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- 05 Sep 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Structural Transformation: A Competitiveness-based View
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 2004
- Article
Sources of Structural Inequality in Managerial Labor Markets
By: Rakesh Khurana and Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
This article proposes two mechanisms that allow actors to obtain unearned advantages in labor markets. The first mechanism is consistent with collusive closure arguments. However, it questions the assumption that those who seek to benefit from collusive closure will... View Details
Khurana, Rakesh, and Mikolaj Jan Piskorski. "Sources of Structural Inequality in Managerial Labor Markets." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 21 (2004): 169–187.
- 2017
- Chapter
Marketing Models for the Customer-Centric Firm
By: Eva Ascarza, Peter S. Fader and Bruce G.S. Hardie
A customer-centric firm takes the view that there are three key drivers of (organic) growth and overall profitability: Customer acquisition, customer retention, and customer development (i.e., increasing the value of each existing customer (per unit of time) while they... View Details
Ascarza, Eva, Peter S. Fader, and Bruce G.S. Hardie. "Marketing Models for the Customer-Centric Firm." In Handbook of Marketing Decision Models. 2nd ed. Edited by Berend Wierenga and Ralf van der Lans, 297–330. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. Springer, 2017.
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
Summing Up "What we are looking at is a fundamental challenge to our assumptions about which corporate structures work," commented Daniel Hayes in response to the recent piece on View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- March 2002
- Teaching Note
Strategy of the Firm Under Regulatory Review: The Case of Chilectra TN
By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Alexander Dyck
Teaching Note for (9-702-025). View Details
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
In the wake of the financial crisis, many once-esoteric investment terms have become a familiar part of our vocabulary. View Details
- 2010
- Conference Presentation
Compensatory Fit in Integrated Architectures: The Upside of Structural Ambiguity
By: Ranjay Gulati and Luciana Silvestri
- April 2014 (Revised July 2014)
- Case
Aspada: In Search of the Right Structure for Impact Investing
By: Michael Chu and Rachna Tahilyani
Chu, Michael, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Aspada: In Search of the Right Structure for Impact Investing." Harvard Business School Case 314-099, April 2014. (Revised July 2014.)
- January–February 1995
- Article
Changing the Role of Top Management: Beyond Structure to Processes
By: S. Ghoshal and C. A. Bartlett
Ghoshal, S., and C. A. Bartlett. "Changing the Role of Top Management: Beyond Structure to Processes." Harvard Business Review 73, no. 1 (January–February 1995): 86–96.
- 1995
- Working Paper
Winners and Losers--Industry Structure in the Converging World of Telecommunications,
By: David J. Collis, P. William Bane and Stephen P. Bradley
- 2021
- Working Paper
Timing the Disclosure of Prices: Should Firms Delay the Inevitable?
By: Diego Aparicio and Marco Bertini
- Article
Beyond the M-form: Toward a Managerial Theory of the Firm
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal
Bartlett, Christopher A., and S. Ghoshal. "Beyond the M-form: Toward a Managerial Theory of the Firm." Strategic Management Journal 14 (Winter 1993): 23–46.
- 2004
- Working Paper
The Comovement of Returns and Investment Within the Multinational Firm
By: Mihir A. Desai and C. Fritz Foley
Desai, Mihir A., and C. Fritz Foley. "The Comovement of Returns and Investment Within the Multinational Firm." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 10785, September 2004.
- October 1997
- Background Note
Family Firms in the Newspaper Industry
Changes in newspaper publishing, specifically the introduction of new technology and concurrent changes in tax policy, which led to a consolidation of the industry are described. Also describes the transformation of family firms into public corporations in response to... View Details
Barnes, Louis B., and Peter K. Botticelli. "Family Firms in the Newspaper Industry." Harvard Business School Background Note 898-075, October 1997.
- Research Summary
2. Acquisitions of Industrial Units and the Evolution of Operational Performance across the Firm
Abstract: Manufacturing firms frequently expand their production capacity through the acquisition of industrial units. How are the existing units in the acquirer company affected by the acquisition of another facility? I argue that two important... View Details
- 1995
- Chapter
A Comparison of Changes in the Structure of Wages in Four OECD Countries
By: L. Katz, G. W. Loveman and D. G. Blanchflower
Katz, L., G. W. Loveman, and D. G. Blanchflower. "A Comparison of Changes in the Structure of Wages in Four OECD Countries." In Differences and Changes in Wage Structures, edited by L. Katz and R. Freeman. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1995.
- 2011
- Working Paper
Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence
By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet fluctuations in bank-loan supply have been hard to quantify in the time-series. While loan issuance falls in recessions, it is not clear if this is due to... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Banks and Banking; Bonds; Financial Markets; Financing and Loans; Banking Industry
Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina. "Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-107, June 2010. (Revised August 2011.)
- March 2010
- Article
Extreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in the United States
By: Paul A. Gompers, Joy Ishii and Andrew Metrick
We construct a comprehensive list of dual-class firms in the United States and use this list to analyze the relationship between insider ownership and firm value. Our data have two useful features. First, since dual-class stock separates cash-flow rights from voting... View Details
Gompers, Paul A., Joy Ishii, and Andrew Metrick. "Extreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in the United States." Review of Financial Studies 23, no. 3 (March 2010).
- 2024
- Other Unpublished Work
Brokerage and Cognition: Driving Integration at the Limits of Formal Structure
By: Ranjay Gulati and Luciana Silvestri
- 1986
- Chapter
Promise Them Anything: The Incentive Structures of Local Public Pension Plans
By: Dutch Leonard
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Public Sector; Government and Politics; Local Range; Motivation and Incentives
Leonard, Dutch. "Promise Them Anything: The Incentive Structures of Local Public Pension Plans." In Public Sector Payrolls, edited by David A. Wise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.