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  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

Andrew Banks and Royce Yudkoff were considering raising a 5th fund for their media-focused private equity firm, ABRY Partners. ABRY had a strong track record that the co-founders attributed to their group's deep knowledge of the media... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Adjusting the Fit for Government

these people will end up not owning a lot of the economy because of historical conditions. So there is an equity issue." The Right Mix "I think most governments try too hard [to do everything]," said panelist Udayan Wagle,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

not need to optimize the timing of their equity issues. Consistent with these predictions, I use a unique panel of non-SEC-filing private U.S. firms to show that the average public firm holds twice as much cash as the average private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

  PublicationsHow Much Is Sweat Equity Worth? Authors:Marquis, Christopher, and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 12 (December 2012) Abstract The article presents a case study of a business decision related to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

duties in firms incorporated in that state. This change limited managers' incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling increased the likelihood of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

ethnic migrant inventors in cross-border transfer of knowledge previously locked within the cultural context of their home regions. Using a unique dataset of Chinese and Indian herbal patents filed in the United States, we find that an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

relatively calm, he said. He was also impressed by their patience and resilience. There was no pushing and shoving, Takeuchi reported, no honking of car horns, even in long waits for a tank of gas. On the highway, anxious drivers eager to get View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

U.S. Home Mortgages Author:Robert C. Pozen Publication:Chap. 3 in The Future of Housing Finance, 26-65. Brookings Institution Press, 2011 Abstract This chapter analyzes the various forms of federal programs to support View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

the world. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49090 Private Equity and Financial Fragility During the Crisis By: Bernstein, Shai, Josh Lerner, and Filippo Mezzanotti Abstract—Do private View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

on it with no restrictions and without having to pay royalties? Who would produce consoles and under what arrangements? What features should the console include, and how would it be priced to consumers? The home videogame industry had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

the launch of several eBook devices such as Amazon's Kindle. Yet E Ink still faced the question of how to turn its technology into a profitable business amid competing technologies and financial challenges. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands

hard selling—and a great way to do that is to spend a little brand equity on playfulness to spark conversations. The Rules Of Play Marketing—in the form of the mish-mosh of online posting, uploading, commenting, and sharing on YouTube,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising
  • 03 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

percent—the lowest in over 30 years. Home prices are perking up, and the number of home mortgages with negative equity is down. Balance sheets have recovered to their 2007... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate
  • 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

Europe, a private equity investment company, had worked in the family business for a few years but had developed a career mainly outside of the family business. The transfer of the shares’ ownership had tightened the three brothers’ bonds... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

matters for innovation, and therefore growth, because it enables the local entrepreneur to put equity into this cooperative venture, which mitigates an agency problem that would otherwise deter the foreign investor from participating. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006

Authors:Laura Alfaro and Eliza Hammel Periodical:Journal of International Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Studying the relation between equity market liberalization and imports of capital goods, we examine one channel through which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5

Essentials: Building a Global Service Business with Local Operations Applegate, Lynda M., William R. Kerr, and David LaneHarvard Business School Case 811-078 Chris Exline founded Home Essentials, a furniture rental business targeted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

years of experience at the likes of Procter & Gamble and Johnson & Johnson, decided to set himself up as Spain's first pizza magnate and founded TelePizza. He believed that customers in Spain—and, indeed, throughout Europe—would respond enthusiastically to a... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

Case 112-702 On November 15, 2006, German prosecutors raided offices and homes of Siemens AG staff as part of an ongoing investigation into bribery. The subsequent investigations covered business representing 60% of Siemens' revenues and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

States, Neeley argues that an organization’s lingua franca is the catalyst by which all employees become some kind of “expat”(someone detached from their mother tongue or home culture). Through her unfettered access to the inner workings... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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