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- 17 Jan 2007
- Op-Ed
Learning from Private-Equity Boards
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron's shareholders and employees from the problems that... View Details
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
requiring commitment mechanisms. I suggest that a small set of large institutional investors, importantly, but not exclusively, index investors, could provide this commitment mechanism. Common ownership of competitors within industries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-030.pdf Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950 Author:Aldo Musacchio Abstract The early development of large multidivisional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
amplify pressures to improve. Examining organizational responses to a change in a prominent information disclosure program, we provide some of the first empirical evidence characterizing organizations' heterogeneous responses to information disclosure regulations. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
system rather than a government-controlled system. Book: http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/ItemDetailServletCr?region=9&imprint=070&titleCode=GCCL&cf=p&type=3&id=254645 Corporate Ownership Structure and Bank Loan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
risks of business ownership and relaxing credit constraints," Olds writes in the 2014 paper "Entrepreneurship and Public Health Insurance." Studying The Social Safety Net Olds grew up on Medicaid, a Federal health insurance... View Details
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
potential efficiency loss associated with strategy-proofness and stability, and direct attention to some open questions. Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors Author: Sharon P. Katz Periodical: The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- December 2000
- Case
Stock Options at Virtua.Net
By: Brian J. Hall, Noam T. Wasserman and Carleen Madigan
Describes issues facing three young founders of a high-tech start-up in Silicon Valley, including hiring an experienced CEO and negotiating with a potential VC investor. Focuses on the incentive and compensation aspects of negotiating with job candidates (e.g., what... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Stock Options; Executive Compensation; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Negotiation
Hall, Brian J., Noam T. Wasserman, and Carleen Madigan. "Stock Options at Virtua.Net." Harvard Business School Case 801-324, December 2000.
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
PublicationsThe Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract The most effective managers have the ability to build a cadre of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
investors, could provide this commitment mechanism. Common ownership of competitors within industries and long-time horizons in ownership of shares are key characteristics for investors that could act as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
discussion of how ownership concentration constrains restructuring alternatives, how hedge fund investors might confront controlling shareholders, and how the mispricing of agency costs can give rise to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality? Authors:Dan Givoly, Carla Hayn, and Sharon P. Katz Publication:The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of public... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
entrepreneurs everywhere. Sarah Jane Gilbert: How did you first become interested in studying growth in newly founded firms and young organizations? Mukti Khaire: Only one out of every ten newly founded firms in the United States grows to a size of more than ten View Details
- April 2005 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Executive Compensation at General Electric (A)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Michele Jurgens
Faced with falling share prices and the critical eye of the media focused on Jack Welch's retirement plan, newly appointed CEO Jeff Immelt had the challenge of reassessing GE as a leader of corporate integrity and good governance. Presents the changes Immelt initiated... View Details
Keywords: Executive Compensation; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Governing and Advisory Boards; Media; Governance; Corporate Accountability
Narayanan, V.G., and Michele Jurgens. "Executive Compensation at General Electric (A)." Harvard Business School Case 105-072, April 2005. (Revised May 2005.)
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
http://www.vcc.columbia.edu/content/fdi-perspectives Working Papers Putting Skin in the Game: Managerial Ownership and Bank Risk-Taking By: Bouwens, Jan, and Arnt Verriest Abstract—This paper examines the relation between managerial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
http://www.springer.com/economics/development/book/978-1-4614-1878-8?changeHeader Employee Selection as a Control System Authors:Dennis Campbell Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract Theories from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
When the COVID-19 virus spread worldwide and normal life ground to a halt last year, we thought voluntary employee turnover would drop as well. But the opposite happened in one area: Lift outs—a group of workers who defect... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
auctions when separate. When there is an insufficient improvement, such mergers can harm advertisers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-055.pdf Agency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure Authors:Sergey... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
employees, rapidly rising health-care costs, and the likely loss of existing protection against lawsuits for pain and suffering from medical events. She then disclosed the results of a 1999 KPMG survey of CEOs and consumers about consumer-driven health care. The firm... View Details
- September 1992 (Revised September 2010)
- Background Note
Executive Stock Options
By: Henry B. Reiling
After a brief comment on the practical problems associated with taxing options and the possible occasions on which taxation might occur, the note describes the current policy imbedded in the Internal Revenue Code and gives examples of this policy in operation. The... View Details
Reiling, Henry B. "Executive Stock Options." Harvard Business School Background Note 293-054, September 1992. (Revised September 2010.)