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Well Said: Why Articulating Your Strategy Can Set You Apart

By: Frank V. Cespedes
Senior finance managers now operate in an altered c-suite landscape. The executives reporting to the CEO have doubled in the past 30 years, mostly an increase in functional specialists, not general managers responsible for cross-functional integration. Three decades... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Sales
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    Jay W. Lorsch

    Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is editor of View Details

    • 24 Mar 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Fiduciary Duties and Equity-Debtholder Conflicts

    Keywords: by Bo Becker & Per Stromberg
    • September 2020
    • Teaching Note

    TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-422. TransDigm was a highly acquisitive company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial customers. Over the ten years ending in 2016, its stock price had increase ten times,... View Details
    Keywords: Value Capturing; Pricing Strategy; Supplier Power; Buyer Power; Porter's Five Forces; Bargaining Power; Monopoly; Aerospace; Acquisition Strategy; Value Drivers; Ethical Behavior; Regulation; Growth Strategy; Business Ethics; Defense; Procurement; Sustainability; Value-Based Business Strategy; Acquisition; Ethics; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Growth Management; Performance Evaluation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Value Creation; Competitive Advantage; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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    • May 2022
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    Coins for Bombs: The Predictive Ability of On-Chain Transfers for Terrorist Attacks

    By: Dan Amiram, Evgeny Lyandres and Daniel Rabetti
    This study examines whether we can learn from the behavior of blockchain-based transfers to predict the financing of terrorist attacks. We exploit blockchain transaction transparency to map millions of transfers for hundreds of large on-chain service providers. The... View Details
    Keywords: Blockchain; Bitcoin; Accounting; AI and Machine Learning; National Security; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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      Coins for Bombs: The Predictive Ability of On-Chain Transfers for Terrorist Attacks

      This study examines whether we can learn from the behavior of blockchain-based transfers to predict the financing of terrorist attacks. We exploit blockchain transaction transparency to map millions of transfers for hundreds of large on-chain service providers.... View Details
      • June 2020
      • Supplement

      TransDigm in 2017: Congressional Hearing on the DoD Inspector General’s Report (5/15/19)

      By: Benjamin C. Esty
      This video accompanies the case, “TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?” View Details
      Keywords: Value Capturing; Pricing Strategy; Supplier Power; Buyer Power; Porter's Five Forces; Bargaining Power; Monopoly; Aerospace; Acquisition Strategy; Value Drivers; Ethical Behavior; Regulation; Growth Strategy; Business Ethics; Defense; Procurement; Sustainability; Value Based Health Care; Acquisition; Ethics; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Growth Management; Performance Evaluation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Value Creation; Competitive Advantage; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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      Collection, Exploration and Analysis of Crowdfunding Social Networks

      By: Miao Cheng, Anand Sriramulu, Sudarshan Muralidhar, Boon Thau Loo, Laura Huang and Po-Ling Loh
      Crowdfunding is a recent financing phenomenon that is gaining wide popularity as a means for startups to raise seed funding for their companies. This paper presents our initial results at understanding this phenomenon using an exploratory data driven approach. We have... View Details
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      • January 2008
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      Do Well by Doing Good? Don't Count on It

      By: Joshua D. Margolis, Hillary Anger Elfenbein and James P. Walsh
      Research over 35 years shows only a weak link between socially responsible corporate behavior and good financial performance. However, there's no evidence of risk in doing good, only in being exposed for misdeeds. View Details
      Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Profit; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Effectiveness; Behavior
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      • 2017
      • Report

      The American Angel: The First In-Depth Report on the Demographics and Investing Activity of Individual American Angel Investors

      By: Laura Huang, Andy Wu, Min Ju Lee, Jiayi Bao, Marianne Hudson and Elaine Bolle
      Early-stage financing from angel investors is critical to the success of high-growth startups. Recent estimates suggest that annual US angel investment activity may total as much as $24 billion each year, contributing to the growth and success of more than 64,000... View Details
      Keywords: Angel Investors; Geography; Risk; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Demographics; Geographic Location; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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      • 23 Feb 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Trade Creditors' Information Advantage

      Keywords: by Victoria Ivashina and Benjamin Iverson
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      When Talk Is "Free": The Effect of Tariff Structure on Usage Under Two- and Three-Part Tariffs

      By: Eva Ascarza, Anja Lambrecht and Naufel Vilcassim
      In many service industries, firms introduce three-part tariffs to replace or complement existing two-part tariffs. In contrast with two-part tariffs, three-part tariffs offer allowances, or “free” units of the service. Behavioral research suggests that the attributes... View Details
      Keywords: Pricing; Nonlinear Pricing; Discrete/continuous Choice Model; Three-part Tariffs; Free Products; Price; Consumer Behavior; Analysis; Learning; Risk and Uncertainty
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      • January 1995
      • Background Note

      A Note on Distribution of Venture Investments

      By: Josh Lerner
      Venture capitalists typically exit investments by distributing shares to investors. These transfers pose challenges for these investors. Predictions and evidence about the behavior of stock prices of firms around the time of these distributions are presented. View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Venture Capital; Stocks; Investment; Price
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      • 16 Apr 2020
      • News

      Your Money: Why you might be afraid to spend your stimulus check

      • September 1995 (Revised May 1998)
      • Case

      RogersCasey Alternative Investments: Innovative Response to the Distribution Challenge

      By: Josh Lerner
      RogersCasey Alternative Investments faces the challenge of managing distributions of stock by the private equity investors in which their clients have invested. These distributed shares appear to behave in complex ways, apparently at odds with market efficiency. A... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Stocks; Financial Strategy; Investment; Innovation Strategy; Management; Distribution; Performance; Behavior
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      • April 2019
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      Rituals and Nuptials: The Emotional and Relational Consequences of Relationship Rituals

      By: Ximena Garcia-Rada, Ovul Sezer and Michael I. Norton
      Four studies reveal the benefits of relationship rituals: couples with relationship rituals report more positive emotions and greater relationship satisfaction and commitment than those without them. We show that rituals are crucial for understanding consumption... View Details
      Keywords: Rituals; Relationship Satisfaction; Relationships; Satisfaction; Spending; Behavior; Perception; Emotions
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      • October 1991 (Revised May 1993)
      • Background Note

      Brief Introduction to Cost Accounting

      By: William J. Bruns Jr.
      Introduces the reasons for and basics of cost accounting and cost management systems. Simple definitions of forms used in cost accounting are included. Cost behavior is discussed. Questions to which answers are needed when analyzing or designing a cost system are... View Details
      Keywords: Cost Accounting; Cost Management
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      • 27 Mar 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: March 27, 2007

      A. El-Erian Periodical:IMF. Finance and Development 44, no. 1 (March 2007) Download the paper: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2007/03/elerian.htm Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets Authors:P.... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 29 Mar 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Government Incentives and Financial Intermediaries: The Case of Chinese Sell-Side Analysts

      Keywords: by Sheng Cao, Xianjie He, Charles C.Y. Wang, and Huifang Yin; Financial Services
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      PhD Programs - Doctoral

      healthcare industry, while others arrive at the program with a background in disciplinary research The PhD program in Organizational Behavior offers two tracks: either a micro or macro approach. In the micro track, students focus on the... View Details