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  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

for the next round, assuming that the other players merely repeat their previous bids. We focus on a strategy we call Balanced Bidding (BB). If all players use the BB strategy, we show that bids converge to a bid vector that obtains in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

environment in which employees are constantly motivated and can effectively balance their commitment to the firm and to the client, as well as to themselves. EE: What are the factors that make professional service firms successful?... View Details
Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting
  • 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

reinterpretation of ideas related to agency conflicts and a holistic view of corporate financial strategy that examines payout and capital structure decisions jointly. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

small-world structures and the emergence and disappearance of giant components in patent collaboration networks. Using statistical models, we test and fail to find evidence that small-world structure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

the preference list they will submit to the mechanism). We focus in this paper on better-reply dynamics. To this end, we first provide a characterization of better-replies and a comprehensive description of the dominance relation between strategies. Better-replies are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

month. So we've got a long way to go. And we need to get securitization going because that's what drives loan volume. Q: Why has loan securitization been slow to recover? A: We had a terrible system of securitization where everything was off View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

development. First, structural conditions first postulated by Engerman and Sokoloff (2002) as generating long-term inequality are shown here empirically to be exogenous determinants of political instability. Second, that exogenously... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

  Working PapersWellsprings of Creation: How Perturbation Sustains Exploration in Mature Organizations (revised) Authors:David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman, and David M. Upton Abstract Organizations struggle to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

deliberations. Boards need to think more carefully about how they manage and organize themselves. Palepu: Paul, you spoke about the breakdown of checks and balances in the system generally. Can you elaborate? Healy: One thing that strikes... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

in the magnitude and sign of bond risk premia. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-095.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsIdentifying Firm Capital Structure Bo Becker Harvard Business School Case 211-072 Students are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

auctions when separate. When there is an insufficient improvement, such mergers can harm advertisers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-055.pdf Agency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure Authors:Sergey... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

present a model in which fire sales propagate shocks across bank balance sheets. When a bank experiences a negative shock to its equity, a natural way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. If potential buyers are limited, then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

Perspective on Ambidexterity: Structural Differentiation and Boundary Activities Authors:Sebastian Raisch and Michael L. Tushman Abstract This paper explores the shifting nature of differentiation and integration in organizations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007

future lock-in can arise without changing the structure of a should-choice, but by just changing people's temporal focus. Finally, we provide evidence that the should self operates at a higher construal level (abstract, superordinate)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009

focus of most panelists is the importance of a capital structure and risk management approach that complement the strategy and operations of the business. Instructive examples are provided by Judy Lewent, former CFO and head of strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

levels of poverty. One common challenge is that farmers only have access to one channel, often an auction, in which to sell their crops. Recently, e-intermediaries have emerged as alternate, technology-driven posted-price channels. We aim to develop insights into the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

Four businesses had, by 2012, grown to dominate the infrastructure that all firms rely on to reach online customers. Will the balance of power among the four persist, will one take command at the expense of the other three, or are all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

structures, we adopt a process perspective and find that integration was achieved despite an incentive structure that did not support it. By drawing a distinction between the incentive landscape and the planning process, we identify... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

structurally attractive for soft drink firms, and b) if so, how can Pepsi best "catch-up" with Coca-Cola in a given market. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

They do not punish with sufficient speed and force to eliminate the incentive for misconduct. At a time when the temptation before some managers is orders of magnitude greater than twenty or thirty years ago, the concern is that the external checks and View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

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