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- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
institutions. We seek empirical evidence suggested by theories concerning conflicts between managers and owners over risk-taking. We argue that managers holding equity of their bank take less risk because they have fewer opportunities to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
framework to address this problem, allowing a firm to better align the design of its development processes to the specific aims of individual projects. We illustrate this framework with examples from Hewlett-Packard, a large, diversified... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Sun, Genentech, Amgen, Dell, and Compaq didn't exist in 1975! Once these managers decided to allocate a percentage to venture investments, they typically increased that percentage by investing in multiple venture funds and... View Details
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
of resumes. Experienced eyes can point out immediate red flags and give you specific areas you may want to probe for a particular candidate. Invite an investor to help diversify an otherwise homogeneous interview team. This can be a game... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
diversified conglomerate in Thailand and expanded the business in Southeast Asia and China. While growing the business, he and his brothers created a holding company to both maintain and separate the interests of the family from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
the transition to a more diversified product line based on the company's proprietary technologies. In one instance, Fuji manufactures protective film for flat panel displays from cellulose triacetate, the same material that is coated with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
restructure and diversify the giant family firm and turn it into a global enterprise. How do you see the role of business now and in the future? Consumers are demanding a new template for corporations. They are not satisfied with glossy... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
commonplace, diversified business groups rather than the M-form became the major form of large-scale business, corporate strategies to deal with turbulence were essential, and radical corporate social responsibility concepts were pursued... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
more than managerial hierarchies, immigrants and diaspora were critical sources of entrepreneurship, illegal and informal forms of business were commonplace, diversified business groups rather than the M-form became the major form of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
Working PapersGlobal Currency Hedging Authors:John Y. Campbell, Karine Serfaty-de Medeiros, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract This paper considers the risk management problem of an investor who holds a diversified portfolio of global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
was critical to the team’s economic well-being. “Our 2008 partnership with Comcast was as transformational as building the park,” stresses Baer. “The economics of major league sports have been ratcheted up to the point where even winning teams can struggle if they... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
company in 2006 that involves letting go 5,000 employees and managing the transition to a more diversified product line based on the company’s proprietary technologies. In one instance, Fuji manufactures protective film for flat panel... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
sporting goods companies. But Kim and Coup weren’t interested in selling the company yet. Meanwhile, Timberland, based in Stratham, New Hampshire, had been assembling a collection of brands under the umbrella of its outdoor group to View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
competing stakeholder demands, keep the business running, and ultimately paid back every dollar it owed to its creditors by selling the company’s core assets—its travel plazas—to its main competitor in 2010. Since that time, the company had returned to a healthy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
capabilities" view of business groups-that such groups have done the most to invest in R&D and other skills necessary to combine inputs in ways that lead to greater added value. Moreover, our finding that Indian business groups have grown larger and more View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
radically transformed them. Jesse Philips (MBA '39), for example, bought a small manufacturing firm in 1957 and parlayed it into a diversified billion-dollar corporation. Similarly, Robert Cizik (MBA '58) developed Cooper Industries, a... View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
514-112 Johnson & Johnson: The Pursuit of Wellness To create the world's healthiest workforce, diversified health care giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) mandated participation in its "Culture of Health" program globally,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
influence how investors diversify their portfolios; the organizational and ownership decisions firms make; firm investment[PDF] decisions; and myriad financing decisions, including capital structure and repatriation. Perhaps, the biggest... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
and enforcement of existing laws and legislation. I would also utilize the country’s wealth to benefit both the Mongolian people and the business sector, while diversifying the economy into animal husbandry, food processing, light... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
pins. The key to success, says Herzlinger, is to diversify income streams, which GSUSA did by expanding their fund-raising activities and finding new sources of income. Herzlinger continues to investigate various topics in the nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry