Transaction - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

deferral of payments, new payment terms, and renegotiation of rates to those in need. Such efforts will encourage longer-term relationships and loyalty, which will increase revenue and reduce transaction costs. DoorDash is temporarily... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service

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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

use criteria Utilizes time stamped data, where available, to automatically incorporate patient-specific transaction times Automates public reporting of outcomes and costs Providers, IT vendors, policy makers, and payers will need to... View Details

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

infrastructure for transactional activity, new scholarship asks what forces shape modern patterns of economic activity and how those patterns sort people and resources. Instead of reproducing conventional dichotomies, current historians... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

29 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

tips and bribes so they can avoid blurring the lines. "Informal exchanges are trickier to manage than people sometimes think," Torfason says. "Once you are embedded in a web of informal transactions and favors, it can... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Founder - Entrepreneurship

support Lawyers-in-Residence Pitch to Harvard Transaction Law Clinic JANUARY TERM Sign up for Immersion Field Courses (IFC) to Israel, London, or Silicon Valley. SPRING Pitch your startup for feedback and the opportunity to win prize... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

institutional limited partners. HarbourVest's business activities include investing as a primary and secondary investor in venture capital, leveraged buyout and mezzanine funds, as well as investing as a direct investor in venture capital and buyout View Details

30 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations

A simple view of negotiation presents a cold transaction between what one person has and what the other person is willing to pay for it. If the price is right, the deal gets done. As anyone who has recently bought a car or sold a house... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

January 2009 (Revised November 2010)
Case

The Dojima Rice Market and the Origins of Futures Trading

By: David A. Moss and Eugene Kintgen

In 1730, Japanese merchants petitioned shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune to officially authorize trade in rice futures at the Dojima Exchange, the world's first organized (but unsanctioned) futures market. For many years, the Japanese government had prohibited the trade of... View Details

Keywords: Futures and Commodity Futures; Price; Food; Business History; Market Transactions; Business and Government Relations; Japan

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Educators

Purchase

March 1992 (Revised December 1992)
Case

Salomon and the Treasury Securities Auction

By: Dwight B. Crane

Set in June 1991, two months prior to Salomon Brothers' announcement that the firm had violated the Treasury Department's rules governing the auctions of new Treasury securities. Salomon Vice Chairman John Meriwether must decide how to address problems that continue to... View Details

Keywords: Debt Securities; Managerial Roles; Ethics; Market Transactions; Bonds; Investment Banking; Crisis Management; Auctions; Legal Liability; Banking Industry

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Educators

Purchase

05 Jun 2009
What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

services? The latter grew so rapidly in the U.S. in recent years (with every mortgage backed security and credit default swap transaction counted, resulting in substantial contributions to growth rates) that, at its peak, it may well have... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

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Research Design - Impact Investments

The third focus area of the project will undertake a joint statistical project with the U.S. Census Bureau to better quantify the implications of the growing impact investing market. An outsized majority of impact investing transactions... View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

Investment By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved.... View Details

17 Apr 2022
Book

How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

personally profit by violating the law or by harming or misleading others. The stakes can be enormous, especially when a big transaction or career-making decision is involved. This means people in business often face much larger... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

Fast Answer

IPOs (initial public offerings)

Where can I find information on Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)? In Capital IQ: From the Screening tab select Transactions.. In section for General Transaction Details select Types and... View Details

22 Sep 2023
News

Capital Connection

worked on transactions that required more than $50 million in capital. That created a major gap in the market, leaving commercial real estate operators who develop or renovate smaller properties with more limited funding options. Whereas... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Real Estate

17 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet

Internet provides to the rest of the U.S. economy is estimated at $175 billion. It comprises $20 billion of advertising services, $85 billion of retail transactions (net of cost of goods), and $70 billion of direct payments to Internet... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising; Publishing

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Research - Private Capital Project

of Ping Identity By: Victoria Ivashina and Srimayi Mylavarapu In the fall of 2022, Blue Owl Capital's investment committee evaluated a potential investment in the technology sector. The proposed transaction centered on Ping Identity... View Details

Fast Answer

Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis

- Financial models and company benchmarking data Mosaic - Build leveraged buyout and discounted cash flows models, dynamically incorporate special transaction situations Practical Financial Modelling: A Guide to Current... View Details

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

unit times spent on these resources by specific activities for products, services, and customers. For example, if a customer support department has a cost of $70 per hour, and a particular transaction for a customer takes 24 minutes (0.4... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

January 2020
Case

Banorte Móvil: Data-Driven Mobile Growth

By: Ayelet Israeli, Carla Larangeira and Mariana Cal

In mid-2019, Carlos Hank was deliberating over the results for Banorte Móvil—the mobile application for Banorte, Mexico’s most profitable and second-largest financial institution. Hank, who had been appointed as Banorte´s Chairman of the Board in January 2015, had... View Details