Institutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

public, selling shares to individual and institutional investors," says Lerner. Critics complain that buyout firms suck out profits rather than improve the firms they acquire, making these companies weakened goods when the IPO is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

19 Jul 2016
First Look

July 19, 2016

external compliance pressure in their domestic institutional environment, when their buyers take a cooperative approach to monitoring, and when their auditors are highly trained. We find, further, that a cooperative approach to monitoring... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

Thinking Locally? The Influence of Local Communities on Organizations Authors:Christopher Marquis and Julie Battilana Abstract We develop an institutional theory of how local communities continue to matter for organizations, and why... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

These regions experienced long eras of foreign domination, dealt with extensive state intervention, faced institutional inefficiencies, and experienced extended turbulence. This article suggests that this context drove different business... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

of one-off contributions, constant mentoring and co-authorship with younger colleagues, distillation of advice into accessible and memorable forms, and investment in an institutional legacy. Beyond these aspects, which I elaborated in a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

http://www.cbspress.dk/Visning-af-titel.848.0.html?&cHash=3818d01f1b&ean=9788763002417&code=kommende The Case for Professional Boards Author:Robert C. Pozen Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010) Abstract When the world's largest... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jul 2022
Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

Ferreras, professor of sociology at the Université catholique de Louvain and a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Worklife Program, and Dominique Méda, a professor of sociology and the director of the Institute for... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

12 Nov 2014
Op-Ed

A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform

will we need to assume the "first loss" position and protect taxpayers? Is it $500 billion, reflecting a 10 percent capital buffer? Or will $250 billion (5 percent) suffice? Pick a figure. We cannot proceed without one. Who will provide the private capital?... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas Retsinas & Rob Couch; Construction; Real Estate

07 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity

the entrepreneurial organizations could be explained in part by a distrust of established medical institutions on the part of minorities. The profiles of organizations receiving the cadavers also showed marked contrasts. Perhaps not... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

01 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

businesses function alongside other institutions such as labor unions in an environment in which all are subservient to democratically elected governments. Are free trade and free markets quaint ideas from the past? What do you think?... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

that some giant computers controlled by big corporations and institutions know better than they do about what they will be doing in (the) future and what they'll become They might turn into poor, weak machines themselves , abiding by what... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

the negatively performing hospitals engaged in low levels of activity, but one poorly performing hospital in particular caught Tucker's eye. This institution had high levels of activity when it came to gathering information and acting on... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

India. "The case raises an uncomfortable question: Why should Monitor pay a Harvard MBA top dollar to conduct business research in the United States while an Indian Institute of Management graduate could do the work just as effectively in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

06 Sep 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom

of quantum dots for cancer treatment that had been proposed by an outside sponsor. Along with a bunch of other highly qualified students, one of this team's members was a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researcher. Within two weeks, the team... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

away from anything but a majority position, Rodriguez said. Illiquid markets are also a turn-off for institutional investors. Only thirty-three companies in Latin America meet the minimum $5 million in daily trading volume most fund... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

(that total half the value of the U.S. market). "On the trading level," says Seifert, " we need a liquidity pool that gives us low-cost, cross-border access. To accomplish this, we are merging institutions and employing a... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

to William Lever. After his death, the Overseas Committee became the institutional embodiment of this paternalistic oversight role. Philips too conformed to this model: the Philips family dominated the company's top management until well... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

16 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs

Travel Dates: June 11-18 Travel Party: Fifteen people, including nine faculty members. Locations: The cities of Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shanghai. Companies and institutions visited include Tsinghua Science Park, Microsoft, Li-Ning, Gome,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 2

revolutionary transformations for the states that emerged in its wake. The leaders of Russia, the USSR's successor, since then have struggled to reestablish central authority while seeking to avoid further disintegration, establish a democratic polity, and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 2021 (Revised June 2021)
Case

Barbarians at the Gate or Turnaround Gurus? Private Equity and the Rise of the LBO

By: Tom Nicholas and John Masko

During the 1980s, leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and the private equity (PE) firms responsible for carrying them out revolutionized both investment and management in the U.S. Between 1980 and 1989, buyout activity in the U.S. surged from $1 billion per year to $60 billion.... View Details