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- 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008
domestic savings, has no effect on the financial account, and leads to unaccounted capital flight. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBrigham and Women's Hospital: Shapiro...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016
consider the possibility that the risk anomaly represents mispricing and develop its implications for corporate leverage. The risk anomaly generates a simple tradeoff theory: at zero leverage, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009
submitted a proposed term sheet. Recently, however, a venture capital (VC) group has submitted a competing term sheet. The company must decide whether to accept financing from the Angels or the VC group. Purchase the case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1
recessions, it is not clear if this is due to demand or supply. We address this question by studying firms' substitution between bank debt and non-bank debt (public bonds) using firm-level data. Any firm that raises new debt must have a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5
powers include increasing the business lending cap and raising secondary capital from non-members. The protagonist is a research analyst who must evaluate the benefits of credit unions against the costs,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
equipment over time. The case details PEG’s business model, growth strategy, financial structure, and the landscape of investment capital in West Africa during the time of the case. Purchase this...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015
research in finance and economics. We propose two tests to evaluate how well measures of financial constraints actually capture constraints. We find that firms typically classified as constrained do not in fact behave as if they were constrained: they have no trouble...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25
scale and influence in the technology industries that fall under the incidence of their assets. We also discuss some efficiency issues raised by the growing prominence of patent merchants. Download the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
mercantilist model of government-managed trade. Japan's version of mercantilism primarily used its own banking system, as well as export revenues themselves, to generate the needed capital (in contrast to making heavy use of foreign...
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by Paul R. Lawrence
- 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007
different development strategies. The states had to decide whether to focus their investment efforts on physical capital or improving social indicators. Both states faced constraints in the form of budget deficits, competition from other...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
explicitly a function of current product offerings. The setting illustrates firms' dual incentives at work: A firm better differentiates products under a looser standard but may want to induce a tighter standard if it can benefit from View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13
of lawyers in a large North American law firm provide support for our predictions. We call for a new direction in network research that investigates how network-related behaviors associated with building social capital influence...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6
perspective of originators. All originators benefit from the presence of additional informed investors in bad times, but each originator minimizes his reliance on costly informed capital in good times by issuing safe securities. Our model...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
6 I got to work in my basement on starting FreeMarkets. The first thing we did was raise some money, and then we built some software. We found some pilot clients and started to develop market-making skills, a supplier database, rules for...
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- 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24
time series. While loan issuance falls in recessions, it is not clear if this is due to demand or supply. We address this question by studying firms' substitution between bank debt and non-bank debt (public bonds) using firm-level data. Any firm that View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416046-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-064 The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Management of Globalization No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716064-PDF-ENG Harvard...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
that is, consumers find switching to a competing product a complicated, time-consuming chore. Hoping to spark more research Toffel acknowledges the need for follow-up research to gain a more comprehensive picture of the value of CEO activism. He recognizes that he and...
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- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
home. The idea of a national bank, or any bank at all, ran counter to his revolutionary spirit. Q: You suggest that these men's immigrant backgrounds gave them the ability to see capital as a mobile, rootless entity, since they had those...
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- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
while between-firm selection and market reallocation raise the left truncation of the distributions and shift revenue leftward. Using a rich cross-country firm-level panel dataset, we find significant evidence of both mechanisms, but...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808112 SKS Microfinance Harvard Business School Case 208-137 Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the largest and fastest growing...
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Martha Lagace