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  • 12 Feb 2025
  • Video

Who owns it? The Ownership Project on how property rights shape business

  • September 26, 2018
  • Article

Ownership and Power Structure: Together at Last

By: Laura Alfaro, Nicholas Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew Newman, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
Economists have largely ignored the deep interdependency between integration and delegation. This column describes a new theory of integration and delegation choices aimed at shedding light on how these distinct elements of organizational design interact. Contrary to... View Details
Keywords: Power; Organisational Design; Economics; Ownership; Organizational Design
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  • March 2010
  • Article

The Evolution of Corporate Ownership after IPO: The Impact of Investor Protection

By: C. Fritz Foley and Robin Greenwood
We use firm-level data from 34 countries covering the 1995-2006 period to analyze how the characteristics of public markets shape the process by which firms become widely held. Firms in all countries in the sample tend to have concentrated ownership at the time they go... View Details
Keywords: Blockholding; Float; Shareholder Rights; Investor Protection; Ownership; Financial Liquidity; Business History; Market Timing; Going Public; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 12 Feb 2025
  • Video

What does ownership look like in the next frontier of innovation?

  • January 2010
  • Article

Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality?

We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of public firms-those with publicly traded equity and those with privately held equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Business Earnings; Public Equity
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  • 23 Nov 2010
  • News

Resolve an Ownership Dispute in a Family Business

  • 2017
  • Chapter

Transition Trouble? Consider Changing Your Ownership Model

By: Josh Baron
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  • 23 Feb 2012
  • News

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: The Role of Foreign Ownership (pdf)

  • Research Summary

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance

By: Laura Alfaro
We examine the differential response of establishments to the recent global financial crisis with particular emphasis on the role of foreign ownership. Using a worldwide establishment panel dataset, we investigate how multinational subsidiaries around the world... View Details
  • August 2022 (Revised October 2022)
  • Case

Katitas: Home Ownership for the Majority of Japan

By: Michael Chu, Akiko Kanno and Nobuo Sato
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  • May 2025
  • Case

The Future of the BBC: Public Ownership vs. Privatization

By: Henry McGee
With viewership of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) in decline, the country’s Culture Minister must recommend a new funding model for the venerated public institution which will allow the broadcaster to succeed in an increasingly competitive media environment. View Details
Keywords: Television Entertainment; Cooperative Ownership; State Ownership; Privatization; Public Ownership; Competition; Business Model; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United Kingdom
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  • summer 2003
  • Article

Ownership and Control Rights in Internet Portal Alliances, 1995-1999

By: Daniel W. Elfenbein and Josh Lerner
Keywords: Ownership; Rights; Internet and the Web; Alliances
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Laws versus Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950

By: Aldo Musacchio
This article examines some of the institutional conditions that facilitated the development of equity markets in Brazil. A critical factor was the addition of protections for investors to corporate bylaws, which enabled relatively large corporations in Brazil to... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Equity; Financial Markets; Investment; Governance Controls; Business History; Ownership Stake; Brazil
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  • 30 Apr 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors

Keywords: by Sharon P. Katz; Financial Services
  • Web

OWN: The Power of Company Ownership - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog OWN: The Power of Company Ownership Course Number 1235 Senior Lecturer Josh Baron Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits Exam or Paper Overview: This course explores the power of ownership in shaping... View Details
  • 20 Mar 2021
  • News

US security focus on Chinese state ownership is not productive, advisory panel is told

  • 05 Dec 2008
  • News

New Book Reveals How Customer and Employee Ownership Adds Business Value

  • 2010
  • Working Paper

The Powerful Pervasive Effects of Ownership on M&A

By: John C. Coates
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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890–1950

By: Aldo Musacchio
The early development of large multidivisional corporations in Latin America required much more than capable managers, new technologies, and large markets. Behind such corporations was a market for capital in which entrepreneurs had to attract investors to buy either... View Details
Keywords: Voting; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Governance Controls; Contracts; Laws and Statutes; Ownership Stake; Brazil
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The Talent at the Table: Business Expertise and Share Ownership in Fortune 500 Boardrooms

This paper examines the relationship between corporate value and "vestige" directors, defined as directors who own sizeable shareholdings but lack salient business experience relative to their peers on Fortune 500 boards.  These people come to serve on... View Details