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  • 25 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business

Lightcast. The numbers indicate that these athletes’ careers take off five to 10 years after graduation, with the achievement gap widening even more 20–25 years out. While the study didn’t control for socioeconomic status or race, which... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Labor Regulations and European Private Equity

By: Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr
European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor... View Details
Keywords: Employment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Taxation; Insurance; Investment; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Europe
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    Srikant M. Datar

    Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for... View Details

    Keywords: venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry; venture capital industry
    • Web

    Placement - Doctoral

    of Business, Accounting Department Dissertation: Leveraging Culture in Management Control Systems: Evidence From the Field Advisors: Dennis Campbell (Chair), Susanna Gallani , Jonas Heese , and Wei Cai Botir Kobilov Accounting &... View Details
    • January 2022
    • Case

    Dating Ring

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lindsay N. Hyde
    In 2015, the co-founders of Dating Ring, an online dating startup that relied on human matchmakers to arrange dates between its members, were deciding whether to either shut down the service or instead manage Dating Ring as a "lifestyle company," ramping down growth... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Failure; Business Exit or Shutdown; Internet and the Web; Venture Capital; Service Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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    • March 2012 (Revised September 2012)
    • Case

    INRIX

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Ryan Johnson
    Since its founding in 2004, INRIX, a leading global provider of traffic information and driver services, had received four rounds of financing from leading venture capital (VC) firms and by 2012 had been cash flow positive for the past six quarters. Its founder, Bryan... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Startups; Organizational Structure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry; Washington (state, US)
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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    I Am Not on the Market, I Am Here with Friends: Using On-Line Social Networks to Find a Job or a Spouse

    By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
    Sociologists have extensively documented that networks influence market exchange through improved matching and vouching. In this paper, I propose that networks can also blunt the signal of market participation, as actors who are on the market surrounded by their... View Details
    Keywords: Job Search; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Social and Collaborative Networks; Online Technology
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    • 14 May 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: May 14

    flexible random coefficients aggregate discrete choice model that accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success, and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control for unobserved quality in... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 30 Apr 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Anger Makes a Wrongly Accused Person Look Guilty

    being unjust.” To further verify their findings, the researchers set up an experiment to see if they could elicit those feelings of anger in real time. They gave participants a written task and told them they’d receive money for correct answers. The task was either... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 22 Jan 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: Jan. 22

    impact of mourning rituals after losses-of loved ones, lovers, and lotteries-on mitigating grief. Participants who were directed to reflect on past rituals or who were assigned to complete novel rituals after experiencing losses reported lower levels of grief.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Aug 2016
    • First Look

    August 16, 2016

    an artifact of soundtrack alone because attitudes toward sharks did not differ among participants assigned to audio-only control treatments. This is the first study to demonstrate empirically that the connotative attributes of background... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • August 2010 (Revised December 2010)
    • Case

    Malcolm Life Enhances Its Variable Annuities

    By: Robert C. Pozen and David J. Pearlman
    The case involves an insurance CEO choosing between different designs for a variable annuity product in light of hedging, marketing, and pricing issues. The case provides students with background on the economics and regulation of life insurance and variable annuities.... View Details
    Keywords: Annuities; Insurance; Investment Return; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Product Design; Insurance Industry; United States
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Labor Regulations and European Private Equity

    By: Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr
    European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Insurance; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Taxation; Employment; Europe
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    • 14 Feb 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950

    Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio
    • 24 Jun 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Don’t Just Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad

    Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate & J. Bruce Harreld
    • Research Summary

    Current Research

    Information Dissemination in Capital Markets

     

    Seeking to bridge economic theory and the role of individuals, Professor Brochet researches the transmission of information in capital markets. He has investigated the effects of information... View Details
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    Corporate Lobbying Strategy and Foreign MNEs

    “U.S. Defense Contracts and the Lobbying Strategies of Foreign MNEs: The Liability of Foreignness and Make-or-Buy Decisions about Political Goods”

    Many firms engage in lobbying with the expectation that their lobbying efforts will... View Details

    Keywords: Non-market Strategy; Political Strategy; Lobbying; Make V. Buy; Multinational Enterprise; Global Strategy; United States
    • 28 Jun 2016
    • First Look

    June 28, 2016

    average length of hospital stay and mortality rate in teaching hospitals relative to a control group of non-teaching hospitals. Despite the anticipated nature of the cohort turnover and the supervisory structures that exist in teaching... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

    Time Warner, 1980–1990 Frank A. Munsey Munsey Publishing House, 1882–1925 Thomas S. Murphy Capital Cities/ABC, 1966–1990 N Charles W. Nash Nash Motors Company, 1916–1932 Conde M. Nast Conde Nast Publications, 1907–1942 Fred M. Nelson... View Details
    • 23 Jul 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: July 23

    suppliers and selling them to buyers). We model this as a choice between whether control rights over a non-contractible decision variable (the level of marketing activities) are better held by suppliers (the marketplace-mode) or by the... View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino