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  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

avoidance and empirical evidence consistent with this view is discussed. This view of corporate tax avoidance implies that shareholders and policymakers should question the rationale for distinct financial reports and that greater... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

although structure is undoubtedly an impediment to the process, an even bigger barrier is managers' outdated understanding of strategy. At the heart of the problem is a failure to recognize that although the past three decades have... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

out the whole idea. The other thing about Japanese organization that needs change is the internal processes by which decisions are made. The Japanese company structure is anti-risk. It is much safer to do something that other companies... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

with discrete transfers. Structural Transformation: A Competitiveness-based View By: Ketels, Christian H.M. Abstract—Competitiveness research aims to enhance our understanding of the drivers of prosperity differences across locations and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

not force the disparate CSR programs into their business strategies. Instead, the goal should be to "bring discipline and structure to the many fragmented components. [The] components will in some cases support the core strategy and in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

concerning the degree to which scientific activity can be evaluated via numerical metrics, the extent to which R&D can be structured as a process, and the degree to which decision-making should be centralized in commercial R&D... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

strategy, and sales management by exploring the link between a shift in the firm's overall strategy (customer intimacy), the structural implementation of this strategy in the form of the creation of a new distribution company and,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

the resource-based view of the firm, we examine how teams can develop a knowledge-integration capability to dynamically integrate members' resources into higher performance. We distinguish among three sets of resources: relational, experiential, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2017
  • Supplement

Snap Inc. Goes Public (B)

By: Lynn Sharp Paine and Will Hurwitz
Supplements the (A) case.

Snap Inc.’s chairman must decide how to address investor concerns about the company’s unprecedented plans to issue only non-voting shares in its upcoming IPO. View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Capital Structure; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Going Public; Business and Shareholder Relations; Leadership; Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Venture Capital; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; California
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  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

organization's strategy and structural needs. In some situations, functional experts can raise their profile by cultivating just two of the competencies. But those who are strong in all four are likely to be the most influential.... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 05 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 5, 2016

Hai Precision Industry Company, Ltd. (Hon Hai) announced its investment in the Sharp Corporation (Sharp). The deal was structured in two parts: the first had Hon Hai investing in Sharp, and the second involved Hon Hai founder, chairman,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 19 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

markets, managers can engineer a company's capital structure so that the only liabilities borne by the company are value-added risks. What are value-added risks and how are they different from passive risks? A: "Value-added"... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

platforms. We explore this "rating aggregation problem" and offer a structural approach to solving it, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in stringency and accuracy, (2) reviewers to be influenced by existing reviews, and (3)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

produced. Scoring high in all these categories, BMW believes that its reputation as the world's "greenest" car company plays an important role in brand awareness and customer satisfaction, factors that contribute to revenue growth. So how can View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

its competition and into financial trouble. The case ends with a pivotal vote by shareholders on whether to sell this family company. Clarks (B) summarizes the results of the shareholders vote described in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

was undergoing the non-tradable share reform. Its current controlling shareholder, private equity firm Newbridge Capital LLC, needs to negotiate with its diverse minority shareholders to find a compromise on the terms of the conversion of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

Brokerage and Brokering: An Integrative Review and Organizing Framework for Third Party Influence By: Halevy, Nir, Eliran Halali, and Julian Zlatev Abstract— Brokerage and brokering are pervasive and consequential organizational phenomena. Prevailing models underscore... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • November 2000 (Revised December 2000)
  • Case

Loewen Group Inc., The

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jose Camacho
A publiclytraded funeral home and cemetery consolidator faces imminent financial distress. The company has aggressively grown through use of debt. Restructuring the debt is potentially very costly to creditors, shareholders, suppliers, and other corporate stakeholders.... View Details
Keywords: International Accounting; Restructuring; Capital Structure; Cost of Capital; Debt Securities; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Crisis Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Service Industry
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  • 23 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

development. First, structural conditions first postulated by Engerman and Sokoloff (2002) as generating long-term inequality are shown here empirically to be exogenous determinants of political instability. Second, that exogenously... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

and SEC oversight than previously suggested. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52776 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Reexamining Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value By: Wang, Charles C.Y., and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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