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  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Faculty Books

Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation edited by Edward J. Balleisen and David A. Moss (Cambridge University Press) After years of emphasis on governmental inefficiency and the need for deregulation, interest is growing in the possibility of... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 20 Nov 2015
  • News

Room to Grow

programs include the Boston Public Market, the city’s first indoor, year-round market dedicated entirely to fresh, locally produced food, and Daily Table, a Dorchester market... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 31 Oct 2014
  • Op-Ed

Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness

and we're seeing some real heroes in our public health system, too. Once we get beyond the individual heroics, however, we should be quite concerned about breakdowns of protocol in the nation's hospitals. Ironically, part of the problem... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda; Health
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HBS Course: Real Estate Private Equity - Research Resources

section and newly added screening for real estate deals. Capital IQ Data on PE transactions, public and private companies, investment firms, and people. Provides sophisticated retrieval and personalization tools to create numerous... View Details
  • 02 Oct 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?

mundane topics that were candidates for this month's column. Clearly, an inability to identify and evaluate risk has led to an inability to value assets. What follows is the failure of "fair value accounting" and markets themselves.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Managing Global Operations

> Editor's choice to begin a search. The CEIC's current country economy snapshot is also a good starting point.  Also includes company, and industry information from sources for emerging markets in Africa, Asia,... View Details
  • 03 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks

sharks can affect efforts to save them. “Negative public opinion and fear of sharks continues to hinder conservation efforts,” says Elizabeth Keenan, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit of Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Media & Broadcasting
  • October 1995 (Revised June 1996)
  • Case

ABN-AMRO Holding N.V. and Smit Transformatoren N.V. (A)

By: Peter Tufano
ABN-AMRO, the largest bank in the Netherlands, must decide whether to take any action in regard to the poor performance of Smit Transformatoren, a Dutch transformer manufacturer. ABN-AMRO acted as lead underwriter for the IPO of Smit, and also released a favorable... View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Capital Markets; Investment Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Netherlands
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  • 2010
  • Case

Vander Mining Partners, IPADE

By: Roberto Charvel
In 2010 Vander Mining was trying to raise one of the few private equity funds specialized in mining. This was difficult among other things because institutional investors did not have a private equity team specialized in mining and emerging markets. View Details
Keywords: Real Assets; Business Startups; Business Plan; Economics; Metals and Minerals; Mining; Assets; Private Equity; Public Equity; Goods and Commodities; Emerging Markets; Market Participation; Mining Industry; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America
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  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Tidy Minds

In a wide-ranging Q&A in the "Global Manager" column of the New York Times (September 2, 2012), Sir Martin Sorrell (MBA 1968), chief executive of the WPP Group, the world's largest advertising and marketing firm, had some thoughts on... View Details
Keywords: Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?

No wonder the economy is slow to recover. At the end of 2013, industrial firms listed on the US stock markets held an astounding $1.6 trillion in cash reserves—that’s 12 percent more than a year earlier. And those were just the View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
  • 21 Oct 2013
  • News

Moving the Needle

investing, also known as impact investing. "I wanted to understand how to use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the world's most pressing problems." Seegull had a unique perspective from an early... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • January 2013 (Revised March 2016)
  • Case

The Private Company Council

By: Karthik Ramanna and Luis M. Viceira
Financial Accounting Foundation chairman Jack Brennan is under pressure from private-company interests to set up a new body—the Private Company Council—to determine separate GAAP for private companies. PCC advocates—including the US Chamber of Commerce—argue that... View Details
Keywords: FASB; Lobbying; Political Economy; Accounting; Government and Politics; Leadership; Financial Markets; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry
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  • 11 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Saving the Planet

business by-products. Now, some pioneering companies are exploring healthier ways to operate. How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability EffortsThere is a connection between public... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Green Technology
  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Short Takes

Smoking Gun When impressionable teenagers light their first cigarettes, they initiate what all too often becomes a lifelong, life-threatening habit. The vast majority of smokers begin in their teens, yet the tobacco industry has consistently denied that it View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
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Managing Service Operations: Research resources for new service design

used to analyze financial data from global equity and fixed income markets, and public and private companies. Individual accounts needed. Note: Follow the access instruction on the page before accessing. LSEG Workspace Company Overview... View Details
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Investing in Life Sciences - SIP Resources

Public company profiles, equity research, etc: LSEG Workspace for analyst reports and public company data. Note that student accounts are limited to 150 pages of after market... View Details
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Industries: financial analytical data and tools

Where can I find aggregate data on specific industries? An increasing number of databases are now available on the market to support the financial data analytical needs of bankers and financial professionals. Baker provides access to a... View Details
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IFC: LA/Hollywood

href="http://www.library.hbs.edu/Find/Databases/Standard-Poor-s-NetAdvantage" target="_blank">Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage 
Best for a broad industry overviews. Covers industry trends, forecasts, major players and View Details
  • 24 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Be an Angel Investor

the potential existed to sell the company soon for a substantial return to one of its competitors. However, if the market turned in a big way, the potential valuation could come screaming down. The business would not fail, as it was... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson