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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
governance regulates the interactions between a family-owned business and the family owning the business, as well as between the members of the owning family. When both are present and functioning well, the prospects of longevity for the family business and the... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
discussion of how ownership concentration constrains restructuring alternatives, how hedge fund investors might confront controlling shareholders, and how the mispricing of agency costs can give rise to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
reduced the costs of tenure insecurity. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-023.pdf Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies (revised) Authors:Erin M. Reid and Michael... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
211-044 Magna International, Inc., a Canadian-based automotive parts manufacturer, is considering whether and how to unwind its dual-class ownership structure. A family trust controlled by the founder owns a 0.65% economic interest in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
sociology in order to understand this critical turning point in German family business history. The book analyzes changes in ownership and management, dynastic, and succession strategies, as well as the "psychology of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
private benefits. Trade policy provides a source of exogenous price variation to test this proposition: higher tariffs should lead to more vertical integration; moreover, ownership structures should be more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
effective channel strategy, and produced high and increasing EBITDA margins. After holding it for eight years we decided to sell to the private equity firm Madison Dearborn, after the firm’s cofounder, Paul Finnegan (MBA 1982), made the... View Details
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
Shareholders Using a Geographic Instrument Authors:Bo Becker, Henrik Cronqvist, and Rüdiger Fahlenbrach Abstract Large shareholders may play an important role for firm performance and policies, but identifying this empirically presents a challenge due to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
industrial gas concern held by Hoechts and complicated by partial family ownership. The case considers the relationship the partners forged with the family owners to bring about a favorable exit for the private equity partners and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
a natural experiment. Because firms with substantial institutional ownership would have been most affected by the SEC's now-delayed changes, we use the share and composition of institutional investors to sort firms into those more and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
on-demand business model. Its success was linked to the proliferation of smartphones in the United States, which made quickly ordering a car to the user’s location possible. A similar trend was emerging in Jakarta. That rapid growth of internet- ready cell phone View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
own. I also married an entrepreneur, and his encouragement and moral support have been pivotal, as have contacts with my HBS classmates." Since 1992, Benton has been with a Florida-based company founded by her husband, Malcolm Bund. The company uses funds from View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- April 2025
- Case
Techint: Strategic Choices for Community Impact
By: Lauren Cohen, Virak Prum, Kenneth Charman, Pedro Levindo and Mariana Cal
In early 2024 Erika Bienek, Chief Community Relations Officer at Techint, had to decide whether to invest in a new company-owned and operated technical school in Veracruz, Mexico, or invest instead in strengthening the city’s public education system. Techint, a global... View Details
Keywords: Technical Institutes; Community Relations; Social Impact; Argentina; Mexico; Brazil; Conglomerate; Stakeholder Management; Government And Business; Community Impact; Philanthropy; Business Conglomerates; Business Subsidiaries; Business Headquarters; Family Business; Decision Making; Private Sector; Public Sector; Education; Curriculum and Courses; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Teaching; Training; Learning; Energy; Engineering; Construction; Values and Beliefs; Geography; Global Range; Local Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Recruitment; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Knowledge; Resource Allocation; Industry Clusters; Infrastructure; Family Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Creativity; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Construction Industry; Education Industry; Energy Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Europe; Italy; Latin America; North and Central America; Mexico; North America; United States; South America; Argentina; Buenos Aires; Brazil
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
something that will take years.” Home Ownership: Back to Basics HBS lecturer Nicolas Retsinas, who before arriving at Harvard served as assistant secretary for housing in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, offered a historical perspective on U.S.... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
establishments in sparse regions, but both groups improve similarly in dense regions, suggesting that density mitigates the power of large establishments to resist institutional pressures. Finally, privately held firms' establishments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
Recovery Act, one of President Franklin Roosevelt’s signature New Deal programs that looked to create “partnership in planning” between government and organized private industry. A year later, however, it was struck down by the Supreme... View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
shifting institutional ownership patterns. Similarly, exogenous changes in the tax cost of institutional investors receiving dividends results in changes in firm dividend policy What Do Dividends Tell Us About Earnings Quality?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
found in poor countries; bad legislation and ineffective judiciaries in rich nations can enable it.” Defined by the watchdog group Trans-parency International (TI) as “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain,” corruption includes a... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
with these companies in a variety of roles, including those of founders, shareholders, or managers of their own family's firm, as well as those of non-family managers and employees, investors or business partners (e.g., private equity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
that both effects are operative. Instrumental variables analysis indicates that plausibly exogenous changes in payout policy result in shifting institutional ownership patterns. Similarly, exogenous changes in the tax code indicate that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace