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- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
during 2012? Did they increase gains throughout the year but then very aggressively decrease them before year-end? Did they sell 80 percent or more of their capital gains during the year? They wound up with a pool of 2,281 tax-minded executives who View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
aggregate demand, the national accounts, and the balance of payments. We find that much aid is consumed, primarily in the form of imported non-capital goods. Some aid is invested and aid has a positive, though statistically imprecise,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2016
- Op-Ed
The Twitter Election
vote on Election Day in every precinct.Paid television advertising, the air war, can give a candidate broad coverage and control of the message but is expensive. Similarly, the ground war requires an expensive investment in personnel.... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
media content. Raises issues of how technology interacts with creative processes and outcome possibilities, and also invites discussion of strategic and organizational questions raised by the very different business models of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
initiated a series of strategic shifts and evolved from a predominately fund-of-funds manager into a large, multi-asset class PE firm focused on direct investments. PG was the first PE firm to go public in 2006. A number of large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
strategy, thus earning higher returns themselves—to the detriment of the rest of the market, which was not privy to the leak. “It’s a huge issue, because it hurts the investors who try to implement their investment ideas and puts the... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
low return. He also offered strategic pointers for companies immersed in the field. Suddenly, with the ability to monetize IP, there was a new freedom.— Gary P. Pisano At moments during Pisano's talk, titled "The Biomedical... View Details
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
contends that policy makers more often reacted to political motives and pressure from business interests, while couching their actions in green language. In fact, government activities such as electrification of rural America and large-scale View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
structure. Publisher's link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1042957314000138 August 2013 The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management Network Effects By: Hagiu, Andrei, and David B. Yoffie Abstract—Network effects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
our understanding of how to build such networks. I am developing a series of additional cases on how investing in a range of strategic networks can be a powerful lever for nonprofits to achieve greater... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
from the risk that they will live a long time. The funds that individuals contribute to a MIF are invested in a mutual fund. The proceeds from the fund's underlying assets are reinvested until the contributor dies or he turns an age... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
almost any business action, especially in tough and uncertain economic conditions when price is a key and visible strategic choice. Conventional wisdom has firms cutting price in these circumstances. But most industries typically allow... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
competitor, Apollo Global Management. The case allows for discussion of strategic and financing considerations by Centerbridge, a New York–based investment firm employing a flexible approach across View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
Sports Betting By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Neil Campbell Abstract—We examine two episodes of strategic interaction in the U.K. betting industry: (i) Betfair (an entrant multi-sided platform or MSP) vs. Flutter (also an MSP), and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
results suggest that language use by corporations is a key cultural variable that is a strong predictor of CSR and sustainability. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2403878 Financing Risk and Innovation By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
faced little consumer demand for natural products, and little consumer knowledge of what they entailed. The creation of new categories involved three overlapping waves of entrepreneurship. The first involved making the ideological case for natural products. This often... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
consider other options in China. "I have no regrets," he adds, "because I learned so much from that experience." Now working in strategic planning for Philip Morris International's China operations, Klump is part of a... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
investments in customized test software developed for UNIX systems. Teradyne's top customers were not interested in sacrificing accuracy and scrapping already installed software for the cost benefits of CMOS chips and NT. Instead, they... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
honor code significantly reduced or eliminated unethical behavior. While dishonest behavior motivated moral leniency and led to strategic forgetting of moral rules, honest behavior motivated moral stringency and diligent recollection of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
Analysis from a panel data set of research analysts in investment banks over 1988-1996 reveals that star analysts are more likely than non-star analysts to become entrepreneurs. Furthermore, we find that ventures started by star analysts... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace