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  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

onset of the crisis. PE-backed companies consequentially experienced higher asset growth and increased market share during the crisis. Business History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2011
  • Article

The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship Banking

By: Victoria Ivashina and Anna Kovner
This paper examines the impact of leveraged buyout firms' bank relationships on the terms of their syndicated loans. Using a sample of 1,590 loans financing private equity sponsored leveraged buyouts between 1993 and 2005, we find that bank relationships are an... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Private Equity; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Investment Return; Relationships; Banking Industry; Banking Industry
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents

By: David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Pian Shu and Gary Pisano
Manufacturing is the locus of U.S. innovation, accounting for more than three quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The rise of import competition from China has represented a major competitive shock to the sector, which in theory could benefit or stifle innovation. In... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Competition; System Shocks; Trade; Innovation and Invention; Manufacturing Industry; China; United States
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Putting Skin in the Game: Managerial Ownership and Bank Risk-Taking

By: Jan Bouwens and Arnt Verriest
This paper examines the relation between managerial ownership and bank risk exposure for a large sample of international financial institutions. We seek empirical evidence suggested by theories concerning conflicts between managers and owners over risk-taking. We argue... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Equity Ownership; Financial Risk; Banks; Motivation and Incentives; Risk Management; Employee Ownership; Corporate Governance; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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  • 25 Aug 2010
  • News

Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

and I ended up Looping the course. 1985F put brown paper bags over our heads during a Friday-afternoon class. The idea was to mess with the professor, who styled himself a partier View Details
Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries
  • 08 Apr 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

The Life of Luxury and How to Sell It

Helena Rubinstein Used Tall Tales to Turn Cosmetics into a Luxury Brand Using guile, brilliant branding, and more than a few falsehoods, Helena Rubinstein lifted cosmetics from an accessory item for prostitutes to a great luxury product.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto; Retail; Fashion
  • 31 May 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency

Keywords: by Alvin J. Silk; Advertising
  • 18 Dec 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality

Keywords: by Alvin J. Silk & Charles King III; Advertising
  • April 2013
  • Article

Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu
This paper provides the first formal model of business model innovation. Our analysis focuses on sponsor-based business model innovations where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to its customer base. We analyze strategic... View Details
Keywords: Business Model Innovation; Imitation; Sponsor-based Business Model; Strategic Revelation; Strategic Concealment; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Price; Competitive Strategy; Adoption; Value; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Product; Customers; Market Entry and Exit; Monopoly
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  • Article

Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors

By: Susan Helper and Rebecca Henderson
General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the U.S. market fell from 62.6% to 19.8%, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. In this paper we argue that the conventional... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Practices and Processes; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

level. The paper outlines key elements of the competitiveness framework and discusses how it relates to the idea of structural transformation. What emerges are significant similarities between the two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America During Globalization Waves

By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper examines the impact of modern business enterprise on the natural environment of Latin America during the globalization waves between the 19th century and the present day. It argues that although global capitalism created much wealth for the region,... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Natural Environment; Outcome or Result; Business History; Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Tourism Industry; Latin America
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  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

2018 Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism American Capitalism: New Histories By: Beckert, Sven, and Christine Desan, eds. Abstract—The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat... View Details
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

May 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2012 (Revised October 2022)
  • Case

Elia Nuqul and the Making of a Middle Eastern Business Group (A)

By: Geoffrey Jones and Lana Ghanem
The case is concerned with Elia Nuqul, the founder of Jordanian-based Nuqul Brothers, a large diversified business group. It shows how Nuqul, a Christian Palestinian whose family was forced to flee to Jordan after the creation of Israel in 1948, built a business in his... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; History; Government and Politics; Global Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Middle East
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  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

intuitions from industrial organization can be reversed: Collusion may become easier as market concentration falls, and market entry may in fact facilitate collusion. In particular, price collusion can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Bureaucratic Norms and State Capacity in India: Implementing Primary Education in the Himalayan Region

By: Akshay Mangla
Himachal Pradesh has surged ahead of other Indian states in implementing universal primary education. Through a combination of field research methods, this paper connects these achievements to bureaucratic norms, unwritten rules within the state that guide the behavior... View Details
Keywords: India; Bureaucracy; Norms; State Capacity; Education; Government and Politics; Education Industry; India
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  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

and Julie Battilana Abstract—This paper examines the critical role of gender in the commercialization of social ventures. We argue that cultural beliefs about what is perceived to be appropriate work for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing

butter: the paper book. First it was Books on Tape, followed by books on phones, and then the king of business model killers, Amazon.com's Kindle. “Traditional trade book publishers are scared.” Now the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 23 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Status: When and Why It Matters

second-grade products or a low-status producer that consistently produces first-grade products." For answers, Malter turned to the wine industry and an investigation of whether France's prestigious 1855... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman