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  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

and a large fraction of its debt has come to be held by U.S.-based hedge funds that specialize in investing in distressed companies. Finally, Eurotunnel's business is extremely challenging to value and is faced with significant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

helps them hedge real interest risk and inflation risk, or because it helps them reduce the volatility of their portfolio of stocks and bonds because its return is negatively correlated with the returns on those assets. This article... View Details
  • 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

marry the high level of governance expected by shareholders with the entrepreneurial spirit that had driven Hikma’s growth and development. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318108-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-086 Sachem Head's Activism at... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

$2,000 worth of holdings, shareholders who submitted contested proposals had median shareholdings of $39,000, the data showed. The mean amount, meanwhile, was $10.7 million in shares, owing to proposals from pension funds, hedge funds,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

and Finance (forthcoming). (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 05-053 and NBER Working Paper No. 13131.) Abstract The main arguments in favor of and against nominal and indexed debt are the incentive to default through inflation versus View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

post-merger integration in a cross-border acquisition, and more general issues related to currency hedging and international taxation. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusiness.org/search/210017/ Shenzhen Development Bank Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611065-PDF-ENG Marlin & Associates and the Sale of Riverview Technologies Richard S. Ruback and Royce YudkoffHarvard Business School Case 211-083 Riverview Technologies was a Stockholm, Sweden-based company that had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jun 2009
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“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

largely unregulated hedge fund, came perilously close to collapse in 1998, threatening the global financial system. The tech bubble burst in 2001. Accounting scandals destroyed Enron in 2001 and WorldCom in 2002. And the current global... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

selection is potentially the most critical question a founder can answer during the scaling stage of a startup. As is well understood by VCs (but less so by founders!), small companies rarely do more than one thing well; efforts to hedge... View Details
Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Mar 2011
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The Rankings Game

Administration. “The Forbes measure doesn’t make sense to me. Calculating return on investment based on salary five years out means Forbes rewards schools that mainly feed investment banks, private equity, and hedge funds. By implication,... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; rankings; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

tax authorities. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=884812   Cases & Course MaterialsAderans Harvard Business School Case 209-090 Steel Partners is a U.S.-based hedge fund that has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2012
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On a Sound Track

business. I can’t say enough about the people I met at the School. During the IPO road show, for example, at one of the group lunches, I found myself sitting across from Josh Clark, an HBS classmate who was managing a $1 billion–plus View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio accessories; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Sep 2018
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After the Fall

traditional banks to one where non-bank financial intermediaries played a much more important role,” he says. These less regulated intermediaries, which included money market funds, hedge funds, and investment banks, relied heavily on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7

the role of trading in bankruptcy. We find that trading during the case leads to higher concentration of ownership, particularly among debt claims that are eligible to vote on the bankruptcy plan of reorganization. Active investors, including View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10

FarriHarvard Business School Case 310-090 In late January 2009, Thomas Fekete, managing director at Barclays Wealth in London, redeemed the most illiquid positions in the so-called Wealth Absolute Return Fund (WAR), one of Barclays Wealth's most promising offshore... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

pitch and better understand several key marketing principles. Leads to an engaging and thought-provoking discussion. Purchase this exercise: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507045 Selling Biovail Short Harvard Business School Case 207-071... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

School Supplement 408-116 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408116 Opportunity Partners Harvard Business School Case 208-097 Philip Goldstein, the principal in a growing View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007

for Kaintuck, a hedge fund. Since coming to HBS, Landles-Dowling has led in other ways: as president of her section; as copresident of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Association; and as a member of the Joint Committee on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

meeting (AGM) on May 9, 2013. Despite strong support from management, the board, two proxy advisory firms, and several large shareholders, the proposal was opposed by Mason Capital Management, a New York-based hedge fund. Mason, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

of investment because of whims: Investment managers or hedge fund managers can pull the money out of one country and put it into another or into gold or dollars. And if a lot of investors do this at once, the country could experience a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace