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  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-105.pdf Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors Author:Sharon P. Katz Abstract This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Apr 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

these problems without solving the other may be a costly outcome, but it is not an informed choice. The world must have much better, low-cost, zero-carbon emission alternatives to meet the world’s urgent need for on-demand,... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology

    W. Carl Kester

    Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

    Keywords: investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry
    • 18 Feb 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Diagnostic Bubbles

    Keywords: by Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli, Spencer Yongwook Kwon, and Andrei Shleifer; Financial Services
    • May 2002
    • Case

    Venture Capital Fund Restructuring Vignettes (Abridged)

    By: Paul A. Gompers
    This case examines the changes in fund structures proposed by four venture capital firms in 2002: Accel Partners, Battery Ventures, Charles River Ventures, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The venture capital market has experienced a major downturn, and these... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Restructuring; Financial Crisis; Motivation and Incentives; Business and Shareholder Relations; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry
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    • January 15, 2019
    • Article

    Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?

    By: Josh Baron
    The legacy of Vanguard founder John Bogle has brought attention to the transformative influence of ownership structures within the business world. Bogle's revolutionary insight into the limitations of active fund management led to the widespread adoption of index... View Details
    Keywords: Ownership Type; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Strength and Weakness; Competitive Advantage
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    • Working Paper

    Index Rebalancing and Stock Market Composition: Do Indexes Time the Market?

    By: Marco Sammon and John J. Shim
    Value-weighted indexes must rebalance in response to stock market composition changes, e.g., issuance, buybacks, and IPOs. In doing so, existing index funds implicitly engage in market timing. Index funds’ long-short rebalancing portfolios have a -3.5% annual return... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Funds; Financial Markets; Market Timing; Investment Return
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    • August 2024 (Revised February 2025)
    • Case

    Novo Nordisk Foundation

    By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau
    In 2024, Novo Nordisk A/S was one of the most profitable firms in the world, thanks largely to just two GLP-1-based drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy. Unusually, this incredibly profitable firm was controlled not by individual private shareholders, but by a non-profit... View Details
    Keywords: Pharmaceutical Companies; Diabetes; Obesity; Foundation; Non-profit Management; Profit; Corporate Governance; Business or Company Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Expansion; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Nonprofit Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Denmark; Europe
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    • 13 Apr 2023
    • HBS Seminar

    Bhaven Sampat, Columbia

    • 22 Nov 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: November 22

    close with an attempt to identify strategies to close the gap between the unethical people we are and the ethical people that we strive to be. Publisher's Link: http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/books/details/9780415873246/   Working PapersLocal Industrial View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Management and Firm Dynamism

    By: Nicholas Bloom, Jonathan S. Hartley, Raffaella Sadun, Rachel Schuh and John Van Reenen
    We show better-managed firms are more dynamic in plant acquisitions, disposals, openings and closings in U.S. Census and international data. Better-managed firms also birth better-managed plants, and improve the performance of the plants they acquire. To explain these... View Details
    Keywords: Management Practices; Productivity; Management Practices and Processes; Mergers and Acquisitions; Competition; Business or Company Management; Performance Productivity
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      Andreessen Horowitz

      This teaching case profiles Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), a venture capital firm launched in 2009 that quickly broke into the VC industry's top ranks. The case recounts the firm's history; describes its co-founders' motivations and their strategy for disrupting an... View Details

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      Faculty & Research

      OLS produce more precise point estimates than farmer-reported data, suggesting power gains. However, linear models, common in the literature, likely produce biased estimates. We propose an alternative procedure, using two-stage least... View Details

        Robert C. Merton

        Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

        Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

        Keywords: investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry
        • 20 Aug 2007
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Hedge Fund Investor Activism and Takeovers

        Keywords: by Robin Greenwood & Michael Schor; Banking
        • March 2023 (Revised September 2023)
        • Case

        Patagonia: 'Earth Is Now Our Only Shareholder'

        By: Brian Trelstad, Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael Norris and Susan Pinckney
        In September 2022, Yvon Chouinard, the iconoclastic founder of outdoor apparel company Patagonia, announced a new ownership model for his company. Chouinard and his family had held complete control of the company's voting and non-voting stock since its founding 50... View Details
        Keywords: Trusts; Business Ventures; Business Organization; Family Business; Restructuring; Change; Disruption; Transition; Decision Making; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Financial Management; Governance; Corporate Governance; Investment Activism; Leadership; Labor; Law; Common Law; Management; Goals and Objectives; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Ownership; Ownership Type; Family Ownership; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Society; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Value; Value Creation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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        • May 2008
        • Article

        Regulation and Bonding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Flow of International Listings

        By: Suraj Srinivasan and Joseph Piotroski
        In this paper, we examine the economic impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) by analyzing foreign listing behavior onto U.S. and U.K. stock exchanges before and after the enactment of the Act in 2002. Using a sample of all listing events onto U.S. and U.K. exchanges... View Details
        Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Stocks; Government Legislation; Market Transactions; Motivation and Incentives; United Kingdom; United States
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        • 2011
        • Working Paper

        The Flexible Substitution Logit: Uncovering Category Expansion and Share Impacts of Marketing Instruments

        By: Qiang Liu, Thomas J. Steenburgh and Sachin Gupta
        Different instruments are relevant for different marketing objectives (category demand expansion or market share stealing). To help brand managers make informed marketing mix decisions, it is essential that marketing mix models appropriately measure the different... View Details
        Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Mathematical Methods
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        • 07 Dec 2015
        • Research & Ideas

        The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

        and believe in. Consider that one of those tools, crowdfunding, is on track to account for more investment money than venture capital itself by 2016, rising from just $880 million in 2010 to an estimated $34 billion by 2015. To understand... View Details
        Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking
        • June 2014 (Revised January 2017)
        • Case

        Focus Financial Partners and the U.S. RIA Industry in 2014

        By: Luis Viceira and Emily A. Chien
        In the Spring of 2014, Rudy Adolf, CEO and founder of Focus Financial, and the two other co-founders of the firm are considering alternative growth strategies to solidify Focus Financial's position as a leading aggregator of independent wealth management firms in the... View Details
        Keywords: Financial Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Financial Services Industry
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