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  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

private equity consortium led by Finansbank's previous owner and founder Husnu Ozyegin. Each of these potential buyers had different motivations for the purchase. NBG's motivations were to obtain the highest price and to close the deal as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

to use credit to build assets and finance consumption. Moving Forward explores what caused the crisis and, more important, focuses on the path ahead. The challenge remains the same as ever: protect consumers, ensure fairness, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1638429 Accounting Scholarship That Advances Professional Knowledge and Practice Author:Robert S. Kaplan Abstract Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

Brightwork Brand Holdings Corp. acquired it as an asset purchase in 2011. Ghurka, under CEO John Reuter, worked to re-launch the brand with a ten-year, three-phase growth plan. The company aimed to be profitable by 2016. Management worked... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

11 million in interior China. The case covers Hang Lung Properties' due diligence and thought process with respect to anticipated rental income, construction costs, and land costs. The auction includes many other well-capitalized firms and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

asset, yields frustratingly inconsistent, discrepant, and, therefore, controversial results. While it is widely accepted that brands are long-lived assets that can contribute significant value to firms over time, there is no consensus on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Nov 2024
  • HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

truly reintegrate into society if few firms will hire them? And, how can society—especially at a time of rising prices and low unemployment—afford to exclude the roughly one in three working Americans with criminal records from the... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment
  • 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

approach to estimate direct costs involved in monitoring and management of anticoagulation therapy for outpatients in an academic primary care clinic setting, post-initiation of therapy. Methods: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) was applied in a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

boost earnings to meet earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the cost in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Feb 2017
  • Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

issued by the African Development Bank or by a nation, an investor can put his or her money behind a specific asset or piece of an asset. Think of mutual fund pricing and tracking: if Fidelity and Vanguard... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

related to the possession of deep individual technical skills in hundreds of diverse disciplines," the researchers conclude in their paper, Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage. "Boeing's unique View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Abstract We study sponsor-based business model innovations where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

likely economically motivated to invest in OSS projects that can serve as a complementary asset to vendors' core, proprietary businesses. Download this working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

January 2017 Review of Financial Studies Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and Stock Returns By: Chang, Tom Y., Samuel M. Hartzmark, David H. Solomon, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—We present evidence consistent with markets failing to properly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

given year. We provide a partial explanation for this statistic: a foreign aid windfall to poor, non-oil producing Muslim countries during the twin oil crises of the 1970s allowed the recipient states to become more repressive and stave off rebellion. When oil View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

via arms-length transactions and contracts. Furthermore, strong or weak complementarity are not innate properties of tasks and assets but can be the result of choices regarding task networks, incentives, and job design. Supermodular... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

1,582 loans financing private equity-sponsored leveraged buyouts between 1993 and 2005, we find that bank relationships explain cross-sectional variation in the loan interest rate and covenant structure. Our results indicate that two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

hesitation to treat companies in an unequal fashion. In the cell phone market, the Turkish government sets both minimum and maximum prices. And the prices set for Turkcell are different than those for Turkcell’s competitors. That’s the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 10, 2009

of natural gas. With the price of oil doubling every 10 years between 1970 and the 2000s, the state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) had enjoyed an era of increasing profitability. Another state-owned firm, Abu Dhabi... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

Dynamics By: Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo Abstract—Which managerial skills, traits, and practices matter most for productivity? How does the observability of these features affect how appropriately they are priced... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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