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- June 2004
- Article
Holding Company Cost Economies in the Global Advertising and Marketing Services Business
By: Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt
Silk, Alvin J., and Ernst R. Berndt. "Holding Company Cost Economies in the Global Advertising and Marketing Services Business." Art. 5. Review of Marketing Science 2, no. 1 (June 2004).
- April 1999
- Teaching Note
Finding New Markets for New and Disruptive Technologies: Managing Innovation, Overview Teaching Note for Module 2
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Provides instructors with an overview teaching note for the second module of the Managing Innovation course in which students explore the challenges and methods for defining and creating new markets for new technologies. In addition to summarizing each of the cases...
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- January 2014 (Revised June 2015)
- Teaching Note
Amgen Inc: Pursuing Innovation and Imitation? (A), (B)
By: Ian Mackenzie
- fall 1994
- Article
Costs, Institutional Mobility Barriers, and Market Structure: Advertising Agencies as Multiproduct Firms
By: A. J. Silk and E. R. Berndt
Silk, A. J., and E. R. Berndt. "Costs, Institutional Mobility Barriers, and Market Structure: Advertising Agencies as Multiproduct Firms." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 3 (fall 1994): 437–480.
- 2000
- Other Unpublished Work
Revisiting Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment
By: L. T. Wells Jr.
- November 2019
- Article
The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market
By: Marco Di Maggio, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani and Carlo Sommavilla
This paper shows that the network of relationships between brokers and institutional investors shapes information diffusion in the stock market. We exploit trade-level data to show that central brokers gather information by executing informed trades, which is then...
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Keywords:
Broker Networks;
Institutional Investors;
Asset Prices;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Institutional Investing;
Information;
Knowledge Dissemination;
Financial Markets;
Asset Pricing
Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla. "The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market." Journal of Financial Economics 134, no. 2 (November 2019): 419–446.
- October 2010 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Hony, CIFA, and Zoomlion: Creating Value and Strategic Choices in a Dynamic Market
By: Josh Lerner and Yiwen Jin
The private equity group Hony Capital considers what to do with their investment in Zoomlion, which has been successful to date. The question is whether to take their money off the table or to invest in their acquisition of a large Italian competitor.
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Keywords:
Private Equity;
Financial Strategy;
Investment;
Emerging Markets;
Financial Services Industry;
China
Lerner, Josh, and Yiwen Jin. "Hony, CIFA, and Zoomlion: Creating Value and Strategic Choices in a Dynamic Market." Harvard Business School Case 811-032, October 2010. (Revised January 2012.)
- November 2012
- Case
The Universalization of L'Oréal
By: Rajiv Lal and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In 2010, half of the world's cosmetics sales came from the so-called emerging markets for the first time; L'Oréal opened three new subsidiaries, in Egypt, Pakistan, and Kazakhstan; and the Paris, France-based cosmetics and personal care powerhouse declared its...
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Keywords:
Retailing;
Marketing;
Cosmetics Industry;
L'Oreal;
India;
R&D;
Globalization;
Product Development;
Research and Development;
Emerging Markets;
Retail Industry;
Latin America;
Asia;
Middle East
Lal, Rajiv, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "The Universalization of L'Oréal." Harvard Business School Case 513-001, November 2012.
- December 2012 (Revised May 2014)
- Case
Hotel Ivory
By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas P. Retsinas and Jonathan Lo
Cheick Sanankoua is an MBA student who believes that he has found the perfect investment property, a small, independently owned hotel, on the Ivory Coast. However, he has had trouble raising money for the investment beyond friends and family. Through contacts in the...
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Keywords:
Real Estate;
Emergent Countries;
Investing;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Debts;
Cash Flow;
Quantitative Analysis;
Financing;
Development Stage Enterprises;
Small & Medium-sized Enterprises;
Africa;
Ivory Coast;
Venture Capital;
Emerging Markets;
Property;
Investment;
Accommodations Industry;
Real Estate Industry;
Africa
Segel, Arthur I., Nicolas P. Retsinas, and Jonathan Lo. "Hotel Ivory." Harvard Business School Case 213-050, December 2012. (Revised May 2014.)
- September 1992
- Article
Herd on the Street: Informational Inefficiencies in a Market with Short-Term Speculation
By: Kenneth Froot, David S. Scharfstein and Jeremy Stein
Froot, Kenneth, David S. Scharfstein, and Jeremy Stein. "Herd on the Street: Informational Inefficiencies in a Market with Short-Term Speculation." Journal of Finance 47, no. 4 (September 1992): 1461–1484. (Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 3250, February 1990.)
- 2020
- Working Paper
The Effects of Information on Credit Market Competition: Evidence from Credit Cards
By: C. Fritz Foley, Agustin Hurtado, Andres Liberman and Alberto Sepulveda
We show empirically that public credit information increases competition in credit markets. We access data that cover all credit card borrowers in Chile and include details about relationship borrowers have with each lender. We exploit a natural experiment whereby a...
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Keywords:
Consumer Credit;
Financial Intermediaries;
Credit;
Information;
Competition;
Credit Cards;
Financial Institutions
Foley, C. Fritz, Agustin Hurtado, Andres Liberman, and Alberto Sepulveda. "The Effects of Information on Credit Market Competition: Evidence from Credit Cards." Working Paper, February 2020.
- Article
Losing to Win: U.S. Steel's Pricing, Investment Decisions, and Market Share, 1901-1938
By: F. L. Reinhardt and T. K. McCraw
Reinhardt, F. L., and T. K. McCraw. "Losing to Win: U.S. Steel's Pricing, Investment Decisions, and Market Share, 1901-1938." Journal of Economic History 49, no. 3 (September 1989): 593–619.
- 27 Sep 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
How Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages
- October 2015 (Revised October 2016)
- Case
Paez
By: Jill Avery, Maria Fernanda Miguel and Laura Urdapilleta
Paez, an Argentine start-up fashion brand, sold traditional alpargatas, a sleepy shoe category that suddenly woke up when U.S. company TOMS borrowed the traditional alpargata design, covered it with fashionable colors and prints, and tied it to a social cause. Paez's...
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- Research Summary
Overview
By: Mark L. Egan
When considering how households make investment decisions, Professor Egan became intrigued by the question, “What makes a bank ‘special’ when compared to other lending institutions?” Focusing on empirical industrial organization with applications to finance and...
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- March 2010 (Revised December 2010)
- Case
The Market for Prisoners: Business, Crime and Punishment in the "American Dream"
By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Laura Winig
In 2010, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the largest private prison operator in the U.S., was considering expansion options. The company's largest customers, federal and state governments, were under economic pressure to reduce the incarceration rate and...
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Keywords:
For-Profit Firms;
Crime and Corruption;
Profit;
Law Enforcement;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Demand and Consumers;
Business and Government Relations;
Competitive Strategy;
Expansion;
United States
Di Tella, Rafael M., and Laura Winig. The Market for Prisoners: Business, Crime and Punishment in the "American Dream". Harvard Business School Case 710-042, March 2010. (Revised December 2010.)
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting
the 1800s, the American economy embarked on a long, slow transition from a system in which most goods and services were produced for household consumption or local sale to an economy in which commodities were produced for a larger regional or even global market. The...
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- June 2012
- Case
Siemens AG: Key Account Management
By: Thomas Steenburgh, Michael Ahearne and Elena Corsi
The key account manager of an engineering company has to convince a department to give up important contracts. The German engineering company Siemens had set up a global key account management program since 2010. The key account manager of an emerging account had been...
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Keywords:
Key Account Management;
Commercialization;
Marketing;
Marketing Management;
Engineering;
Marketing Strategy;
Customer Relationship Management;
Profit;
Problems and Challenges;
Electronics Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Europe
Steenburgh, Thomas, Michael Ahearne, and Elena Corsi. "Siemens AG: Key Account Management." Harvard Business School Case 512-110, June 2012.
- 2014
- Teaching Note
Changhong: Journey to Shared Services (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Haiyan Zhang and Guo Jia
Founded in 1958 and headquartered in Mianyang - an emerging inland science and technology city in Sichuan Province, Changhong Electric Co., Ltd., started from the military industry. It then entered the color TV industry and subsequently expanded to a wide range of...
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McFarlan, F. Warren, Haiyan Zhang, and Guo Jia. "Changhong: Journey to Shared Services (TN)." Tsinghua University Teaching Note, 2014.
- June 2001 (Revised December 2006)
- Case
Role of Capital Market Intermediaries in the Dot-Com Crash of 2000, The
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Gillian D Elcock
Set in the context of the rise and fall of the Internet stocks in the United States.
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Keywords:
Stocks;
Price Bubble;
Capital Markets;
Investment Banking;
Information Technology Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Palepu, Krishna G., and Gillian D Elcock. "Role of Capital Market Intermediaries in the Dot-Com Crash of 2000, The." Harvard Business School Case 101-110, June 2001. (Revised December 2006.)