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  • July 2021
  • Supplement

CIAM: Home-Grown Shareholder Activism in France (B)

By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Tonia Labruyere and Vincent Dessain
This case is a complement to CIAM: Home-Grown Shareholder Activism in France (A) and describes the events after CIAM learned about a potential misuse of corporate assets at Altice/SFR. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Valuation; Investment Activism; Accounting; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; France
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    George Serafeim

    George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He co-leads a Lab, within Harvard's Digital, Data, Design Institute, and serves on the faculty steering commitee of Harvard University's Salata Institute. He... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management
    • October 1998 (Revised May 1999)
    • Case

    Kmart Corp.

    Describes a situation in which a company (Kmart) refinances a portion of its debt. Used to illustrate how the asset and liability sides of the balance sheet are linked. View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Accounting; Borrowing and Debt; Retail Industry
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    • April 2000
    • Article

    The Fable of Fisher Body

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Daniel F. Spulber
    General Motors' (GM) acquisition of Fisher Body is the classic example of market failure in the literature on contracts and the theory of the firm. According to the standard account, GM merged vertically with Fisher Body in 1926, a maker of auto bodies, because of... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Failure; Contracts; Vertical Integration; Market Transactions; Investment; Trust; Production; Assets; Supply Chain; Opportunities; Technology; Auto Industry
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    The Effects of Cryptocurrency Wealth on Household Consumption and Investment

    By: Darren Aiello, Scott R. Baker, Tetyana Balyuk, Marco Di Maggio, Mark J. Johnson and Jason Kotter
    This paper uses transaction-level data across millions of accounts to identify cryptocurrency investors and evaluate how fluctuations in individual crypto wealth affect household consumption, equity investment, and local real estate markets. We estimate an MPC out of... View Details
    Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Marginal Propensity To Consume; Household Balance Sheet; Real Estate; Etherium; Bitcoin; Investment; Housing; Spending
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    • 15 Jul 2020
    • News

    Predictable financial crises

    • 25 Jun 2015
    • News

    Responsible investment: Vice versus nice

    • 14 Nov 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

    the index-inclusion incentives accounted for 16% of the average increase in aggregate annual earnings and 20% of the growth in aggregate market capitalization over our sample period. Stock indexes can affect behavior by functioning as a... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Finance Without Exotic Risk

    By: Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli, Rafael La Porta and Andrei Shleifer
    We address the joint hypothesis problem in cross-sectional asset pricing by using measured analyst expectations of earnings growth. We construct a firm-level measure of Expectations Based Returns (EBRs) that uses analyst forecast errors and revisions and shuts down any... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Return; Financial Markets; Behavioral Finance; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • October 2023
    • Technical Note

    Governance for the Family Enterprise

    By: Christina R. Wing and Vicki Morton
    Governance stands as the backbone of any successful organization, providing the structure, transparency, and accountability necessary to guide decisions, ensure efficiency and foster sustainable growth. Its significance takes on a heightened dimension within family... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Corporate Governance; Family Ownership; Business Growth and Maturation
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    • October 2007
    • Article

    The Influence of Financial Statement Recognition and Analyst Coverage on the Market's Valuation of R&D Capital

    By: Michael D. Kimbrough
    Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 141 (SFAS No. 141)'s requirement that an acquirer in a business combination estimate the fair value of the target's separately identifiable assets and liabilities (including research and development capital) provides a rare... View Details
    Keywords: Information; Value Creation; Fair Value Accounting; Research and Development; Financial Statements; Capital
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    • November 2002 (Revised March 2007)
    • Case

    Keane's Acquisition of Metro Information Services (A)

    By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
    On August 21, 2001, Keane, Inc. announced the acquisition of Metro Information Services, Inc. This case analyzes the challenges facing firms and examines transactions whose major source of value creation hinges on intangible assets (e.g., people or knowledge). View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Value Creation; Goodwill Accounting; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology Industry; Consulting Industry
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    • January 2007 (Revised October 2007)
    • Case

    The Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Fund: Striving to Reshape the Social Enterprise Capital Markets

    By: Michael Chu and Jean Hazell
    Seeking to impact global poverty and philanthropy, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar donates $100 million to Tufts University for a trust restricted to investment in microfinance. Explores the origins of the initiative, the perspectives and objectives of the various parties... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Markets; Microfinance; Investment Funds; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Emerging Markets; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry
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    • 06 Jun 2016
    • News

    Your Investment Tool Is Failing You

    • 24 Nov 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: Nov. 24

    divisions. Our two studies allow us to demonstrate that spontaneous within-game dialogue and manipulated pre-game talk lead to the same results. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-039.pdf   PublicationsCost Structure Patterns in the View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 12 Jun 2019
    • News

    Busy IPO Market Offers Lifeline to Troubled Retailers

    • July–August 2014
    • Article

    The Crisis in Retirement Planning

    By: Robert C. Merton
    Corporate America began to really take notice of the looming retirement crisis in the wake of the dot-com crash, when companies in major industries went bankrupt in large part because of their inability to meet their pension obligations. The result was an acceleration... View Details
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    • 14 Jul 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: July 14, 2015

      Publications May-June 2015 Human Resource Management Back to the Future: Implications for the Field of HRM of the Multi-stakeholder Perspective Proposed 30 Years Ago By: Beer, Michael, Paul Boselie, and Chris Brewster Abstract—Thirty years on from the seminal work... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 14 May 2019
    • News

    Data privacy, AI, regulation: Small-business lending is changing fast

    • 13 May 2016
    • News

    The finance sector is awash in pain, which could well be gain for the US economy