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  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

of Arts and Sciences, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.amacad.org/pdfs/challenges.pdf Information Risk and Fair Values: An Examination of Equity Betas Authors:Edward J. Riedl and George Serafeim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

The paper also leads to new perspectives on the firm as a legal entity and on the relationship between the Knightian and Coasian views of the firm.   Cases & Course MaterialsAppellation Shanxi: Grace Vineyard Harvard Business School Case 309-075 Grace Vineyard was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

Newman Abstract This paper shows that product prices determine organizational design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. Property rights theory asserts that firm boundaries are chosen by stakeholders to mediate organizational goals (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

how best to grow the company. He recently took a $22 million investment from Actis Capital, a major emerging markets private equity firm, to consummate an acquisition with a South Indian competitor. Options... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
  • Supplement

Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
By many measures the largest health-club chain in the United States in the early 2000s, Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness clubs to 24 Hour Fitness in 2014 and disappeared from the industry top 100 rankings. After Bally was bedeviled by accounting... View Details
Keywords: Bally Total Fitness; Accounting; Accounting Audits; Accrual Accounting; Business Earnings; Revenue Recognition; Financial Statements; Acquisition; Business Exit or Shutdown; For-Profit Firms; Crime and Corruption; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; Capital Structure; Cash; Cash Flow; Public Equity; Financial Condition; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; Investment Activism; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Business History; Executive Compensation; Resignation and Termination; Annual Reports; Contracts; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Marketing; Market Entry and Exit; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Health Industry; Accounting Industry; United States; Illinois; Chicago
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  • 20 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 20

Simmons (E) Amy C. Edmondson and Susan ThyneHarvard Business School Supplement 610-061 This case updates the "Leading Change at Simmons" series by examining Simmons' increasing debt under the ownership of Thomas H. Lee, a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

is working to change these perceptions and document inner city business opportunities. In partnership with Inc. magazine, the ICIC scours America each year looking for the most rapidly growing private companies based in inner city areas.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

decision is private or public. Our results show that the opportunity to avoid being submitted to regulation produces more unethical conduct than situations in which regulation is either exogenously imposed or entirely absent. Read the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

to Valeant for an IRR of 17.6% for a MOIC of 1.6x. The (B) case answers the question whether “good is good enough.” Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218029-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-077 The Tax Man: Taxes in View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

pay out capital also initiate debt or equity issues in the same year, resulting in 32% of aggregate payouts being externally financed. Most firms with simultaneous payouts and security issues do not generate enough operating cash flow to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

guidelines for when to use each strategy. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808004 ABRY Partners and F+W Publications Harvard Business School Case 207-010 After acquiring F+W Publications from a rival View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

the board take into account? Bagley: The Business Roundtable is to be commended for its clear stand on the importance of selecting an ethical CEO. Anyone who ever wondered whether ethics matters need only look at the outflow of funds from the View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707030 Lion Capital and the Blackstone Group: The Orangina Deal Harvard Business School Case 807-005 The managing partners of two private View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

existed, but by 1939, there were over 88,000. Approximately half were joint stock firms, and these outperformed limited and unlimited partnerships on a return on equity basis, while also accounting for most of the aggregate profits. When... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

  Working PapersSell Side School Ties Authors:Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract We study the impact of social networks on agents' ability to gather superior information about firms. Exploiting novel data on the educational backgrounds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

coders display pervasive stereotypes, associating warmth with women and competence and negativity with men. We also find that warmer participants, particularly warmer women, are under-rewarded by their groups. Equity Concerns Are Narrowly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

innovator develop his idea before selling it? In the context of selling 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

including commercial banks, investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity funds. Representing one of the largest DIP loans in history, this financing was considered critical to the company's survival.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

in the world, Akula must decide at what value to sell equity in SKS and to whom to sell it. The case focuses on valuation, which is difficult because at the time there are no publicly traded comparable companies, as well as the strategic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

Investment Group is deciding whether or not to recapitalize an equity investment in a Residencial Los Andes, a residential project in Santiago, Chile, or take a substantial loss. The project did not meet its sales goals, and the bank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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