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  • 18 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

commissions, albeit lower, still exist, but they represent a relatively minor source of revenue for the big brokerages compared to investment banking fees. Either way, the cost of sell-side research,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

devised, which paved the way for the use of quantitative analysis in formal strategic planning. In 1944, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern published their classic work, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. This work essentially... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

the premia that might be paid by end-users. Second, of course, looking at prices alone is insufficient to look at the relative viability of globally standardized vs. locally customized products. It's obvious that we need to look at View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

America Innovation Network By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William R. Kerr Abstract— Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

companies, that's too simple because it ignores the cost on the firms you’re supporting,” says Roth, author of the new working paper Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Entrepreneurship. Decisions on how best to support social... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

achievement by the athlete. However, whereas stock-return effects are relatively constant, sales effects exhibit decreasing returns over time. We outline implications for practitioners. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 1997 (Revised May 2004)
  • Case

Riverbend Telephone Company

By: William J. Bruns Jr.
An independent telephone company needs to acquire a new truck for use in telephone line installation and maintenance and must decide whether to buy or lease the truck. The company must address the rate of return in a regulated industry and the best accounting treatment... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Analysis; Cash Flow; Investment Return; Ownership
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  • 22 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

mobility barriers have become essential components of conflict policies. Second, a family of hybrid conflict policies has evolved that feature elements of the "split account" system long practiced in Japan. "What surprised me," Silk says, "was that these developments... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 08 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

and judicial environment (15 percent); "cluster" factors and so on. (A sense of an incumbent company's presence in the location should also be taken into consideration.) Once a shortlist of countries is identified, a more detailed View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 12 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 12

debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced firm risk, consistent with a decrease in debt-equity conflicts of interest. The changes are isolated to firms... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog

of the analysis of specific transactions with an emphasis on whether to pursue a specific transaction or not based on its investment merits. This section of the course will be run as an investment committee. We will focus on the... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 15

encouraged even relative strangers to hold each other accountable for progress. Thus the team scaffolds enabled the construction of group coordination processes among fluid groups. Quantitative analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Curing Health Care

best technology out there. The possibilities are endless. And our health care system deserves the absolute best technology." —Julia Hanna Prescription: Measure Health Care's Real Costs While most industries have embraced accounting... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 26 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

When participation costs are large relative to the volume of traffic an ad platform can offer, an advertiser may forego use of an ad platform that the advertiser otherwise finds profitable. Mergers between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 1999 (Revised May 2001)
  • Case

Catanese and Vulcan (A)

By: V.G. Narayanan and Sanjay Pothen
A small CPA firm puts in a new performance measurement system, and profits increase by 350% in less than a year. This case illustrates the reasons for improved profitability as well as the sustainability of levels of growth, the opportunities, and the threats that... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Performance Evaluation; SWOT Analysis; Profit
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  • 16 Apr 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

believed wholeheartedly in "the teachability of teaching" and that "a good class discussion can be developed, rather than merely left to the randomness of chance or genetics." He described the essential challenge of the case method as... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

simplicity of accepting an equal split with the costs of negotiating a differentiated allocation of founder equity. We test the predictions of the theory on a proprietary dataset comprised of 1,476 founders in 511 entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

technological complexity only magnifies the challenge. Many companies, meanwhile, are apt to see investment in safety as the cost of fulfilling regulatory requirements or protecting against lawsuits, rather than as an opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

    Michael R. Bloomberg

    Through the development of a proprietary computer system, Bloomberg built one of the most successful financial news, information and analysis services in the country. Competing against stalwarts like Dow Jones and Reuters, Bloomberg... View Details
    Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
    • 30 Aug 2016
    • First Look

    August 30, 2016

    architecture. In particular, we draw upon modular systems theory to develop and test a series of propositions about the impact of component coupling on the cost of IT change. Our methods make use of “Design Structure Matrices” (DSMs), a... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel