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  • 2008
  • Article

Governance and Merger Accounting: Evidence from Stock Price Reactions to Purchase versus Pooling

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
This paper examines the effect of corporate governance on investor reactions to accounting choice in the context of accounting for business combinations. Using a sample of 324 recent stock swap acquisitions I find that, contrary to practitioners' belief that capital... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Mergers and Acquisitions; Capital Markets; Stocks; Price; Corporate Governance
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    The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports

    In the business of entertainment, digital technologies are dramatically disrupting the way products are developed, marketed, and distributed. As a result of this paradigm shift, entertainment executives and content producers are challenged to effectively allocate... View Details
    • Teaching Interest

    The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports (Executive Education)

    By: Anita Elberse
    In the business of entertainment, digital technologies are dramatically disrupting the way products are developed, marketed, and distributed. As a result of this paradigm shift, entertainment executives and content producers are challenged to effectively allocate... View Details
    • 24 Nov 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

    Companies can create shareholder value through more effective governance, and through boards that do not simply ensure compliance, but focus their time and efforts on the most critical strategic areas. Past board results have often not... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
    • January 2014
    • Case

    In a Bind: Peak Sealing Technologies' Product Line Extension Dilemma

    By: Robert J. Dolan and Heather Beckham
    Peak Sealing Technologies (PST), a manufacturer of premium carton sealing tapes, stresses technological innovation as the company's core value. But when a new regional competitor introduces a less expensive and inferior product, PST is faced with a decision that could... View Details
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice, and Open Questions

    By: Alvin E. Roth
    The deferred acceptance algorithm proposed by Gale and Shapley (1962) has had a profound influence on market design, both directly, by being adapted into practical matching mechanisms, and, indirectly, by raising new theoretical questions. Deferred acceptance... View Details
    Keywords: Education; Marketplace Matching; Market Design; Mathematical Methods; Theory; Practice
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    • Research Summary

    When Does IT Foster Markets, When Does it Foster Hierarchies?

    The 'Electronic Markets Hypothesis' is, at present, essentially taken for granted. It holds that greater use of IT leads to greater use of market mechanisms for coordinating activity, basically because of IT's ability to reduce the costs of coordination.

    The... View Details

    • January 2002 (Revised September 2002)
    • Case

    Corporate Renewal in America

    By: Bruce R. Scott and Thomas S. Mondschean
    Discusses various macroeconomic, regulatory, technological, and financial forces that led to increased corporate restructuring in the United States beginning in the mid-1980s. The U.S. financial system is often viewed as the most developed in the world and a model for... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Corporate Governance; Macroeconomics; Economic Systems; Restructuring; Markets; Private Sector; Corporate Finance; Germany; Japan; United States
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    • 03 Jan 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Banking Deregulation, Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship

    Keywords: by William Kerr & Ramana Nanda; Banking

      How Quantitative Easing Works: Evidence on the Refinancing Channel

      When LSAPs are needed the most, simply bending the yield curve through purchasing government debt is not effective for stimulating the mortgage market (a key sector of the economy for the transmission of monetary policy). Purchasing mortgage-backed... View Details

      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Stretching the Inelastic Rubber: Taxation, Welfare and Lobbies in Amazonia, 1870-1910

      By: Felipe Tamega Fernandes
      This paper examines the effect of government intervention via taxation on domestic welfare. A case-study of Brazilian market power on rubber markets during the boom years of 1870-1910 shows that the government generated 1.3% of GDP through an export tax on rubber but... View Details
      Keywords: Government Legislation; Taxation; Business and Government Relations; Welfare or Wellbeing; Rubber Industry; Brazil
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      • March 2008
      • Article

      Deferred Acceptance Algorithms: History, Theory, Practice, and Open Questions

      By: Alvin E. Roth
      The deferred acceptance algorithm proposed by Gale and Shapley (1962) has had a profound influence on market design, both directly, by being adapted into practical matching mechanisms, and, indirectly, by raising new theoretical questions. Deferred acceptance... View Details
      Keywords: History; Market Design; Labor; System; Practice; Performance; Theory; Boston; New York (city, NY)
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      • Research Summary

      Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation

      By: Laura Alfaro
      In the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically. We revisit sovereign debt sustainability under the assumptions that countries can accumulate reserves and borrow internationally using their own... View Details
      • October 2003 (Revised January 2005)
      • Case

      Shared Decision Making

      By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Karen Sepucha and Laura Feldman
      The Foundation for Informed Medical Decision-Making has created an interactive videodisc system that provides patients with customized support regarding medical treatment or screening decisions when they face a choice between two equally effective courses of action.... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Borrowing and Debt; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Product Marketing; Distribution Channels; Production; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Information Technology
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      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda
      Katz and Shapiro (1985) study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided plat- forms and direct network effects. We consider systems compatibility in settings with two-sided platforms and indirect network effects to develop an explanation why markets with... View Details
      Keywords: Network Effects; One-Sided Platforms; Two-Sided Platforms; Competition
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      • 17 Apr 2015
      • HBS Seminar

      Leemore Dafny, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

      • October 2012 (Revised March 2022)
      • Case

      Kleiner-Perkins and Genentech: When Venture Capital Met Science

      By: Felda Hardymon and Tom Nicholas
      Genentech is a rare success story in the biotechnology industry. Hundreds of billions of dollars of venture capital have been invested without the expected transformational effects. Established in 1976, Genentech was to develop the new science of recombinant DNA into... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Science; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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      • May 2012
      • Course Overview Note

      Managing Stakeholders with Corporate Social Responsibility

      By: Christopher Marquis and Laura Velez Villa
      This note articulates the ways in which strong stakeholder-company relationships developed through corporate social responsibility initiatives and other types of social strategies deliver bottom line benefits. The analysis follows stakeholder logic models connecting... View Details
      Keywords: Business And Society; Social Responsibility; Stakeholder Management; Government And Business; Philanthropy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Revenue
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      • December 2014 (Revised November 2015)
      • Case

      Alibaba Goes Public (A)

      By: Krishna Palepu, Suraj Srinivasan, Charles C.Y. Wang and David Lane
      In 2014 Alibaba debuted on the New York Stock Exchange, creating not only the largest IPO in history but this initial desire to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange was denied due to the company's desire to preserve its partner's control over decision rights. Why did... View Details
      Keywords: Dual-class Share Structure; Alibaba; IPOs; VIE; Corporate Governance; Financial Services Industry; United States; Hong Kong; China
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      • 24 Apr 2023
      • HBS Case

      What Does It Take to Build as Much Buzz as Booze? Inside the Epic Challenge of Cannabis-Infused Drinks

      use bespoke strategies to navigate the splintered regulations. Are there ripe customer segments waiting to be tapped? Cann has prioritized larger marketing campaigns with the goal of raising overall awareness, but with mixed results.... View Details
      Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage