that the company will change to a more aggressive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
other prime locations in Chicago Downtown, and high interest rates suggested he should think long and hard before committing the company's resources to this speculative undertaking. Purchase the case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
2011. Is the pricing justified, or are we in a speculative bubble? What data are useful in determining a view on this question? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211095-PDF-ENG Magna International, Inc. (A) Timothy...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
team of senior investment professionals improved the firm’s fund return by approximately 10 percent and increased the percentage of startups with successful exits. Gompers speculates that this positive business impact is likely caused by...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Calder-Wang found that adding a woman to a team of senior investment professionals improved the firm’s fund return by approximately 10 percent and increased the percentage of startups with successful exits. Gompers speculates that this...
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- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Avenue, a luxury department store chain, has been hard hit by the 2008 financial crisis and stock market crash. Speculation about impending bankruptcy is rampant in the press. The CEO, Stephen Sadove, must decide how to respond. Purchase...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
team of senior investment professionals improved the firm’s fund return by approximately 10 percent and increased the percentage of startups with successful exits. Gompers speculates that this positive business impact is likely caused by...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
world was being run," speculates Belkin. "You see the world through the eyes of your past experiences, and the late '60s through early '70s made us look at a number of things, including business opportunities, differently." Benton, who...
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Deborah E. Blagg
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
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Art Nature Business
can't help speculating about the impact we have on this planet." Her experience led to a new series of work, Arctic Wonderland, and this reflection: "We are in the process of creating irreparable damage to the earth and will...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
of literally scores of trees and thousands of flowers where cars and trucks had once dominated. (Tom McCraw has speculated that this was McArthur’s way of doing penance for his years in the Koerners’ sawmill.) As in all of McArthur’s...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
AI.Fuller: Well, it’s also to be hoped that the type of speculative venture capital investment that’s going into other elements of the skills and hiring ecosystem will be developing at a rapid rate and create a more salubrious environment...
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by the Mexican tequila crisis and those damaged by recent protests around the globe. Yet, such episodes also create business opportunities – and not just for the hedge funds and speculators that profit from them. Managers that have and...
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