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- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
Working PapersWhat Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we articulate a positive theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
July 2004, Shiv, Nand, and Uday Khemka are discussing their holdings in SUN Interbrew, a leading Russian beer producer that is part of the family's global portfolio of businesses. SUN Interbrew has been operating as a joint venture since...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
executives should invest in talent. In allocating resources, should they focus on building talent or acquiring superstar talent? Elberse says strong evidence suggests that it is hard to find long-term success without having a strategy...
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- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
(Bazerman, Loewenstein & White, 1992). The present analysis, however, shows that the perceived value of such tradeoffs—the transaction utility (Thaler, 1985; 1999)-depends on whether the allocation occurs within a particular social...
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- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
issues surrounding short-term versus long-term investment payoffs, the proportion of the portfolio that should be allocated to venture capital, and the most appropriate investment form-direct investing in...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
changed the accounting standards of various country-pairs, we examine how two sources of changes in accounting distance-(i) change due to IFRS adoption of the investee and (ii) change due to IFRS adoption in the investor's country-affect global View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
"We got into the investing side of the business primarily because the opportunity was there to buy nonperforming loan portfolios from the RTC," recalls Slaughter. From a merchant banking standpoint, Wall Street barely paid...
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- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
City–based startup, offering investors equity in individual CRE properties that its investment team had sourced and vetted. Traditional private equity (PE) funds required investors in CRE equity to accept an entire portfolio of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-130.pdf Farsighted House Allocation Authors:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus, Flip Klijn, and Markus Walzl Abstract In this note we study von Neumann-Morgenstern farsightedly stable sets for Shapley...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Approach." MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper No. LFE-1027-97 (June 1997). Black, Fischer. "How We Came Up with the Option Formula." Journal of Portfolio Management 15, no. 2 (winter 1989): 4-8. Black, Fischer. "Interest Rates...
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- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
Working PapersTaxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Abstract Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
virtuous cycles of exploitation and exploration by deliberately perturbing their own processes. We provide illustrations from Toyota and formulate testable hypotheses about the mechanisms of perturbation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-011.pdf...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
Stanley’s experience is typical of other investment banks at the time. “We got into the investing side of the business primarily because the opportunity was there to buy nonperforming loan portfolios from the RTC,” recalls Slaughter. From...
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- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
simplicity of accepting an equal split with the costs of negotiating a differentiated allocation of founder equity. We test the predictions of the theory on a proprietary dataset comprised of 1,476 founders in 511 entrepreneurial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
taxes, and this effectively reduces the tax burden on foreign profits. But, to receive the benefits of deferral, Cummins must reinvest the profits in active businesses as opposed to passive portfolio assets. Finally, a number of...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
large due to either product characteristics or the distance between exporter and importer. Finally, we find that in countries with well-developed finance, total exports and the allocation of exports across importers are more sensitive to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
same time, more investors are using the reported ESG data in their capital allocation decisions. Twenty years ago, there were fewer than 30 companies around the world releasing this kind of data. As of this year, there will be more than...
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Re: George Serafeim
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
what’s a manager to do given the uncertainty of both predictions and prophets? Here’s some advice to CEOs, CFOs, sales managers, and others who allocate the major resources in most firms. Whatever else you do in thinking about the future...
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by Frank V. Cespedes
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
perspectives on how to allocate water, the institutional mechanisms for doing so, and the potential responses of agricultural producers to the changing marketplace. Is now the time to double down on farming in the Central Valley, shift to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
with these historical accounts. This paper, by examining the resource allocation process closely, identifies a specific set of circumstances in which intervention by top management is critical to a firm's ability to adopt new ways of...
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Martha Lagace