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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog

director selection and board dynamics; (3) the board’s role in ensuring effective leadership, including hiring, firing, and compensating the CEO; (4) the board’s role in strategy and major transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, or... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

Froot used a careful examination of a single transaction in the emerging market for catastrophic risk bonds to motivate a search for explanations for anomalies in the pricing and structure of this market. Another highlight of the... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Estonia, Incorporated

running a business so simple there. “The whole thing works because Estonia is one of the most advanced e-governments on the planet,” Kumar says. The government offers some 600 e-services to its citizens and 2,400 to businesses, and residents conduct 99 percent of their... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

think several factors are at work. First, financial engineering increasingly allows for cheap recharacterizations of income for tax and book purposes, making tax obligations easily disappear. Second, the growing global reach of companies and falling costs of global... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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Carol Lauson

engineering, agriculture. "The thing that was great about corporate development," Carol says, "was working on transactions that delivered on the strategic vision. But there came a point where I wanted to set strategic... View Details

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Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems - Course Catalog

Private Equity Projects is a hybrid field and lecture series that provides the opportunity to work hands-on with leading private equity firms on "mutual value" projects and learn about the many things critical to success in PE beyond the View Details

August 2007
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Managing Networked Businesses: Platform Evolution Module

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann

Offers an overview of conceptual content and pedagogical guidance for instructors using a six-session module, "Platform Evolution," from "Managing Networked Businesses" (MNB), a case-based MBA elective course on platform-mediated networks. The module explores the... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Networks; Business or Company Management; Rights; Business Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Multi-Sided Platforms; Market Transactions; Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Competition; Market Entry and Exit

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20 Feb 2019
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Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs

in 2015, Sounouvou had recently launched Exportunity, a secure digital marketplace that connects African suppliers with buyers around the world. Through the company’s platform, farmers in Benin can sell their produce to a manufacturer in South Africa, managing the... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 2001
News

Calling the Tune: Negotiation as an Improvisational Dance

vital at all levels of the organization. Valley explained that in addition to the negotiations around a transaction — the exchange of goods or services — the flattening of organizations means people must negotiate the terms of their... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

April 2000
Article

The Fable of Fisher Body

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Daniel F. Spulber

General Motors' (GM) acquisition of Fisher Body is the classic example of market failure in the literature on contracts and the theory of the firm. According to the standard account, GM merged vertically with Fisher Body in 1926, a maker of auto bodies, because of... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Failure; Contracts; Vertical Integration; Market Transactions; Investment; Trust; Production; Assets; Supply Chain; Opportunities; Technology; Auto Industry

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10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

buyers and sellers. Often, they're people who would not have met if not for the Internet. The advantages of this are you can reduce transaction costs if you're buying and selling, particularly if you're buying." This is where the... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19

and when buyers and sellers do manage to find each other, they usually negotiate under enormous uncertainty: prices of similar patents vary widely from transaction to transaction, and the terms of the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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
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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

16 Oct 2018
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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

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

ensure that buyers and sellers who don’t know each other trust that the transactions will be safe and of high quality? This is the fundamental role of online platforms: aggregating information that is useful for buyers and sellers who... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

30 Apr 2001
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Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?

highly attractive deals, they may find that their prospective partners no longer exist. By the time they are ready to transact or invest, that talent they found so attractive may be gone. What is happening here? Is it free enterprise or... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Apr 2003
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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