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  • 12 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

did not achieve its launch targets.1 They realized that a reason for the initial failure was that the company had used an existing channel. This channel was well suited to take another product—the Rohm and Haas 886 liquid biocide—to a... View Details
Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products
  • 09 Sep 2016
  • News

MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

allow seamless liquidity of assets. So it's quite a big wave. Going back to what I said about the Homebrew Computer Club, it struck me that I knew all these people all around the world working on crazy interesting technology, but it... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 30

guarantees to the bank, loan payments to the old owner are about to come due, and Weston is faced with some unanticipated expenses. The company's cash situation is very tight, and he is forced to evaluate the liquidation value of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We study how a stock index can affect corporate behavior by serving as a source of prestige. After decades of low corporate profitability in Japan, the JPX-Nikkei400 index was introduced in 2014. The index selected 400... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

education and research institute. “Excess liquidity is the name of the game today. With a lot of cash chasing too little product, the question is, are people paying too much?” That question is at the heart of a long-running debate within... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

liquid and effective," he says. "Mutual funds deepen the capital markets, and the capital markets lubricate our entire economy by allocating financial resources." For the consumer, the mutual fund combines a number of attractions in a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 21 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

traders increased Iceland's vulnerability to a confidence crisis because they were quick to liquidate their holdings at the first sign of distress. The plunge in the Icelandic Krona since the beginning of 2008 also forced the Icelandic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

liquidity events such as initial public offerings and mergers. For example, when speech-recognition supplier ScanSoft acquired Nuance in October 2005, twelve of Nuance's thirteen research and development engineers left for Yahoo. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

and research institute. "Excess liquidity is the name of the game today. With a lot of cash chasing too little product, the question is, are people paying too much?" That question is at the heart of a long-running debate within... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate
  • 23 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 23

relationship, Warren Buffett, arguably the world's most admired and successful investor, has decided to make such a significant investment in Goldman Sachs." He added that the deal "will further bolster our strong capitalization and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

firm's capital to provide liquidity for the event. He must decide what positions to establish, and at what price he is willing to get out. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207109 Parmalat... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

trust and liquidity when launching new marketplaces as well as challenges encountered as marketplaces mature (e.g., congestion and disintermediation). Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818096-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 4

need to be reformulated in light of the data, methodology, and findings presented here. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-072.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsVignette: Alternative Liquidity Options G. Felda... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

The Fab Four

looking for a business to buy when I had no money, and people didn’t really want to talk to me. But it took around ten years to sell it, which is a very long exit strategy. We could have found somebody to liquidate the business and take... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • April 2017 (Revised February 2020)
  • Case

Restructuring Ukraine

By: Kristin Mugford, Seema Amble and Tian Feng
In June 2015, Ukraine found itself struggling with a volatile and devalued currency, dramatically diminished foreign reserves, and a projected financing shortfall of $40 billion. Ukraine’s new government sought to return the nation to stability following political... View Details
Keywords: Exchange Rates; Politics; Macroeconomics; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Economy; Currency Exchange Rate; Banks and Banking; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Bonds; Sovereign Finance; Capital Markets; Credit; Debt Securities; Financial Liquidity; Financial Markets; Government and Politics; Ukraine
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  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

shareholders' economic interests and low corporate profitability, Japan introduced the JPX-Nikkei400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's "best-run" companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable of its large and liquid... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

initial investments in the form of equity, WTI focused primarily on lending money to start-ups, charging them interest and receiving warrants that could later be converted to stock in the case of a liquidity event. Most initial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

as well as liquidity and duration. Comparison of the ex-post performance of bonds acquired by insurance companies does not show outperformance but higher volatility of realized returns. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

interest rate risk premium and a changing liquidity risk premium, and that the variability in the nominal bond risk premia reflects a changing inflation risk premium. We estimate significant time series variability in the magnitude and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

the assumed fraction of residues that can be sustainably removed from the field, and the potential of municipal solid waste as a feedstock depends on which components can be economically converted into liquid biofuels. Becoming the Lamp... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace