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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Agency Revisited

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Daniel F. Spulber
The article presents a comprehensive overview of the principal-agent model that emphasizes the role of trust in the agency relationship. The analysis demonstrates that the legal remedy for breach of duty can result in a full-information efficient outcome eliminating... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Contracts; Agency Theory; Mathematical Methods; Behavior; Trust
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  • September 1999 (Revised July 2022)
  • Case

The Goldman Sachs IPO

By: Ashish Nanda, Malcolm S. Salter, Boris Groysberg and Sarah Matthews
Addresses the proposed IPO and raises questions regarding how agency costs may rise or fall as Goldman converts from a private partnership to a public limited corporation. View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Going Public; Corporate Governance; Agency Theory; Transformation; Financial Services Industry
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  • spring 2006
  • Article

All's Fair in Love, War, & Bankruptcy: Corporate Governance Implications of CEO Turnover in Financial Distress

By: Ethan S. Bernstein
Prior discussions of management turnover during financial distress have examined bankrupt and non-bankrupt firms as distinct groupings with little overlap. Separately investigating rates of turnover in-bankruptcy and out-of-bankruptcy, without a direct comparison... View Details
Keywords: CEO Turnover; Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Shadow Of Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Financing and Loans; Corporate Governance; Finance; Theory; Markets; United States
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  • December 2010
  • Article

Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts

This paper reports a three-phase experiment on a stylized labor market. In the first two phases, agents face simple games, which we use to estimate subjects' social and reciprocity concerns. In the last phase, four principals compete by offering agents a contract from... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Markets; Contracts; Decisions; Distribution; Labor; Game Theory
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  • 23 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

offer opportunities for future research. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=56001 Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose By: Salter, Malcolm S. Abstract—In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract The existing theory of modularity explains how modular designs create value. We extend this theory to address value appropriation. A product or process design that is modular with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

organizations as well as customer pressure from individual investors are critical in mitigating free-rider problems among asset managers and sustaining engagement practices. Finally, I explore the limits and anticompetitive concerns to the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

neighborhoods with better initial appearances experience, on average, larger positive improvements—an observation that is consistent with “tipping” theories of urban change. Third, neighborhood improvement correlates positively with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Mar 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

about climate change from a political discussion to a practical conversation about risk and reward. Identify eco-friendly partners Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems? George Serafeim has a theory that if... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy
  • 23 Aug 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

has been discussed for decades. Here is research and writing from Harvard Business School that discusses both the concept in theory and examples of CSR in practice. A Good Place to Start Statement on the Purpose of a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology
  • 11 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 11

firm profits. Publisher's link: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/groupon-2014-03-01.pdf August 2013 Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Reasoning in Entrepreneurial Theory and Research By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

innovation, and peer production—relate to theories of the firm, with particular attention on “sociality” in firms and markets. We first briefly review extant theories of the firm and then discuss three... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • spring 1994
  • Article

Unilateral Commitments and the Importance of Process in Alliances

By: Ranjay Gulati, Tarun Khanna and Nitin Nohria
How the partners in an alliance view their joint venture can have much to do with its success or failure. Each partner fears that the other will get the larger payoff by acting opportunistically while it cooperates in good faith. The result is that both partners choose... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Partners and Partnerships; Joint Ventures; Management Practices and Processes; Alliances; Trust; Game Theory
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  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where founders trade off the simplicity of accepting an equal split, with the costs of negotiating a differentiated allocation of founder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

a firm's headquarters—for the presence of large, non-managerial individual shareholders in firms. These shareholders have a large impact on firms, controlling for selection effects. Course Research: Using the Case Method to Build and Teach Management View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 18, 2016

and miss? Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen has the answer. A generation ago, Christensen revolutionized business with his groundbreaking theory of disruptive innovation. Now, he goes further, offering powerful new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

pioneering work of Howard Raiffa and often expressed in the pages of the Negotiation Journal, the emergent prescriptive field of "negotiation analysis" progressively developed from Raiffa's early contributions to game theory and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?

Over the past decade, socially-focused websites have attracted hundreds of millions of users and changed the social fabric in fundamental ways. The likes of eHarmony and Match.com enable us meet new people. Platforms including Facebook, Path, and Zynga help us... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology
  • September 2007
  • Article

Do Vertical Mergers Facilitate Upstream Collusion?

By: Volker Nocke and Lucy White
We investigate the impact of vertical mergers on upstream firms' ability to collude when selling to downstream firms in a repeated game. We show that vertical mergers give rise to an outlets effect: the deviation profits of cheating unintegrated firms are reduced as... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Profit; Game Theory; Sales; Vertical Integration
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  • 20 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

important role for economic logic in the policy-making process, I criticize economic theory when used at the exclusion of other social science knowledge. Indeed, my central goal is to provide evidence for the need for social sciences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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