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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Estonia, Incorporated
running a business so simple there. “The whole thing works because Estonia is one of the most advanced e-governments on the planet,” Kumar says. The government offers some 600 e-services to its citizens and 2,400 to businesses, and residents conduct 99 percent of their... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
End of Campaign Celebrated
advisers, regulators, and various transaction facilitators. Higgins presented an overview of venture capital in Asia, noting that most deals involve investments in late-stage companies and that over half of the capital comes from abroad.... View Details
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
appear to be both more fragile and less rewarding. Q: What did you observe on the evolution of financial and ownership arrangements of transnational corporations in recent years? A: The quest for control of their subsidiaries reflects the increasing importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
buyout transactions. Co-investments underperform the corresponding funds with which they co-invest, due to an apparent adverse selection of transactions available to these investors, while solo transactions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
and when buyers and sellers do manage to find each other, they usually negotiate under enormous uncertainty: prices of similar patents vary widely from transaction to transaction, and the terms of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
death made the next big VC deal or M&A transaction seem much less important. Instead, Friedman reoriented his life, focusing more on philanthropy—and also getting back into one of his favorite childhood pursuits: motorcycle riding.... View Details
- February 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Case
Microsoft in the People's Republic of China, 1993
By: Tarun Khanna
Explores some of the economic and political tradeoffs that need to be negotiated by a firm seeking to influence industry structure. The setting is the nascent personal computer software industry in the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1993. Microsoft has to localize... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Product Marketing; Market Entry and Exit; Market Transactions; Industry Structures; Partners and Partnerships; Vertical Integration; Software; Information Technology Industry; China
Khanna, Tarun. "Microsoft in the People's Republic of China, 1993." Harvard Business School Case 795-115, February 1995. (Revised August 1995.)
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
Ramana Nanda, and James McQuadeHarvard Business School Case 812-072 In 2011, SecondMarket was an online platform that facilitated secondary transactions of illiquid assets, including private company stock. This case explores reasons for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
of the acquisition has been completed but the second stage has not. Recent deterioration in both Tribune's operating results and credit market conditions make it unclear whether the transaction can be closed as scheduled in 2007, or... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
2 (2005): 7-26 Customers in business-to-business transactions in the Soviet Union were dominated by suppliers who were in such superior positions that the situation facing customers might have been described as "supplier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
U.S. GDP. Finally, the hospital industry provides phenomenal data for the study of technological adoption and performance, as information is tracked at a transaction level across much of the industry. Q: In studying the adoption of... View Details
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
critical look at companies' financial statements. Stock exchanges could fund the cost of audits through a modest transactions charge. Q: In your article you argue that the availability of high quality information is crucial to an... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
establishing the existence of equilibria and other useful properties in diverse settings such as matching, auctions, and exchange economies with indivisible goods. We extend earlier models’ definitions of substitutability to settings in which each agent can be both a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
countries; and across all countries cooperating in anti– money laundering efforts, harmonization of predicate offenses (i.e., agreement as to what crimes’ proceeds shall fall under anti–money laundering laws). “Having the beneficial parties to a View Details
- July 2010 (Revised August 2021)
- Supplement
Vereinigung Hamburger Schiffsmakler und Schiffsagenten e.V. (VHSS): Valuing Ships (CW)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert W. Sheen
After booming for more than five years, the global shipping (maritime) industry experienced a dramatic crash in late 2008 as the global financial system froze and the global economy slid into recession. Ship charter rates (revenue) fell by as much as 90% causing prices... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
customer information. But now, conveniences such as Web browsers and "smart cards" (which today are used to store electronic money in several European markets and, in the future, could record an individual's daily transaction information)... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- Profile
Marla Malcolm Beck
ready for prime time when it came to the retail shopping experience. Most people were still on dial-up Internet connections and interminable waits to finish a transaction created a significant barrier. Beck was undaunted. “I... View Details
- Profile
Lara Hodgson
large lines of credit – to purchase assets from small businesses. We’ve essentially recreated the intermediary – we’re borrowing, we’re not lending. We don’t lend to small businesses; we buy their assets. So it’s an off balance sheet View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
Co-op is experimenting with a transactive energy rate that will enable members to partner with the co-op, supplying energy from their EV batteries when it is most needed, and charging up when demand — and prices — are low. The technology... View Details