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- 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007
Working PapersUnmasking Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity Authors:Robin J. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson Abstract This paper presents a case study of offshore oil platforms—a workplace that has traditionally... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
inception of a promising venture lay the foundations for its eventual ruin. The Founder's Dilemmas is the first book to examine the early decisions by entrepreneurs that can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, Noam Wasserman reveals... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010
Governance When Founders Are Directors Authors:Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We examine CEO compensation, CEO retention policies, and M&A decisions in firms where founders serve as a director... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016
distinctively African-American names are 16% less likely to be accepted relative to identical guests with distinctively White names. Discrimination occurs among landlords of all sizes, including small landlords sharing the property and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006
meanness level that a penal system based on "retribution" tries to detect when deciding the severity of the punishment. We find that when initial beliefs differ, two equilibria can emerge out of identical fundamentals. In the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
Control Rights Harvard Business School Case 209-109 Founders and their families can raise equity without relinquishing control of their companies through the use of mechanisms such as dual-class stock, pyramidal ownership, voting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007
Management: Founder Decisions Harvard Business School Case 807-125 Scott Taylor, CEO & founder of NLM, is a serial entrepreneur faced with an important decision. As his industry consolidates, he knows... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016
Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39907 Does 'What We Do' Make Us 'Who We Are'? Organizational Design and Identity Change at the Federal Bureau of Investigation By: Gulati, Ranjay, Ryan Raffaelli, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
private equity consortium led by Finansbank's previous owner and founder Husnu Ozyegin. Each of these potential buyers had different motivations for the purchase. NBG's motivations were to obtain the highest price and to close the deal as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
807-151 The founders of Lynx Solutions have survived major challenges within their board of directors, the firing of Lynx's founder-CEO and departure of its successor CEO, and a crisis sparked by media allegations that it had been spying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
become less critical of the experience—in this study, less sensitive to possible bugs while playing an otherwise identical “revised” video game—and whether this mediates the effect of revision framing on positive evaluations. Studies 5A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
can't get anyone else to do," Xuan says. To test for that possibility, the team assessed the 12,577 investments according to measures that had proven to be indicators of future success, according to previous research. Such indicators included whether a company's View Details
- 09 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
employees influences their startup's performance. We conducted a randomized field experiment in India with 100 high-growth technology firms whose founders received in-person advice from other entrepreneurs who varied in their managerial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
requesting them. Still slated to lose their jobs, the workers built cars so efficiently that they earned the right to a new-car launch. And when the time came to shut the plant down, headquarters had to refuse: The employees at Wilmington had made themselves too... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509050 Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A1) Harvard Business School Case 109-013 Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge fund manager, seek to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
personal persuasion. Kearney, her twin sister, is an entrepreneur and scholar whose research is fueled by both a frustration with and curiosity about the dearth of venture capital for women. (In the first half of 2013, companies with at least one female View Details
- 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016
forthcoming Management Science The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures By: Hellmann, Thomas F., and Noam Wasserman Abstract—We examine the trade-off between efficiency and equality within the context of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
2002. Walmart grew significantly, expanded internationally, and became a leading player in groceries. However, it also faced criticism regarding its wage and labor practices. Meanwhile, Kmart faced an identity crisis, falling between the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/aknin%20et%20al%202013.pdf 2006 American Economic Review A Note on Fairness and Redistribution By: Di Tella, Rafael, and Juan Dubra Abstract—In an influential paper, Alesina and Angeletos (2005)-henceforth, AA-argued that a preference... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407024 St. HOPE Academy: The Expansion Decision Harvard Business School Case 307-080 St. HOPE is faced with a decision concerning whether or not to expand from Sacramento to New York City. While charter... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace