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  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

Motilal Oswal Financial Services, Ltd., one of the largest brokerages in India, are considering an IPO on the Indian markets. The company recently received a small private equity investment from two global View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

find that during the 2008 financial crisis, PE-backed companies increased investments relative to their peers, while also experiencing greater equity and debt inflows. The effects are stronger among financially constrained companies and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

independent social rating agency and avoids selection issues by taking advantage of a natural experiment that arose when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. We find empirical support for our hypotheses and present implications for managers of rated companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 27

environmental standards that require coordinated complementary investments by various types of private adopter. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2142085   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-089... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2017
  • News

Going with the Flow

cord and placenta. Next, the company made history by providing the first cord-blood stem cell transplant in treating sickle cell anemia. Today, more than 30,000 children have been transplanted with cord blood from units, privately from... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

late 1980s. The business class is relatively cohesive and very inter-connected, and again increasingly so since the 1980s. This concentration was assisted by privatization of state assets which involved the transfer of a considerable... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-083.pdf Bridge Building in Venture Capital-Backed Acquisitions Authors:Paul A. Gompers and Yuhai Xuan Abstract We compare three potential mechanisms for alleviating the asymmetric information between the public acquirers and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2017 (Revised August 2017)
  • Case

Earl Gordon - Eastern Circle

By: Steven Rogers and Greg White
This case follows an African-American entrepreneur through the process of sourcing a potential acquisition, valuing a company, and securing the funding to purchase the company. This entrepreneur must decide if he should close the deal and which financing term sheet to... View Details
Keywords: Negotiations; Manufacturing; LBO; Leveraged Buyout; Entrepreneurship; Term Sheets; Deal Structuring; Financial Statements; Acquisition; Leveraged Buyouts; Business Model; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost vs Benefits; Cash Flow; Borrowing and Debt; Cost of Capital; Private Equity; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Process; Valuation; Value Creation; California
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  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

it was all debt finance) or by accepting larger chunks of capital from a major global bank and a private equity firm, getting them much closer to the threshold but at the cost of significant dilution (35%)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

practically zero here. One thing to watch for will be how China ensures the stability of its financial system since total debt has reached 250 percent of GDP, credit has been abundant, and the size of the shadow banking system has... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

was highly constrained by the Great Powers of Europe. This resulted in considerable distortions on the economy and society. For example, special legal privileges were given to Europeans and non-Muslim minorities, which was one reason why the Muslim majority was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

fossil fuels, changes in land use and agriculture practices, and geoengineering. The note concludes with the debate over how much should be spent to mitigate and adapt to climate change, who should pay, and the implications for the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

  Working PapersThe Seer of Wellesley Hills: Roger Babson and the Babson Statistical Organization Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract Roger Babson was a pioneer of the business-forecasting industry in the United States in the early twentieth century. He built the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

ill-defined. Instead, these measures reflect the arbitrary labeling of underlying fiscal conditions. Analyses based on these and derivative measures, such as disposable income, private assets, and personal saving, represent exercises in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Local Hero

charge of the team’s bottom line. “The skeptics in town predicted that even if we raised enough private funds to build the park, we’d still fall on our faces, because we’d have $20 million in debt that no... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 04 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 4

Private Equity By: Ewens, Michael, Charles M. Jones, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—This paper explores the private equity and venture capital (VC) markets and extends the standard principal-agent problem... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About

acted courageously to address his country’s debt crisis by raising taxes and cutting spending—never a popular path. And Stephen Schwarzman acted courageously in cofounding Blackstone, a pioneer in the fields of View Details
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

international franchising opportunities and a debt recapitalization. By early 2016, Sun was looking to the company’s next phase of growth while handing management of her executive team to BrightStar’s President and COO. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

but real differences in corporate finance and investment through two different channels: a "more money" effect arising from the debt coinsurance feature of conglomerates and a "smarter money" effect arising from more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

financing proposals to pursue. A straight equity issue will dilute his principal shareholders' ownership, but seems like the safer alternative in an industry that is notorious for its high failure rate. On the other hand, a convertible View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace