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  • April 1999
  • Case

Steve Perlman and WebTV (B)

By: James K. Sebenius and Ron Fortgang
The dynamics of a linked series of internal and external negotiations involved in launching, growing, and selling a high-tech, Internet start-up are explored. Steve Perlman unfurled an impressive new technology, recruited a top technical and management team, secured... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Process; Value Creation; Alliances; Technological Innovation; Business Exit or Shutdown; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • 09 Jul 2015
  • News

Tech glitches at big institutions made it a good day for paranoia

  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Money, Time, and Grant Design

By: Kyle Myers and Wei Yang Tham
The design of research grants has been hypothesized to be a useful tool for influencing researchers and their science. We test this by conducting two thought experiments in a nationally representative survey of academic researchers. First, we offer participants a... View Details
Keywords: Research; Power and Influence; Money
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  • July 2021
  • Article

Do Interactions with Candidates Increase Voter Support and Participation? Experimental Evidence from Italy

By: Enrico Cantoni and Vincent Pons
We test whether politicians can use direct contact to reconnect with citizens, increase turnout, and win votes. During the 2014 Italian municipal elections, we randomly assigned 26,000 voters to receive visits from city council candidates, from canvassers supporting... View Details
Keywords: Campaigns; Candidates; Elections; Experiment; Political Parties; Turnout; Voting Behavior; Voting; Political Elections; Behavior; Interpersonal Communication; Italy
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  • May 2017 (Revised July 2017)
  • Supplement

Aadhaar: From Voluntary to Mandatory

By: Tarun Khanna, Anjali Raina and Rachna Chawla
Approximately 1.1 billion residents of India (99% of the population) had a unique biometric identity—Aadhaar—by 2017. In six years, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) had achieved an unprecedented milestone in emerging and developed markets. The... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Emerging Markets; Information; Information Technology; Organizational Design; Infrastructure; Identity; Projects; Information Management; Government and Politics; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Transformation; Society; Welfare; Social Issues; Private Sector; Public Sector; Information Technology Industry; Asia; India; New Delhi
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  • March 2005
  • Case

Tribune Company: The PHONES Proposal

The Tribune Co. is considering issuing a structured note to monetize its investment in another company, America Online (AOL). Tribune originally invested in AOL in 1991 and currently has approximately 10 million shares left of that investment. However, these shares are... View Details
Keywords: Financial Instruments; Taxation; Investment; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • February 2000 (Revised March 2004)
  • Case

Signature Security: Providing Alarm Systems for the Countries Down Under

Signature Security, an entrepreneurial company, was created to roll up the electronic security industry in Australia and New Zealand. Signature was created by a team of experienced U.S. managers. Original financing was provided by Clairvest, a Canadian merchant bank.... View Details
Keywords: Management Succession; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Australia; New Zealand
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  • April 1999
  • Case

Steve Perlman and WebTV (A)

By: James K. Sebenius and Ron Fortgang
The dynamics of a linked series of internal and external negotiations involved in launching, growing, and selling a high-tech, Internet start-up are explored. Steve Perlman unfurled an impressive new technology, recruited a top technical and management team, secured... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Tactics; Alliances; Internet; Communications Industry
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    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

    • June 1994 (Revised September 1995)
    • Case

    Leland O'Brien Rubinstein Associates, Inc.: SuperTrust

    By: Peter Tufano
    Leland O'Brien Rubinstein Associates, Inc. (LOR), which profited by selling portfolio insurance to institutional investors, attempts to rebuild itself after the 1987 stock market crash by creating new products to meet the unsatisfied needs of equity investors. LOR... View Details
    Keywords: Product Development; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    With a Little Help from My Family: Informal Startup Financing

    By: Brian K. Baik, Johan Ludvig S. Karlsen and Katja Kisseleva
    Using Norwegian administrative data, we identify family equity investments in startups and examine their effects on investor returns and firm behavior. Informal investors earn lower returns than external individuals, and the firms they back are less likely to secure... View Details
    Keywords: Early Stage Finance; Informal Investment; Household Finance; Risk Taking; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship; Personal Finance; Family and Family Relationships; Business Startups; Investment; Norway
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    • March 2024
    • Supplement

    ELCA's Series A Cap Table Exercise (Student Version)

    By: Raymond Kluender, Anke Becker and Johnson Elugbadebo
    In ELCA, the company must decide between two term sheets: one put forth by STV and one put forth by ESV.

    This exercise is an analysis of the implications of these two term sheets on the ownership structure and the payouts of common and preferred... View Details
    Keywords: Analysis; Venture Capital; Investment; Ownership Stake
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    • Article

    Corporate Culture and Analyst Catering

    By: Joseph Pacelli
    This study examines the relation between financial institutions’ corporate culture and the quality of analysts’ research services. Using data collected from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, I measure the weakness of financial institutions’ corporate culture... View Details
    Keywords: Analysts; Corporate Culture; Global Settlement; Financial Institutions; Organizational Culture; Conflict of Interests; Performance; Quality
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    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Asset Accumulation and Labor Force Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants

    By: Pian Shu
    Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that rejected applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) possess significantly more assets immediately prior to their application and exhibit lower labor force attachment than accepted... View Details
    Keywords: Disability Insurance; Asset Accumulation; Labor Force Participation; Assets; Behavior; Employment; Insurance; Insurance Industry; United States
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    • Working Paper

    Benchmarking Against the Performance of High Profile 'Scandal' Firms

    By: Emre Karaoglu, Tatiana Sandino and Randy Beatty
    In recent years, several high profile firms engaged in accounting fraud that resulted in severe investor losses and erosion of trust in the capital markets. We examine high profile accounting "scandals" prosecuted by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Unlike most... View Details
    Keywords: Earnings Management; Ethics; Executive Compensation; Performance Evaluation; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India

    By: Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani
    We develop a framework to empirically examine how politicians with electoral pressures control bureaucrats with career concerns as well as the consequences for bureaucrats' career investments. Unique micro-level data on Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions.... View Details
    Keywords: Governance Controls; Political Elections; Management Skills; Managerial Roles; Personal Development and Career; Societal Protocols; India
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    • 2005
    • Working Paper

    Aggregate Corporate Liquidity and Stock Returns

    By: Robin Greenwood
    Aggregate investment in cash and liquid assets as a share of total corporate investment is negatively related to subsequent U.S. stock market returns between 1947 and 2003. The share of cash in total investment is a more stable predictor of returns than scaled price... View Details
    Keywords: Stocks; Financial Liquidity; Cash; Investment Return; Corporate Finance
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    • 09 Jun 2016
    • News

    Innovative Business/IT Solutions: An interview with Assistant Professor Kris Ferreira

      Executive Pay and "Independent" Compensation Consultants

      Executive compensation consultants face potential conflicts of interest that can lead to higher recommended levels of CEO pay, including the desires to “cross-sell” services and to secure “repeat business.” We find evidence in both the US and Canada that CEO pay... View Details
      • April 2025
      • Supplement

      Joe Mazzulla and the Boston Celtics (B)

      By: Linda A. Hill, James I. Cash and Lydia Begag
      This case is a supplement to “Joe Mazzulla and the Boston Celtics” (A) and is set against the backdrop of the 2024 NBA Finals. It describes the impact of Mazzulla’s decision to rally his team with an aggressive “go for the kill” mindset instead of choosing language... View Details
      Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Change Management; Communication; Values and Beliefs; Innovation and Invention; Decision Making; Innovation Leadership; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Leading Change; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Management Skills; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Performance Efficiency; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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