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- March 2007
- Article
The Internal Markets of Multinational Firms
By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
Desai, Mihir A., C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. "The Internal Markets of Multinational Firms." Survey of Current Business 87, no. 3 (March 2007).
- 2005
- Working Paper
Why IT Matters in Midsized Firms
By: Marco Iansiti, George Favaloro, James Utzschneider and Greg Richards
Iansiti, Marco, George Favaloro, James Utzschneider, and Greg Richards. "Why IT Matters in Midsized Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-013, August 2005.
- 1997
- Article
Value Creation Among Europe's Leading Firms
By: Marc L Bertoneche, R. Knight and D. Dragun
- 23 Sep 2010
- News
A Firm Hand and Fewer Delays
Keywords: Professor David Scharfstein, Harvard professor of economics Jeremy Stein; capital regulation; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
- 08 Aug 2020
- News
5 Questions with Stuart Gilson: Creating Firm Value
- 28 Jan 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms To Decentralize?
- 2007
- Working Paper
Interpersonal Authority in a Theory of the Firm
This paper develops a theory of the firm in which a firm's centralized asset ownership and low-powered incentives give a manager 'interpersonal authority' over employees (in a world with differing priors). The paper derives such interpersonal authority as... View Details
Keywords: Governance Controls; Employee Relationship Management; Managerial Roles; Motivation and Incentives; Boundaries; Theory
Van den Steen, Eric J. "Interpersonal Authority in a Theory of the Firm." Sloan School of Management Working Paper, No. 4667-07, July 2007. (Available at SSRN.)
Trading on Talent: Human Capital and Firm Performance
How does a firm's human capital impact financial performance? By directly observing the employment and education trajectories of a significant proportion of U.S. public company employees from 1990 to the present, we explore the relationship between performance and two... View Details
- 10 Jun 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Going Digital: Implications for Firm Value and Performance
Keywords: by Wilbur Chen and Suraj Srinivasan
- 11 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size
- 29 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Comparing the Cash Policies of Public and Private Firms
Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa
- 2009
- Working Paper
Industry Equilibrium with Open Source and Proprietary Firms
By: Gaston Llanes and Ramiro de Elejalde
We present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of Open Source (OS) and Proprietary (P) firms. Two novel aspects of the model are: (1) participation in OS arises as the optimal decision of profit-maximizing firms, and (2) OS and P firms may (or may... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Sharing; Industry Structures; Open Source Distribution; Research and Development
Llanes, Gaston, and Ramiro de Elejalde. "Industry Equilibrium with Open Source and Proprietary Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-149, June 2009.
- Article
The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior
By: Vishal P. Baloria and Jonas Heese
The media can impose reputational costs on firms because of its important role as an information intermediary and its ability to negatively slant coverage. We exploit a quasi-natural experiment that holds constant the information event across firms, but varies the... View Details
Keywords: Media Slant; Reputational Capital; Strategic Corporate Decisions; Media; News; Communication Strategy; Reputation
Baloria, Vishal P., and Jonas Heese. "The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior." Journal of Financial Economics 129, no. 1 (July 2018): 184–202.
- Article
Do Private Equity Firms Have Better Management Practices?
By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
Using an innovative survey measure of management practices on over 15,000 firms, we find private equity firms are better managed than government, family, and privately owned firms, and have similar management to publicly listed firms. This is true both in developed and... View Details
Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Do Private Equity Firms Have Better Management Practices?" American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 105, no. 5 (May 2015): 442–446.
- March 2010
- Article
Interpersonal Authority in a Theory of the Firm
This paper develops a theory of the firm in which a firm's centralized asset ownership and low-powered incentives give the manager, as an equilibrium outcome, interpersonal authority over employees (in a world with open disagreement). The paper thus provides... View Details
Keywords: Theory; Assets; Ownership; Motivation and Incentives; Governance Controls; Power and Influence; Projects; Perspective; Employees
Van den Steen, Eric J. "Interpersonal Authority in a Theory of the Firm." American Economic Review 100, no. 1 (March 2010): 466–490.
- August 1974
- Background Note
Note on Capitalization of Broker/Dealer Firms
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Claudine B. B. Malone
Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Claudine B. B. Malone. "Note on Capitalization of Broker/Dealer Firms." Harvard Business School Background Note 175-046, August 1974.
- 2006
- Chapter
Nonprofit Firms in the Performing Arts
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "Nonprofit Firms in the Performing Arts." In Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, Volume 1, edited by Victor Ginsburgh and C. David Throsby, 473–506. Handbooks in Economics. Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland, 2006.
- Article
Guarantees Come to Professional Service Firms
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger, Christopher L. Hart and Dan Maher
Schlesinger, Leonard A., Christopher L. Hart, and Dan Maher. "Guarantees Come to Professional Service Firms." MIT Sloan Management Review 33, no. 3 (Spring 1992): 19–29.
- December 2007 (Revised February 2009)
- Case
Don Jenkins: Resigning from the Firm
By: Boris Groysberg, Geoff Eckman Marietta and Steven Manchel
Don Jenkins, a star event planner at a large firm, resigns to take a position at a boutique firm. However, Don may have made some mistakes when departing that could be trouble later on down the road. The case can be used to teach the business and legal aspects of... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Law; Service Industry
Groysberg, Boris, Geoff Eckman Marietta, and Steven Manchel. "Don Jenkins: Resigning from the Firm." Harvard Business School Case 408-094, December 2007. (Revised February 2009.)