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- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
residence, corporate control, and corporate equities. These markets provide opportunities for entrepreneurs, managers, and investors to circumvent a strong fences policy. The paper provides simple descriptive evidence of the growing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2022
- HBS Case
Building an 'ARMY' of Fans: Marketing Lessons from K-Pop Sensation BTS
M.C. for Youth)—to champion the band on social media and send it to mega-stardom. The large, loyal following was a big part of what investors were buying when BTS’ management company raised $50 billion in its 2020 IPO, leading Chung and... View Details
- 17 Jan 2007
- Op-Ed
Learning from Private-Equity Boards
requirements pertaining to independent directors. First, public companies need to consider a different population of directors to include the large pool of former executives and successful entrepreneurs who have stepped down after decades... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
investor marketing effort, United Air Lines began to report a new measure of earnings—along with ordinary earnings calculated under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)—that excluded a large... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 17 Apr 2022
- Book
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray
employees and lower-level managers to report problems. With customers and investors more attentive than ever to corporate social responsibility, firms that act ethically will have a competitive advantage, Nelson says. “You have more... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 21 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?
and gaming companies “Video games provide an amazing sandbox to study consumer behavior on digital platforms, as well as the effects of product and platform design on this behavior,” says Simonov. “While the video game market is large in... View Details
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
February 2016 Review of Financial Studies Industry Window Dressing By: Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, and Dong Lou Abstract— We explore a new mechanism by which investors take correlated shortcuts and present evidence that managers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
sustainability moving from the Compliance to the Efficiency and then to the Innovation stage. However, we also document a decentralization of decision rights from the CSO to different functions, largely driven by sustainability strategies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
The article concludes by suggesting that the stratdegies of business enterprises need to be more fully integrated into wider narratives of the history of globalization. August 2013 JMR, Journal of Marketing Research Positioning Brands Versus View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
dead wrong. And when the rules failed, the reason was always the same: Companies trip up when they try to attract large volumes of customers without understanding (1) the strength of mutual attraction among various customer groups and (2)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
staggered boards can be beneficial for early-life-cycle firms, which exhibit greater information asymmetries between insiders and investors. These results are validated using a larger sample of firms from the Investor Responsibility... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
at maximum efficiency because they didn't have much competition from abroad, but given the environment within South Africa, the strongest ones had come to survive and existed in the form of large conglomerates. When the economy opened up... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?
increased job churn (which will occur), with no significant gain or loss of jobs. The problem generally is that the benefits of globalization flow largely to investors and consumers while workers bear a... View Details
- 14 Mar 2023
- In Practice
What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?
crisis—and was the second-biggest to fail ever. Analysts say SVB was largely unprepared for the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate increases, which shrank the value of its investments. As word spread quickly online that the bank... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
financing a risky venture. Structured experimentation, popularized by Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup, has been widely embraced as the gold standard for how to approach the commercialization of radical new ideas. From Boston to Beijing to Bangalore, entrepreneurs and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
Levy Publication:American Journal of Public Health (forthcoming) Abstract Objectives: We assessed whether a 2-phase labeling and choice architecture intervention increased sales of healthy food and beverages in a large hospital cafeteria.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
technology in the case “Timnit Gebru: ‘Silenced No More’ on AI Bias and the Harms of Large Language Models.” The case study examines the efforts by the pioneering Gebru to warn Google’s executive suite. Born in Addis Ababa to Eritrean... View Details
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School. “They didn’t know it would turn out to be a multibillion dollar industry.” “By definition, when an investor makes an investment, it changes the probability of success” In a new... View Details
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
developed countries. Large emerging economies with little inward FDI include India and Turkey, despite the relaxation over the last two decades of the restrictions imposed on foreign firms between 1950 and 1980. This working paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment During the Reform Era
The aim of the book is to illustrate the dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China in the 1990s. The topic is important both because China is the world's second largest recipient of FDI and because there are substantial misconceptions about the drivers of... View Details