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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Do Analysts Follow Managers Who Switch Companies? An Analysis of Relationships in the Capital Markets.

By: Francois Brochet, Gregory S. Miller and Suraj Srinivasan
We examine the importance of professional relationships developed between analysts and managers by investigating analyst coverage decisions in the context of CEO and CFO moves between publicly listed firms. We find that top executive moves from an origin firm to a... View Details
Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Capital Markets; Decisions; Managerial Roles; Financial Institutions; Investment; Market Participation; Public Ownership; Relationships
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  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism

reasonable view of home ownership will return, Retsinas predicts, but if the pendulum swings too far, he is concerned that worthy borrowers with modest incomes could be shut out of the market. Could you place the U.S. mortgage crisis in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Finance; Management; Real Estate
  • 20 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

CEO is the highest paid executive and almost always out-earns her direct reports by a significant margin. Also, multiple studies have found that the more equity the CEO holds, the more compensation she commands. However, the patterns are... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology
  • December 2019
  • Case

WeWork Files for an IPO

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
For the board of The We Company—better known as WeWork—August 14, 2019, promised to be a pivotal day. It was then that WeWork’s IPO prospectus, known as an S-1 filing, would be made public, giving potential investors, the media, and the general public a window into the... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Going Public; Leadership; Management; Private Equity; Valuation; Venture Capital; Real Estate Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 12 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 12

experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity‐debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors' fiduciary duties in firms incorporated in that state. This change limited managers' incentives to take... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

Assessing creditworthiness of small businesses can be difficult due to information asymmetry. Little, if any, public information exists about the performance of most small businesses because they rarely issue publicly traded equity or... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • 22 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

which other online upstarts such as Amazon.com changed retail and Square changed the small business payments business. A few factors account for the rapid growth of the entrants. First, institutional debt and equity investors have been... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Four Professors to Retire

Among the classes Christenson taught at HBS were Managerial Economics and Control in the MBA Program's required curriculum, Management Control in the Owner/President Management Program, and a doctoral seminar on the Theory of the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
  • 24 Mar 2002
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Case Study: A Lesson in Private Venture Financing

security services to companies in South Africa, other African countries, and parts of Europe. In the case, Gray has recently undergone a financial restructuring with the help of private equity firm Brait Capital Partners. Now its owners... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • May 2010 (Revised January 2014)
  • Case

Water Shortage and Property Investing in Mexico City

By: John D. Macomber, Regina Garcia-Cuellar and Griffin James
A commercial property company evaluates water risks including the government's ability to remedy, the company's operating exposure and mitigation, and whether to relocate because of water risk. A real estate fund manager assesses investment prospects in Mexico City in... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Investment; Risk Management; Infrastructure; Privatization; Business and Government Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; Utilities Industry; Mexico City
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3.0 Avoiding Startup Failure Entrepreneurial Management Lindsay Hyde Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 ^ back to top B Area Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits B2B Sales and Distribution Marketing Lou Shipley Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Behavioral Economics for View Details
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

A Force for Good

“In doing so, we can open up access to economic opportunities to traditionally marginalized groups and bring more equity into our economy, all while making hiring an easier, better experience for companies.” “We have to help companies as... View Details
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

example, we learn how challenges have been turned into opportunities, and how you can grow successful businesses in turbulent conditions by paying close attention to execution and recruitment of strong managerial talent. Silverthorne:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

have exceeded to date. More Help Required The 2012 JOBS Act reduced the regulatory burden for small businesses looking to raise equity in the public markets. It provided an "on-ramp" of up to five years for new IPOs to phase in certain... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking
  • April 2015 (Revised April 2015)
  • Case

Yale University Investments Office: February 2015

By: Josh Lerner
David Swensen and the Investments Office staff must decide whether to continue to allocate the bulk of the university's endowment to illiquid investments—hedge funds, private equity, real estate—given the impact of the recent market turmoil. The case explores the risks... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Resource Allocation; Investment; Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Property; Private Equity
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  • Fast Answer

Managing Service Operations: Research resources for new service design

used to analyze financial data from global equity and fixed income markets, and public and private companies. Individual accounts needed. Note: Follow the access instruction on the page before accessing. LSEG Workspace Company Overview... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End

some have suggested. “For one out of five of these sales, the process is really just about transferring ownership of an ongoing, operating enterprise to another owner,” says Gilson. “That’s exactly what happens in the market for mergers... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

early 2003 would have 10,000 shares today. Why would a company want to cut the trading price of its stock by so much? A: In a stock split, each share of the firm is divided into more units, but the proportional ownership of each... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology
  • 17 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

ownership concentration affect the need for and process of corporate restructuring? This case provides students with an opportunity to analyze the restructuring of a Turkish multinational business group by way of a merger. Finansbank AŞ... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

that make this possible. Together, they reveal a systematic approach to managerial work at the top, which is seldom found in the literature. By building on the engagement of many in the development of the organization, the practices are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace