Research News Feed - Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley

Less is More: The Unexpected Value for Suppliers That Have Few Major Customers

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:36:54 GMT

Walmart may serve millions of customers, but suppliers who are lucky enough to have Walmart as their customer have one more reason to smile—in the spirit of the chain store’s famous “happy face” logo. According to supply chain research by Panos Patatoukas, assistant professor of accounting, suppliers with few but major customers enjoy higher performance—demonstrated by bottom line profitability rates and stock market valuations—than firms with a less concentrated customer base.

Retrofitting Mortgage Underwriting with Energy Efficiency Provides Benefits for Buyers and Lenders

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:53:27 GMT

A real estate investor owns a big office-building complex and decides he needs $10 million to invest in energy-efficient improvements. He goes to the bank, where the loan officer says, “Sorry, we don’t do that kind of thing.” When it comes to underwriting commercial real-estate loans, energy efficiency hasn’t been a part of the conversation – but it should be, according to Energy Efficiency and Commercial-Mortgage Valuation, by Nancy Wallace, Dwight Jaffee, and Richard Stanton. Watch the video.