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- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
will be critical to their success. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51813 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
than measurements indicate? The current research explores problems that result, in part, from malfeasance by outside perpetrators who overstate their efforts to increase their measured performance. In parallel, similar vulnerabilities result from mistaken View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
significantly enriched. We then discuss several applications related to online and brick-and-mortar intermediaries. American Exceptionalism?: A Comparative Analysis of the Origins and Trajectory of U.S. Business Education Development... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
out firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing innovations without engaging in infringement. Our empirical analysis shows that on average, NPEs behave as opportunistic patent trolls. NPEs sue cash-rich firms—a one standard... View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
consumer surplus by making the gray market less competitive domestically. Under certain circumstances, the domestic welfare destruction arising from this erosion dominates the domestic welfare gains that accompany a shift to arm's length transfer pricing. Finally, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
long-run equilibrium regardless of the speed of Linux's demand-side learning persists if there are cost asymmetries. We find that because OSS implies lower profits for Microsoft, the larger the cost differences are between Linux and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
relationships. Unfortunately, many corporate leaders focus on profits and the Wall Street drivers toward big business and profits. It has become the death knell for many corporations." Phil Harris, joining in, pointed out that there... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
advantage of China’s strengths, and for Chinese entrepreneurs to reciprocate, something that has taken root. Annual trade between the two countries has raced from near zero several years ago to more than $20 billion last year. For their part, multinationals can View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
public, selling shares to individual and institutional investors," says Lerner. Critics complain that buyout firms suck out profits rather than improve the firms they acquire, making these companies weakened goods when the IPO is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
US history for hundreds of years, so when I read headlines like that, as a consumer and as an Indian American, I’m already skeptical: Why do you think my demographic matters now? We’re doing some data analysis in partnership with... View Details
- 17 Jan 2007
- Op-Ed
Learning from Private-Equity Boards
Private-equity boards are typically composed of members with substantial wealth at risk. Private-equity boards know how to structure financial incentives that deter reckless gambling and reward profitable growth. Private-equity boards... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
two seconds added up the savings delivered to Walmart's customers over the company's lifetime. How you feel about Walmart's future may depend on how you feel about its policies and business model. Clearly, leadership has chosen to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
terrorist threat info and analysis pulled from the web’s darkest corners. Rothrock’s RedSeal also has a number of federal clients, though he doesn’t necessarily know who they are. Brokered through a government intermediary, they simply... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
that Bezos has shown in his leadership at Amazon, including constant commitment to the customer and a long-term approach to innovation, are good news for DC's paper of record. Three Ingredients For Success By: Bharat Anand Henry R. Byers... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
create additional value. That means viewing customers as partners in value creation—a collaboration that increases customers' engagement and taps their insights about the value they seek and how firms could deliver it. The result is... View Details
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
to look at products as customers do: a way to get a job done. Creating a Positive Professional Image (19,535) In today’s diverse workplace, your actions and motives are constantly under scrutiny. Time to manage your own professional image... View Details
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
which was part of the appeal. I felt a connection to the customers they serve.” In his internship at Facily (conducted remotely in 2020 due to the pandemic), Westphal utilized his experience in investing to help the company gear up to... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
cost-benefit approach is proposed to analyze an individual’s incentives to produce speech and is then applied to assess the role social communities play vis-à-vis individual dissent. This analysis underscores the important and complex... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer an analysis of some international political dynamics of countries' IFRS harmonization decisions. The analysis is based on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne