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- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
(July-August 2009) Abstract What if the current recession turns out to be like the Great Depression of 1929-1933? Four years from now, the United States might find itself with a still-shrinking economy, half as many banks as in 2009, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
first of a series of highly successful projects that established GE Money Bank as a leader in the Swiss credit card market. The business concept was to cooperate with the country's leading retailer MIGROS to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- July 2024
- Case
Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO
By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc
In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Interpersonal Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Investment Banking; Stock Options; Financial Markets; Initial Public Offering; Institutional Investing; Price Bubble; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Internet and the Web; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Agreements and Arrangements; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Performance Expectations; Work-Life Balance; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Rank and Position; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Happiness; Reputation; Status and Position; Well-being; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Canada
Satchu, Reza, Tom Quinn, and Andrew Kosc. "Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO." Harvard Business School Case 825-037, July 2024.
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
financing, new lenders are given priority in the capital structure. This is a critical incentive because it spurs banks and other creditors to lend to companies in Chapter 11 by giving them senior status, effectively letting them stand in... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
30-year customer of Filene's Basement, a retailer offering fashion goods at discounted prices, who was eventually fired by the firm. The case traces how company actions taken in the name of customer relationship management (CRM)... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
failure in U.S. history. Faced with Wachovia’s impending bankruptcy, the FDIC intervened again, voting on Monday, September 29, to sell Wachovia’s retail bank to Citigroup for $1 a share. Three days later,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
many high-growth businesses in China, Gome has only moderate financing needs. Its charismatic and ambitious chairman Wong Kwongyu has built an expansive retail network in China and successfully used trade credits by suppliers and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
Bezos was still working on Wall Street. After decades of tax-free sales, ecommerce was just 11.4 percent of US retail sales in 2019, according to the Department of Commerce. Meanwhile, social media usage on the major platforms had been... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
transcripts, Yu says the team encountered plenty of bad calls, and it was "mind-boggling" how poorly some CEOs and CFOs communicated. Take the CFO of one of the largest retail banking groups in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
Working PapersIncorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting Authors:Saravanan Kesavan, Vishal Gaur, and Ananth Raman Abstract As numerous papers have argued, sales, inventory, and gross margin for a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
these companies as well as provide a unique new marketing opportunity for traditional companies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-123.pdf Crafting Integrated Multichannel Retailing Strategies Authors:Jie Zhang, Paul... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
whose demographic characteristics, and in turn needs, diverge more starkly from those of their bank’s average customers report significantly lower levels of satisfaction on a broad range of operating dimensions. Consistently, we find that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
through the intermediary. We show that this leads to inflated retail prices, excessive adoption of the intermediaries' services, over-investment in benefits to buyers, and a reduction in consumer surplus and sometimes welfare. Competition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
market funds, we show that funds with large exposures to risky Eurozone banks suffered significant outflows between June and August 2011. Due to credit market frictions, these outflows have significant spillover effects on other firms:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
“The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there's nothing.” "The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there's nothing: where there are no roads, where there's no reliable labor system, where there are no property... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Students of recent United States real estate history can't help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
makes huge investments to acquire, develop, and market concepts with strong hit potential, and then banks on the sales of those titles to make up for the middling performance of their other content. Today's leading film studios,... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Ozik, and Ronnie Sadka Abstract—We develop real-time proxies of retail corporate sales from multiple sources, including approximately 50 million mobile devices. These measures contain information from both the earnings quarter (within... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
incident, but then, under the aggressive leadership of John Stumpf and consumer banking head Carrie Tolstedt, the company created 3.3 million fictious consumer accounts. This led to Stumpf’s forced retirement and his replacement by COO... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne