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    John D. Ryan

    Ryan’s negotiation skills helped put an end to bitter competition among Montana copper moguls in the early 1900s. When he assumed control of Anaconda, he capitalized on the increasing importance of copper in electricity production,... View Details
    Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
    • 10 Mar 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

    deploying assets is superior to Walmart's. At the same time, the traffic that was being generated by lower food prices is being threatened by much leaner and more competitive grocery stores. The icing on the... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
    • March 2007 (Revised March 2007)
    • Case

    Burt's Bees: Leaving the Hive

    Rapid growth is pushing Burt's Bees' natural personal care products into mass distribution channels, with products and brand elements that are less quirky, more commercial than they used to be. Indeed, CEO John Replogle believes that by focusing on efficacious,... View Details
    Keywords: Growth Management; Consumer Behavior; Asset Pricing; Entrepreneurship; Distribution Channels; Product Development; Brands and Branding; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; United States
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    • 20 Mar 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: March 20, 2007

      Working PapersIncorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting Authors:Saravanan Kesavan, Vishal Gaur, and Ananth Raman Abstract As numerous papers have argued, sales, inventory, and gross margin for a... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Jun 2009
    • News

    Too Big To Fail

    look no further than five factors historically associated with financial crises: inflated prices of real estate, institutions with high levels of leverage, new products falling into regulatory gaps, rapid growth in an View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance
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    Industries: financial analytical data and tools

    analytical features. Standard & Poor's RatingsDirect (available from Capital IQ) Access to the credit research behind S&P ratings on a wide variety of debt issues from around the world. These reports can provide useful... View Details
    • December 2001
    • Case

    Qwest Communications International Inc.

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Christopher Hackett
    Describes the evolution of Qwest from a small fiber-optic construction firm in 1996 to a global telecommunications giant in 2001. Focuses on Qwest's pivotal acquisition of "Baby Bell" US West, a regional Bell operating company many times Qwest's size. Discusses the... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Asset Pricing; Business History; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Culture; Partners and Partnerships; Vertical Integration; Telecommunications Industry
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    Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog

    asset managers (e.g., Morgan Stanley, Bain Capital, TPG, Blackrock, State Street) are establishing sustainability investment practices, and developing products to meet the demands of capital owners,... View Details
    • 26 Oct 2009
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    The New Deal: Negotiauctions

    asset that it was willing to buy, and then the banks that held that class of asset would bid the price down in an effort to sell their toxic View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 27 Feb 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: February 27, 2007

    inflows predict no change in the discount, but forecast positive changes in both net asset values and closed-end fund prices. This fact also contradicts the price pressure story, which predicts the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Winter 2009
    • Article

    Is Private Equity Out of Control in Latin America?: The Impact of Structures on Private Equity Transactions in Latin America 1988-2007

    By: Roberto Charvel
    This article explores the private equity industries in 25 Latin American countries from 1988 to 2007. View Details
    Keywords: Latin America; Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Startups; Business Cycles; Development Economics; Economic Systems; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Assets; Capital Markets; Venture Capital; Capital Structure; Private Equity; Latin America; North and Central America
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    Preqin | Baker Library

    equity, venture capital, private debt, real estate, hedge funds, ESG Profiles, and Preqin reports . Subscription does not include: natural resources, secondary market, and asset level benchmarks data. Preqin Private Equity and Venture... View Details
    • 03 Mar 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: March 3, 2009

    (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates the spectacular rise and fall of structured finance. The essence of structured finance activities is the pooling of economic assets like loans, bonds, and mortgages, and the subsequent... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 24 May 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    When Reputation Trumps Regulation

    U.S.-listed foreign firm. Siegel collects evidence from a core sample of Mexican firms to show that some insiders from foreign-listed firms exploit this lax enforcement and run off with the firm's assets with impunity, while others learn... View Details
    Keywords: by Ann Cullen
    • 29 Aug 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

    attention―manufacturing of launch vehicles and satellites―its growth is in fact quite strong. That’s especially true when you adjust for the quality improvements and price declines in that area; something our research is the first to... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace
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    Special purpose acquisition companies

    Business Review article: SPACs: what you need to know.  Additionally, LSEG Workspace, Pitchbook, Bloomberg, and and Capital IQ provide data on SPACs:  In LSEG... View Details
    • 24 Mar 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: March 24, 2009

    Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns Authors:Christopher J. Malloy, Tobias J. Moskowitz, and Annette Vissing-Jørgensen Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We provide new evidence on the success of long-run... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 11 Dec 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

    Pflueger, Carolin E., Emil Siriwardane, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We propose a new measure of the economy’s risk appetite based on the valuation of volatile stocks. Unlike proxies for risk appetite derived from aggregates, our measure is strongly correlated with safe... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 26 Nov 2019
    • News

    Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time

    creation of the Behavioral and Financial Stability Project. Researchers have conducted groundbreaking research on bank capital and liquidity management, the nature of bank runs in the modern financial system, and the unprecedented growth... View Details
    Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
    • 20 Oct 2015
    • First Look

    October 20, 2015

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49883 forthcoming Review of Economic Studies Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? By: Alfaro, Laura, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, and Andrew F. Newman Abstract—What is the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne