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- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
to Hong Kong. The company was highly successful in Singapore and Hong Kong and then pursued rapid global expansion. Lacking frameworks for deciding upon countries to enter and services to deliver in each country, Exline used gut instinct. Lacking View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
artist's concert tour and faces a new set of challenges regarding the launch of Lady Gaga's new album, Born This Way. Is a huge, expensive launch akin to that of a "tent-pole" movie the best way to capitalize on Gaga's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
make this diagnosis, one obviously has to make all kinds of assumptions, but sometimes the implied value gap is just enormous. The third reason companies restructure is to correct a large error in how the company is valued in the capital... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
brand: What are people thinking? And you’d expect a much lower sensitivity to administration, to structure, to organizational dynamics, to long-term view, and to capital spending. The incoming president has a really good sense for what... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
is being abandoned by the two remaining large capital exporters—the U.K. and Japan—that had maintained similar regimes. The conundrum facing policymakers is how to reconcile mounting pressures for increased tax burdens on foreign activity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
controlling shareholder to list equity. Higher valuations support listings associated with greater agency costs. We test the predictions that follow from this idea on a sample of publicly listed corporate subsidiaries in Japan. When there... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
variables within the control of practitioners to outcomes they care about using logic they view as feasible. I provide several suggestions for how scholars can enhance research relevance, including engaging practitioners in on-campus... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
business. It is argued that the country of origin of a technological innovation is less economically important than the ability of a society to capitalize on that innovation and convert it into profitable business opportunities.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
marketing and field service expenses. With low penetration and high capital and operating expenses, cable operators experienced significant losses in most urban systems. Hence, in 1975, the industry was not very profitable. Based on... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
nonetheless was met with positive abnormal returns of U.S.-listed foreign firms in both home and U.S. markets. These abnormal returns are actually higher the greater the percentage of a firm's capital listed on non-U.S. exchanges but are... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
organizational coherence in support of the strategy Developing and managing human capital Allocating resources in alignment with the strategy Using performance data for decision making and accountability Here's how these play out on the... View Details
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
talented and more risk-averse managers, and these managers work less hard, earn less, and display lower job satisfaction. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-073.pdf Equity-Debtholder Conflicts and Capital Structure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
also show that the internal control provisions of section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley make royalty arrangements based on self-reporting more attractive. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-100.pdf Toward a Theory of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
factors such as "firm culture" and "employee engagement" in driving firm performance? Increasing evidence from a wide range of fields suggests that productivity differs widely across firms, even after the inclusion of careful View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
spending needs as well as economic factors such as rising interest rates that affect different assets in different ways. Viceira's research analyzes asset allocation strategies for personal and institutional investors. He teaches investment management and View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
of plant-level data provides evidence of capital deepening and a decline in total factor productivity following the introduction of wrongful-discharge protections. This last result is potentially quite important, suggesting that mandated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
survey. We find that the end-of-month inventory significantly increased in four of the six retail segments studied and that, after controlling for sales and macroeconomic factors, the positive time trends for the end-of-month inventory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
argue that the puzzling combination of high-frequency excess sensitivity and low-frequency decoupling between short- and long-term rates can be understood using a model in which (i) shocks to short-term interest rates lead to a rise in term premia on long-term bonds... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
the industry and accounted for its resilience and how these are likely to influence its future. Publisher's link: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22872 2006 John Wiley & Sons Venture Capital & Private Equity: A Casebook By: Lerner,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
outcomes while controlling for the endogenous matching of projects and organizational forms. Solo firm leases are less profitable than alliance leases because alliance members combine their information and expertise. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne