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- 2024
- Article
Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022
By: Mark J. Roe and Charles C.Y. Wang
The number of public firms in the United States has halved since the beginning of the twenty-first century, causing consternation among corporate and securities law regulators. The dominant explanations, often advanced by Securities and Exchange commissioners when... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Law; Securities Regulation; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Concentration Levels; Antitrust; Initial Public Offering; Public Ownership; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions; Monopoly; United States
Roe, Mark J., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022." Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting 8, no. 2 (2024): 211–264.
- 30 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?
to pay $3.27 for fluoride in their toothpaste, and the GPT study results were “quite similar,” with one estimate coming in at $3.40, according to the working paper. Consumer studies like these generally cost upwards of $20,000 and take... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
Placing decision rights where these combined costs are minimal, the authors write, should lead to optimal decision-making efficiency and therefore better performance. Allocating decision rights in ways that... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
low-cost labor but rather fearing high-quality labor that comes at low cost." Regarding the migration of labor, Tayyab Rashid said, "High-paying work is knowledge work. That is not going anywhere." Hemant Rachh agreed, saying that " it does matter... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
strategies. The strategy map for a support unit typically includes a financial objective to improve its efficiency in supplying services to the enterprise. This objective is usually measured by the cost of... View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
because external capital markets became more costly, but also because the efficiency of internal capital allocation increased significantly during the crisis. Our analysis provides new evidence on how the diversification discount and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2009
- What Do You Think?
What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?
conditions for capitalism, practiced fairly and responsibly, to flourish. And to make the punishments for not doing so appropriately threatening and onerous for those who don't." Others were less definitive in their comments. As Philippe Gouamba put it,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- September 2012 (Revised May 2015)
- Case
Philips-Visicu
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Natalie Kindred and Sara M. McKinley
Would the advent of global payment models and ACOs create sufficient demand for a telemedicine offering covering the care continuum, from hospitals to the home? This was the decision facing Royal Philips Electronics (Philips), the Netherlands-based producer of... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Philips; Visicu; Telemedicine; eICU; Accountable Care Organization; ACO; Bundled Payment; Hospital To Home; Patient Monitoring Devices; Home Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Communication Technology; Quality; Safety; Performance Productivity; Performance Capacity; Performance Efficiency; Consumer Behavior; Emerging Markets; Health Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Netherlands
Herzlinger, Regina E., Natalie Kindred, and Sara M. McKinley. "Philips-Visicu." Harvard Business School Case 313-015, September 2012. (Revised May 2015.) (As companion reading for this case, see Regina E. Herzlinger and Charles Huang, "Note on Bundled Payment in Health Care," HBS No. 312-032 (Boston: Harvard Business Publishing, 2012).)
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
go both ways. It's not just difficult and confusing for company buyers and consumers, it's also difficult and confusing for suppliers. Just from a cost efficiency perspective, suppliers would like to have... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- January 2018 (Revised January 2020)
- Case
People Analytics at McKinsey
By: Jeffrey T. Polzer and Olivia Hull
A private equity–backed fast food chain has hired McKinsey’s new People Analytics group to help it improve performance. As the final client workshop approaches, Associate Partner Alex DiLeonardo ponders the best way to present the team’s findings, especially those that... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Customer Relationship Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost Management; Human Resources; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Measurement and Metrics; Performance; Performance Capacity; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Consulting Industry; Service Industry
Polzer, Jeffrey T., and Olivia Hull. "People Analytics at McKinsey." Harvard Business School Case 418-023, January 2018. (Revised January 2020.)
- 24 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet
Lalocracio Location has always been a vital resource in business. “Location, location, location,” as they say in real estate. But then along came the internet in the 1980s, and suddenly distance-related business costs collapsed for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
a purely social act with economic considerations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-012.pdf Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery Authors:David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
companies has become available in the past 10 years. Myth Number 5: ESG adds value almost entirely by limiting risks. Reality: Along with lower risk and a lower cost of capital, companies with high ESG scores have also experienced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
future hiring and M&A activity. When the Great Recession hit in late 2008, Honeywell, like all diversified manufacturers, experienced a drop off in new orders. Yet after six years of improving operating efficiency, there was little room left to cut View Details
- 11 Jul 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'
dream come true. But then Amazon's data-driven efficiency met the customer-driven culture at Whole Foods—and the shelves began to empty. How an Order Views Your Company Managers should imagine the customer is watching as their order moves... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
efficiency has been cast in high relief, supply chain managers realize that they can no longer focus solely on cost reduction—any calculation of a supply chain's return on investment must also take customer... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
not an option, this process helped companies share implementation costs and leverage each other’s competencies to discover new ways of doing things. Some companies took more extreme measures to support their ecosystem, for example... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-009.pdf The Need for (long) Chains in Kidney Exchange Authors:Itai Ashlagi, David Gamarnik, Michael A. Rees, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract It has been previously shown that for sufficiently large pools of patient-donor pairs, (almost)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
transformation of the very nature of the innovation search process. We find intermediate disclosure has the advantage of efficiently steering development towards improving existing solution approaches, but also the effect of limiting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Forlenza was reviewing Becton Dickinson’s transformation efforts designed to enable the company to innovate and grow in a changing environment. Becton Dickinson had been a successful medical device company for over 100 years. In recent years, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne