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  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

integrated downstream buyer. But a vertical merger with a larger buyer helps more to facilitate upstream collusion than a similar merger with a smaller buyer. This formalizes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2302589 Integrated Reporting and Investor Clientele By: Serafeim, George Abstract—In this paper, I examine the relation between Integrated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48909 The Integrity of Private Third-party Compliance Monitoring By: Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Government agencies are increasingly turning to private, third-party... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • October 2010
  • Teaching Note

Whole Foods: Balancing Social Mission and Growth (TN)

By: Christopher Marquis and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for 410023. View Details
Keywords: Food; Growth and Development; Mergers and Acquisitions; Mission and Purpose; Supply Chain; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Integration; Management Practices and Processes; Labor Unions; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • November 2020 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care

By: Trevor Fetter and Kira Seiger
This case describes the increasing investment by private equity (PE) firms in patient care and other healthcare services. The case focuses on investments in physician staffing firms and roll-up strategy investments in physician practice management (PPM). Included in... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Model; Change; Disruption; Fluctuation; Trends; Customers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Ethics; Fairness; Finance; Equity; Insurance; Private Equity; Geography; Geographic Scope; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Industry Structures; Ownership; Ownership Type; Private Ownership; Relationships; Agency Theory; Business and Community Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Strategy; Competition; Consolidation; Expansion; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Value; Value Creation; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; United States
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  • 25 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

be headquartered in England in order to achieve a lower corporate tax rate. The British government favored the merger as it would boost the high-priority life sciences sector, but little attention was paid to whether the View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

Whillans, and Frances Chen Abstract—The transition to university is a major life change wherein young adults' primary support system shifts from the family to peers. Can social integration (operationalized as the number of friends) during... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

  Working PapersA Reference Point Theory of Mergers and Acquisitions Authors:Malcolm Baker, Xin Pan, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract The use of judgmental anchors or reference points in valuing corporations affects several basic aspects of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?

auditors and audit committees whose mutual survival depends on each other, overly complicated accounting and tax systems, and the nature of the reporting relationships between internal auditors and those responsible for the integrity of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Accounting; Financial Services
  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

challenges facing those who wish to use game theory to assist in strategic and tactical decision making. Purchase this overview: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/707475-PDF-ENG Merger of Equals: The View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

and information, and reconfigure activities and industries that today are separated by artificial boundaries. We have already seen entrepreneurs explore some of this territory with ventures aimed at home delivery, portals, concierge services, and the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

of the marketplace" and exemplify not just honesty but "the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive." Just because something is legal, doesn't mean that a person of integrity has to do it. —Constance Bagley Corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 25 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

The success of American Home Products reflects a unique path of learning. The company originated with the merger of several companies in related businesses. During the seventy years following its formation in 1926, the company's senior... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical
  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

Perspective on Ambidexterity: Structural Differentiation and Boundary Activities Authors:Sebastian Raisch and Michael L. Tushman Abstract This paper explores the shifting nature of differentiation and integration in organizations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After? Authors:James E. Austin and Herman B. Leonard Abstract What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jul 2015
  • Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

L.E. Simmons Faculty Fellow at HBS. He joined the HBS faculty after holding leadership positions in the European capital markets groups of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch and has broad experience in the areas of corporate finance, View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

M. Howitt Publication:In Integrative Risk Management: Advanced Disaster Recovery, edited by Simon Woodward. Zürich, Switzerland: Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, 2010 Abstract Societies face a wide array of significant hazards—ranging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 28, 2016

competition. They do so by initially differentiating themselves to develop distinctive capabilities, but subsequently integrate these capabilities with those of the core units. At the corporate level, the new units demonstrate their value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 4

organizations. In this article, we review and integrate this literature and suggest directions for future research. We first briefly review the early history of psychological safety research and then examine contemporary research at the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

integrated Chinese pharmaceutical conglomerate, was considering its strategic options in the context of a rapidly evolving industry, policy, and economic environment. The company-essentially a collection of subsidiaries operating under a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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