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- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
comment-letter reviews (CLs) on firms’ financial reporting. We exploit a major change in the SEC’s disclosure policy: in 2004, the SEC decided to make its CLs publicly available. Using a novel dataset of CLs, we analyze the capital-market... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
hospital business and a health insurance business, management decided to split the businesses apart through a corporate spin-off because it realized the businesses were strategically incompatible—the customers of one business were... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
Bodie Abstract This paper proposes a new approach to improve the way central banks can analyze and manage the financial risks of a national economy. It is based on the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing
you put the results into the context that most of the fintech companies claim that they use alternative data, it’s very surprising that their borrowers are more likely to default,” Di Maggio says. Di Maggio and Yao tracked 3.79 million... View Details
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
volatility, the length of time investors held a firm's stock, and the cost of capital. The results showed that short-term companies attracted short-term investors (bringing with them a whole new set of performance pressures on executives) and that the financial and... View Details
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
We label these two alternative modes Leviathan as a majority investor and Leviathan as a minority investor, respectively. Next we differentiate between these two modes by describing their key fundamental traits and the conditions that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
last twenty years my colleagues at TruePoint and I have asked leadership teams to define a strategic direction (business strategy and values) and then commission a task force of their best performers one to two levels below them to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?
much is the level of my execution diminishing my level of profits ." Eddie Jiang provided an alternative way of thinking about the relationship of these three factors by suggesting that they are multiplicative rather than additive.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
by systematically increasing the rigor in the procurement process. Still skeptical, Sophia runs the process of systematically analyzing and comparing the competing firms' bids. This case also describes the process by which these tools... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
women, they flocked to Coke Zero. PepsiCo took a similar successful tack with Pepsi Max, the manly alternative to Diet Pepsi. And the Dr Pepper Snapple Group went all out with Dr Pepper Ten; the 10-calorie soda's unapologetic slogan is... View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
sociology in order to understand this critical turning point in German family business history. The book analyzes changes in ownership and management, dynastic, and succession strategies, as well as the "psychology of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
compensation to strategy relies on agency theory economics and focuses on executive pay. Departing from this work, in this paper we focus on the strategic compensation of non-executive employees and argue that while agency theory provides... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
votes to more popular candidates, a phenomenon often called strategic voting. For other parameters, the model predicts "vote-stealing" where the addition of a third candidate robs a viable major candidate of electoral support.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
This case analyzes Dow Chemical Company's proposed acquisition of Rohm and Haas in 2008. The $18.8 billion acquisition was part of Dow's strategic transformation from a slow-growth, low-margin, and cyclical... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52122 January 2017 Strategic Finance Managing Healthcare Costs and Value By: Kaplan, Robert S., Michael E. Porter, and Mark L. Frigo Abstract—Rising health care costs are a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
director and the quality of the prior LBO experience. This effect is robust to the most likely alternative explanations and supports the idea that directors and social networks play an influential role in change-of-control transactions.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
to the challenge. Think of it as a new strategic initiative facing huge execution challenges. These require senior management to get the best information they can about barriers to execution, and it requires trust and commitment. That... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
inclusion among "tax expenditures" and occasional calls for its repeal. This paper analyzes the extent to which tax deferral and other policies inefficiently subsidize U.S. direct investment abroad. Investments are dynamically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
Least Resistance," a paper forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Economics, the authors argue that this sort of passive behavior can have a significant effect on how companies make strategic financing decisions. It all fits under... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How to Spot a Liar
evaded questions about the amount of the endowment, but ultimately offered the receiver less than half). After a graduate student transcribed all the allocator/receiver conversations, the researchers carefully analyzed the linguistic... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel