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  • February 2010 (Revised December 2010)
  • Case

Lending Club

By: Peter Tufano
A new entrant in the nascent online peer lending space, Lending Club must decide whether or not to register with the SEC. Lending Club provided a platform through which individual borrowers could receive loans funded by individuals who chose to invest in them. The... View Details
Keywords: Financial Instruments; Price; Personal Finance; Financing and Loans; Financial Services Industry
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  • 07 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

in press Academy of Management Annals Scaling: Organizing and Growth in Entrepreneurial Ventures By: DeSantola, Alicia, and Ranjay Gulati Abstract—Entrepreneurial ventures face unique challenges related to growth, particularly in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales

prices across a product line of black boots,” Ferreira says. “Should you offer the most expensive boot first and [successively] offer cheaper boots, or display them in some other order? Or, if a retailer... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Fashion
  • 01 Aug 2007
  • Op-Ed

Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments

African villages, store owners paint Coca-Cola signs on the sides of their tin shacks. These signs are not sanctioned or paid for by the company. They are seen by locals as a sign View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker
  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

world with new clarity. If there is one strain of conventional wisdom pervading every company in every industry, it is the importance of competing hard to differentiate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Incentives and Operational Excellence

important reason, but by no means the only one, he added. Others include communication problems, a lack of hierarchy for resolving issues—think of Ford and Firestone, and the finger-pointing View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

source software ("OSS"). What drives companies with large, proprietary software portfolios to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in OSS? We approach this question by grouping a sample View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

projects known for their cutting-edge designs and investment potential. Despite the tremendous success of the firm, Zhang Xin still looks at the future with great uncertainty. Average residential pricing in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

find support for these hypotheses. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-022.pdf Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs Author: Michael W. Toffel Abstract Firms and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch

Walking around the Cynthiana, Kentucky, manufacturing plant of E.D. Bullard Company, the firm's chairman, Jed Bullard, is in his element. "This is Sandy, she's been here a hundred years," he jokes with a woman affixing decals to hard... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

High Fives

have encouraged our clients to take substantial portions of their U.S. equity portfolios and buy international stocks.” Views on investing in emerging markets: “Those markets are enticing but can be... View Details
  • 2011
  • Article

'Deprival Value' vs. 'Fair Value' Measurement for Contract Liabilities: How to Resolve the 'Revenue Recognition' Conundrum

By: Joanne Horton, Richard H. Macve and George Serafeim
Revenue recognition and measurement principles can conflict with liability recognition and measurement principles. We explore here under different market conditions when the two measurement approaches coincide and when they conflict. We show that where entities expect... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value; Deprival Value; Contract Liabilities; Fair Value Accounting; Measurement and Metrics; Profit; Revenue Recognition; Assets; Performance Evaluation; Contracts
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  • November 2024
  • Supplement

Epic Games: Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite (B)

By: Andy Wu and Ronald Wang
In a significant ruling on April 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld portions of the district court’s decision against Epic Games back in September 2021. However, Apple’s anti-steering provisions, which restricted app developers from... View Details
Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Market Transactions; Applications and Software; Technology Industry; Video Game Industry
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  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

this year, of the millions of cars being churned out in factories all around the world, one of them, unknown and unremarked, will roll off an... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 01 May 2013
  • News

Catherine E. Kuehn Price, MBA 1986 & Malcolm K. Price, MBA 1987

her an appreciation for the School’s ability to keep pace with the evolving practice of business. “I’m fascinated by all the changes,” she says. “There’s so much going on with entrepreneurship now,” she... View Details
  • April 2009 (Revised August 2009)
  • Case

Petrobras in Ecuador (A)

By: Aldo Musacchio, Lena G. Goldberg and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
On October 18, 2007, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa announced his intention to migrate Petrobras' existing participation contracts to exploit oil reserves in Ecuador's Blocks 18 and 31 to servicing agreements under which Petrobras would be paid a production fee and... View Details
Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Governance; Government Administration; Taxation; Contracts; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Public Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Brazil; Ecuador
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  • May 2011 (Revised June 2011)
  • Case

The Crisis at Tyco - A Director's Perspective

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Aldo Sesia
In 2002, Wendy Lane had been a member of the board of directors at Tyco International a little more than a year when the company's CEO Dennis Kozlowski and other top executives were accused of fraud, which ultimately led to resignations, imprisonments, lawsuits, and... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Reputation; Governing and Advisory Boards; Crisis Management; Accounting Audits; Problems and Challenges; Risk Management; Finance; Managerial Roles; Lawsuits and Litigation; Service Industry; United States
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  • August 2000
  • Article

Corporate Reorganizations and Non-Cash Auctions

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and S. Viswanathan
This paper extends the theory of non-cash auctions by considering the revenue and efficiency of using different securities. Research on bankruptcy and privatization suggests using non-cash auctions to increase cash-constrained bidder participation. We examine this... View Details
Keywords: Auctions; Revenue; Debt Securities; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Privatization; Capital Structure; Bids and Bidding; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Efficiency; Contracts
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  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

business group affiliates and when local institutions develop. Therefore, we shed light on the firm-level implications of minority state ownership, a topic that has received scant attention in the strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

forthcoming Journal of Finance Brokers and Order Flow Leakage: Evidence from Fire Sales By: Barbon, Andrea, Marco Di Maggio, Francesco Franzoni, and Augustin Landier Abstract—Using trade-level data, we study whether brokers play a role in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman