Open Market Repurchases - Publications - Faculty & Research

May 2010
Article

Is Delaware's Antitakeover Statute Unconstitutional? Evidence from 1988-2008

By: Guhan Subramanian, Steven Herscovici and Brian Barbetta

Delaware's antitakeover statute, codified at Section 203 of the Delaware corporate code, is by far the most important antitakeover statute in the United States. When it was first enacted in 1988, three bidders challenged its constitutionality under the Commerce Clause... View Details

Keywords: Courts and Trials; Opportunities; Bids and Bidding; Laws and Statutes; Decisions; Change; Acquisition; United States

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22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

opportunity to create open interfaces—APIs, or application programming interfaces—that enable third parties to build on your platform. Even highly focused transaction platforms like Uber have opened up APIs... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

Organizations & Markets (NOM) unit, found that keeping unsavory information to ourselves may not always be in our best interest. In fact, sometimes people think better of others who reveal ugly truths over those who keep mum. To come... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings illuminate a continuum of open systems to closed systems phenomenological assumptions revealed in this... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Options: Basics for finding price data

that same expiration date was $7.70. The price of a put option to sell a share at the same strike price and exercise date was $0.23 and the price of a put option to sell at $65 was $7.00. As a rule, a call (buy) option is more valuable when the strike or exercise price... View Details

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Winner of the 2022 Strategy Science Conference Best Paper Award for “Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Open Sourcing and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub” with Annamaria Conti and Christian Peukert. Raffaella Sadun : Awarded the... View Details

21 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

expressions of chief executives to see if leadership style can be correlated with a firm’s performance. The researchers believe their work could open new directions in big data analysis, combining image and textual analysis to create a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

infusions. These delivery methods can be painful, time consuming, and costly. It was a subject of great interest to Goble who, prior to HBS, had been involved in bringing injectable biologics to market at Eli Lilly. From that meeting in... View Details

Keywords: April White

21 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 21

can account for secular changes in how payouts were made over the last 30 years, during which repurchases have replaced dividends as the prime vehicle for corporate payouts. Other payout motives such as changes in compensation practices... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Oct 1996
News

Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

Commission on United StatesPacific Trade and Investment Policy. "If successful," Brody explains, "our commission will set a new direction for trade and investment policy with the Pacific Rim countries. Opening the doors to the biggest and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jan 2013
News

André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

enabled Jakurski and his colleagues to expand into a full range of financial services, including trading and investment banking. In 1991, when the Brazilian stock market opened up to foreign investment,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

in Washington politicians. Fairly or not, people have become willing to believe that executives, as a class, are greedy and dishonest. However natural it might be to ask how so many executives—not to mention accountants, investment bankers, stock View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

answer might have appeared just too obvious: payouts are funded with free cash flow-at least over long enough time periods. In stark contrast to this commonly held view, we find that firms rely on the capital markets to finance a third of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

Idanta works closely with entrepreneurs to build major businesses with a potential for sales of a half-billion dollars or more. Dunn has made long-term commitments - an average of twelve to fifteen years - a bulwark of his firm's philosophy. Dunn's first big deal took... View Details

01 Jan 2012
News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

credit cards, online shopping, banking, and the Rakuten Golden Eagles baseball team. With 10,000 employees worldwide, Rakuten currently has a market capitalization of approximately $14 billion. It is the number one e-commerce company in... View Details

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee

structure for this process. Virtual Onboarding Best Practices 1:1 video meetings with direct manager and key collaborators Onboarding buddies Virtual office tours – Send pictures or videos from the office, or give a live video tour if the office is View Details

18 Dec 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

thoroughly enjoy it." Even a marketing class becomes an opportunity to explore the complexities of leadership, he reflects. "I walked into class last week in my first session of PLD for the first case, and I said, 'Who would... View Details