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- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-024.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBerkshire Partners: Purchase of Rival Company (A) Harvard Business School Case 208-023 Berkshire Partners, a private equity firm in Boston, was pleased with their recent View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
315-060 The Basic LCA Framework No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315060-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-055 Restructuring JAL Hideo Seto, the recently appointed chairman of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
firms-triggered a global initiative that eventually spanned more than 900 BCG teams in 30 countries across five continents. These teams confronted their nonstop workweeks and changed the way they worked, becoming more efficient and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
(Disney, restaurants, theme parks, etc.). The former finance most of the targeted coupons while the latter contribute the lion's share of the financing of turbo-charged vouchers. Since manufacturers already invest significantly in... View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
response, he continues. With the banking system near collapse, the Roosevelt administration engineered sweeping federal intervention into the marketplace, including creation of federal deposit insurance, securities regulation, banking supervision, and the separation of... View Details
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
multinationals toward organization-wide rationalization. Efficiencies and commonalities have emerged, particularly with certain production processes but also in backroom functions such as quality assurance and control. In addition,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
time that certain activities, such as marketing, must remain local in concept and execution to be successful. At the same time, the defining feature of globalization has been the push by multinationals toward organization-wide rationalization. View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
corruption. But a wholesale change to the market, designed under reformist President Obasanjo and pushed forward by President Jonathan, promised greater efficiencies and investment guided by private-sector... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
all loans at some of the larger online small business lenders, in part because finding creditworthy borrowers can be tough. The subprime crisis illuminated the dangers of letting loan brokers go unchecked. As with mortgage brokers in many states, and more recently with... View Details
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
relatively few events.” The problem is, reinsurance isn't like any other equity investment: it isn't really exposed to market risk, so expecting high returns is unrealistic. A financial adviser might be willing to accept lower returns because she is View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
proliferation of accelerators, and continuation of VC investments have made it increasingly possible to start a business, and in some sectors entrepreneurs were able to attract funds without a real monetization strategy. I agree with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
percent of Hong Kong's exports involve China either as a source or market, and 60 percent of the total investment in China is channeled from the territory. In addition, he said, Hong Kong is an outward-looking economy that serves a wider... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
unfavorable expectations face an additional constraint: their prices and first-party content investment need to be such that low (zero) participation equilibria are eliminated. This additional constraint typically leads them to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
businesses. Gemini's target investment size was between $4 million and $6 million, and a typical portfolio company had revenue of between $8 million and $30 million. In early 2010, Gemini was completing the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
resulting currency position tends to rise in value when equity markets fall. This strategy works well for investment horizons of one month to one year. In the past 15 years the risk-minimizing demand for the dollar appears to have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
address pollution. IVL developed an important role as knowledge producer and as an intermediary of environmental knowledge between the late 1960s and the 1980s. The proactive response of Swedish big business is shown to have been based on a belief that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
effects of v4 scarcity, while obtaining price discovery and allocative efficiency benefits of market transactions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-091.pdf Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
fibrosis treatment. Williams got into pharma by chance. After working in investment banking before and after HBS, he took a job at the consulting firm Corporate Decisions (now Oliver Wyman). One of his first clients was launching a drug... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
less ambitious growth plans than affiliate organizations. While this finding is perhaps not surprising given that branching would likely entail a greater investment of resources by the central organization than expansion via affiliates... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
“Cities can make improvements without making a big investment by using data and by being smarter,” says Mistele. “Data by itself doesn’t fix things, but it can tell you where you should invest. You can make data-driven decisions, rather... View Details