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  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

restaurateur, broke, and with a wife and four young children at home, Rogers converted his aging Porsche into desperately needed cash to cinch the best deal he ever made — ownership of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. It’s one of the stories... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

were making decisions that made them more acceptable to customers given the particular social, cultural, and economic contexts within which they were embedded. Ownership Structure and the Cost of Corporate Borrowing Authors: Chen Lin, Yue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

and Finance Hypothesis Pass the Test of History? Authors:Musacchio, Aldo, and John D. Turner Publication:Business History Abstract For the body of work known as the law and finance literature, the development of financial markets and the concentration of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

products, hit products typically constitute the lion's share of their choices. Moreover, reminiscent of the "double jeopardy" concept, consumers of obscure products generally appreciate those products less than the more popular products. I discuss View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

Minority Shareholder: Firm-level Implications of Equity Purchases by the State By: Inoue, Carlos F.K.V., Sergio G. Lazzarini, and Aldo Musacchio Abstract—In many countries, firms face institutional voids that raise the costs of doing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

billionaire Russian investor Roustam Tariko, has proposed an out of court exchange offer for CEDC's publicly traded bonds and investment in CEDC's stock that would give him full ownership of the company. If the exchange offer fails, the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

M.I.A. Boards

requirements for equity ownership by directors, and bylaws should require them. The “play money” distributed in the form of stock options and gifts of restricted stock should not be included. Directors... View Details
Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

develop an inductive theory of "IP modularity," from which we derive testable propositions and managerial implications. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-097.pdf Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

debt increases exogenously and they use the proceeds of equity issues to increase payouts to shareholders. Our evidence suggests that extant findings that have been attributed to constraints may instead reflect differences in the growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

tool to alleviate capital constraints in scarce credit markets and unlock productive investments, others see those banks as conduits of cheap loans to politically connected firms that could obtain capital elsewhere. We test these contrasting views using data on loans... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

shifting institutional ownership patterns. Similarly, exogenous changes in the tax cost of institutional investors receiving dividends results in changes in firm dividend policy What Do Dividends Tell Us About Earnings Quality?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

incentives to invest in the face of potential holdup problems and also with the proposition that exclusive arrangements lead firms to seek contingent control rights to avoid lock-in when environmental uncertainty is high. Private Equity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

Party City In 2005, Berkshire Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm specializing in growth equity, was one year into their ownership of Amscan, the market leader of designed, manufactured, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

Analyst Recommendation and Earnings Forecast Anomaly Author:George Serafeim Publication:Chap. 3 in The Handbook of Equity Market Anomalies: Translating Market Inefficiencies into Effective Investment Strategies, 63-91. John Wiley &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

business. The book describes a conceptual framework, "the culture cycle," for managing culture that comprises setting and meeting expectations; establishing trust, engagement, and ownership among employees and customers that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Sep 2018
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Moving Pictures

produce—to tell a story while maintaining creative control over the project itself—is something Singer aspires to in the future. “You’re paid well as a screenwriter if you’re successful, but you don’t have equity in the company, so to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Christina Gandolfo; Arts, Entertainment
  • 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

self-disclosed violations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-020.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsAustin, Blakeley, & Cambridge, LLC. Harvard Business School Case 207-098 The founding partners of ABC, LLC, one of the leading private View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

(61%). Note that this 61% penetration rate is essentially at parity with home ownership (64%) and higher than that of 401(k) retirement account ownership (53%). Life settlements, or life insurance... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

to management and involving other venture capitalists in XTV companies would reduce Xerox's ownership of the firm. Their goal was that, over the long run, after several rounds of financing, Xerox would hold from 20 to 50-percent View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

Abstract As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the... View Details