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- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
Simmons (E) Amy C. Edmondson and Susan ThyneHarvard Business School Supplement 610-061 This case updates the "Leading Change at Simmons" series by examining Simmons' increasing debt under the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
investment from an international private equity company, and it has decided to focus on expanding tertiary care capabilities in its hospitals. A consulting team has identified cardiology, oncology, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
decided to triple what it charged Chewy to fulfill each order. What should Chewy do? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818105-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-055 Omar Simmons: Franchising and Private... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges in Leading Professional Services
Professional service firms—law firms, financial services firms, money management firms, private equity firms, hedge funds, management... View Details
- 12 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Is Not a Socialist
capitalists. He cofounded BlackRock in 1988 and has grown it into the world’s largest money manager with more than $6 trillion in assets under management. Yet many other fund managers, View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find evidence of agglomeration economies in both sectors, where higher female View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
http://hbr.org/product/financial-policy-at-apple-2013-b/an/214094-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 614-025 HeidelbergCement: The Baltic Kiln Decision No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
Business Administration and author of Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups As United States equity markets and corporate balance sheets continue their remarkable comeback from... View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
elastically supplied inputs, free entry may lead to an inefficiently high number of firms in equilibrium. Under input scarcity, however, the welfare loss from free entry is reduced. Further, free entry may increase use of high-quality... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
solvable roommate markets, we provide the first characterizations of the core using either competition or resource sensitivity. On the domain of all roommate markets, we obtain two associated impossibility results. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Under New Management: Equity Issues and the Attribution of Past Returns By: Baker, Malcolm, and Yuhai Xuan Abstract—There is a strong link between measures of stock... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
a higher price without raising its multiple. If the private equity firm wins the bidding contest, the profit model subsequently becomes a blueprint for managing the turnaround... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
sources. Recently, the insertion into this world of business models incorporating advanced management expertise have demonstrated that commercial success is possible while significantly improving access to these basic services for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
that both effects are operative. Instrumental variables analysis indicates that plausibly exogenous changes in payout policy result in shifting institutional ownership patterns. Similarly, exogenous changes in the tax code indicate that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the microprocessor and the semiconductor; and third, the rise of... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
Exercise 908-031 In a six-party negotiation exercise, the TNDA Corp. plans to sell the Elcer Products Division to one of four potential buyers (industrial, financial, U.S., German). This case contains confidential information for the Pearl View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
shareholder of private companies. We conduct such a study using data for 296 publicly traded corporations in Brazil, looking at the effects of equity purchases by the National Bank for Economic and Social... View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22
agency that funds partnerships between universities and private companies to develop technologies important to Danish industry. We assess the effect of a particular "mediated funding" scheme that combines project grants with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne