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- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
principles. In particular, I show how Google used these tactics to enter numerous markets, to compel usage of its services, and often to dominate competing offerings. I explore the technical and commercial implementations of these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
fundamental challenges of science-based businesses: 1) managing and rewarding long-term risk, 2) integrating across technical disciplines, and 3) learning. Whereas these challenges were once managed inside the boundaries of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
American multinational firms respond to politically risky environments by adjusting their capital structures abroad and at home. Foreign subsidiaries located in politically risky countries have significantly more debt than do other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
experts' ability to combine and balance these two processes, we distinguish analytically among four positions of influence they can occupy-compliance expert, technical champion, trusted advisor, and engaged toolmaker-and trace the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
advantage of distributed innovation and outsourcing can bridge the tension between value creation and value capture by modifying the modular structure of their technical systems. Specifically, we introduce the concept of "IP... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
disproportionately affect the debt financing costs faced by low credit quality firms. As a result, time-series variation in the average quality of debt issuers may be useful for forecasting excess corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
matter. This performance wasn’t going to be judged on technical proficiency or exacting execution. There was still no gas or drinking water in the Lower Ninth Ward. Tens of thousands of residents were still displaced. There was an ongoing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
the author’s debt to Belvedere College and the Jesuits as the great influence on his life philosophy and life choices. McEvoy also reflects on how Irish banks morphed from being customer oriented, conservative, dull, and profoundly honest... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
grown up as an expat, I had become a student of how we were viewed in the world,” says Cooper. “I was very proud of what my country had done in support of freedom and democracy, and I also felt I owed a debt of service. Annapolis... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Working PapersHiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, Christopher Malloy Abstract We test the hypothesis that firms appoint independent directors who are overly sympathetic to management, while still... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
success and (b) develop a set of instruments to assess RE risk factors and to design, evaluate, and apply effective measures to mitigate those risks. The data collection consists of interviews with RE experts and other experienced practitioners (e.g., managers,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
turnaround expert, Andrew Macey, as COO to help him in the effort. Pearson and Macey have several options to consider: Should HLB raise $1 million in debt financing and focus on a turnaround or should it approach a private equity investor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
which casts the profit-seeking incentives of firms as the main driver of technical change. In a series of influential writings, von Hippel and colleagues found empirical evidence that flatly contradicted the producer-centered model of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
got a US government that lacks the latitude to move that it had in the 1980s: large government debts and obligations facing the US now threaten to crowd out the investments in infrastructure, innovation, and individuals that we need to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
regulatory, normative, and cognitive factors in shaping firms' decisions to adopt specific organizational practices, above and beyond their technical efficiency. Similarly, institutional theory emphasizes legitimation processes and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
innovation in open systems is an important trend in the modern global economy. In general, distributed innovation is made possible by the modularity of the underlying product or process. But despite the documented technical benefits of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
capacity and new products only when attractive, low-risk opportunities are identified and can be funded internally. The firm's culture of risk aversion extends to financing decisions with a clear preference for equity finance over debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
international franchising opportunities and a debt recapitalization. By early 2016, Sun was looking to the company’s next phase of growth while handing management of her executive team to BrightStar’s President and COO. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
technical and management team members. Now running desperately low on cash, Perlman had to contend with many potential deal partners, including VCs, angels, and industrial partners (as potential sources of cash); consumer electronics... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
but real differences in corporate finance and investment through two different channels: a "more money" effect arising from the debt coinsurance feature of conglomerates and a "smarter money" effect arising from more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace