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- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm payout policy. Retail investors...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
returns. During their first three years as public companies, firms backed by corporate venture funds show better stock price performance, on average, than companies backed by traditional VCs. Managing corporate venture funds is not easy....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
short-seller report alleging that Evergrande, one of China's largest property developers, was using fraudulent accounting and paying bribes to secure business. Evergrande's stock plummeted, and Value Partners, which had a sizable holding...
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Anna Secino
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
over time provided technical and symbolic resources needed to feed the resilience of the industry. Such exchanges were facilitated through an eventual recognition of shared superordinate values, as well as mechanisms of tradition...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
LaneHarvard Business School Case 112-004 A Chinese company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange is accused of fraud by a hedge fund. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112004-PDF-ENG...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
cases of the model are a long-lived pressure group offering rewards and punishments to a series of targets (public or corporate officials) in exchange for policy favors, or that of a long-lived extorter who demands money in order not to...
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Martha Lagace
- February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment
By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal
This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impact investing,...
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Impact Investing;
Family Office;
Development;
International Development;
International Development Investing;
Development Fund;
Sustainability;
Solar Energy;
Solar;
Pay As You Go;
PAYG;
MFI;
Social Venture;
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Acquisition;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Startups;
Economics;
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Gandhi, Vikram S., Caitlin Reimers Brumme, and Amram Migdal. "Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment." Harvard Business School Case 318-003, February 2018. (Revised August 2018.)
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
ExtraCare, and pay-for-membership cards for stores including Costco. In a very basic form loyalty schemes have been around for as long as people have been exchanging goods—consider the farmer who threw in an extra ear of corn for his best...
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- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
CEO Compensation at GE: A Decade with Jeff Immelt V.G. Narayanan and Lisa BremHarvard Business School Case 112-003 When ISS, a large shareholder advisory group, recommended a "no" vote on Jeff Immelt's award of 2 million stock...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
stocks held by these funds have lower volatility, and flows out of these funds have smaller spillover effects on other funds holding the same securities. Our results provide evidence of meaningful fire sale externalities in the mutual...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
the worst of the crisis was over. With the global financial system no longer spiraling into an abyss, government officials, business leaders, and American taxpayers could now take stock of where they had been and where they should be...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
retailer, we found 65% to be inaccurate. That is, the recorded inventory quantity of an item fails to match the quantity found in the store. We identify factors associated with this inaccuracy that are stock keeping unit- (SKU) and...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam?E=3985220&R=112702-MMC-ENG&conversationId=189822 China Magic Going Home Li Jin, Zhihong Yi, and Jun JiangHarvard Business School Case 211-036 The largest Chinese energy company is thinking about a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18
stock repurchases. We investigate whether the informativeness of payout policy with respect to earnings quality changes over this period. We find that the reported earnings of dividend paying firms are more persistent than those of other...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Alibaba Group to diversify from an international business-to-business (B2B) exchange (Alibaba.com) into a B2C and C2C exchange (Taobao.com) for Chinese retailers and consumers. In China, Taobao had managed...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
Political Influence of Voters' Interests on SEC Enforcement By: Heese, Jonas Abstract—I examine whether political influence as a response to voters’ interest in employment levels is reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities and View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
manufacturer. Set just after BYD's initial public offering on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2002, it describes the development of BYD's labor-intensive approach to battery manufacturing-an approach...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
in the Istanbul Stock Exchange and to being the country’s largest retail company by market capitalization. Seeing an opportunity to pioneer the format internationally, the company was now also in Morocco and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
information. Finally, we provide evidence that High Sustainability companies significantly outperform their counterparts over the long-term, both in terms of stock market and accounting performance. The outperformance is stronger in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
What does it need to do on the financing side to accommodate the transition of its business model? The company is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and is thinking about issuing additional convertible...
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Martha Lagace