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- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
running the market research firm Geosegment Systems Corporation, which he founded in 1991. In addition to its advocacy before the NRC, Popik’s group has become a regular at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), the obscure...
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- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
promising start-ups, which, without multiple funding rounds, fell into a financial "Valley of Death"—that precarious stage between researching and developing a product and actually going to market...
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- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
The IPS Property
- January 2000
- Case
Selecting a New Name for Security Capital Pacific Trust
A methodology for selecting a new corporate brand name is explored, highlighting different types of names, criteria and hurdles in securing new names, and legal implications. Brand identity consultancy Lippincott & Margulies guided a real estate investment trust...
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Fournier, Susan M., and Andrea Carol Wojnicki. "Selecting a New Name for Security Capital Pacific Trust." Harvard Business School Case 500-054, January 2000.
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
Margaret L. Rodriguez, Mérieux NutriSciences: Marketing Food Safety Testing. Food safety problems can be quite costly. An E. coli outbreak in Germany in 2011 caused $1.3 billion in losses to the global agricultural industry. Yet, a...
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- August 2010 (Revised January 2012)
- Teaching Note
Breaking the Buck (TN)
By: Robert C. Pozen and Elizabeth Leonard
Teaching Note for 310135.
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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
in the capital markets was all but unheard of; Wall Street remained an exclusive investment preserve (some would say playground) for America's financial elite. But by making the ownership of securities easy...
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Garry Emmons
- June 2020
- Teaching Note
Generation Investment Management
By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Sarah Mehta
This teaching note provides guidance for teaching the case “Generation Investment Management” (820-033), which looks at the challenges facing a sustainable investment firm.
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Keywords:
Sustainable Investing;
Socially Responsible Investing;
Long-term Investing;
ESG;
Climate Change;
Environmental Sustainability;
Finance;
Equity;
Governance;
Private Equity;
Public Equity;
Financial Markets;
Investment;
Investment Return;
Investment Activism;
Investment Funds;
Investment Portfolio;
Institutional Investing;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Financial Services Industry;
United Kingdom;
England;
London
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
two oil fields, have contracts to manage as much CO2 as is produced by a small city, and we have the financial backing to finish the job," Dawe says. "That's about as tangible as it gets." Dawe is the president and cofounder of Berkeley,...
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- October 2010
- Supplement
Belco Global Foods: Spreadsheet Supplement (CW)
By: C. Fritz Foley and Matthew Johnson
This case introduces students to the fundamental issues that managers face when deciding what international trade finance terms to use when transacting with other firms. In late 2009, Pam Arnold, the Head of Global Credit at Belco Global Foods must decide which trade...
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- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
The European market remains very attractive, with strong potential for growth—especially once French and German restructuring gets more underway, according to a panel of private equity group executives. That panel discussion was part of...
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- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?
School. We asked Vietor to discuss some of the findings in this e-mail interview. Manda Salls: What inspired you and your colleagues to write this book? Richard Vietor: Rob had some financial support for looking at CSR, and we got more...
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by Manda Salls
- 1992
- Chapter
Arbitrage, Information Theft, and Insider Trading
By: Michael Jensen
Jensen, Michael. "Arbitrage, Information Theft, and Insider Trading." In New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance, edited by Peter Newman, Murray Milgate, and John Eatwell. London: Macmillan Press, 1992. (Earlier version, Arbitrage, Information Theft, and the Mistaken Attack On Insider Trading, published in "Chief Financial Officer U.S.A.", John Thackray, ed. (Sterling Publications, London: 1988), pp. 114-115.)
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
financial services companies as it determines its stand on a matter of increasing public prominence. Oberholzer-Gee teaches the case in Strategies Beyond the Market, a second-year elective that focuses on the interplay between business...
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- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
many of these CSI-like stories, and they almost always yield substantial financial or operational benefits. Sometimes the CSI stories do involve deeper quantitative and statistical analysis. One member of Megibow's team was investigating...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
chief regulator of America’s securities markets. To make matters worse, Donaldson hardly had time to settle into his new job before revelations surfaced of wrongdoing in the mutual-fund industry, triggering a new round of regulatory...
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- 26 Jun 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
Eacho, left, and Minnick (Getty Images) Congress is at a standstill over carbon. One side wants to regulate emissions as a pollutant; the other fears that any move to regulate oil and gas will impede growth...
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Michael Blanding
- April 2009
- Teaching Note
SKS Microfinance (TN)
By: Shawn A. Cole
Teaching Note for [208137].
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- January 2011 (Revised January 2015)
- Case
Matrix Capital Management (A)
By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane
Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale...
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Keywords:
Forecasting and Prediction;
Asset Management;
Cash Flow;
Stock Shares;
Financial Markets;
Investment Funds;
Measurement and Metrics;
Mathematical Methods;
Strategy;
Valuation;
Financial Services Industry
Baker, Malcolm P., and David Lane. "Matrix Capital Management (A)." Harvard Business School Case 211-017, January 2011. (Revised January 2015.)