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  • 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009

2000 respectively, GE Capital and Citi Financial both acquired Japanese consumer-lending companies. In 2006, when the Japanese Supreme Court rules that one of the big Japanese consumer lenders must repay a borrower for "excess... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

decade. The small venture that he had started with a few of his scientist colleagues in the late 1990s to discover novel medicine in a research-driven organisation had grown into one of Europe's largest biotech View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

Entrepreneurial Beacons: The Yale Endowment, Run-ups, and the Growth of Venture Capital By: McDonald, Rory, Y. Sekou Bermiss, Benjamin J. Hallen, and Emily Cox Pahnke Abstract—This paper investigates the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 1987 (Revised July 1996)
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Kansas City Zephyrs Baseball Club, Inc.

By: Kenneth A. Merchant, Krishna G. Palepu and Joseph P. Mulloy
Describes a dispute between the owners of the major league baseball teams and the players' union about the profitability of the baseball teams. The issue is important because of the ongoing collective bargaining negotiations. A consultant is brought in to decide... View Details
Keywords: State Ownership; Compensation and Benefits; Entrepreneurship; For-Profit Firms; Accounting; Activity Based Costing and Management; Resource Allocation; Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Labor and Management Relations; Financial Management; Sports; Sports Industry; Kansas
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  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

firms in primary markets. We characterize two effects on primary market firms caused by intermediaries entering secondary markets: the "cannibalization" and "option value" effects.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 29

co-fragility predicts cross-stock return comovement. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1490734 Sustainability and Capital Markets: How Firms Can Manage the Crucial Link... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

share, customer satisfaction, and return on capital employed, which allow them greater freedom. The span of control and the span of accountability are not independent. They must be considered together. The first defines the resources... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

Case 209-097 Perry Capital owns shares in King and, to facilitate approval of the merger, buys shares in Mylan, whilst hedging out its economic exposure to Mylan's share price using derivatives. The price at which Mylan proposes to merge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

gain with considerable pain A crucial point to reinforce is that the vast majority of lift outs involve a team moving from one company (OldCo) to its direct competitor (NewCo). Occasionally, a firm goes out of business and teams move to... View Details
Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel
  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

that acquisitions can build competitive advantage partially through retention of valuable human capital of the target firm. However, making commitments to retain and motivate successful top managers is a challenge when contracts are not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13

of lawyers in a large North American law firm provide support for our predictions. We call for a new direction in network research that investigates how network-related behaviors associated with building social View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

stimulative enough—and they were worried about their reelection prospects. Now you've got a world capital market that is acutely sensitive about what the Fed does. One thing underreported in the media is that when the Fed flooded the US... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 21 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

tremendously inspirational -- to have models of success in innovating curricula," Herzlinger says. Additionally, HBS professors Richard Hamermesh and Robert Higgins led a session on the role of venture View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

are removed. Firms are more likely to issue equity or redeem convertible debt during the restricted period, suggesting strong incentives for manipulation. Revisiting the Strategy, Structure, and Performance Paradigm: The Case of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 May 2005
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Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

option when they look at their financial returns and decide to share some of the wealth with their employees or their communities. That's what John Tu and David Sun did when they sold 80 percent of their company, Kingston Technologies, to Softbank, the Japanese View Details
Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson
  • 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

is about experimentation: the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed, and unknowable until an investment is made. At a macro level, experimentation by new firms underlies the Schumpeterian notion of creative destruction.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

professionals in venture capital firms or who were cashed-out entrepreneurs acting as angels for small start ups. Both sets of people had certain expertise that they were... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

venture capital firm Globis Group and chairman and CEO of private equity concern Apax Globis Partners & Co., was the only panelist to voice undaunted enthusiasm about a... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
  • 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

open platforms and then provide a brief history of open digital platforms. I go on to argue that the success of open platforms in competition with vertically integrated firms gave rise to the “vertical-to-horizontal” transition in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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