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- 25 Sep 2018
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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... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
Grupo Beta San Miguel In November 2013, Dr. Jose Pinto, head of Grupo Beta San Miguel (BSM), Mexico's largest private sugar producer, is weighing the future prospects of the Mexican sugar industry as he considers whether BSM should bid on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
companies that are owned by private equity. They are composed of the CEO and six directors, all of whom have relevant industry expertise. The directors make the time commitment, spending several days each month at the company. And they... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 9
Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality? Authors:Dan Givoly, Carla Hayn, and Sharon P. Katz Publication:The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of public firms—those with publicly traded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
from the private sector and focusing on banks: rights offerings, debt restructurings, and FDIC-assisted bridge banks. Each approach was used in dealing with problem banks in the 1990s; each can be pursued... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Professors Introduce Valuation Software
understanding of how the market is judging their firm's stock. Typical decisions could include: (1) Should I buy or sell this stock? (2) As a private company, what would my stock be worth as a public company or if I had an IPO? (3) As a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3
Marissa Mayer became the CEO of Yahoo!, a tech giant with a tumultuous past. When Mayer tries to reinvigorate the company, she hires Jacqueline Reses, who has a private equity background, to head both human resources and mergers and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016
new collaborative efforts with government agencies, including the Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission. Both the private and public initiatives at industry rationalization challenged existing ideas of antitrust law,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
capital flows—both debt and equity—into public and private components and study their relationship with productivity growth. This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
of Debt Forgiveness: Strategic Default Contagion and Lender Learning By: Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo Abstract—I use a unique data set of loans to small business owners to examine whether lenders face adverse consequences when they grant View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
On a journey that began 17 months ago, General Motors entered and emerged from bankruptcy to become a private company with Uncle Sam as its largest shareholder. The company reaches another milestone today by offering an initial public... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
every major Wall Street firm has become active in real estate private equity. "Morgan Stanley alone has gone from zero dollars under management to almost $40 billion over the past fifteen years," says Slaughter. Securitized... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
short-term volatility of inflation-indexed bond returns do not invalidate the basic case for these bonds, that they provide a safe asset for long-term investors. Governments should expect inflation-indexed bonds to be a relatively cheap form of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006
Activism in Sovereign Debt: "Vulture" Tactics or Market Backbone Harvard Business School Case 706-057 The role of distressed debt funds, also known as "vulture funds," in sovereign debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30
happiness-if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. Purchase the book: http://www.amazon.com/Happy-Money-Science-Smarter-Spending/dp/1451665067/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0/181-7319636-0911428 The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26
Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms Authors:Pargendler, Mariana, Aldo Musacchio, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract A large legal and economic literature describes how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suffer from a variety... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-099.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAvid Radiopharmaceuticals: The Venture Debt Question Harvard Business School Case 809-086 The CEO of a promising biotech company must decide how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 31
Furthermore, a third experiment shows that people tend to discount the wrongness of crossing ethical boundaries to hurt or help others when the action restores equity. The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4
Michael Dell refocused his newly private company on services and solutions, the entire corporation was pushed to embrace social media. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/building-a-social-media-culture-at-dell/an/514096-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework predicts, we find that leverage is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman