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Browse All topics Accounting Audits (3) Accounting (119) Acquisition (20) Activity Based Costing and Management (2) Adaptation (7) Adoption (3) Advertising Campaigns (6) Advertising (77) Agency Theory (3) Age (3) Agreements and... View Details

    Andre F. Perold

    André Perold is a Founder, Partner, and Chief Investment Officer of HighVista Strategies, a Boston-based investment firm. HighVista focuses on investing in structurally inefficient public and private markets, including in life sciences,  lower middle market private... View Details

    Keywords: banking; financial services; information; investment banking industry; professional services
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly

    By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
    Minimum capital requirements are a central tool of banking regulation. Setting them balances a number of factors, including any effects on the cost of capital and in turn the rates available to borrowers. Standard theory predicts that, in perfect and efficient capital... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Cost of Capital; Capital Markets; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; United States
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    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Wide Horizon

    There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details
    Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
    • June 2008
    • Journal Article

    Strategic Alliances: Bridges Between 'Islands of Conscious Power'

    By: George P. Baker, Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy
    Strategic alliances range from unstructured collaborations, through consortia and joint ventures that superimpose new governance structures on existing firms, to transactions that restructure firm boundaries and asset ownership. In this paper, we draw on detailed... View Details
    Keywords: Governance; Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances; Strategy; Theory
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    • 13 Apr 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: April 13

      PublicationsDriven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership Author:Paul R. Lawrence Publication:Jossey-Bass, forthcoming (2010) Abstract The author applies the four drive theory of human behavior (to acquire, to defend, to... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • September 2010
    • Article

    How Firms Respond to Being Rated

    By: Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
    While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we investigate how these ratings also influence the companies being rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms... View Details
    Keywords: System; Information; Decisions; Cost; Opportunities; Performance; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Economics; Theory; System Shocks; Rank and Position
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    • 19 Mar 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: March 19

    table. Just as negotiation theory could be enriched by principles of maneuver warfare, military doctrine offers officers and soldiers a potentially useful foundation to better understand and manage the negotiation process, especially in... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    Research Thrust

    By: Rakesh Khurana
    I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
    • 12 Oct 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.

    in 2020 amid pandemic closures. While Lakhani’s study focuses on Australian football, the principles apply to any league trying to re-engage fans and revitalize the businesses that depend on them. “We’re talking about billion-dollar leagues that are cultural View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Sports
    • 2010
    • Book

    A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy

    By: Amar Bhide
    Our prosperity requires the enterprise of innumerable individuals and businesses who exercise their imagination and judgment—and bear responsibility for outcomes. And it is through dialogue and relationships that widespread enterprise is fostered, not merely prices in... View Details
    Keywords: Recession; Banking; Banks; Finance; Economics; Macroeconomics; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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    Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

    Initiative encourage innovation to address the large-scale issues that beset society. Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Our long tradition of research in Entrepreneurship goes back to the 1930's and 1940's with the “the father of venture capitalism,” General Georges... View Details

      Alvin E. Roth

      Al Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the Harvard Business School. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in game theory, experimental economics, and... View Details

      Keywords: e-commerce industry; education industry; health care; information; internet; legal services
      • 21 Feb 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: Feb. 21

      corporate archives to explore the fine details of how firms actually operated. It also includes work by those who have been influenced by evolutionary, transaction cost, and resource-based theories of the firm. The book will be an... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • June 2017
      • Article

      The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital

      By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
      This paper traces the career of Michael Jensen, a Chicago finance PhD turned Harvard Business School professor to reveal the intellectual and social conditions that enabled the emergence and institutionalization of what we call the “neoliberal common sense of capital,”... View Details
      Keywords: Executive Pay; The Firm; Michael Jensen; Neo-Liberalism; Shareholder Value; Agency Theory; Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transformation
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      • 23 Apr 2019
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

      https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55999 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research The Role of Gatekeepers in Capital Markets By: Srinivasan, Suraj, and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract—Gatekeepers in financial markets have the power to provide the View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • 12 Apr 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

      Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment. McFowland coauthored the paper with Jui Ramaprasad of the University of Maryland, Ravi Bapna of the University of Minnesota, Probal Mojumdar of Indian Institute of Management Udaipur, and... View Details
      Keywords: by Kara Baskin
      • 09 Dec 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: December 9, 2008

      Wirtschaftsentwicklung - internationale Erfahrungen Author:Christian H.M. Ketels Publication:In Cluster in der kommunalen und regionalen Wirtschaftspolitik. 5th ed., 41-54. Edition Difu Stadt Forschung Praxis. Berlin: Deutsches Institut... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 19 Jan 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?

      institution announced it would no longer publish a print version of its multivolume compendium of knowledge. Though the Britannica would still be available online, the writing on the virtual wall was clear: It had been supplanted by the... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Publishing
      • 09 Oct 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

      In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, the authors combine the latest thinking from the biological and social sciences to lay out a new theory on human nature. The idea: We are all influenced and guided by four drives: acquiring,... View Details
      Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria