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- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
customer and product markets, and geopolitical environments. Professor William Fruhan leads the corporate finance piece of the curriculum, providing perspective on the globalization of financial markets. "Increasingly, there is more interest in View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Under New Management: Equity Issues and the Attribution of Past Returns By: Baker, Malcolm, and Yuhai Xuan Abstract—There is a strong link between measures of stock market performance, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
initiated a series of strategic shifts and evolved from a predominately fund-of-funds manager into a large, multi-asset class PE firm focused on direct investments. PG was the first PE firm to go public in 2006. A number of large U.S.-based View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
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
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
founders. 23 However, in the case of the agent-led focused firms, the entrepreneurs' ownership stakes had been diluted by issuing new equity to fund expansion. Owner-managed focused firms also financed their growth by issuing additional... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
productivity. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52141 Capturing Value from IP in a Global Environment By: Alcácer, Juan, Karin Beukel, and Bruno Cassiman Abstract—This paper documents the strong growth... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
herding behavior in anonymous risky environments. In an experiment similar to information cascade settings, but with no private information, we find no evidence for conformity. On the contrary, we observe a significant amount of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
Susie Mulder at NIC+ZOE Susie Mulder must decide how to lead NIC+ZOE-the women's apparel brand she had recently joined as CEO-from its start-up phase into a disciplined growth phase. With growing revenues, a successful product line, and savvy View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
Goldman Sachs & Co.—where one of the authors (Friedman) was Chairman—during the 1980s and early '90s: the firm's moves into junk bonds and private equity and its sustained efforts to become a truly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
capability to draft documentation that protects against all contingencies?; and (8) Can there be a gap between the promise and the capability (a way to improve an organization's performance), or is this too risky? In short, there was a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
reward firms for practices that go above and beyond the requirements of the law. "Self-policing" programs adopted by several agencies shift the burden of monitoring regulatory compliance and reporting noncompliance from the government to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
company, was the target of a takeover battle between a financial sponsor and a strategic buyer. Thoma Bravo, the U.S.-based private equity firm, had to decide on its acquisition strategy in the face of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
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
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
http://hbr.org/search/512049-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 213-033 Introduction to Private Equity Finance This note will aid in introducing students to the Private View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007
increases US investors' equity FPI holdings by 21%, controlling for effects on FDI. This suggests that the residual tax on foreign multinational firm earnings biases capital flows to low corporate tax countries toward FPI. A one standard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
in terms of their R&D investment and financing decisions. We document that these negative shocks lead affected firms to increase R&D expenditures, which they finance with debt. In terms of investment behavior, these shocks... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
influence portfolio choices by exploring the response to the distinctive treatment of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA). JGTRRA lowered the dividend tax rate to 15% for American equities and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
Publications August 2013 Journal of the European Economic Association Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We construct measures of net private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
teams of almost 300 biotechnology companies that went public between 1979 and 1996. Even more than firm age, size, product stage, and receptivity of the equity markets, Higgins and Gulati discovered, the top executives' connections... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark