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- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local...
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Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Research Overview
Eddie Riedl's research focuses on two primary topics: fair value accounting, and international accounting settings.
Regarding fair value accounting, his research examines both the critical reporting choices that managers make, as well as... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617020-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-045 Zhang Xin and the Emergence of Chinese Philanthropy This case examines the recent emergence of Chinese business philanthropy through the case of the SOHO China Foundation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Don’t Just Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad
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by Lynda M. Applegate & J. Bruce Harreld
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55194 Large Banks and Small Firm Lending By: Bord, Vitaly, Victoria Ivashina, and Ryan D. Taliaferro Abstract—We show that since 2007, there was a large and persistent shift in the composition of lenders to small firms....
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Dina Gerdeman
- Research Summary
Research Focus of Chris Gordon
Chris Gordon's main area of interest and expertise is the delivery of complex capital projects. These projects can take the form of government sponsored infrastructure projects such as highways and utilities, private real estate development such as commercial and...
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- January 2014
- Teaching Note
Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Malone
The case includes law, business, and public health perspectives on an African American leader's social entrepreneurship and leadership in other social movements. Later in his life, Dr. Benjamin Hooks championed the eradication of lead poisoning. Prior to that Hooks...
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- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
entry strategies and find that small firms are less likely to be pioneers in new device markets—a phenomenon that is not observed in new drug markets. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49384 Harvard Business School Case 216-086 The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
"gospel" of organic production to consumers. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/314019 Harvard Business School Case 214-025 Bardhaman (A) & (B) A real estate developer decides whether to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
prices for future consumption volatility but implies much greater predictive power of stock prices for future stock return volatility than is found in the data. Neither calibration can explain why movements in real interest rates do not...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan
the free market should be given greater room to run unfettered, while the government’s role in the economy should be diminished. Trimming taxes on high-income households, minimizing the estate tax, and substantially cutting corporate...
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by Matthew Weinzierl
- 2009
- Working Paper
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect
By: Amir E. Khandani, Andrew W. Lo and Robert C. Merton
The confluence of three trends in the U.S. residential housing market-rising home prices, declining interest rates, and near-frictionless refinancing opportunities-led to vastly increased systemic risk in the financial system. Individually, each of these trends is...
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Khandani, Amir E., Andrew W. Lo, and Robert C. Merton. "Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-023, September 2009. (Revised July 2010.)
- December 1994 (Revised December 1995)
- Case
The JKJ Pension Fund
By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.
The JKJ pension fund currently has $187 million invested in 14 properties. Sarah Griffin, the portfolio manager for real estate, needs to value each of the properties and recommend which ones should be sold and which ones to hold. She further needs to recommend...
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Property;
Investment Portfolio;
Valuation;
Investment Funds;
Financial Management;
Real Estate Industry;
Real Estate Industry
Poorvu, William J., and John H. Vogel Jr. "The JKJ Pension Fund." Harvard Business School Case 395-133, December 1994. (Revised December 1995.)
- March 2012
- Article
How to Make Finance Work
By: Robin Greenwood and David S. Scharfstein
Once a sleepy old boys' club, the U.S. financial sector is now a dynamic and growing business that attracts the best and the brightest. It is tempting to declare the industry a roaring success. But its purpose is to serve the needs of U.S. households and firms, and by...
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Business Ventures;
Value;
Competitive Advantage;
Investment;
Performance Evaluation;
Household;
Financial Crisis;
Finance;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Greenwood, Robin, and David S. Scharfstein. "How to Make Finance Work." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012).
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
Business School Case 218-078 Jaguar Capital S.A.S., Take the Money and Run? In January 2014, Tomas Uribe and Rodrigo Sanchez-Rios of Jaguar Capital S.A.S. (Jaguar or Jaguar Capital), were considering an offer from White Stone, the world’s largest private equity View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- January 2014 (Revised February 2014)
- Case
Japan: Betting on Inflation?
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
The case focuses on the challenges still confronting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the end of 2013, a year after he has been in office. It also gives an overview of Japan's earlier economic performance, focusing primarily on the period after it suffered a stock market...
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Rotemberg, Julio J. "Japan: Betting on Inflation?" Harvard Business School Case 714-040, January 2014. (Revised February 2014.)
- December 2005 (Revised September 2007)
- Case
Canyon Johnson Urban Fund
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Alexa Arena
Basketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson and K. Robert Turner, managing partner of Canyon Johnson Urban Fund (CJUF), raised $271.7 million for investments in urban real estate. The fund considered two projects, both located in Hollywood, CA. The first was located on...
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Investment;
Projects;
Business and Government Relations;
Public Opinion;
Urban Development;
Real Estate Industry;
Los Angeles
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Alexa Arena. "Canyon Johnson Urban Fund." Harvard Business School Case 706-442, December 2005. (Revised September 2007.)
- February 2010
- Case
Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe (Abridged)
Shurgard, a U.S.-based firm that rents storage facilities to consumers and small businesses, is considering financing options for rapid expansion of its European operations. Five years after entering Europe, Shurgard Europe has opened 17 facilities in Belgium, France,...
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Business Model;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Logistics;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Trade;
Equity;
Corporate Finance;
United States;
Europe
Hamermesh, Richard G. "Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 810-102, February 2010.
- March 2004 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Indra Reinbergs
Shurgard, a U.S.-based firm that rents storage facilities to consumers and small businesses, is considering financing options for rapid expansion of its European operations. Five years after entering Europe, Shurgard Europe has opened 17 facilities in Belgium, France,...
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Private Equity;
Valuation;
Business Model;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Entrepreneurship;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Service Industry;
Belgium;
France;
Sweden;
United States;
Europe
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Indra Reinbergs. "Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe." Harvard Business School Case 804-112, March 2004. (Revised May 2005.)
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
China: Design, Development, and Social Harmony Segel, Arthur I, and Mukti KhaireHarvard Business School Case 213-025 Founded in 1995 by Zhang Xin and her husband, Mr. Pan Shiyi, SOHO China has developed into a world-class real View Details
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Sean Silverthorne