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Tariro Goronga
dimension.” His engineering background proved to be the bridge. At British Petroleum, Tariro was assigned to a finance team to bring the engineering perspective they needed. As his colleagues considered potential investments, he evaluated...
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Manufacturing/Energy
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
specific new product- or service-development project that would be their focus for the next 12 weeks. As these students are experiencing firsthand, it’s one thing to hypothesize about product development in an emerging market. It’s quite...
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- June 2009
- Teaching Note
Radiohead: Music At Your Own Price (A) & (B)
By: Anita Elberse
Teaching Note for 508-110 (A) and 508-111 (B).
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- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout taxes,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
e-commerce world is a brutal competitive environment,” says Harvard Business School marketing professor Thales Teixeira. “One of the biggest levers retailers have at their disposal to bring in customers is price.” More discounts, however,...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
huge inefficiency.” It was while attending HBS that Makarim formed Go-Jek, a more efficient ojek service that organized 20 or so drivers through a call center; he relied on word of mouth to market the idea to friends and relatives in a...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
within the confines society imposed. Integral Advantage: Revisiting Emerging Markets and Societies by Ronnie Lessem (MBA 1968) (Routledge) The BRIC countries are heralded for their double-digit economic...
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ABN-AMRO Holding N.V. and Smit Transformatoren N.V. (A)
By: Peter Tufano
ABN-AMRO, the largest bank in the Netherlands, must decide whether to take any action in regard to the poor performance of Smit Transformatoren, a Dutch transformer manufacturer. ABN-AMRO acted as lead underwriter for the IPO of Smit, and also released a favorable...
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Initial Public Offering;
Capital Markets;
Investment Banking;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Netherlands
Tufano, Peter, and Cameron Poetzscher. "ABN-AMRO Holding N.V. and Smit Transformatoren N.V. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 296-030, October 1995. (Revised June 1996.)
- June 2005 (Revised May 2008)
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Yamanote Kaikan
By: Robin Greenwood, Arthur I Segel and Joshua Katzin
In 2001, James O'Connell, president of Holyoke Japan, an affiliate of Larson Capital, a distress debt private equity firm, wants to bid on a 90 billion yen loan currently in default by the borrower, Sanjo Enterprises, for a popular wedding and banquet facility with an...
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Greenwood, Robin, Arthur I Segel, and Joshua Katzin. "Yamanote Kaikan." Harvard Business School Case 205-084, June 2005. (Revised May 2008.)
- May 2010
- Article
Optimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions
By: Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz
We characterize the optimal (revenue maximizing) auction for sponsored search advertising. We show that a search engine's optimal reserve price is independent of the number of bidders and independent of the rate at which click-through rate declines over positions. We...
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Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz. "Optimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions." American Economic Review 100, no. 2 (May 2010): 597–602. (First circulated in 2006 as Optimal Auction Design in a Multi-unit Environment: The Case of Sponsored Search Auctions. Reprinted in The Economics of E-Commerce, Michael Baye and John Morgan, editors, 2016.)
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
their very success at product development and fundraising often heightens the chances that they will be replaced. After the founder has successfully met the initial operating challenge of getting the product or service developed, a number of new functions, such as...
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Transforming Health Care Delivery
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Tony He
look forward to engaging with issues in development and creating positive change. As emerging markets continue to grow, firms and governments are looking to understand how to operate more effectively in...
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Nonprofit / Government
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,...
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- 15 May 2012
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Finally Finding the Right Fit
York, where in September 2009 he enrolled in a fashion-marketing program at the Parsons School of Fashion. Since completing the program in December 2010, Heffernan has divided his time between angel investing and consulting with small clothing and retail brands, while...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance After decades of liberalization, controls on cross-border capital movements are again being examined by financial institutions, governments, and policymakers around the globe. Associate...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA
a single answer. Finance gave me a better understanding of costs (fixed, operating, startup, depreciation, etc.) and Marketing was beneficial for the marketing research I had...
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All Industries
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Orkun Kilic
for me to lead, but for him to lead. Sometimes choosing not to lead is the right leadership choice." Orkun's team reached the top five percent of its class. Future in emerging markets "The first...
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- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
levels and frequency of default typical of emerging markets even if the household impatience parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise calibrated to Brazil finds welfare gains...
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Sean Silverthorne