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  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

acquisition, financing, and corporate governance. Following the global financial crisis of 2008, Sino-Ocean Land must devise a new five-year strategic plan. CEO Li Ming must grapple with the changing market dynamics and regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

collection and privacy. Finally, we discuss emerging challenges surrounding software-driven medical devices, including open regulatory questions, advancements in underlying digital technology, and the likely necessity of new payment and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

also more pronounced for the insurance firms for which regulatory capital requirements are more binding. The results hold both at issuance and for trading in the secondary market and are robust to a series... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

Business School Case 812-172 This case examines the PowerPoint presentation that Ranjith Kumaran, founder of the start-up PunchTab, Inc., is using for his investment pitches to venture capital firms. Students can discuss the materials... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

apartheid and its first democratic elections in 1994, was doing everything right. They had liberalized the economy. They had enacted economic reforms that made it easy for foreign capital to flow in and out. They performed well on various... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508052 Ithmar Capital Harvard Business School Case 809-032 The founders of Ithmar Capital, a mid-market private equity fund targeting businesses in and addressing the Gulf Co-operation Council countries,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

Josh Lerner and Yiwen JinHarvard Business School Case 811-032 The private equity group Hony Capital considers what to do with their investment in Zoomlion, which has been successful to date. The question is whether to take their money off... View Details
  • 06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6

perspective of originators. All originators benefit from the presence of additional informed investors in bad times, but each originator minimizes his reliance on costly informed capital in good times by issuing safe securities. Our model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

addition, firms with more KLD concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory compliance violations in later years. KLD environmental strengths, in contrast, do not accurately predict pollution... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

is being abandoned by the two remaining large capital exporters—the U.K. and Japan—that had maintained similar regimes. The conundrum facing policymakers is how to reconcile mounting pressures for increased tax burdens on foreign activity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jul 2014
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Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

hypothetical fires. A garment factory in a Third World country with minimal governmental regulatory oversight burns down, killing half of the three hundred women and children employed there; it subsequently becomes clear that the... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail
  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

company listed on the New Zealand stock exchange in 2018 by capitalizing on a biochemical discovery related to the protein composition of cow's milk. Because many people find the A1 protein difficult to digest, and that protein may be... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 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
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

to the support of companies, investors, and the initiatives of a number of NGOs, widespread regulatory intervention has yet to materialize. Outside of South Africa, adoption remains voluntary, accomplished via social movement abetted, to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2002
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Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

well as tying up capital from buying and paying for materials and merchandise well in advance of when they are used. The quality of incoming items supplied by low-price suppliers may not be guaranteed to conform to buyer specifications,... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

and a fast-growing market. There was a growing need to incorporate local relevance into global products and to respond to local competitors. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53247 Merchants and the Origins of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

financial standpoint, such an investment would be very difficult for VNHS to justify. The irony was that with the new regulatory pressures and increased focus on preventative healthcare, telemonitoring pointed to an effective tool in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

uniform and are typically assessed on final goods. However, trends in capital taxation are mixed, and capital income tax rates remain well above the zero level recommended by theory. Moreover, some of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

question at an individual household level—not to mention at the level of boards of directors, CEOs, regulatory agencies, and politicians—is will we, and they, pick up the gauntlet of responsibility for our collective economy? What the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

world-class business. Following modern management practices, keeping sharp attention to cost control and capital operations, making aggressive entries into international markets, and maintaining a special corporate culture, Chairman Chen... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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