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- August 2001
- Case
Strategic Capital Management, LLC (B)
By: Mark L. Mitchell, Erik Stafford and Todd Pulvino
Supplements the (A) case.
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Business Subsidiaries;
Internet and the Web;
Investment Funds;
Price;
Performance Efficiency;
Capital Markets;
Auctions;
Investment Return;
Equity;
Planning;
Financial Services Industry
Mitchell, Mark L., Erik Stafford, and Todd Pulvino. "Strategic Capital Management, LLC (B)." Harvard Business School Case 202-025, August 2001.
- August 2001
- Case
Strategic Capital Management, LLC (C)
By: Mark L. Mitchell, Erik Stafford and Todd Pulvino
Supplements the (A) case.
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Business Subsidiaries;
Internet and the Web;
Investment Funds;
Price;
Performance Efficiency;
Capital Markets;
Auctions;
Investment Return;
Equity;
Planning;
Financial Services Industry
Mitchell, Mark L., Erik Stafford, and Todd Pulvino. "Strategic Capital Management, LLC (C)." Harvard Business School Case 202-026, August 2001.
- July 2001 (Revised March 2002)
- Case
Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., The
By: Andre F. Perold and Austin K Scee
NASDAQ's mission "to facilitate capital formation" is threatened by the emergence of Electronic Communication Networks, which are not as heavily regulated by the SEC. This case reviews the development of NASDAQ and its evolution from a loose network of broker-dealers...
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Keywords:
Capital Markets;
Stocks;
Financial Markets;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Innovation Strategy;
Performance Efficiency;
Perspective
Perold, Andre F., and Austin K Scee. "Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., The." Harvard Business School Case 202-008, July 2001. (Revised March 2002.)
- June 2001 (Revised September 2010)
- Exercise
Deal-crafting Toolkit
Illustrates the potential sources of value creation as well as practical barriers to its achievement. Students analyze five brief scenarios that would yield efficient trades over valuation, discount rates, expectations, and risk tolerance, but that might be thwarted by...
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Wheeler, Michael A. "Deal-crafting Toolkit." Harvard Business School Exercise 801-201, June 2001. (Revised September 2010.)
- June 2001
- Teaching Note
Aligning Incentives for Supply Chain Efficiency TN
By: Ananth Raman
Teaching Note for (9-600-110).
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- April 2001 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
UNext: Business Education and e-Learning
By: Michael G. Rukstad, David J. Collis and Tyrell Levine
UNEXT has signed agreements with Columbia, Stanford, Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, and the London School of Economics to create online business courses. The company is backed by Michael Milken and Larry Ellison and has four Nobel laureates on its advisory board. Describes...
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Keywords:
Business Education;
Curriculum and Courses;
Technological Innovation;
Internet and the Web;
Competition;
Disruptive Innovation;
Performance Efficiency;
Higher Education;
Learning;
Education Industry
Rukstad, Michael G., David J. Collis, and Tyrell Levine. "UNext: Business Education and e-Learning." Harvard Business School Case 701-014, April 2001. (Revised August 2001.)
- 2001
- Working Paper
Contextualizing Ideologically-based Negotiations: Uncovering Barriers to Efficient Resolution
By: Kimberly A. Wade-Benzoni, Andrew J. Hoffman, Leigh L. Thompson, Don A. Moore, James Gillespie and Max Bazerman
- December 2000
- Article
Efficient Risk Sharing: The Last Frontier
By: John W. Pratt
Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty
Pratt, John W. "Efficient Risk Sharing: The Last Frontier." Management Science 46, no. 12 (December 2000): 1545–1553. (Japanese version, translated by Fumiko Seo, in Modeling and Decision Making in Ambiguous Environments, Fumiko Seo and Takao Fukuchi, eds., 2002 (Kyoto U. Press).)
- 2000
- Working Paper
How Communication Improves Efficiency in Bargaining Games
By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Leigh Thompson, Robert Gibbons and Max Bazerman
- October 2000
- Article
The Equity Share in New Issues and Aggregate Stock Returns
By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
The share of equity issues in total new equity and debt issues is a strong predictor of U.S. stock market returns between 1928 and 1997. In particular, firms issue more equity than debt just before periods of low market returns. The equity share in new issues has...
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Keywords:
Equity;
Borrowing and Debt;
Stocks;
Markets;
Debt Securities;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Accounting Industry;
United States
Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "The Equity Share in New Issues and Aggregate Stock Returns." Journal of Finance 55, no. 5 (October 2000): 2219–57.
- September 2000 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
National Logistics Management
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Mary Rotelli and Kristin Kohler
National Logistics Management (NLM), a third-party logistics company, is a successful, profitable business that provides a more cost-effective and efficient means to expedite premium freight. With the logistics landscape changing, NLM's market niche is threatened. Can...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business or Company Management;
Logistics;
Industry Structures;
Planning;
Service Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., Mary Rotelli, and Kristin Kohler. "National Logistics Management." Harvard Business School Case 801-110, September 2000. (Revised October 2002.)
- August 2000 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
Dell's Working Capital
By: Richard S. Ruback and Aldo Sesia
Dell Computer Corp. manufactures, sells, and services personal computers. The company markets its computers directly to its customers and builds computers after receiving a customer order. This build-to-order model enables Dell to have much smaller investment in...
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Ruback, Richard S., and Aldo Sesia. "Dell's Working Capital." Harvard Business School Case 201-029, August 2000. (Revised December 2003.)
- 2000
- Other Unpublished Work
Career Concerns and Staged Investment: Evidence from the Venture Capital Industry
By: Malcolm Baker
I develop a model in which career concerns lead to inefficient reinvestment decisions. Managers have incentives to inflate interim returns by continuing bad projects and delaying write-offs. In the venture capital industry, the syndication of follow-on investments can...
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Keywords:
Performance Efficiency;
Valuation;
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Decisions;
Motivation and Incentives;
Quality
Baker, Malcolm. "Career Concerns and Staged Investment: Evidence from the Venture Capital Industry." 2000. (First draft in 2000.)
- April 2000
- Background Note
Aligning Incentives for Supply Chain Efficiency
By: V.G. Narayanan and Ananth Raman
Introduces students to the basics of principal-agency theory as it applies to supply chains. Operational problems in supply chains can often be traced to incentive issues. Students and managers lack frameworks to analyze incentive problems in supply chains. This note...
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Keywords:
Supply Chain Management;
Motivation and Incentives;
Framework;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Agency Theory
Narayanan, V.G., and Ananth Raman. "Aligning Incentives for Supply Chain Efficiency." Harvard Business School Background Note 600-110, April 2000.
- March 2000 (Revised July 2000)
- Case
Jeanne Lewis at Staples, Inc. (A) (Abridged)
By: Linda A. Hill and Jennifer Suesse
Jeanne Lewis, after six years with Staples, Inc., is promoted to senior vice president of marketing. She is to work for fifteen months alongside her predecessor, a legacy in the organization, "learning the ropes" before he moves on. This case is set nine months after...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Management Style;
Change Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Management Succession;
Competitive Advantage;
Problems and Challenges;
Management Teams;
Retail Industry;
United States
Hill, Linda A., and Jennifer Suesse. "Jeanne Lewis at Staples, Inc. (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 400-065, March 2000. (Revised July 2000.)
- October 1999 (Revised January 2000)
- Case
W. R. Hambrecht & Co: OpenIPO
By: Andre F. Perold and Gunjan D. Bhow
OpenIPO is a new mechanism for pricing and distributing initial public offerings. The system, which is based on a Dutch auction, represents an attempt by the investment bank W.R. Hambrecht + Co. to change the manner in which IPOs are underwritten. The case provides a...
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Keywords:
Investment Banking;
Debt Securities;
Stocks;
Initial Public Offering;
Price;
Information;
Auctions;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Distribution;
Internet;
Netherlands
Perold, Andre F., and Gunjan D. Bhow. "W. R. Hambrecht & Co: OpenIPO." Harvard Business School Case 200-019, October 1999. (Revised January 2000.)
- August 1999
- Article
Measuring the Efficiency of Service Delivery Processes: With Application to Retail Banking
By: F. Frei and P. Harker
Frei, F., and P. Harker. "Measuring the Efficiency of Service Delivery Processes: With Application to Retail Banking." Journal of Service Research 1, no. 4 (August 1999): 300–312.
- June 1999
- Article
Projections onto Efficient Frontiers: Theoretical and Computational Extensions to DEA
By: F. Frei and P. Harker
Frei, F., and P. Harker. "Projections onto Efficient Frontiers: Theoretical and Computational Extensions to DEA." Journal of Productivity Analysis 11, no. 3 (June 1999): 275–300.
- May 1999
- Teaching Note
efficient market services: August 1993 Series TN
By: Paul A. Gompers
Teaching Note for (9-298-009), (9-298-010), and (9-298-011).
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Keywords:
Service Industry