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  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

decisions are driven by a tradeoff between managers' pecuniary benefits of coordinating production and their private benefits of operating in preferred ways. Integration generates more output than non-integration but imposes a cost on managers by forcing them to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

success is valued too highly to be interrupted by a hostile takeover,” thus fostering sustainability. If sustainability is such an important issue, how do we encourage it? A number of suggestions were put forward. Fizzinni proposed such things as efforts to encourage... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Nov 2022
  • HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

emerged: how to preserve the firm’s growth strategy and shift firm ownership while also rewarding its diverse workforce for its investment in the team’s culture, write Harvard Business School Senior Associate Dean Luis M. Viceira, Senior... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 28 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

operations, and how can these challenges be overcome? A: The basic question to be faced is whether the organization will be run as "one company" with a common set of values, such as at Mexican-based cement and concrete producer... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

2010 terms, as a share of national income) were scheduled to revert to Colombian ownership in that year. The money to buy them for the new canal effort, then, would have gone to Bogotá instead of the shareholders in the moribund French... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
  • January 2022
  • Case

SpartanNash Company: The Amazon Warrants (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher
As of 12/31/21, Amazon held $22 billion of equity and warrants in related companies. In fact, it often requests a free grant of warrants when it enters into a new commercial agreement with a supplier. Over the past 20 years, Amazon has gotten warrants in almost 20... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Value Creation; Consumer Behavior; Negotiation; Distribution; Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Equity; Distribution Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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Esty, Benjamin C., E. Scott Mayfield, and Daniel Fisher. "SpartanNash Company: The Amazon Warrants (A)." Harvard Business School Case 222-022, January 2022.
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

S. Grossman, and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 512-026 When Diane Paulus, artistic director and CEO of the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) first started in 2008, she attracted media coverage around an aesthetic that aimed to give the audience more View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2017
  • HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

the case mentions the father’s long-standing relationship with the Vietnamese American franchise owners and the common sense of purpose and responsibility shared by the Vietnamese community as a whole. “None of these decisions are... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage
  • 31 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Team Leaders Show Support–or Not

number of instances in which leader behaviors could have affected employees' feelings of autonomy in the work. For example, people whose team leaders are always hovering around to closely monitor their progress are more likely to feel that they have little control over... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

years at HBS on nonprofit growth and multisite nonprofits. Though networks are not new in practice, and in fact are quite common in both the nonprofit and commercial sectors, she said, the question of how to go about creating these... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

particular law and medicine. Our criteria for calling an occupation a bona fide profession are as follows: a common body of knowledge resting on a well-developed, widely accepted theoretical base; a system for certifying that individuals... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • 13 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

past success and strove for even greater heights. But what do his efforts for Kind of Blue have in common with business innovation? Rob Austin: We conceived the case to get at questions about how the creative process "detaches"... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
  • 2024
  • Article

Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022

By: Mark J. Roe and Charles C.Y. Wang
The number of public firms in the United States has halved since the beginning of the twenty-first century, causing consternation among corporate and securities law regulators. The dominant explanations, often advanced by Securities and Exchange commissioners when... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Law; Securities Regulation; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Concentration Levels; Antitrust; Initial Public Offering; Public Ownership; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions; Monopoly; United States
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Roe, Mark J., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022." Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting 8, no. 2 (2024): 211–264.
  • 15 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

venture capitalists want more from their clients in terms of an ownership stake or in terms of meeting tougher performance benchmarks? Gompers and Lerner: Many of the changes in the venture capital industry over the past eighteen months... View Details
Keywords: by Carol Elsen; Financial Services
  • July 2003
  • Background Note

Expropriation in International Business

By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Meghan Gallagher-Kernstine
Covers several important expropriation cases in international business from the 20th century and highlights the legal and political difficulties these companies faced. Serves to explain expropriation, to stress the vulnerability of foreign direct investments to... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Global Strategy; Government and Politics; Common Law; Risk Management; Property; Risk and Uncertainty
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Jones, Geoffrey G., and Meghan Gallagher-Kernstine. "Expropriation in International Business." Harvard Business School Background Note 804-020, July 2003.
  • 17 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

size of stock markets across countries and on the ownership structure of railways and other companies in France. In one of his books he argues that France was the largest "financial democracy" in the world, because of the large... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services
  • 23 Aug 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

can help companies establish a competitive advantage over time. Investors as Stewards of the Commons?With long enough time horizons and significant common ownership of companies within the same industry or... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology
  • 21 Jan 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts

unity in the family and ownership group are fundamental to long-term success for the family business. And while we can try to maintain accord in other ways, long-lived family companies, like Riedel in Austria (11 generations), DeKuyper in... View Details
Keywords: Retail
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

such that more people qualified for the food stamp program. He found that newly eligible households were 20 percent more likely to include an entrepreneur as a result of the policy. Incorporated businesses ownership increased by 16... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 04 Apr 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

"stewardship ... a more realistic term today (with regard to IP) ... (in contrast to) Ownership ... a term from the days of the 'industrial revolution'"? Do you agree that in his words, "... in the multiverse, the more we... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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