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- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
investors. People who owned their homes took advantage of this equity buildup, some becoming what he termed "serial refinancers." "What used to be a goal of people like my parents to someday have no mortgage, all of a... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
CEO-doubled during this period, this growth was driven primarily by an increase in functional managers rather than general managers, a phenomenon we term "functional centralization." Using panel data on senior management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
Paper No. 9680.) Abstract Patent pools are an important but little-studied economic institution. In this paper, we first make a set of predictions about the licensing terms associated with patent pools. The theoretical framework predicts... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
through their eyes. And we dined with one of my former students, who set up one of the pioneering private equity funds in Egypt and whose wife is bringing high-fashion retailing to a corner of the new Four Seasons Hotel. Q: What did you see there in general in View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
reach its aggressive growth targets. In the summer of 2016, after an intense few months of talks with potential investors, Ozbugutu was looking at five competitive term sheets from funds with great fintech know-how and emerging-markets... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
the role of organization in regard to a business unit's success, or in the choice of which structure to use, is intertwined with a large number of other important factors. These include the strategy of the business, the quality of its... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
relationships in which BATNAs are inherently interdependent. Third, BATNAs are often mistakenly described mainly as “last resorts” relevant only in case of impasse or “if the other side is more powerful.” Other uses of the term “BATNA”... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
negotiations and auctions are the only two ways in which assets get sold in any market economy. There's a deep literature on each of these mechanisms but very little on the interplay between the two—that messy, murky middle ground where most deals happen in today's... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
conflicts of interest. For example, the change in the commission structure in 1974 created a whole new dynamic that influenced the role of research by investment banks. And the growing importance of consulting at public accounting firms... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
primarily on substitutes but copied from rivals. Next, they actively tested their assumptions and made major resource commitments to the business model they identified as the most lucrative. Finally, they deliberately maintained a loosely View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1953–2009, it was unusually high in the early 1980s and negative in the 2000s, particularly in the downturns of 2000–2002 and 2007–2009. This paper specifies and estimates a model in which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
PublicationsChange Agents, Networks, and Institutions: A Contingency Theory of Organizational Change Authors:Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro Publication:Academy of Management Journal 55, no. 2 (April 2012) Abstract We develop a contingency theory for how View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
psychologists describe groundbreaking research from disparate work settings, and cross-cultural psychologists reveal the variety of ways that envy can emerge as a function of cultures as wide-ranging as the Japanese school system to the fascinating View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
Indeed, a majority of the Bank's 185-member countries never receive a chance to sit at the table, suffering in tangible and less-tangible ways in terms of continued poverty for their people. In 2008 the World Bank's two main development... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
"structural breaks"-privatization, for example, or globalization-and assess why powerful actors across countries behaved similarly or differently in terms of network properties and corporate governance. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
leads the loan syndicate (parent-financed deals). Bank-affiliated deals are similar in characteristics and financing to stand-alone deals but have worse outcomes if consummated during the peaks of the credit market. Parent-financed deals enjoy significantly better... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
identified and classified in terms of specifying, allocating, and utilizing capacity. The first two categories reflect challenges faced by infrastructure providers; the last category, challenges faced by airlines. Building Effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
exposure to a well-diversified portfolio of hedge fund strategies. Second, it terms of its fees, the new DELTA strategy would charge investors relatively lower fees: 1% management fees plus 10% of performance over a cash hurdle (or,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
speak to that. Weinzierl: It is a proposal we could have expected from any Republican president—it doesn't feel like a Trump proposal in any unusual sense to me. In terms of the changes to the personal rate View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
program also touches on the practices used by academic labs to sustain productivity, drills down into organizational models, and reviews methods to help executives deal with the questions of project prioritization. Managing For The Long View Details