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- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
suppliers, tertiary suppliers such as steel and aluminum manufacturers, the dealer network, and providers of financing, especially GMAC. The task of saving two major auto makers was all the more difficult because the companies appeared peculiarly unprepared to View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
lives and the very structure and power dynamics of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital-funded entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
only for IS researchers, but also for colleagues in allied disciplines who are already contributing to shaping the sciences of design. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-056.pdf PublicationsSocial Structure Shapes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
in the magnitude and sign of bond risk premia. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-095.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsIdentifying Firm Capital Structure Bo Becker Harvard Business School Case 211-072 Students are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
of: how do these groups work, what deals do they look at, and ultimately do they make a difference for the companies they fund? Q: Is crowdfunding a threat to more traditional notions of venture capital? A: There have been a lot of... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
since a few studies examining the earliest offerings in the 1980s," says Lerner. "Instead, broad claims are being based on a few highly visible failures, such as Refco, or else analyses of a handful of recent offerings." Details Of A View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
century." And respondents seemed largely in agreement that Vicente Fox is well equipped to help foster a serious discussion of ways of dealing with the labor migration that will take place one way or another between the two... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
work they are already doing. For, example I am helping a major U.S. utility look at the implications of possible carbon regulation and the way they structure their business. I'm working with a large consumer goods company to look at the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
readers? Use data science. Make money by doing deals with television and filmmakers and book publishers. The case describes the challenges of matching readers to stories and of helping writers produce better stories by supplying feedback... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
unprecedented expansion of higher education and, in the most recent time, efforts at reform and restructuring. Harvard has overhauled its undergraduate curriculum in a comprehensive fashion for the first time in 30 years. European universities have witnessed even more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
structures, we adopt a process perspective and find that integration was achieved despite an incentive structure that did not support it. By drawing a distinction between the incentive landscape and the planning process, we identify... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
providers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50817 December 2016 Harvard Law Review Deal Process Design in Management Buyouts By: Subramanian, Guhan Abstract—Management buyouts (MBOs) are an economically and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
were just not the ones other scholars were talking about. I wanted to read and write about those books. I first had the idea of hanging the book's structure on Cary when I saw on my shelf a number of increasingly voluminous translations... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
increases one’s bargaining power. A minimally necessary condition for an agreement to be mutually acceptable is that each side prefers the deal to its BATNA. Thus, how well each party’s BATNA serves its interests determines whether a zone... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
hand. It also allows students to consider and debate whether the traditional private equity fund structure can be applied in Africa. In particular, the case focuses on one of Qalaa’s largest and most difficult greenfield infrastructure... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
analyze the big picture (Just what is it that's changing?), help participants understand the "new agenda," and offer a good deal of practical advice on how to thrive in the coming years. Something important I've come to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
return-regression R2 and 16% worse in measurement error variance; firms choosing specific peers only modestly underperform. Structural estimates suggest that, absent frictions, the underperformance of index-based benchmarks imply a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
forthcoming Abstract Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
gender diversity, induced by parenting more daughters, improves deal and fund performances. These effects concentrate overwhelmingly on the daughters of senior partners than junior partners. Taken together, our findings have profound... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
Luo, Daniel E. Whitney, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and Christopher L. Magee Abstract A hierarchy is a generic structure in which entities such as firms are ordered with respect to a specific relationship. Thus, if A sells to B, which sells to C,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne