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- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
Banning Big Box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers Research shows how regulations designed to protect independent retailers from big box competition may backfire. Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail Retailers can offer great product... View Details
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
example of cutting-edge practice in private equity. The first of a two-part series on the Hertz LBO, adopts the perspective of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, the leader of a private equity consortium bidding to buy Hertz from Ford in an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
downswing) was 30 percent over the last three years, 26 percent over the last five years and 16 percent over the last ten years. This compares favorably with the S&P at 10 percent, 7 percent, and 8 percent, and even well against Emerging Markets View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
MBA 1988) is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. For two decades, he ran equity capital markets for Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley. His casework focuses on international investment, sovereign... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
negatively affected compared to external-finance-dependent firms, and capital controls on equity have a more negative announcement effect than those on debt. Real investment falls following the controls. Overall, the results suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007
provide funding to mobilize thousands of youth volunteers, Trellu-Kane needed to decide how Unis-Cite would proceed. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407106 A Note on European Private View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17
suggested by theories concerning conflicts between managers and owners over risk-taking. We argue that managers holding equity of their bank take less risk because they have fewer opportunities to diversify risk compared with outside... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
equity for themselves) versus giving potential co-founders a large share of the equity to come on board. The choices were: taking money from angel investors, who would let the entrepreneur continue... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Litigation Strategy in EMC Corporation v. Donatelli (B) Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318027-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-020 Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (A) In summer of 2010, Murat Çavuşoğlu... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
with less efficient governments. The findings suggest that country-level factors have an economically significant impact on the rate of corporate profitability mean reversion. The study has implications for forecasting profitability and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
FDI to the United States has averaged 4.3 percent while the average for outbound FDI from the United States has been 12.1 percent. Second, this remarkable return differential doesn't reflect a more general differential in investment returns. During this same period,... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
"Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment," at the Harvard Business School Möbius Leadership Forum on April 12. Hayes holds the Jacob H. Schiff Chair in Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, Emeritus. Domini is president of the Domini... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
debt ratio of 3.2 percent. The restructuring of its portfolio raised the profit margin from 12.2 percent to 19.4 percent between 1982 and 1990, while earnings per share rose from $1.08 to $2.38. In 1991, its return on equity was 46... View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10
http://hbr.org/search/512049-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 213-033 Introduction to Private Equity Finance This note will aid in introducing students to the Private Equity Finance course. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2010
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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
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317039-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-011 Qalaa Holdings and the Egyptian Refining Company This case follows Qalaa Holdings, a successful Egypt-based private equity firm, and gives... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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
- March 2003
- Background Note
A Short Note on the AccuFlow Excel Model
By: Jay O. Light
Describes an Excel spreadsheet workbook that facilitates the analysis of AccuFlow, Inc. View Details
Keywords: History; Analytics and Data Science; Cost of Capital; Negotiation; Capital; Business Model; Economic Systems; Machinery and Machining; Leveraged Buyouts; Business Startups; Equity
Light, Jay O. "A Short Note on the AccuFlow Excel Model." Harvard Business School Background Note 203-089, March 2003.
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
Asante Should Governments Demand Equity in Foreign-Owned Extractive Projects? By: Wells, Louis T. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52573 2016 The Challenge of BRIC... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel