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- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
markets, managers can engineer a company's capital structure so that the only liabilities borne by the company are value-added risks. What are value-added risks and how are they different from passive risks? A: "Value-added"... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Silvers Illustration by Jeff Smith Damon Silvers (MBA ’95) tried to put his whirlwind day on hold just long enough to answer my queries about labor’s wish list for the new Congress and his role as a member of the Congressional Oversight... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
Working PapersEquity-Debtholder Conflicts and Capital Structure Authors:Bo Becker and Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
employed mothers are more likely to be employed, more likely to hold supervisory responsibility if employed, work more hours, and earn marginally higher wages than women whose mothers were home full time. The effects on labor market... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
reducing inventory costs (defined here as the sum of stockout losses and cost of capital associated with holding inventory). The heuristic increased estimated agent profits by 15% relative to profits realized through agents actual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
shrouding risk. We find four empirical results consistent with this view. First, we show that structured products with complex payoff formulas offer higher headline rates, and that they more frequently expose investors to a complete loss... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
capital. However, this result is not alleviated by the presence of long-term investors, consistent with these investors requiring a risk premium for holding the stock of short-term oriented firms. Our results View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
suggests that exploiting the bigotry of others might be a source of competitive advantage. We seek to turn the first literature somewhat on its head by building on insights from the second literature. Specifically, multinationals hold a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
company's mission on behalf of customers. They should be given full responsibility for performance, quality, achievement of goals, and compliance with company standards. To realize this change, organizational structures need to change.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 to 1994. The interaction of this preexisting network View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
competitive structure of the global real estate services market mandating that providers become more customer-solutions oriented. The case is set shortly after the announcement of the restructuring which, for the first time, will place... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) and other investors, holding 28 percent of the company's stock altogether, withheld their votes for the 30 percent of directors that they could vote on as a sign of protest against the management of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
want, how they make choices, and how to design and market their insurance products appropriately. Insurers who have struggled in the individual market should look at how the successful insurers have structured their product offerings.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
This involved such things as reorganizing, delegating authority, increasing accountability, building trust among employees, and recognizing and rewarding desired behaviors. The authors conclude from this that “cultural change is what you get after you’ve put new... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values
organization stand for and what are you willing to commit to and hold all members of your community accountable for? Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are important because they bring individuals together in the workplace based on shared... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
those of Mandela and the African National Congress coincide," she notes, "but he has his own way of doing things. Reorganizing the structure of the presidency is just one example of that." Meyer credits her academic training with... View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
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
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
explain what they were doing under the 1991 statute. To hold senior government officials accountable for all bailouts, Congress should extend the 1991 statute to any type of financial institution. Q: How has Congress tried to restore... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
These structures determine a firm's motivation to seek protection, as well as its capacity to overcome collective action problems within its industry. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater horizontal consolidation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
business of politics as they would study any company or sector, looking at structural components such as competitors, customers, channels to reach customers, suppliers, and the threat of new entrants into the market using the “five-forces... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette