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  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

as in two-sided assignment problems, the payoffs of a matching can be divided between the agents. We take a similar approach to one-sided assignment problems as Sasaki (1995) for two-sided assignment problems, and we analyze various desirable View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14087 Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors Author:Sharon Katz Abstract This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their earnings quality and long-term... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 26

Evidence from Targeted Firms By: Cohen, Lauren, Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We provide theoretical and empirical evidence on the evolution and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

property and casualty reinsurance company, announced it had agreed to sell itself to Alleghany Corporation, ending "the most frenzied takeover battle" of 2011, which involved competitors, Warren Buffett's National Indemnity, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

the stock market. The real money is in the property market; a drop in values of real estate would have more far-reaching consequences. In terms of global spillovers, the recovery in most developed markets does not depend on exports to... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 27 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 27

management of public schools, demonstrates the challenges and opportunities related to private sector involvement in the delivery of a public good. Follows the organization from its start-up through its initial public offering and,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

productivity effects of organizational practices remains a challenge for future research. Does Intellectual Property Rights Reform Spur Industrial Development? Authors:Lee Branstetter, Ray Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

lock-in in light of hyperbolic discounting, multiple selves, and wise policy design. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-038.pdf The Political Economy of Capitalism Author:Bruce R. Scott Abstract Capitalism is often defined as an economic system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

module boundaries and property rights can be used to capture a stream of rents. In this chapter I extend the functional mapping techniques developed in the last chapter to locate technical and strategic bottlenecks, modules, and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

oriented venture? Continue to operate and expand the company? Expand to other neighboring countries? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310041-PDF-ENG JP Morgan Private Bank: Risk Management during the Financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

Europe, a private equity investment company, had worked in the family business for a few years but had developed a career mainly outside of the family business. The transfer of the shares’ ownership had tightened the three brothers’ bonds... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

reasons—and revisits the associated implications for investing and corporate finance, examining asset allocation, high leverage in financial firms, low leverage in industrial firms, private equity, venture capital, and bank capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

behavior of observably similar public and private firms using a new data source on private U.S. firms, assuming for identification that closely held private firms are subject... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2397317   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 515-042 Simplot Plant Sciences: Designing a Better Potato Privately held Simplot has developed a new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

technology. Private capital flows—debt finance, equity capital, and foreign direct investment (FDI)—became larger than current and past official capital flows. This new era of foreign capital mobility has also been characterized by low... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

The Class of 1977

knowledge, can and did revitalize companies quickly. Corporate board members, please take note! The impact of our classmates also can be seen across the globe. Raymond Kwok's astute management of Hong Kong–based Sun Hung Kai Properties... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

sector may be traced back to fundamental properties of the underlying technologies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-144.pdf Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • November 2018
  • Case

Yatooq: Longing for Arabic Coffee

By: Mark Roberge, Gamze Yucaoglu and Samer Al-Rachedy
As one of the few female entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia, Lateefa Alwaalan had been trying to produce the perfect cup of Arabic coffee for over a decade. In 2007, she began testing various coffee blends, which she later branded Yatooq, the Arabic word for “craving” or... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Sales; Entrepreneurial Selling; Entrepreneurial Marketing; Barrier To Entry; Business Start-ups; Yatooq; Entrepreneurship; Private Sector; For-Profit Firms; Business Strategy; Patents; Business Startups; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Adaptation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Saudi Arabia; Asia
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  • 31 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

reserves when investing in bonds of lower ratings. Ratings are also used in private contracts, for example to define the investment objectives of bond mutual funds. Ratings are a concise and well-understood metric of credit quality.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

many newspaper companies still run by second-and third-generation family members, so they turned to professional management. 27 According to Nieva de Figueiredo, these agent CEOs realized they had only modest opportunities for wealth accumulation in View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation