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- 2010
- Other Unpublished Work
Why Takeover Vulnerability Matters to Debtholders
By: Joan Farre-Mensa
Recent work documents that firms that are more vulnerable to takeover have higher borrowing costs. This paper investigates the reasons behind this stylized fact. My results show that firms with few antitakeover defenses face a higher cost of debt because lenders are... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Borrowing and Debt; Cost; Equity; Banks and Banking; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution
Farre-Mensa, Joan. "Why Takeover Vulnerability Matters to Debtholders." 2010.
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Cold Calling - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
before class or outside of class (e.g., via e-mail, office hours). This approach -- usually referred to as a "warm call" -- provides the student with additional time to prepare and reduces the likelihood that the cold call will get off to... View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
challenges. ESG Amnesia in M&A Deals: The Case of Musk and Twitter Professor Guhan Subramanian (MBA 1996) + More Info – Less Info This session examines the legal and business issues raised by Elon Musk's recent acquisition of Twitter, now... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
structure of their industries, hastened competitive convergence, and reduced the likelihood that they or anyone else will gain a competitive advantage. A destructive, zero-sum form of competition has been set in motion that confuses the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
- 08 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?
jobs across the country and a slew of mergers and acquisitions as companies struggle to regain financial footing. As of 2015, 78 percent of US print media firms with a daily circulation of over 50,000 were using a digital subscription... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
the committee has steadily broadened its purview, now advising on a broad range of issues including innovation and acquisitions in addition to labor practices and resource sustainability. A close examination of Nike's experience has led... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
framework to evaluate the likelihood of success of a digital-platform business. Slides June 7-8 Reunion Celebration Dean Srikant Datar: Welcome Address Video Recording + More Info – Less Info Hear an update on the Dean’s key priorities,... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
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How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
becomes, which lowers the likelihood of a winner-take-all outcome. Lastly, the truly successful firms in a platform world tend to have meaningful supply-side scale economies. Markets with large economies of scale generally have higher... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
4.2 percent less likely to land $10 million or more in investment capital within five years. This represents a significant reduction given that the average likelihood of raising this amount is 25 percent. 2.5 percent less likely to find... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
culturally heterogeneous network increases the likelihood of receiving culture-related novel ideas from others in the network whether or not they share one's culture of origin. This finding sheds light on the mechanisms that underlie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
assistant professor of strategy at Harvard Business School. “If a CEO can trust his senior managers, he will be more willing to decentralize decision-making” "The bottom line is that whoever is in charge of the acquisitions and the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
professor Deepak Malhotra. "These might all increase the likelihood of overbidding due to auction fever." This research comes from a recently published paper, coauthored with Gillian Ku, "Towards a Competitive Arousal Model... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
returns are more positive for acquisitions in which both the target and the acquirer are financed by the same venture capital firm. Similarly, we find that having a common investor increases both the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
This chapter proposes that patents are real options that allow holders of patents the right but not the obligation to sue others. We suggest that the likelihood of a patent's being litigated is positively associated with the value of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
likelihood that they will exploit their current exchange partners, even after controlling for the leverage provided by the outside options. Our results demonstrate that previously sunken investments lead to a heightened sense of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
PublicationsThe New M&A Playbook Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising, and Andrew Waldeck Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Companies spend more than $2 trillion on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
suggest that phenomenological assumptions linking micro-processes to organizational contexts highlight the relevance of micro-process research findings to broader organizational questions, and therefore increase the likelihood that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
workforce diversity initiatives. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-019.pdf Cases & Course Materials Accounting for Business Combinations: Acquisition Method Harvard Business School Note 108-067 A technical note... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
variable analysis and use the differences in the likelihood of retirement driven by Social Security retirement incentives in the United States to find a sizable increase in purpose in life as an outcome of retirement.” Emotional... View Details
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
Would-be innovators know that one of their biggest challenges is systematically identifying the innovations with the greatest likelihood of creating disruptive growth. Pick the wrong one, and squander a year or more of focus and... View Details