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- March 1985 (Revised November 1985)
- Background Note
Note on the Venture Capital Industry--1981
Keywords:
Venture Capital
Sahlman, William A. "Note on the Venture Capital Industry--1981." Harvard Business School Background Note 285-096, March 1985. (Revised November 1985.)
- Article
Anomalies: Foreign Exchange
By: K. A. Froot and R. Thaler
Keywords:
Currencies;
Exchange Rates;
International Macroeconomics;
Monetary Policy;
Currency Controls;
Fixed Exchange Rates;
Floating Exchange Rates;
Currency Bands;
Currency Zones;
Currency Areas;
Rational Expectations;
Asset Pricing
Froot, K. A., and R. Thaler. "Anomalies: Foreign Exchange." Journal of Economic Perspectives 4, no. 3 (Summer 1990): 179–192. (Reprinted in Current Issues in the International Economy: A Reader, edited by L. Goldberg and M. Klein. New York: Harper Collins, 1992; Speculation and Financial Markets, edited by M. Taylor and L. Gallagher. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2001; and in Open Economy Macroeconomics, Volume II, Part I, Article 4 edited by Norman Miller. Cheltenham, U.K. and Northampton, Mass., U.S.: Edward Elgar, March 2006: 74-87.)
- Article
The Value of Intermediation in the Stock Market
By: Marco Di Maggio, Mark Egan and Francesco Franzoni
We estimate a structural model of broker choice to quantitatively decompose the value that institutional investors attach to broker services. Studying over 300 million institutional equity trades, we find that investors are sensitive to both explicit and implicit...
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Keywords:
Financial Intermediation;
Institutional Investors;
Research Analysts;
Broker Networks;
Equity Trading;
Institutional Investing
Di Maggio, Marco, Mark Egan, and Francesco Franzoni. "The Value of Intermediation in the Stock Market." Journal of Financial Economics 145, no. 2A (August 2022): 208–233.
- June 1, 2021
- Article
Capitalism Won't Thrive on Value Investing Alone
By: Amar Bhidé
Investors fall into two camps: value investors, who base decisions on a careful analysis of revenues and costs, looking for steady performance, and growth investors, who place bets on risky projects with very high potential payoffs. A capitalist economy needs both...
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Bhidé, Amar. "Capitalism Won't Thrive on Value Investing Alone." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (June 1, 2021).
- 2021
- Working Paper
Competitive Two-Part Tariffs
By: Jorge Tamayo and Guofu Tan
We study competitive two-part tariffs in a model of asymmetric duopoly firms that offer (vertically and horizontally) differentiated products. We show that the sign of the markup for each product depends on the average expected demand among all customers as well as the...
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Keywords:
Product Differentiation;
Two-part Tariffs;
Marginal-cost Pricing;
Cross-subsidization;
Competition;
Price
Tamayo, Jorge, and Guofu Tan. "Competitive Two-Part Tariffs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-089, March 2021. (R&R American Economic Journal: Microeconomics.)
- 2002
- Book
Strategic Asset Allocation: Portfolio Choice for Long-Term Investors
By: John Y. Campbell and Luis M. Viceira
Keywords:
Investment Portfolio
Campbell, John Y., and Luis M. Viceira. Strategic Asset Allocation: Portfolio Choice for Long-Term Investors. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. (Winner of TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Outstanding Scholarly Writing on Lifelong Financial Security presented by TIAA-CREF Institute.)
- 2015
- Working Paper
On the Increasing Centralization of US Money and Credit
By: Amar Bhidé
My current work on the debt market liquidity (Bhidé 2015) and antecedent book (Bhidé 2010) critiques the de facto centralization of credit extension in the U.S. This essay examines how the increased centralization of credit maps into a decline in the decentralized...
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Bhidé, Amar. "On the Increasing Centralization of US Money and Credit." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-022, June 2015.
- January 2016
- Case
Models of Endowment Management: King's College, Cambridge
By: David Chambers, Elroy Dimson, Luis M. Viceira and Elena Corsi
One of the University of Cambridge's Colleges evaluates different asset management options for their endowment fund.
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Chambers, David, Elroy Dimson, Luis M. Viceira, and Elena Corsi. "Models of Endowment Management: King's College, Cambridge." Harvard Business School Case 216-023, January 2016.
- Article
The Secrets to TripAdvisor’s Impressive Scale
Keywords:
Venture Capital
Bussgang, Jeffrey J. "The Secrets to TripAdvisor’s Impressive Scale." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 2, 2012).
- Article
Portfolio Value-at-Risk Optimization for Asymmetrically Distributed Asset Returns
By: Joel Goh, Kian Guan Lim, Melvyn Sim and Weina Zhang
We propose a new approach to portfolio optimization by separating asset return distributions into positive and negative half-spaces. The approach minimizes a newly-defined Partitioned Value-at-Risk (PVaR) risk measure by using half-space statistical information. Using...
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Goh, Joel, Kian Guan Lim, Melvyn Sim, and Weina Zhang. "Portfolio Value-at-Risk Optimization for Asymmetrically Distributed Asset Returns." European Journal of Operational Research 221, no. 2 (September 1, 2012): 397–406.
- May 2013 (Revised July 2014)
- Background Note
Private Equity Exits
By: Paul A. Gompers and Timothy Dore
This note presents statistics on private equity exits and discusses important issues relating to the most common exit routes.
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Keywords:
Private Equity
Gompers, Paul A., and Timothy Dore. "Private Equity Exits." Harvard Business School Background Note 213-112, May 2013. (Revised July 2014.)
- 2013
- Book
Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future
By: Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy
Wall Street equity analysts provide research products and services on publicly-traded companies to institutional and retail investors to help them make more profitable investment decisions. During the last ten years Wall Street research has been battered by a series of...
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Keywords:
Financial Analysts;
Investment Banks;
Conflicts Of Interest;
Accounting;
Financial Institutions;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Groysberg, Boris, and Paul M. Healy. Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013.
- September 2012 (Revised July 2014)
- Case
Blackstone's Investment in Intelenet
By: Josh Lerner, Sandeep Bapat and Rachna Tahilyani
Three years had passed since Blackstone's investment in Intelenet Global Services, their third largest investment in India. Great progress had been made, but now a new challenge loomed. Globank, a large global bank, was Intelenet's largest customer. Intelenet's...
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Lerner, Josh, Sandeep Bapat, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Blackstone's Investment in Intelenet." Harvard Business School Case 213-036, September 2012. (Revised July 2014.)
- October 2012
- Case
Harrah's Entertainment
By: Paul A. Gompers, Kristin Mugford and J. Daniel Kim
This case examines the issues of establishing and managing a capital structure for the leveraged buyout of Harrah's Entertainment.
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Keywords:
Leveraged Buyouts;
Debt Markets;
Loan Contracts;
Covenants;
Casinos;
Gaming;
Private Equity;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
United States
Gompers, Paul A., Kristin Mugford, and J. Daniel Kim. "Harrah's Entertainment." Harvard Business School Case 213-054, October 2012.
- September 2012
- Supplement
United Capital Partners (B)
By: Paul A. Gompers, J. Daniel Kim and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
This case continues the discussion started in the (A) case about a proposed growth equity investor in a Russian fashion retail chain.
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- June 17, 2011
- Article
Devoted to Debt
By: Nancy F. Koehn
Keywords:
Borrowing and Debt
Koehn, Nancy F. "Devoted to Debt." Harvard Magazine (June 17, 2011).
- Article
A Unified Theory of Underreaction, Momentum Trading and Overreaction in Asset Markets
Hong, Harrison, and Jeremy Stein. "A Unified Theory of Underreaction, Momentum Trading and Overreaction in Asset Markets." Journal of Finance 54, no. 6 (December 1999).
- January – February 2011
- Article
The Price of Fairness
By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias and Nikolaos Trichakis
In this paper we study resource allocation problems that involve multiple self-interested parties or players and a central decision maker. We introduce and study the price of fairness, which is the relative system efficiency loss under a "fair" allocation assuming that...
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Bertsimas, Dimitris, Vivek F. Farias, and Nikolaos Trichakis. "The Price of Fairness." Operations Research 59, no. 1 (January–February 2011): 17–31.