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  • 02 Dec 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

International Trade, Multinational Activity, and Corporate Finance

Keywords: by C. Fritz Foley & Kalina Manova
  • 09 Sep 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity

Keywords: by Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina & Josh Lerner

    Vikram Gandhi

    Vikram S. Gandhi is the Gerald P. Kaminsky Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the General Management Unit. He has developed and teaches two new courses in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. The first is a finance and investing course, Sustainable... View Details

    Keywords: financial services
    • 21 Jun 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: June 21

    does not deliver goods as specified in the contract. The empirical results indicate that transactions are more likely to occur on cash in advance or letter of credit terms when the importer is located in a country with weak contractual... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • March 2024
    • Supplement

    Madrigal: Conducting a Customer-Base Audit

    By: Eva Ascarza, Bruce Hardie, Peter S. Fader and Michael Ross
    This case presents a scenario where Madrigal, a U.S. retailer with a rich 20-year history and a solid loyalty program, faces a turning point with the arrival of a new CEO. This leadership change reveals a critical gap in understanding the customer base, prompting an... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Analytics and Data Science; Growth and Development Strategy; Retail Industry; United States
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    • March 2024
    • Case

    Madrigal: Conducting a Customer-Base Audit

    By: Eva Ascarza, Bruce Hardie, Michael Ross and Peter S. Fader
    This case presents a scenario where Madrigal, a U.S. retailer with a rich 20-year history and a solid loyalty program, faces a turning point with the arrival of a new CEO. This leadership change reveals a critical gap in understanding the customer base, prompting an... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Analytics and Data Science; Growth and Development Strategy; Customer Value and Value Chain; Retail Industry; United States
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    • April 9, 2021
    • Article

    How Blockchain Can Simplify Partnerships

    By: Fabrice Lumineau, Wenqian Wang, Oliver Schilke and Laura Huang
    Collaborations that require information sharing and mutual trust between companies, suppliers, and clients can be tough, particularly in the remote era. But blockchain’s distributed ledger—and its use of smart contracts—can simplify the process, creating a common,... View Details
    Keywords: Blockchain; Collaboration; Partners and Partnerships; Performance Effectiveness
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    • March 2024
    • Teaching Note

    Madrigal: Conducting a Customer-Base Audit

    By: Eva Ascarza, Peter S. Fader, Bruce Hardie and Michael Ross
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 524-046. This case presents a scenario where Madrigal, a U.S. retailer with a rich 20-year history and a solid loyalty program, faces a turning point with the arrival of a new CEO. This leadership change reveals a critical gap in... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Analytics and Data Science; Growth and Development Strategy; Customer Value and Value Chain; Retail Industry; United States
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    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    From Bupkis to Sechel in Health Care

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard Boxer
    Fifty years ago, famed economist Milton Friedman declared that “The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits.” This free market manifesto was adopted by the healthcare industry as well. But transactional has evolved into transformational with the... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Customer Focus and Relationships; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Health Industry
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    • October 2022
    • Exercise

    Shanty Real Estate: Confidential Information for Homebuyer 2

    By: Michael Luca, Jesse M. Shapiro and Nathan Sun
    Shanty is a simulation in which students inhabit the role of either a traditional home buyer or an iBuyer, both bidding on the same condo. The traditional home buyer has access to a “comp sheet” of similar properties that have recently sold, and has done a walkthrough.... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Decision Making; Measurement and Metrics; Market Timing
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    • October 2022
    • Exercise

    Shanty Real Estate: Confidential Information for iBuyer 3

    By: Michael Luca, Jesse M. Shapiro and Nathan Sun
    Shanty is a simulation in which students inhabit the role of either a traditional home buyer or an iBuyer, both bidding on the same condo. The traditional home buyer has access to a “comp sheet” of similar properties that have recently sold, and has done a walkthrough.... View Details
    Keywords: Algorithm; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decision Making; Measurement and Metrics; Market Timing
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios

    By: Malcolm Baker, Ryan Taliaferro and Terry Burnham
    We examine the optimal weighting of four tilts in US equity markets from 1968 through 2014. We define a “tilt” as a characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size, a very persistent... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Anomaly; Beta; Capital Asset Pricing Model; Factor Investing
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    • December 2001 (Revised July 2005)
    • Case

    E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company: The Conoco Split-off (A)

    By: Stuart C. Gilson and Perry Fagan
    After taking 30% of its Conoco oil and gas subsidiary public in the largest domestic initial public offering (IPO) in U.S. history, management of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (DuPont) is considering divesting its remaining interest in Conoco. This goal is to be... View Details
    Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Business Subsidiaries; Restructuring; Non-Renewable Energy; Chemicals; Assets; Initial Public Offering; Business and Shareholder Relations; Diversification; Value; Chemical Industry; United States
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    • January 2011 (Revised April 2011)
    • Case

    CME Group

    By: Forest L. Reinhardt and James Weber
    The case describes CME Group, the world's largest commodities exchange, futures and options on futures contracts, history, regulation, and the strategic choices the company faced. CME Group was formed from the oldest and most well-known exchanges in the world. Traders... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Stocks; Goods and Commodities; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Risk Management; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • October 2022
    • Exercise

    Shanty Real Estate: Confidential Information for iBuyer 1

    By: Michael Luca, Jesse M. Shapiro and Nathan Sun
    Shanty is a simulation in which students inhabit the role of either a traditional home buyer or an iBuyer, both bidding on the same condo. The traditional home buyer has access to a “comp sheet” of similar properties that have recently sold, and has done a walkthrough.... View Details
    Keywords: Algorithm; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decision Making; Measurement and Metrics; Market Timing
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    • October 2022
    • Exercise

    Shanty Real Estate: Confidential Information for Homebuyer 3

    By: Michael Luca, Jesse M. Shapiro and Nathan Sun
    Shanty is a simulation in which students inhabit the role of either a traditional home buyer or an iBuyer, both bidding on the same condo. The traditional home buyer has access to a “comp sheet” of similar properties that have recently sold, and has done a walkthrough.... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Decision Making; Measurement and Metrics; Market Timing
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    • 26 May 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation

    Keywords: by Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth & M. Utku Unver
    • 04 Sep 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search?

    Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
    • Article

    Managing Proprietary and Shared Platforms

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
    In a platform-mediated network, users rely on a common platform, provided by one or more intermediaries, that encompasses infrastructure and rules required by users to transact with each other. A fundamental design decision for firms that aspire to develop... View Details
    Keywords: Governance Controls; Digital Platforms; Infrastructure; Competition; Cooperation; Information Infrastructure
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    • 17 Sep 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

    your advertisements to action; that's the difference. If you're willing to click, it links you to a potential transaction or at least to get more information, which can then pull you in further. The ease of broadband gets people much more... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing