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- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
don't really think about these firms in that way; that characterization would seem more apt for a hedge fund than Cummins. In reality, increased foreign activity by Cummins need not be associated with reduced domestic activity; and much... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
that when a firm actually disappeared from the directory from which we were drawing our data, the women were very likely to leave the industry (93 percent). When a firm disappeared from the industry, the men were more likely to relocate to another View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
entrepreneurs from the investor can create frictions that might inhibit the funding of good projects. It has largely abstracted away from the fact that a startup typically does not have just one investor but rather several VCs that come... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
innovations, making it financially independent from corporate funding. The case explores HP's history in Singapore and the role of the EDB in encouraging the growth of local R&D capabilities. The case poses questions on the sustainability of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
charters that were slated to expire over the next four years. On the table was a completely untested proposal to create a mandatory public insurance fund that would back the banknotes and deposits of every state bank. As bank charters... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
25-year business career that included 10 years in fashion retailing; 12 years in mutual fund and brokerage financial services; serving as a director on nonprofit and corporate boards; and chairing the Better Business Bureau here in... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
turned out, though, that Intel's revenues from memory were by this time only 4 percent of total sales. Intel's lower-level managers had already exited the business. What Intel hadn't done was to shut down the flow of research funding into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
decision to launch a hedge fund in India, and the first years of the venture. It also profiles Nirva Patel and describes how they met, married, and managed the transition to a new life in Mumbai, including the impact on her career and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
capital to fund its investment thesis, which was derived from Tomas and Rodrigo’s belief that the rise of Colombia’s middle class signaled an enormous untapped investment opportunity. Jaguar hoped to capitalize on Colombia’s middle class... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
sides of land use proposals. This case demonstrates the dilemmas and tradeoffs related to private land owner rights and the role of government in seeking positive outcomes for broader society. Case students will rigorously look at issues of development density, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
state-by-state basis, and many have funds or other programs in place that could help policyholders get some form of reimbursement. "But these account for only a small part of the risk; the rest is kind of gray," says Froot.... View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
Focuses on the decisions made post-fire and the rebuilding process and eventual bankruptcy of the company. Also outlines creditors' struggle to decide whether to lend Feuerstein additional funds to enable him to regain control of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
DeckingerHarvard Business School Case 110-035 This case illustrates a comprehensive valuation of a firm specializing in the "speed dating" niche of the dating/entertainment industry. The founders of HurryDate, a small, privately held firm, are considering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
on the relationship between short selling and securities' prices. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212079-PDF-ENG Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s Entry into the Retirement Market Lauren H. Cohen and Christopher... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
rates for loans in the banking system would decline to single digits. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307107 Multifactor Models Harvard Business School Exercise 207-056 Students evaluate the performance of four mutual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
concern of firms financing biotechnology research is that the R&D firms might use the funding to subsidize other projects or substitute one project for another. We develop a model based on the property-rights theory of the firm that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
George: I teach governance and serve on many corporate boards, and I can tell you that once you make the decision to go from a wholly-owned private company to go public, you're getting public money, you're getting investor money, pension View Details
Keywords: Re: Mandi Nerenberg
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
the Venture Hacks blog as a resource for founders looking for funding prior to seeking venture capital. The list quickly evolved into AngelList, a separate matchmaking platform for founders and investors to make early stage fundraising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/612045-PDF-ENG Recorded Future: Searching the Web for Alpha Christopher MalloyHarvard Business School Case 212-057 Recorded Future was a software company that aimed to aggregate the information on the Internet in a way that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
coming of Snuggie mean the end of Slanket? Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510034-PDF-ENG Who Broke the Bank of England? Harvard Business School Case 709-026 In the summer of 1992, hedge fund manager George Soros... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace