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16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and technology set forth in previous chapters to theories of firm boundaries... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Mar 2014
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Consequences to Directors of Shareholder Activism

Keywords: by Ian D. Gow, Sa-Pyung Sean Shin & Suraj Srinivasan

31 Aug 2012
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The Effect of Institutional Factors on the Value of Corporate Diversification

Keywords: by Venkat Kuppuswamy, George Serafeim & Belén Villalonga

16 Feb 2011
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Naivete and Cynicism in Negotiations and Other Competitive Contexts

Keywords: by Chia-Jung Tsay, Lisa L. Shu & Max H. Bazerman

24 Jun 2008
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Bank Structure and the Terms of Lending to Small Businesses

Keywords: by Rodrigo Canales & Ramana Nanda; Banking

10 Apr 2008
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Where Does it Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained

Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole, John Thompson & Peter Tufano; Financial Services

2011
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The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

By: Thomas F. Hellmann and Noam Wasserman

This paper examines the division of founder shares in entrepreneurial ventures, focusing on the decision of whether or not to divide the shares equally among all founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Equity; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Deal; Ownership Stake; Value

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04 Oct 2019
HBS Seminar

Annabelle Fowler (Harvard University), Harvard University

Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation.

Randomized experiments have become the standard method for companies to evaluate the performance of new products or services. In addition to augmenting managers' decision-making, experimentation mitigates risk by limiting the proportion of customers exposed to... View Details

The Contract Year Phenomenon in the Corner Office: An Analysis of Firm Behavior During CEO Contract Renewals

This paper investigates how executive employment contracts influence corporate financial policies during the final year of the contract term, using a new, hand-collected data set of CEO employment agreements. On the one hand, the impending... View Details

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Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870–1940

By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora

This working paper examines the role of entrepreneurs in the municipal solid waste industry in industrialized central and northern Europe from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. It explores the emergence of numerous German, Danish, and other European... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Entrepreneurship; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Health; History; Green Technology Industry; Germany; Denmark; Hungary; United Kingdom

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30 Apr 2013
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through affective mechanisms. Working Papers Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Nicholas Bloom, and William Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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In the News - Creating Emerging Markets

new paper by Geoffrey Jones, Tarun Khanna, Cheng Gao, and Tiona Zuzul. Mint We are in a deglobalization period: Business historian Geoffrey G. Jones Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey G. Jones says Brexit and Donald Trump’s rise... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Building a Better Brazil

INVESTING IN BRAZIL: A gift from André Esteves (pictured here with wife Lilian) will improve an Executive Education residence hall—a space increasingly used by program participants from Brazil. This past spring, three separate donors offered substantial contributions... View Details

Keywords: Paper Manufacturing; Paper Manufacturing; Paper Manufacturing; Paper Manufacturing

01 Dec 2022
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My First Job

(MBA 2022) Due to an Error in Editing In 1992, I was a subeditor and occasional reporter at the Times of India. We did very little work on computers. Most editing was done on sheets of paper that were later typeset by other colleagues.... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

26 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

considering cellophane. It’s deliberately transparent, after all. You’re meant to consider whatever it’s wrapping instead. Yet, it turns out that cellophane has a story worth telling. A new research paper exposes the historical... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising

26 Nov 2001
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How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

problem solver. Q: How do they do this? A: They do this by teaching people to solve problems by solving problems. For instance, in our paper we describe a team at a Toyota supplier, Aisin. The team members, when they were first hired,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

04 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

The Real Cost of Bribery

analyze the negative effects of bribery on corporate performance. The results of his study, detailed in the paper Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery, surprised him. As it turns out, the biggest problem with corporate corruption... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

error after observations they thought were unlikely. This paper develops a framework for assessing when a given error is likely to be discovered, in the sense that the error-maker will deem her mistaken theory implausible. The central... View Details