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The Secrets Of Great Due Diligence: From the executive summary: ‘Deal making is glamorous; due diligence is not. The aforesaid simple statement goes a long way towards explaining why so many companies have made so many acquisitions that have produced so little value. Although, big companies often make a show of carefully analyzing the size and...; Tags: Financial accounting, Harvard Knowledgebase, diligence, financial statement, acquisition, analysis, team, financial; White papers 2004-05-03
It's Time To Grow - The Right Way: Today's growth initiatives must be ever mindful of the hard-won efficiency lessons of the past several years. Strategies in vogue during the last growth cycle -- boosting revenues through mergers and acquisitions, even if they lacked strategic rationale, or using price cuts to gain market share without creating corresponding savings...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, M&A, strategy; White papers 2004-03-15
M&A: The Value of a Customer: The M&A valuation process often gives short shrift to the caliber of customers held by the target company. Article explains the analysis tools for assessing customer value. It states that there are reasons to buy a company: to get real estate or other facilities; to get brands, trademarks, patents,...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Harvard Knowledgebase, M&A, analysis tool, valuation, real estate, brand, analysis, tool; White papers 2003-07-14
4+2 = Sustained Business Success: From the executive summary: ‘Researches indicate that most of the management tools and techniques do not have any direct implications on the superior business performance. However, what really matters is having a strong grasp of the business basics. Without exception, companies that outperformed the industry peers excelled at four primary...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, management practice, talent, merger, partnership, leadership, technique, strategy, industry; White papers 2003-07-07
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance: Is business malfeasance always the board's fault? Everyone has a stake in ethical behavior and moral reasoning. There is a need for the corporate world to take a clear stand on the importance of selecting an ethical CEO. Anyone who ever wondered whether ethics matters need only look at the...; Tags: Investment, Financial services, Harvard Knowledgebase, equity, corporate governance, ethics, board; White papers 2003-05-05

Thy Neighbor’s Portfolio : Word-Of-Mouth Effects In The Holdings And Trades Of Money Managers: This paper explores the hypothesis that investors spread information and ideas about stocks to one another directly, through word-of-mouth communication. This hypothesis comes up frequently in informal accounts of the behavior of the stock market. The stockholdings of any given fund manager respond more sensitively to the holdings of other...; Tags: Investment, Harvard Knowledgebase, fund manager, hypothesis, stock, investor, mutual fund, stock market; White papers 2003-05-01
Thy Neighbor’s Portfolio: Word-of-Mouth Effects in the Holdings And Trades of Money Managers: A mutual-fund manager is more likely to hold a particular stock in any quarter if other managers in the same city are holding that same stock. This pattern shows up even when controlling for the distance between the fund manager and the stock in question, so it is distinct from...; Tags: Investment, Harvard Knowledgebase, hypothesis, stock, mutual fund, investor, stock market; White papers 2003-05-01
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster: Experienced negotiators are generally comfortable working out the terms of an economic contract: They bargain for the best price, haggle over equity splits, and iron out detailed exit clauses. However, these same seasoned professionals often spend so much time hammering out the letter of the deal that they pay little...; Tags: Investment, Harvard Knowledgebase, equity, negotiation, agreement; White papers 2003-03-03
Strategic Asset Allocation In A Continuous-Time VAR Model: This article derives an approximate solution to a continuous-time intertemporal portfolio and consumption choice problem. It presents a continuous-time version of the model of optimal intertemporal portfolio choice and consumption with time-varying equity premium of Campbell and Viceira (1999). It shows that this model has an exact analytical solution when...; Tags: Asset management, Financial services, Investment, Harvard Knowledgebase, interest rate, equity, investor, asset allocation, asset, stock; White papers 2002-09-01
Outsourcing Versus FDI In Industry Equilibrium: From the executive summary: ‘The paper studies the determinants of the extent of outsourcing and of direct foreign investment in an industry in which producers need specialized components. Potential suppliers must make a relationship-specific investment in order to serve each prospective customer. Such investments are governed by imperfect contracts. A...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase, outsourcing, investment, foreign direct investment, supplier, industry; White papers 2002-08-01
How To Tame CEO Compensation: It is often argued that CEO pay cannot be controlled, because it comes mostly in the form of stock options. In some cases, stock prices go up enormously, and the CEO benefits along with all the other shareholders. In fact, it is a simple matter to cap the gains that...; Tags: Investment, Financial accounting, Harvard Knowledgebase, stock price, stock, CEO, stock option, compensation, incentive, shareholder, benefit; White papers 2002-05-20
Daniel Ahn: Venture Capital Goes Back to Basics: Despite the economic turmoil—perhaps even because of it—it's a great time to start a business. Turbulence in the economy has finally sloshed downstream and in through the front doors of the venture capital community, where firms are reducing fund size, fees, and even reducing partners. But, it is a bad...; Tags: Investment, Harvard Knowledgebase, venture capital, hardware, video, Internet, software; White papers 2002-04-08
Operational Risk Insurance - Treatment under the New Basel Accord: Although operational risks are as old as banking itself, it was not until recently that they came into the focus of regulators and bank management. There are in fact reasons to believe that operational risks in banks may be increasing due to developments in the financial industry. Deregulation of financial...; Tags: Strategy, Financial services, Regulations, Financial Planning, Harvard Knowledgebase, bank management, risk, regulator, electronic banking, bank, M&A, globalization, risk management, financial, banking, outsourcing, insurance, security, Internet; White papers 2002-04-01
Making Sense of Corporate Venture Capital: Corporate VC investments in external start-ups dried up in 2001, but many smart companies including Intel, Microsoft, and Merck continue to place strategic bets. In this Harvard Business Review excerpt, Harvard Business School professor Henry Chesbrough provides an overview of corporate VC investment strategies and why they can be critical...; Tags: Investment, Harvard Knowledgebase, investment strategy, venture capital; White papers 2002-03-25
A Fresh Look at Merger Risk: Article discloses that merger arbitrage is riskier than it looks. Arbitrageurs are used to trying to explain the complexities of what they do engaging in trading strategies that take advantage of pricing differences between a security, currency, or commodity traded on several markets. To the investing public, they often loom...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Financial accounting, Harvard Knowledgebase, merger, arbitrage, M&A, liquidity, stock price, pricing strategy, stock, strategy, security; White papers 2002-02-18
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?: It has been estimated that ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. Most high-technology entrepreneurs are convinced that their ideas hold immense promise. Often, their excitement is well founded. Moreover, the intellectual talents of the founding team may be stellar. However, many...; Tags: Entrepreneurship, Investment, Harvard Knowledgebase, entrepreneur, entrepreneurial, venture capital, financing, talent, analysis, team; White papers 2001-11-05
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters: The article asserts that acquirers usually pay too much. It takes reference of the study sought to examine questions of M&A strategy and execution with a new rigor. A great many mergers and acquisitions occur in industries that have substantial overcapacity; these tend to be older, capital-intensive sectors. Geographic roll-ups,...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Harvard Knowledgebase, M&A, acquisition, globalization, R&D, industry; White papers 2001-04-02
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success: Corporate-sponsored venture capital funds do not have to fail. But, hybrid organizations such as Xerox Technology Ventures face considerable challenges on the road to success. Corporate-sponsored venture funds first appeared in the 1960s, about two decades after the first flowering of the venture capital industry. Ever since, they have mirrored...; Tags: Investment, Harvard Knowledgebase, venture-capital fund, venture capital, Xerox Corp., private equity fund, line of business, organizational structure, private equity, partnership, industry; Case studies 2000-11-06
Done Deals: The velocity of the business has increased dramatically. It used to be raise a fund, invest the fund in three or four years, start getting returns in year four through year seven or eight, and then wind down or try to wind down the portfolio by year ten. Often one...; Tags: Harvard Knowledgebase; White papers 2000-10-10
Asset Pricing At The Millennium: This paper surveys the field of asset pricing. The emphasis is on the interplay between theory and empirical work, and on the trade off between risk and return. Modern research seeks to understand the behavior of the stochastic discount factor SDF that prices all assets in the economy. The behavior...; Tags: Asset management, Financial Planning, Investment, Financial accounting, Harvard Knowledgebase, asset pricing, interest rate, asset, volatility, stock, stock price, finance, theory, survey; White papers 2000-02-01