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- April 2022
- Teaching Note
Tempur Sealy International (A, B & C)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 718-422, 718-423, and 718-424. The cases explore the long-term relationship between Tempur Sealy (TPX, a mattress manufacturer) and Mattress Firm (MFRM, a bedding retailer and TPX's largest customer). For almost 20 years, the firms... View Details
Keywords: Porter's 5 Forces; Bargaining Power; Buyer Power; Customer Power; Supplier Power; Negotiations; Value Capture; Private Equity; Consumer Durables; Consumer Discretionary; Mattresses; B-2-B; Industry Dynamics; Leadership; Compensation; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Value Creation; Competition; Cooperation; Distribution; Negotiation; Industry Structures; Customers; Relationships; Distribution Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; South Africa
- June 2020
- Article
U.S. Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles
By: Falk Bräuning and Victoria Ivashina
Foreign banks’ lending to firms in emerging market economies (EMEs) is large and denominated predominantly in U.S. dollars. This creates a direct connection between U.S. monetary policy and EME credit cycles. We estimate that over a typical U.S. monetary easing cycle,... View Details
Keywords: Global Business Cycle; Monetary Policy; Reaching For Yield; Money; Policy; Credit; Emerging Markets
Bräuning, Falk, and Victoria Ivashina. "U.S. Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles." Journal of Monetary Economics 112 (June 2020): 57–76.
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Equity Market Implications of the Retail Investment Boom
By: Philippe van der Beck and Coralie Jaunin
This paper quantifies the impact of Robinhood traders on the US equity market. Within a structural model, we estimate retail and institutional demand curves and derive aggregate pricing implications via market clearing. The inelastic nature of institutional demand... View Details
van der Beck, Philippe, and Coralie Jaunin. "The Equity Market Implications of the Retail Investment Boom." Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series, No. 21-12, November 2023.
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- Research Summary
Making Markets Work: An Executive Education Program for Africa
By: Debora L. Spar
In the last decades of the 20th century economic growth was distributed unevenly across the world. While some countries experienced sustained and unprecedented prosperity, others fell further and further behind. This widening gap was particularly evident in Africa,... View Details
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
process better, they looked at the emergence of modern Indian art as a category in the international fine art market between 1995 and 2007. Before 1995, fine art was produced in India but there was little... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- June 2014
- Teaching Note
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.: Driving Change Through Internal Communication
By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Robin Abrahams
Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL), confronted in 2003 with an urgent need to change how it operated externally, adopted a highly innovative approach to communicating internally. This case, set in 2010, presents an overview of the new, more interactive model of employee... View Details
- 03 Sep 2010
- News
More PE reform and more emerging markets
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
employees. Economic recession can elevate the importance of the finance director's balance sheet over the marketing manager's income statement. Managing working capital can easily dominate managing customer... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- February 2023
- Supplement
Nexus Market (B): After the Ultimatum
By: Tsedal Neeley and Jeff Huizinga
This case reveals how the situation with Nexus Market and its Ukrainian and Russian subcontractors was resolved. The conclusion to the story of a Silicon Valley start-up executive facing an ultimatum from a team of Ukrainian subcontractors to cut ties with a separate... View Details
Keywords: International Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Technology Industry; United States; Ukraine; Russia; Europe
Neeley, Tsedal, and Jeff Huizinga. "Nexus Market (B): After the Ultimatum." Harvard Business School Supplement 423-065, February 2023.
An Evaluation of Money Market Fund Reform Proposals
U.S. money market mutual funds (MMFs) are an important source of dollar funding for global financial institutions, particularly those headquartered outside the U.S. MMFs proved to be a source of considerable instability during the financial crisis of 2007–2009,... View Details
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
The growth and competiveness of emerging markets is a fundamental reality in global business today. Yet it is often forgotten just how much these countries have changed in a short period of time, how challenging their business... View Details
- Fast Answer
Market Research Reports in General Databases
Multi-Industry Central and Eastern Europe EMIS 2013 to current Roland Berger Aerospace, Automotive, Capital Markets Europe EMIS 2013 to current Smart Research Fast-growing, niche industries Australia,... View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- News
How Corporate Venture Capital Helps Firms Explore New Territory
- 23 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate Financial Policies in Misvalued Credit Markets
- 01 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Normally, the... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
Summer Snapshot: Interning in the Sports Industry
HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) asked students to describe their career interests and what they are up to this summer. Name: Matt Duarte, MBA 2018 Current Position: Corporate Development and Strategy Intern Company and... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- February 2008 (Revised February 2009)
- Case
The International Finance Corporation's Grassroots Business Initiative
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee
Grassroots Business Initiative was set up to financially assist small enterprises engaged in creating social value. Three years later, Harold Rosen, its creator, wished to explore an alternative funding model to provide it with scale and sustainability. View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Microfinance; Investment Funds; Social Enterprise
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Katharine Lee. "The International Finance Corporation's Grassroots Business Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 508-063, February 2008. (Revised February 2009.)
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
indices." Technology is a means to that end. Technology, Efficiency And An Aging Population From a macroeconomic perspective, Seifert pointed out, technologically advanced and efficient capital markets... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner