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- 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010
risk implied by the need to roll over its debt more often. We then extend the model to allow private financial intermediaries to compete with the government in the provision of money-like claims. We argue that if there are negative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008
variable labor supply, social security benefits and portfolio choice over safe bonds and risky equities. Our analysis reinforces prior findings that equities are the preferred asset for young households, with the optimal share of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
weakening the conditions of credit supply (especially in a slowly recovering economy) and improving the soundness of the financial system. The interaction between regulators and the private sector is a crucial ingredient in getting these... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
the Life Settlement Industry No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/214011-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 213-034 A Note on Valuation in Private Equity This note will provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007
Case 806-069 Randall Fojtasek, a partner at Brazos Private Equity Partners, must decide whether to invest more money in Cheddar's restaurant chain, which the firm invested in 10 months earlier. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
his current stint at General Catalyst, a private equity fund. Filipowski, who founded software maker PLATINUM Technology and sold it to Computer Associates International in 1999 for approximately $4 billion,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20
Michelle Dipp, MD, Ph.D, CEO and co-founder of OvaScience, had just received a buyout offer from PG Ventures, a private equity firm interested in acquiring the innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27
environmental standards that require coordinated complementary investments by various types of private adopter. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2142085 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-089... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 10
Nicolas P. Retsinas and Justin GinsburghHarvard Business School Case 210-024 A United States private equity fund, The Saboput Group, must decide whether to invest in a new technology park development in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016
new roles for user innovators; user interactions with firms; and user innovation in practice, describing experiments, toolkits, and crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42312 forthcoming Journal of Portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
the scholarship emanating from this research stream has grown substantially in quantity, quality, and breadth. Likewise, firms across the world have increasingly implemented broad and sophisticated non-market strategies. Within strategy beyond markets, there are a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007
Group plc: May 2006 Harvard Business School Case 807-006 Since 2004, Philip Yea, the first outsider ever to lead 3i Group, one of Europe's largest publicly listed private equity firms, has been trying to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8
into a public-private partnership with the government of West Bengal, led by the Left Front and the Communist Party of India as equity partners; or whether to also accept a private View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4
Private Equity By: Ewens, Michael, Charles M. Jones, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—This paper explores the private equity and venture capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
challenging the modern supermarkets. Since its founding in 1995, BIM has adhered to a business model based on a relentless focus on costs and operational efficiency, built on private labels and an unswerving limit on SKUs. Unprecedented... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
positively affects local venture capital companies. And yet, in Germany, there were 500 to 600 professionals in the private equity industry in 1999, while in the current year there are 800—a huge jump. But I... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 24
Prosperity In 2014, Khuram Mir, CEO of HN Agri Serve, an innovative apple orchard company in the Kashmir region of Northern India, wonders about the best growth strategy for his company. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515006-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
the nation's private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs in our country. They are also instrumental in driving the innovation that provides a competitive... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 13
original movie ideas, I present a model that features the writer's private information on the idea's value, different protection levels associated with different development stages, as well as costly buyer participation. The empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
Carrefour, German SAP, and British Virgin were all founded on ideas from budding entrepreneurs from this generation. Still, it is true that entrepreneurship is not always encouraged in the European Union. Dessain: The private View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell