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  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

intermediate results or, alternatively, one of closed secrecy around intermediate solutions. We observe the cumulative innovation process in each regime with fine-grained measures and are able to derive inferences with a series View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • August 1999 (Revised January 2002)
  • Case

Brita Products Company, The

By: John A. Deighton
Clorox's Brita skillfully exploits a tide of water safety concerns, growing a home water (filtration) business from inception to a 15% U.S. household penetration in ten years. The dilemma in the case arises as the period of increasing returns seems to be drawing to a... View Details
Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Acquisition; Retention; Safety; Natural Environment; Emerging Markets; Investment Return; Equity; Demand and Consumers; United States
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  • 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28

  PublicationsThe Power of Political Voice: Women's Political Representation and Crime in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra, and Petia Topalova Publication:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

private equity consortium led by Finansbank's previous owner and founder Husnu Ozyegin. Each of these potential buyers had different motivations for the purchase. NBG's motivations were to obtain the highest... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 14

make to a firm's return on equity (ROE). Using a sample of 51,866 firms from 69 countries, we find that financing activities contribute more to a firm's ROE in countries with higher domestic credit. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

invested $3.5 million and received 80 percent of the equity in the company. Becoming independent also gave the start-up organization the freedom to compete head-on with the internal Xerox development units... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

  Working PapersNone this week.   Cases & Course MaterialsArtisan Entertainment Inc. Harvard Business School Case 207-067 Geoff Rehnert and Marc Wolpow have left Bain Capital to launch Audax Group. As part of their separation, they... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2012
  • Article

Management Practices across Firms and Countries

By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing American, Japanese, and German firms are the best... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Competency and Skills; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Organizations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Sectors; Performance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Private Equity; Multinational Firms and Management; United States; Germany; Japan; China; India
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  • 31 Oct 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

Negotiation A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix? What Do You Think? What subtle (or not so subtle) ways have you seen women discriminated against in the workplace?... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

"and it changed the nature of Chile's BATNA in favor of the company." Among other tactics, the company offered to sell a majority of its View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

count on raising debt or equity capital locally to finance their operations. Like investors, creditors don't have access to accurate information on companies. Businesses can't easily assess the creditworthiness View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha
  • 05 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer systems for the Idaho National... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 27 Sep 2016
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September 27, 2016

selecting investments, VCs see the management team as more important than business-related characteristics such as product or technology. They also attribute more of the likelihood of ultimate investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios By: Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Terry Burnham Abstract—We examine the optimal weighting of four tilts in U.S. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

public firms. Most importantly, they fail to account for offsetting equity issuances by firms. We show that, taking into account issuances, net shareholder payouts by all U.S. public firms during the period 2005–2014 were in fact only... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Jul 2022
  • Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

subjects.” Few workers have Sandra’s power to influence the strategic decisions that affect their working lives. Such lack of control is associated with job dissatisfaction, greater mental strain, and damaged physical health. Workers... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 27 Jun 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

customer and product markets, and geopolitical environments. Professor William Fruhan leads the corporate finance piece of the curriculum, providing perspective on the globalization of financial markets.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education
  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

of West Bengal, led by the Left Front and the Communist Party of India as equity partners; or whether to also accept a private equity firm into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

to their reliable software and responsive customer service. The company had achieved this growth without the help of any outside financing. The five co-founders of eCW, who treated each other like an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

labor-intensive industries, contractual arrangements with foreign buyers are technically feasible and might provide the same business benefits as FDI. (As a form of equity financing, FDI is typically... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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