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  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

held. Firms in all countries in the sample tend to have concentrated ownership at the time they go public. Decreases in ownership concentration... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

decade. Ten years ago our knowledge of the history of business was heavily concentrated on the cases of the United States, Japan, Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia. Since then there has been exciting new research on the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

of Business Administration at HBS. “In the process, they jump-start investing in areas that might be important for the environment.” They examine the phenomenon in a new paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Financing the Response to Climate Change: The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration
  • 10 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

appear to be both more fragile and less rewarding. Q: What did you observe on the evolution of financial and ownership arrangements of transnational corporations in recent years? A: The quest for control of their subsidiaries reflects the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

offers a compelling explanation for the strong ownership concentration seen in German business and reveals the malleable relationship between family and business. It provides rich empirical evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

shareholder value in concentrated industries. By contrast, non-delay provisions have an unambiguously negative relation with value, and more so in concentrated industries. Overall, our analysis suggests that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 7, 2016

likelihood of meeting or beating analyst expectations. Collectively the results shed light on the effect of increased ownership concentration on tax avoidance. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 29

non-fundamental risk. We define an asset to be fragile if it is susceptible to non-fundamental trading shocks. An asset can be fragile because of concentrated ownership or because its owners face correlated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 12

system rather than a government-controlled system. Book: http://www.gale.cengage.com/servlet/ItemDetailServletCr?region=9&imprint=070&titleCode=GCCL&cf=p&type=3&id=254645 Corporate Ownership Structure and Bank Loan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 9

agreement to give ownership of the Canal back to Panama in the 1970s was not a gesture of magnanimity, but because the strategic and economic value of ownership had since disappeared. In a surprise to those... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 25

reduced the temptation governments face to intervene in the operation of large strategic enterprises. In the Leviathan as a minority shareholder mode, governments have small equity ownership in corporations and in general do not intervene... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

wrongdoers is consistent with their judgments, and we offer preliminary evidence on how to reduce these biases. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-020.pdf Stock Price Fragility Authors:Robin Greenwood and David Thesmar Abstract We investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 7

and the concentration of the certification industry. We also analyze the possibility that certifiers opt for a quick turnaround time at the expense of a lower accuracy. Finally, we investigate the opportunity of regulating transparency.  ... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

transfers by U.S. multinationals increased following reforms. Affiliates also increased their levels of R&D expenditures. These increases were concentrated among firms that one would expect to value IPR reform the most, namely those... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

my work in strategy, for example, don't know much about my findings in competitiveness. This book lays out the range of my work in an accessible way and shows the connections. Q: You first presented your thinking on the importance of clusters (defined as... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value

possible that some activist hedge funds go through the trouble of taking concentrated risk for an extended time only when they believe they have good ideas for improving the firm's performance. If this is true, and if they are sometimes... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

Kominers: NFTs go mainstream Last year saw a huge spike in the creation and sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), digital ownership records stored on distributed ledgers called blockchains. People bought and traded NFTs of everything from... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

pure process focus to substance: the principles of designing agreements that create value and are sustainable. Inexperienced negotiators, says Sebenius, often unconsciously limit themselves to a one-dimensional process of sitting at the bargaining table and View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
  • 22 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

or more agencies (or "networks" of specialized service agencies) under common ownership as quasi-independent entities. But since the mid-1980s, waves of mergers and acquisitions have created potential conflicts of interest as independent... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

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