Transactions - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 30

find that U.S. listed foreign companies experience securities class action lawsuits at about half the rate as do U.S. firms with similar levels of ex ante litigation risk. The lower rate appears to be driven partly by higher transaction... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Fast Answer

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16 Sep 2015
News

Rethink pricing to create shared—and expanded—value

revenue and increased consumer satisfaction and loyalty. First, focus on relationships rather than transactions (see customers as “people, not wallets”). Be proactive by setting prices that benefit both the firm and its customers. Design... View Details

12 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

corporations hold significant amounts of cash on their balance sheets, and these cash holdings have been justified in the existing empirical literature by transaction costs and precautionary motives. An additional explanation, considered... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition

contributing to this effort by facilitating multi-million-dollar transactions that brings new energy technologies to Shell. During my internship, I have had the opportunity to work on three M&A deals in the new energy space. These... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology

01 Mar 2012
News

Social Investing Pioneers

high-quality transactions to the United States to demonstrate the promise of this instrument,” Palandjian adds. “Social impact bonds have the potential to improve social outcomes at reduced taxpayer expense; shift performance risk away... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2013
News

Double Vision

Teixeira. RESULTS: While the study found no perfect ads—none increased both web traffic and sales—these kinds of commercials were the only ones that did not increase either transactions or web traffic. But it's not that they are... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

07 Apr 2003
What Do You Think?

Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?

what some perceive to be a narrowing between the rewards and risks of such ventures? Whether because of reduced market expectations or increased transactional costs resulting from deteriorating international relations, tighter regulation... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

strong complementarity, but it can arise for other reasons as well. Transaction cost economics and property rights theory advise that strong complements should be placed under unified governance, for example, through common ownership.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

holding onto their money physically rather than electronically. And pervasive stories of scam operators who absconded with customers’ money don’t help. Operators should consider building trust however they can into their technology, for example by showing that View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

Fourth Quarter 2007
Article

Contingent Claims Approach to Measuring and Managing Sovereign Credit Risk

By: Dale . F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie

This paper proposes a new approach to measure, analyze, and manage sovereign risk based on the theory and practice of modern contingent claims analysis (CCA). The paper provides a new framework for adapting the CCA model to the sovereign balance sheet in a way that can... View Details

Keywords: Credit; Investment; Sovereign Finance; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Market Transactions; Mathematical Methods; Valuation

Citation

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development and business development. Ben started his career as a financial analyst at Wasserstein Perella in New York, and participated in ten merger and acquisition transactions worth over $10 billion. Ben earned a B.S. in economics and... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence;#75;#Venture Capital;#64;#Software/App

March 1998 (Revised March 1999)
Case

Dell Online

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell

Dell started online commerce for its PCs in 1996, and by 1997 had achieved a sales rate of $3 million a day. The case describes the internal process that led to these dramatic results and poses the question of how the firm should leverage this activity to meet Michael... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Market Transactions; Goals and Objectives; Business Processes; Distribution Channels; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Competitive Advantage; Computer Industry; Retail Industry

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Educators

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01 Feb 2000
News

Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet

all of their shopping and communicating from there. Our services - password management, merchant mail, and find and compare - stick to the consumer, following them wherever they shop on the Web." With companies like Brodia breaking down the barriers to doing personal... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Books

and influencing, and their agility enables them to reach agreement when others would be stalemated. He explains how the best practices of diplomats like George Mitchell, the late dealmaker Bruce Wasserstein (JD 1970/MBA 1971), and Hollywood producer Jerry Weintraub... View Details

16 Oct 2013
News

Progress Through Preservation

a former urban developer, likes the art of closing. The Trust helps to negotiate land transactions between landowners and public entities or groups hoping to preserve it. It also focuses on conservation funding and finance, conducts the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; Real Estate

01 Jun 1997
News

HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus

from an information resource to a transaction platform in most content areas." The panelists agreed that while secure transactions can now be guaranteed, the Internet will need more compelling sites if it is... View Details

Keywords: Meg Gardner

07 Oct 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers

Anxiety Through Access to Human ContactThis study finds that customer anxiety during self-service transactions can reduce customers’ trust in the service provider. Operational design choices may help. Calculators for Women: When Identity... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Air Transportation

Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Charity

an appraiser to value the goods, salesmen to auction off the unredeemed collateral, and a notary to keep legally binding records of every transaction in an account book such as this one. As this ledger reveals, most borrowers pawned small... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Creation of parks connects people to nature and each other

grasslands, for example—the Trust does it all, from inner-city parks to the wilderness of Alaska. This kind of conservation can require some complicated business deals; Rogers, a former urban developer, likes the art of closing. The Trust helps to negotiate land View Details

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