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  • November 2007 (Revised June 2016)
  • Case

British Land

By: Lucy White
British Land's shares traded below NAV. Laxey investments tried to force British Land into share buybacks and criticized its corporate governance. Laxey voted borrowed shares at the AGM. View Details
Keywords: Stock Shares; Valuation; Property; Investment; Corporate Governance; Real Estate Industry; London
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White, Lucy. "British Land." Harvard Business School Case 208-064, November 2007. (Revised June 2016.)
  • October 2007
  • Article

The Power of Stars: Do Star Actors Drive the Success of Movies?

By: Anita Elberse
Is the involvement of star actors critical to the success of motion pictures? Film studios, which they regularly pay multimillion-dollar fees to star actors, seem driven by that belief. I shed light on the returns on this investment using an event study that considers... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Film Entertainment; Investment Return; Revenue; Compensation and Benefits; Resource Allocation; Success; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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Elberse, Anita. "The Power of Stars: Do Star Actors Drive the Success of Movies?" Journal of Marketing 71, no. 4 (October 2007): 102–120. (Featured in HBS Working Knowledge.)
  • 18 Apr 2017
  • Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CRC Companies LLC

Organization Katie Urban, Digital Strategy & Communications Specialist, CRC Companies LLC Describe your organization in three to five sentences. CRC Companies LLC (CRC) is a national real estate development and View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
  • March 2012
  • Article

How to Make Finance Work

By: Robin Greenwood and David S. Scharfstein
Once a sleepy old boys' club, the U.S. financial sector is now a dynamic and growing business that attracts the best and the brightest. It is tempting to declare the industry a roaring success. But its purpose is to serve the needs of U.S. households and firms, and by... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Value; Competitive Advantage; Investment; Performance Evaluation; Household; Financial Crisis; Finance; Financial Services Industry; United States
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Greenwood, Robin, and David S. Scharfstein. "How to Make Finance Work." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012).
  • 2024
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Primary Capital Market Transactions and Index Funds

By: Marco Sammon and Chris Murray
We document the effects of mechanical buying by CRSP-index-tracking funds on post-IPO returns and IPO deal structure. Leveraging a difference-in-differences-style design built on a 2017 CRSP rule change, we find that expected index fund demand leads fast track IPOs to... View Details
Keywords: Investment Funds; Initial Public Offering; Investment Return; Price; Market Transactions; Financial Markets
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Sammon, Marco, and Chris Murray. "Primary Capital Market Transactions and Index Funds." Working Paper, August 2024.

    William A. Sahlman

    William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

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    • August 2001 (Revised March 2016)
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    Doral Costa

    By: William J. Poorvu, John H. Vogel Jr., Arthur I. Segel and Amy Silverstein
    Doral Costa is a proposed 277,803 square foot Class A office park development in Miami, FL. Trammell Crow Co. would like to develop this office park in joint venture with a partner. Samantha Spar, the acquisitions partner at Titan Associates, a large real estate... View Details
    Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Joint Ventures; Acquisition; Investment; Partners and Partnerships; Decision Choices and Conditions; Fair Value Accounting; Construction; Property; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Miami
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    Poorvu, William J., John H. Vogel Jr., Arthur I. Segel, and Amy Silverstein. "Doral Costa." Harvard Business School Case 802-023, August 2001. (Revised March 2016.)
    • 16 Jun 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Does Diversification Create Value in the Presence of External Financing Constraints? Evidence from the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis

    Keywords: by Venkat Kuppuswamy & Belén Villalonga

      Michael E. Porter

      Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
      • November 2006 (Revised January 2007)
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      Habitat for Humanity International in South Africa

      By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Arthur I Segel and Nelson Hioe
      In March 2006, Larry English, Director of Program Design and Innovation for Habitat for Humanity International Africa and the Middle East, was reflecting on a large development project in Durbin that had stalled. Notwithstanding global attention led by former President... View Details
      Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Investment; Innovation Strategy; Emerging Markets; Social Entrepreneurship; Poverty; Property; Projects; South Africa; Middle East
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      Retsinas, Nicolas P., Arthur I Segel, and Nelson Hioe. "Habitat for Humanity International in South Africa." Harvard Business School Case 207-016, November 2006. (Revised January 2007.)
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      HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research

      people do. Julian De Freitas and colleagues pit humans against machines in a video game to study AI's current limits and mine insights for the real world. Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted by Rachel... View Details
      • Mar 2012
      • Article

      How to Make Finance Work

      crisis. Second, trillions of dollars have been steered into residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains... View Details
      • February 2013 (Revised February 2013)
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      King Abdullah Economic City in 2009: Population Drivers and Cash Flow

      By: John D. Macomber
      CEO of high profile new economic city in Saudi Arabia must decide how to allocate limited investment funds across projects under duress. Issues include understanding core economic drivers, planning infrastructure investment and return, attracting multinationals, energy... View Details
      Keywords: Urban Development; Infrastructure; Real Estate Industry; Saudi Arabia
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      Macomber, John D. "King Abdullah Economic City in 2009: Population Drivers and Cash Flow." Harvard Business School Case 213-095, February 2013. (Revised February 2013.)
      • 26 Sep 2017
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      First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

      purchases of Australian land and real estate. As a foreign-owned company, AACo was likely to face more rigorous screenings and oversight as it grew. How could Dissanayake best manage Tavistock's investment... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 09 Aug 2016
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      August 9, 2016

      Endowment Portfolios: The Case of Christ Church College The case centers on Christ Church’s Treasurer, James Lawrie, who is contemplating his options for investing a portion of the College's endowment in View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • November 2009
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      Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?

      By: Robert C. Pozen
      When the credit markets seized up in 2008, many heaped blame on "mark to market" accounting rules, which require banks to write down their troubled assets to the prices they'd fetch if sold on the open market - at the time, next to nothing. Recording those assets below... View Details
      Keywords: Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Crisis; Assets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Crisis Management; Standards; Banking Industry
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      Pozen, Robert C. "Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?" Harvard Business Review 87, no. 11 (November 2009).
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      Reflexivity in Credit Markets

      By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson and Lawrence J. Jin
      Reflexivity is the idea that investors' biased beliefs affect market outcomes and that market outcomes in turn affect investors’ future biases. We develop a dynamic behavioral model of the credit cycle featuring this two-way feedback loop. Investors form beliefs about... View Details
      Keywords: Reflexivity; Attitudes; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment; Credit
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      Greenwood, Robin, Samuel G. Hanson, and Lawrence J. Jin. "Reflexivity in Credit Markets." Journal of Finance (forthcoming).
      • September 2010
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      Bank Lending During the Financial Crisis of 2008

      By: Victoria Ivashina and David S. Scharfstein
      This paper documents that new loans to large borrowers fell by 47% during the peak period of the financial crisis (fourth quarter of 2008) relative to the prior quarter and by 79% relative to the peak of the credit boom (second quarter of 2007). New lending for real... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Liquidity; Financing and Loans; Credit; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Crisis; Banking Industry
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      Ivashina, Victoria, and David S. Scharfstein. "Bank Lending During the Financial Crisis of 2008." Journal of Financial Economics 97, no. 3 (September 2010): 319–338.
      • 05 Jul 2004
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      Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

      acknowledge the value of spending time with one's family, but I do not discount the overall advantage a society enjoys when its members are at the peak of their productivity." Clearly, many organizations regard work-life benefits (as a subset of all benefits) as... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett

        Jill J. Avery

        Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship... View Details

        Keywords: consumer products; arts; advertising; automobiles; retailing; fashion; hotels & motels; food; beverage
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