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- 19 Nov 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Lazy Prices
- November 1999
- Case
Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (A)
By: Andre F. Perold
Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (LTCM) was in the business of engaging in trading strategies to exploit market pricing discrepancies. Because the firm employed strategies designed to make money over long horizons--from six months to two years or more--it adopted a...
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Keywords:
Fluctuation;
Capital;
Financial Liquidity;
Financing and Loans;
Investment Funds;
Investment Portfolio;
Corporate Governance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Management;
Risk Management;
Marketing;
Motivation and Incentives;
Financial Services Industry
Perold, Andre F. "Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 200-007, November 1999.
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
Last year, the pioneering Black-owned global asset management firm Brown Capital Management found itself at a crossroads. The secret to its success had been a deliberately diverse hiring strategy, but with the looming retirement of its...
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- June 2016
- Case
Duff & Phelps: Scaling an Entrepreneurial Venture (A)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and David Lane
Having teamed up to launch their own financial services business, Noah Gottdiener and Jacob Silverman soon discover a venerable brand and viable business in an established bank subsidiary. They then work for many months to acquire the business as a platform for...
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Keywords:
Duff & Phelps;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Mergers & Acquisitions;
Entrepreneurial Financing;
Entrepreneurship;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Integration;
Business Model;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Financial Services Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and David Lane. "Duff & Phelps: Scaling an Entrepreneurial Venture (A)." Harvard Business School Case 816-041, June 2016.
- 10 Apr 2020
- News
Managing the Liquidity Crisis
- 12 May 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Financing Payouts
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
outperform peer firms based on six-digit Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) groupings in explaining cross-sectional variations in base firms' stock returns, valuation multiples, forecasted and realized growth rates, research...
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Sean Silverthorne
- April 2014 (Revised June 2016)
- Case
Tapestry Networks
By: Karthik Ramanna and Matthew Shaffer
Tapestry Networks assembled industry leaders and their regulators in small, private meetings to build new frameworks for pressing regulatory challenges. Tapestry's motivating principle was to reimagine solutions to complex problems (e.g., drug-approval standards) in...
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Keywords:
General Management;
Government And Business;
Strategy;
Consulting Industry;
United States;
European Union
Ramanna, Karthik, and Matthew Shaffer. "Tapestry Networks." Harvard Business School Case 114-051, April 2014. (Revised June 2016.)
- 1991
- Book
Multinational and International Banking
By: G. Jones
The essays in this volume explore the historical evolution of multinational and international banking. Contemporary studies, and most writers on the theory of multinational banking, focus on US data, yet historically European financial institutions were the leaders in...
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Keywords:
Banks and Banking;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Analytics and Data Science;
Opportunities;
Theory;
Banking Industry;
Europe;
United States
Jones, G., ed. Multinational and International Banking. Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1991.
- February 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Barbarians at the Gate or Turnaround Gurus? Private Equity and the Rise of the LBO
By: Tom Nicholas and John Masko
During the 1980s, leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and the private equity (PE) firms responsible for carrying them out revolutionized both investment and management in the U.S. Between 1980 and 1989, buyout activity in the U.S. surged from $1 billion per year to $60 billion....
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Keywords:
Leveraged Buyouts;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Conglomerates;
Restructuring;
Borrowing and Debt;
Private Equity;
Bonds;
Investment Return;
Institutional Investing;
Profit Sharing;
Business History;
Management Style;
Private Ownership;
Performance Effectiveness;
Value Creation;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Nicholas, Tom, and John Masko. "Barbarians at the Gate or Turnaround Gurus? Private Equity and the Rise of the LBO." Harvard Business School Case 821-016, February 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
analysis suggests a need for caution: while information facilitates transactions, it also facilitates discrimination. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50258 Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents...
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Carmen Nobel
- 2008
- Working Paper
An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions
By: Craig James Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh
Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the reduction of discretionary expenditures, to manage earnings to meet or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used... View Details
Keywords:
Performance Expectations;
Earnings Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Financial Reporting;
Brands and Branding;
Food and Beverage Industry
Chapman, Craig James, and Thomas J. Steenburgh. "An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-073, February 2008. (Revised February 2009, December 2009, June 2010, July 2010.)
- July 2022
- Article
The Pass-Through of Uncertainty Shocks to Households
By: Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani, Rodney Ramcharan, Vincent Yao and Edison Yu
Using new employer-employee matched data, this paper investigates the impact of uncertainty, as measured by idiosyncratic stock market volatility, on individual outcomes. We find that firms provide at best partial insurance to their workers. An increase in firm-level...
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Keywords:
Employment Risk;
Consumption;
Employment;
Risk and Uncertainty;
System Shocks;
Insurance;
Household;
Spending
Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, Rodney Ramcharan, Vincent Yao, and Edison Yu. "The Pass-Through of Uncertainty Shocks to Households." Journal of Financial Economics 145, no. 1 (July 2022): 85–104. (2023 Fama-DFA Prize for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in Asset Pricing, 2nd place.)
Emanuele Colonnelli
Emanuele Colonnelli is a Visiting Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, and an Associate Professor of Finance and MV Advisors Faculty Fellow at The University of Chicago Booth School... View Details
- October 2008 (Revised September 2009)
- Case
Consumer Lending in Japan: Citi CFJ (A)
By: J. Gunnar Trumbull and Akiko Kanno
Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic banks as well as international investors. Most...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Financing and Loans;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Personal Finance;
Courts and Trials;
Business and Government Relations;
Banking Industry;
Japan
Trumbull, J. Gunnar, and Akiko Kanno. "Consumer Lending in Japan: Citi CFJ (A)." Harvard Business School Case 709-017, October 2008. (Revised September 2009.)
- June 2020
- Article
U.S. Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles
By: Falk Bräuning and Victoria Ivashina
Foreign banks’ lending to firms in emerging market economies (EMEs) is large and denominated predominantly in U.S. dollars. This creates a direct connection between U.S. monetary policy and EME credit cycles. We estimate that over a typical U.S. monetary easing cycle,...
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Keywords:
Global Business Cycle;
Monetary Policy;
Reaching For Yield;
Money;
Policy;
Credit;
Emerging Markets
Bräuning, Falk, and Victoria Ivashina. "U.S. Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles." Journal of Monetary Economics 112 (June 2020): 57–76.
- 12 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?
drug development—therapies that are chemically similar to established drugs—rather than on riskier, novel drugs. Critics say this tendency helps explain why therapeutic breakthroughs are increasingly less frequent. “When firms are making...
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- January 2020
- Case
SK Group: Social Progress Credits
By: George Serafeim, Ethan Rouen and David Freiberg
SK Group was one of the largest companies South Korea. A family-run conglomerate consisting of around 120 subsidiaries and employing more than 100,000, SK was tightly knit into the fabric of Korean society. SK viewed their future success as contingent upon the strength...
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Keywords:
Impact;
Impact Investing;
Impact Measurement;
Social Value;
Social Development;
Conglomerates;
Measurement Of Purpose;
ESG;
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
Capital Markets;
Innovation;
Environmental Impact;
Collaboration;
Social Enterprise;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Social Issues;
Measurement and Metrics;
Value Creation;
Cooperation;
Environmental Sustainability;
Employment;
Accounting;
Energy Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Chemical Industry;
South Korea
Serafeim, George, Ethan Rouen, and David Freiberg. "SK Group: Social Progress Credits." Harvard Business School Case 120-071, January 2020.
- November 2019 (Revised January 2020)
- Case
Bayer Crop Science
By: David E. Bell, Damien McLoughlin, Natalie Kindred and James Barnett
In mid-2019, a year after German conglomerate Bayer Group closed its acquisition of U.S.-based seeds giant Monsanto, the leadership of Bayer’s Crop Science division (which absorbed Monsanto) is reflecting on the opportunities ahead. Some observers have questioned...
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Keywords:
Agribusiness;
Research and Development;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Strategy;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Consolidation;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Change Management;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States;
Germany
Bell, David E., Damien McLoughlin, Natalie Kindred, and James Barnett. "Bayer Crop Science." Harvard Business School Case 520-055, November 2019. (Revised January 2020.)
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
on. But I caution managers against focusing only on the financial case for values. No matter how much evidence we amass for this case, the fact remains that moral indifference and even blatantly unethical behavior can also be View Details
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by Carla Tishler