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- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
exceeds a peak price. Conversely, bidder shareholders react more negatively as the offer price is influenced upward toward a peak. Merger waves occur when high returns on the market and likely targets make it easier for bidders to offer a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
objective. Combining the two banks created opportunities to eliminate overlaps in such areas as back-office staff, branch offices, and computing infrastructure. Management of both banks also believed that larger and more diversified financial View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 21 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?
Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
understandings of the firm (Fligstein 1990, 2002)-that sociologists have described as characteristic of the modern neo-liberal regime. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-071.pdf How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating View Details
- Research Summary
Capitalism as a System of Governance
My research interest is in further exploration of the analytic utility of an original conception of capitalism as an indirect, three level system of governance for the economic relationships within political entities, and mostly within nation states. This three level... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Perspectives from the Boardroom--2009
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
syndicates, the study says. Public companies also typically require more infrastructure and legal support to handle shareholder and regulatory demands. “For a lot of entrepreneurs, it's just about the term sheet and how much equity... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
presidential politics will remember Senator John Kerry (D-MA), who was pilloried as a "flip-flopper" after explaining a vote regarding the Iraq war: "I actually did vote for the [authorization... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
authors say. The book explains how power can be shared more evenly among citizens, employees, top executives, and shareholders for the betterment of individuals, organizations, and institutions around the... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
risk, but also enhances shareholder value. The law isn't just for lawyers, either, she says. Managers must become more astute about the legal environment around them, and be willing to challenge and work with counsel to achieve best... View Details
- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
period 1999 to 2007, the results are even more striking: These companies delivered shareholder returns of over 130 percent while the S&P delivered 0.6 percent. They grew their sales 233 percent while the S&P 500 has grown just 10... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
will be engaged in every item of behavior that takes place at work. Likewise, all the other people engaged with the focal organization—its customers, its shareholders and creditors, its suppliers, its neighbors and its regulators—will... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
developed a long-term-oriented approach through formal (e.g., incentive systems) or informal institutions (e.g., building the corporate culture over time and employee selection). The finding that more long-term-oriented firms have lower... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
2010 terms, as a share of national income) were scheduled to revert to Colombian ownership in that year. The money to buy them for the new canal effort, then, would have gone to Bogotá instead of the shareholders in the moribund French... View Details
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
Repeated and, as of this writing, ongoing revelations of corporate wrongdoing over the past two years have eroded public trust in business institutions and executives to levels not seen in decades. A recent Gallup poll indicates that... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
“Retail chains and commercial airlines, which lease a lot of their assets such as stores and airplanes, might rationally prefer Chapter 11 to restructuring out of court.” In contrast, if debt is restructured in Chapter 11, where each distinct class of creditors View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
If we are to break up the institutions that are "too big to fail," does that contradict the benefits of economies of scale, the driving force of globalization? Or, if these huge firms are to be left as they are, and we are to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
compensation incentives for CSR. We test our predictions using novel executive compensation contract data and find that firms with more shareholder friendly corporate governance are more likely to provide compensation to executives linked... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
case focuses on the lead-up to Disney's 2012 annual meeting where Disney would face a vote on the compensation package of its CEO, Robert Iger. Leading proxy advisory firms were recommending that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne