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  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

Newman Abstract This paper shows that product prices determine organizational design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. Property rights theory asserts that firm boundaries are chosen by stakeholders to mediate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

partner of Gobi Partners, an early stage venture capital firm in China, must decide how to manage his firm's largest investment after the departure of the CEO. Tom has temporarily stepped in as CEO, but finding a replacement with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

emphasis on valuation and capital structure. Serves as the basis for a bankruptcy reorganization game that has been used for many years in Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring, a second-year finance course. The game is played in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

that corporate and capital market short-termism are related. Moreover, consistent with analytical models that emphasize the costly nature of short-termism, we find that short-term oriented firms exhibit lower future accounting and stock... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

capital firm investing in BIPOC founders in the education space. She is also the vice president of advocacy in the Women’s Student Association at HBS, and an author. “As a published fiction writer, I aim to share and amplify the voices of... View Details
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Cornell Tech, Initiative 31 was established to: Make New York City the global hub of urban innovation. As part of her Independent Project, Zoe collaborated with the NYCEDC team to design a research-backed roadmap incorporating all ecosystem View Details
  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

Finding it difficult to avoid the second debate, the paper examines the extent to which prevailing accounts of corporate purpose (e.g., shareholder primacy, stakeholder theory, corporate citizenship) support attributing responsibilities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Keepers of the Flame

the right over some of the world's great capitals to host the Games' one-hundredth anniversary. From his sixth floor office, Frazier overlooks the Georgia Dome, an important Games venue, and Ted Turner's Cable News Network headquarters.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • July 2024
  • Case

Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO

By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc
In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Interpersonal Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Investment Banking; Stock Options; Financial Markets; Initial Public Offering; Institutional Investing; Price Bubble; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Internet and the Web; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Agreements and Arrangements; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Performance Expectations; Work-Life Balance; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Rank and Position; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Happiness; Reputation; Status and Position; Well-being; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Canada
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  • 05 May 2020
  • News

“Walking a Tightrope”

on shareholder capitalism. We need to move from shareholder capitalism and more to stakeholder capitalism. And yes, there are some CEOs leading the charge. Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982) at JP Morgan Chase is one... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local or national government can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

accumulated $74 billion in debt and beginning in 2014, the island had withheld debt payments despite the commonwealth’s constitutional guarantee of its general obligation bonds. In turn, the island found itself effectively excluded from View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

forthcoming Abstract A broad literature has emerged over the past decades demonstrating that firms' environmental strategies and practices are influenced by stakeholders and institutional pressures. Such findings are consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been plagued by frictions: it is hard for a lender to determine which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

J’s board, became its new CEO and was able to successfully manage competing stakeholder demands, keep the business running, and ultimately paid back every dollar it owed to its creditors by selling the company’s core assets—its travel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

health care marketplace and make competing on value central to their strategy. All stakeholders in the health care industry—regulators, providers, insurers, employers, and patients themselves—have roles to play in creating real... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

legitimacy-building activities provided benefits (leading diverse stakeholders to value the new firm and the new industry) but also created risks. Specifically, legitimacy building relied on and reinforced individual-level behaviors (an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

(TDABC) is an innovative costing tool in healthcare that can be used to directly compare the true cost of competing technologies over the full care cycle. Rather than only comparing therapeutic effectiveness over a limited number of outcome measures, healthcare View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

The Path Ahead

do you hope will be the contribution of the School in reimagining capitalism under your leadership? —Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992) When I think about stakeholder capitalism, I think about supporting customers,... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

integrated-markets models in which the rationally determined price of risk fluctuates in a countercyclical fashion. The results can be partially explained by models in which shocks to intermediary capital or agency problems drive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne