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  • 10 Jun 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Going Digital: Implications for Firm Value and Performance

Keywords: by Wilbur Chen and Suraj Srinivasan
  • December 2024
  • Article

Proxy Advisory Firms and Corporate Shareholder Engagement

By: Aiyesha Dey, Austin Starkweather and Joshua White
We study how Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) affect firms’ engagement with shareholders. Our analyses exploit a quasi-natural experiment using say-on-pay voting outcomes near a threshold that triggers ISS to review engagement activities. Firms receiving ISS... View Details
Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Policy; Voting
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Dey, Aiyesha, Austin Starkweather, and Joshua White. "Proxy Advisory Firms and Corporate Shareholder Engagement." Review of Financial Studies 37, no. 12 (December 2024): 3877–3931.
  • January 2004 (Revised May 2004)
  • Background Note

Strategy and Positioning in Professional Service Firms

By: Ashish Nanda
This case provides a definition of strategy, distinguishes between corporate and practice strategy, and discusses how and why developing and implementing strategy for professional service firms is different from developing and implementing strategy for commercial... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Service Industry
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Nanda, Ashish. "Strategy and Positioning in Professional Service Firms." Harvard Business School Background Note 904-060, January 2004. (Revised May 2004.)

    What Professional Service Firms Must Do to Thrive

    During times of economic turbulence, consulting, law, and accounting firms often start offering services and taking on clients they really shouldn’t, just to keep the lights on. This path is perilous. If a firm’s practices have a diffuse mix of clients and unclear... View Details

    • 04 Feb 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

    the risks of failure. Adding to this concern is that even as the number of mega audit firms has contracted from eight in the 1980s to four today, their combined market share remains formidable, especially in the United States. The... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
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    What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?

    By: Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
    We survey 79 private equity investors with combined assets under management (AUM) of over $750 billion about their practices in firm valuation, capital structure, governance, and value creation. Investors rely primarily on internal rate of return (IRR) and multiples to... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Valuation; Capital Structure; Value Creation
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    Gompers, Paul A., Steven N. Kaplan, and Vladimir Mukharlyamov. "What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?" Journal of Financial Economics 121, no. 3 (September 2016): 449–476.
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    The Benefits of Selective Disclosure: Evidence from Private Firms

    This paper explores an unexplored benefit of being privately-held: Non-SEC-filing private firms’ ability to disclose confidential information to selected investors minimizes the scope for information asymmetry between the firms and their investors. This decreases... View Details

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    Knowledge Assets and Firm International Performance

    By: Stefano Denicolai, Antonella Zucchella and R. Strange
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    Denicolai, Stefano, Antonella Zucchella, and R. Strange. "Knowledge Assets and Firm International Performance." International Business Review 23, no. 1 (February 2014): 55–62.
    • Nov 2014
    • Conference Presentation

    Crowdsourced Digital Goods and Firm Productivity

    By: Frank Nagle
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    Nagle, Frank. "Crowdsourced Digital Goods and Firm Productivity." Paper presented at the INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), San Francisco, CA, November 2014.
    • 15 May 2014
    • Conference Presentation

    Crowdsourced Digital Goods and Firm Productivity

    By: Frank Nagle
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    Nagle, Frank. "Crowdsourced Digital Goods and Firm Productivity." Paper presented at the Charles River Distinguished Speaker and Doctoral Student Conference on Technology and Innovation, Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan School of Management, Boston, MA, May 15, 2014.
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    The Wage Policy of a Firm

    By: George P. Baker, Michael Gibbs and Bengt Holmstrom
    Keywords: Policy; Business Ventures; Wages
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    Baker, George P., Michael Gibbs, and Bengt Holmstrom. "The Wage Policy of a Firm." Quarterly Journal of Economics 109, no. 4 (November 1994).
    • January 1991
    • Article

    Diversified Expansion by Large Established Firms

    By: C. A. Montgomery and S. Hariharan
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Expansion; Diversification
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    Montgomery, C. A., and S. Hariharan. "Diversified Expansion by Large Established Firms." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 15, no. 1 (January 1991): 71–89.
    • August 2009
    • Article

    Corporate Tax Avoidance and Firm Value

    By: Mihir Desai and D. Dharmapala
    Keywords: Taxation; Business Ventures; Value
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    Desai, Mihir, and D. Dharmapala. "Corporate Tax Avoidance and Firm Value." Review of Economics and Statistics 91, no. 3 (August 2009): 537–546.
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    Dividend Policy inside the Multinational Firm

    By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
    Keywords: Profit; Policy; Business Ventures
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    Desai, Mihir A., C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. "Dividend Policy inside the Multinational Firm." Financial Management 36, no. 1 (Spring 2007). (Winner of Pearson/Prentice Hall Prize for Best Paper in Financial Management For the best paper published in Financial Management in the previous two years presented by Financial Management Association​.)
    • 27 Jan 2011
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    The Gender Advantage for Multinational Firms

    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society and often posing irreconcilable... View Details
    Keywords: Economy; Capital; Globalized Firms and Management; Labor; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Practice; Conflict of Interests; Social Issues; Theory
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    Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-119, May 2011.
    • 11 May 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    What Do Private Equity Firms Say They Do?

    Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan & Vladimir Mukharlyamov; Financial Services
    • 25 Jan 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.

    in the twisted web of Washington fundraising and lobbying that can definitively prove dollar x bought result y. Perhaps that's why there has been such little empirical research among economists on the issue. "The whole perspective of how View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • May 2004 (Revised October 2007)
    • Background Note

    Best Practices: Decision Making Among Venture Capital Firms

    By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
    Describes investment decision-making processes, based on interviews with 56% of the top 38 venture capital firms in the country. Discusses some implications for the future growth of the industry. View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Venture Capital; Investment; Industry Growth
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    Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "Best Practices: Decision Making Among Venture Capital Firms." Harvard Business School Background Note 804-176, May 2004. (Revised October 2007.)
    • 1986
    • Chapter

    Government Relations in the Global Firm

    By: L. T. Wells Jr. and Amir Mahini
    Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Business and Government Relations
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    Wells, L. T., Jr., and Amir Mahini. "Government Relations in the Global Firm." In Competition in Global Industries, edited by M. E. Porter. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1986. (Also in Competizione Globale, published by Isvor-Fiat, Turin, Italy, 1987.)
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