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  • November 2010 (Revised October 2012)
  • Background Note

Farmland Investing: A Technical Note

By: Ray Goldberg, Arthur I Segel, Gustavo Herrero and Andrew Terris
This note seeks to provide an overview of farmland investing, the investment thesis behind investing in agriculture, how and why investors would choose farmland, and the general risks and return characteristics of this asset class. In recent years, a growing number of... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Investment; Investment Return; Risk Management; Property; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; Asia; United States; South America
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  • 28 May 2015
  • News

Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

    Christina R. Wing

    Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses primarily on topics surrounding families in business, and the course she created, titled Demystifying the Family... View Details

    • 14 Feb 2023
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Does It Pay to Be a Whistleblower?

    Keywords: Re: Jonas Heese; Banking
    • 21 Oct 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Market Interest in Nonfinancial Information

    Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus & George Serafeim
    • 21 Jun 2017
    • News

    Zuckerberg or Gates? Billionaires Try Opposite Paths for Online Education in India

    • November 2023
    • Case

    Tata Group in 2021: Pursuing Profits through Purpose

    By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Vidhya Muthuram
    October 8, 2021: Tata Sons won a bid to acquire India’s national carrier Air India, marking the airline's return to its original owners after 68 long years. The winning bid of $2.4 billion gave Tata Sons full ownership of the airline and its coveted network of 6,200... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Emerging Markets; Mergers and Acquisitions; Ownership; Air Transportation; Air Transportation Industry; India
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Old Moats for New Models: Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI

    By: Pierre Azoulay, Joshua L. Krieger and Abhishek Nagaraj
    Drawing insights from the field of innovation economics, we discuss the likely competitive environment shaping generative AI advances. Central to our analysis are the concepts of appropriability—whether firms in the industry are able to control the knowledge generated... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; AI and Machine Learning; Open Source Distribution; Policy
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    • March 1994 (Revised April 1994)
    • Case

    Marriott Corporation - Restructuring

    Deals with the decision of whether to split Marriott into two companies Marriott International and Host Marriott. Marriott has run into problems owing to the decline in real estate valuation. At the time of the case, it has a significant percentage of assets in hotels... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Ethics; Accommodations Industry
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    • 11 Jul 2012
    • News

    In China, big opportunities for investors, if mutual funds can find a way in

    • 06 Jan 2006
    • News

    Made to Measure Is the Best Fit for Future Pensioners

    • June 2014
    • Teaching Note

    Steve Carpenter at Cake Financial

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
    After investing $9 million of venture capital, Cake Financial had failed to reach critical mass. In early 2010 Cake's assets were sold and the company was dissolved. Founded in 2006, the San Francisco-based Internet company allowed users to monitor their investments... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Internet; Financial Services Industry; Web Services Industry
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    • January 2009 (Revised February 2010)
    • Case

    Necessity and Invention: Monetary Policy Innovation and the Subprime Crisis

    By: Aldo Musacchio and Dante Roscini
    This case describes the efforts of Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, to improve liquidity in money markets during the subprime crisis. The case explains the four main new tools for monetary policy (or quantitative easing) the Federal Reserve has used... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Money; Financial Liquidity; Central Banking; Policy; Business and Government Relations
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    • 2008
    • Mimeo

    Do Hedge Funds Profit from Mutual-Fund Distress?

    By: Joseph Chen, Samuel G. Hanson, Harrison Hong and Jeremy C. Stein
    This paper explores the question of whether hedge funds engage in frontrunning strategies that exploit the predictable trades of others. One potential opportunity for front-running arises when distressed mutual funds—those suffering large outflows of assets under... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Funds; Profit; Strategy; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Return; Opportunities; Asset Management; Sales
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    • April 2017 (Revised November 2017)
    • Case

    BlackRock (D): Organizing for the Future (with video links)

    By: Ranjay Gulati, Jan W. Rivkin and Aldo Sesia
    By the end of 2015, BlackRock had succeeded beyond any of the early dreams of its founders. The firm remained the world’s largest asset manager, with more than $4.6 trillion under management, and other financial services companies used BlackRock’s Aladdin platform to... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Competition; Information Technology; Asset Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • January 1999 (Revised March 2004)
    • Case

    AMB Consolidation, The

    By: William J. Poorvu and Daniel J. Rudd
    Anne Shea, assistant vice president at the Curators' Fund (The Fund), is responsible for investing roughly $80 million in real-estate assets. Less than three years ago, Anne invested $40 million into a commingled fund run by AMB Institutional Realty Advisors, Inc., a... View Details
    Keywords: Private Ownership; Conflict of Interests; Industry Structures; Property; Investment; Public Ownership; Real Estate Industry
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    • October 2016 (Revised April 2018)
    • Case

    ASICS: Chasing a 2020 Vision

    By: Elie Ofek, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno
    In early 2016, Motoi Oyama, president and CEO of ASICS, a major sports apparel and footwear manufacturer based in Japan, lays out his company’s growth plan for the upcoming 5 years. The new plan set ambitious goals in terms of revenue and profit increases. At the heart... View Details
    Keywords: Brand Management; Sports Apparel; Competitive Positioning; Direct To Consumer Marketing; Retail Formats; Lifestyle Brands; Information Technology; Competition; Brands and Branding; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Platforms; Product Positioning; Marketing Channels; Sports; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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    • June 2007 (Revised January 2008)
    • Case

    The Vanguard Group, Inc. in 2006 and Target Retirement Funds

    By: Luis M. Viceira
    The Vanguard Group is one of the largest asset managers in the U.S., with over $1 trillion in assets, ninety percent of which are mutual fund assets, and more than 12,000 employees at year-end 2006. Vanguard has built a strong reputation as the manager of reference for... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Management; Investment Funds; Personal Finance; Brands and Branding; Retirement; Trust; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 23 Aug 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    CEO Personality and Firm Policies

    Keywords: by Ian D. Gow, Steven N. Kaplan, David F. Larcker, and Anastasia A. Zakolyukina; Financial Services
    • September 2021
    • Case

    TAV Airports: Acquiring Almaty International

    By: Juan Alcácer and Esel Çekin
    The case opens in April 2020 with Sani Şener, CEO of TAV Airports, a vertically integrated regional airport operator headquartered in Istanbul, Turkey, and his team discussing the pending acquisition of the Almaty International Airport in Kazakhstan. The company had... View Details
    Keywords: Airports; COVID-19 Pandemic; Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Bids and Bidding; Air Transportation Industry; Central Asia; Turkey
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