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  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

  Working PapersColonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition and Public Goods in India Authors:Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-062.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

activity and new venture financing is an age old question. Public promotion efforts are controversial, and in most cases they tend to fail. In the United States, debate about the role of government in these areas can be traced back to at... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

formas, dividends, debt maturity, asymmetric information, and more. Power Is Boring: The Globalized World as Explained by the Most Anarchic of Economists (Il potere è noioso: Il mondo globalizzato raccontato dal più anarchico degli... View Details
  • 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

shown to be associated with a 24% increase in US investors' equity FPI holdings. These results are robust to various controls, are not evident for debt capital flows, and are confirmed using an instrumental variables analysis. The use of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

perceive the value of CSR strategies more favorably. Our results document how CSR strategies can affect value creation in public equity markets through analyst recommendations. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007

eradicating the shortage of classroom desks in public schools. What should Immelman do? Will Lapdesk achieve its mission? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808008 Lobbying for Love?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

have favored higher-revenue companies. Should Motilal Oswal go public now, to take advantage of the hot Indian market, or hold off and build its revenue for a higher valuation? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

  Publications August 2013 Oxford Handbook of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Multilevel Linkages Innovating without Information Constraints: Organization, Communities, and Innovation When Information Costs Approach Zero By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

cent in Argentina. Chile retains the highest credit rating in Latin America, based on the low 20 per cent ratio of public debt to GDP. In Argentina that ratio is 45 per cent. There remains also a solid... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4

  Publications August 2013 Jossey-Bass Teaming to Innovate By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—Innovation requires teaming. (Put another way, teaming is to innovation what assembly lines are to car production.) This book brings together key... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

Similar sequencing calculations face investors who seek to quietly purchase a series of blocks of stock for a possible acquisition or take positions in various debt securities to improve their position in a bankruptcy negotiation. Beware... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics. Ebrahim teaches the required MBA course Leadership and Organizational Behavior, and chairs the Executive Education program Governing for Nonprofit Excellence. Q: Mario, tell us about Venture... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18

  Publications November 2014 Wiley Encyclopedia of Management Management as a Profession By: Khurana, Rakesh, and Eric Baldwin Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

public and private regulatory activities. Read the paper: http://www.gcbpp.org/files/EPV/EPV_Short_RobustEnforcement_92012.pdf Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
  • Supplement

Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
By many measures the largest health-club chain in the United States in the early 2000s, Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness clubs to 24 Hour Fitness in 2014 and disappeared from the industry top 100 rankings. After Bally was bedeviled by accounting... View Details
Keywords: Bally Total Fitness; Accounting; Accounting Audits; Accrual Accounting; Business Earnings; Revenue Recognition; Financial Statements; Acquisition; Business Exit or Shutdown; For-Profit Firms; Crime and Corruption; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; Capital Structure; Cash; Cash Flow; Public Equity; Financial Condition; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; Investment Activism; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Business History; Executive Compensation; Resignation and Termination; Annual Reports; Contracts; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Marketing; Market Entry and Exit; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Health Industry; Accounting Industry; United States; Illinois; Chicago
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  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

http://intranet.hbs.edu/dept/drfd/new_publications/papers/Porter-Ketels/clusters.pdf Board Interlocks and the Propensity to Be Targeted in Private Equity Transactions Authors:Toby E. Stuart and Soojin Yim Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

  Publications 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts By: Eisenmann, Tom, ed. Abstract—Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann annually compiles the best posts from many blogs on technology startup... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

The Transformers

Set for publication next spring, the book draws on a decade of experience and years of research to frame a series of questions that, if rigorously addressed, will guide donors to better results with their philanthropy. Bridgespan also... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

http://media.swissre.com/documents/pub_risk_dialogue_Integrative_Risk_Management.pdf Organising Response to Extreme Emergencies: The Victorian Bushfires of 2009 Authors:Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt Publication:The Victorian Bushfires of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

Financial Management of Family and Closely Held Firms: Overview of the Course Harvard Business School Course Overview 209-137 Most companies around the world are controlled by their founding families, including more than half of all View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace