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- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
The role of private equity in Japan is also explored and allows students to compare the Japanese merger and acquisition market to that of the U.S. and Europe. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration including the independence on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
I love to see if there's something that I care about—a company I've written a case on or an issue that I've covered—and I love to compare the articles and see what they share and what's different. I also really like IR magazine, which is... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
which interventions had staying power. Focusing too much on “what” instead of “why.” Companies often set out to test a particular question or compare a short slate of options with the goal of finding what works best with customers.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
estimate the value of the right to determine duration to the buyer, compared to a standard duration. Finally, a counterfactual analysis illustrates why quantifying transaction costs is important for the accurate analysis of welfare.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
spread, defined as the spread of local currency bonds over the synthetic local currency risk-free rate constructed using cross-currency swaps. We find that local currency credit spreads are positive and sizable. Compared with credit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
counties that were leaders in patenting in the early 1990s produced relatively more patents by the early 2000s. Second, we compare the extent of invention in counties that were leaders in Internet adoption to those that were not. We see... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
show that the airline's average passenger delay is nearly 55 percent lower than its competitors (15.6 minutes vs. 33.7 minutes), although its average flight delay is only 36.3 percent lower than other airlines. Only 1 percent of Southwest's flights are canceled as... View Details
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
to the maximum size in the first year. The magnitude of these effects was small compared to the much larger changes in entry rates of small firms following the reforms. Our results highlight that this large-scale entry at the extensive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
compared to the outsized results of private equity, venture capital, and hedge fund investment banking professionals, consulting partners have asked, “Why not us?” While there was once an acceptance that consulting yielded moderate... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
neuroscience, strong progress has been made in understanding how neuroscience can inform consumer decision making. Here, we sketch the development of this discipline and compare it to that of the adjacent field of neuroeconomics. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
experiment carried out in a large business process outsourcing company, we found that socialization focused on personal identity (emphasizing newcomers' unique perspectives and strengths) led to significantly greater customer satisfaction and greater employee retention... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
through a new survey instrument that allows us to codify CEOs’ diaries in a detailed and comparable fashion and to build a bottom-up measure of CEO labor supply. The comparison of 1,114 family and professional CEOs reveals that family... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
lines. The discussion can end with comparisons of the Mexican political and government circumstances that encourage this method of producing workforce housing as compared with the U.S., China, India, and other markets. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
life so that they could print expiration dates on the packages. It turned out the greens lasted only a few days in fiber-based packaging as compared with two weeks or longer in plastic. The fiber acted as a desiccant, drying out the... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
often without the human element. My point is not that they don’t make ‘em like these two anymore. Their equals (not many) are in action among us now. But in reading the glowing obituaries for Bogle and Kelleher, both as leaders and as people, I asked myself: Who among... View Details
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
determinants underlying the global economic geography of multinational firms. In particular, we run a horserace between two distinct economic forces: location fundamentals and agglomeration economies. We find that location fundamentals, including market access and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
recovered in key areas of economic activity. Consider patents as a proxy for resources devoted to innovation. In 1923 and 1924, patents registered in Japan fell by around one-third compared to 1922, the year before the Grand Kanto... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
promotions of minority managers like James offered little real expansion of responsibilities, as compared with the promotions of minority executives like Williams. Minority executives attributed much of their later success to their... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas