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- January 2006 (Revised May 2007)
- Case
Endo Pharmaceuticals (A): From LBO to...?
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Brian DeLacey
Endo Pharmaceuticals was formed in 1997 as a leveraged buyout spin-off from DuPont Merck. In 1999, it must decide whether to do an IPO or merge with a smaller company. View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
Hamermesh, Richard G., and Brian DeLacey. "Endo Pharmaceuticals (A): From LBO to...?" Harvard Business School Case 806-064, January 2006. (Revised May 2007.)
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
carburetors. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-009.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsInnovating in Health Care—Framework Harvard Business School Note 306-042 Contains the framework for the second-year Innovating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
venture capital firms, offering to invest Rs 200 million in return for an equity stake in the company. His dream of transforming Getit from a regional print company into a digital company with broad geographical reach was within grasp.... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
Flows," revised from NBER Working Paper No. 8472, September 2001, Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 03-006, 2002, revised December 2005) Abstract We examine the forecasting power of international portfolio flows for local View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52341 February 20, 2018 JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association Administrative Costs Associated with Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
selective annexation using a specific policy rule, I find that areas which experienced direct rule have significantly lower levels of access to schools, health centers, and roads in the post-colonial period. I find evidence that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
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
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
who wrote, "... legislative and regulatory response treats the symptoms (means) rather than the disease (motivation). Transparency is only as successful as the least creative obscurantist." He recommends, among other things, prohibiting "by regulation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
are deciding whether to refinance their home less than two years after taking out an initial mortgage and a subsequent home equity line of credit. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/209043-PDF-ENG How Institutional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
equities given recent reforms and to evaluate the investment approach of Misaki Capital. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-049 Canada Mortgage and Housing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
forced that company into bankruptcy. The acquisition further strengthened American Home Products's new animal health unit and its established prescription drug line. In 1987, predating the Robbins transaction and the sale of the... View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54331 forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending By: Cutler, David, Jonathan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50648 2016 New York: Oxford University Press Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business By: Quelch, John A. Abstract—The public health footprint... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
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
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
Working PapersThe Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Corporate Tax Avoidance Authors:Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz, and Sonja Olhoft Rego Abstract This study investigates how private equity ownership... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
purchasing Treasuries did not have such differential effects. We find that the Fed's purchase of MBS (rather than exclusively Treasuries) during QE1 resulted in an additional $600 billion of refinancing, substantially reduced interest payments for refinancing... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5
marketing and branding, and the management of business and political risk. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/513045-PDF-ENG Grantham, Mayo, and Van Otterloo, 2012: Estimating the Equity Risk Premium Hanson, Samuel G., Erik... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
1980s by her physician parents, and although operating a healthcare company in Nigeria offered challenges particularly in human resources and infrastructure, by 2011, it had expanded to include three hospital and clinic sites and a large insurance company. The company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
R&D-intensive firms react to negative shocks to their existing products? We explore this question using detailed project-level data from drug development firms. Using FDA Public Health Advisories as an exogenous and idiosyncratic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman