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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

organizations. Participants will learn how to build systems that incorporate flexibility of strategy implementation through a structured empowerment model, promote critical thinking and innovation, and emphasize a common purpose... View Details

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Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022

By: Mark J. Roe and Charles C.Y. Wang

The number of public firms in the United States has halved since the beginning of the twenty-first century, causing consternation among corporate and securities law regulators. The dominant explanations, often advanced by Securities and Exchange commissioners when... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Law; Securities Regulation; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Concentration Levels; Antitrust; Initial Public Offering; Public Ownership; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Mergers and Acquisitions; Monopoly; United States

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13 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

past success and strove for even greater heights. But what do his efforts for Kind of Blue have in common with business innovation? Rob Austin: We conceived the case to get at questions about how the creative process "detaches"... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

15 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

venture capitalists want more from their clients in terms of an ownership stake or in terms of meeting tougher performance benchmarks? Gompers and Lerner: Many of the changes in the venture capital industry over the past eighteen months... View Details

Keywords: by Carol Elsen; Financial Services

July 2003
Background Note

Expropriation in International Business

By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Meghan Gallagher-Kernstine

Covers several important expropriation cases in international business from the 20th century and highlights the legal and political difficulties these companies faced. Serves to explain expropriation, to stress the vulnerability of foreign direct investments to... View Details

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Global Strategy; Government and Politics; Common Law; Risk Management; Property; Risk and Uncertainty

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05 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

Losing One final question put panelists on the spot: What are your failure stories? "We all have lots of those stories," said Reiss. The common thread running through his experience, he said, was being wrong about the market.... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services

31 Jul 2014
News

Making Private Equity Public Knowledge

first tried to transition to private equity from consulting, looking for more ownership over his work. Because the consulting company he worked for wasn't targeted by private equity, he had to go out and sell himself. "Traditional... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

common mistakes made by international managers, and the development of his book for readers interested in "the opportunities of managing in a global setting." Sean Silverthorne: International Finance and its case studies explore... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

21 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

assistance, the Treasury should contribute capital by purchasing common shares. As a result, the Treasury is likely to hold a majority ownership of the bank's common shares,... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

04 Apr 2008
What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

"stewardship ... a more realistic term today (with regard to IP) ... (in contrast to) Ownership ... a term from the days of the 'industrial revolution'"? Do you agree that in his words, "... in the multiverse, the more we... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Daniel Sheyner

he first tried to transition to private equity from consulting, looking for more ownership over his work. Because the consulting company he worked for wasn't targeted by private equity, he had to go out and sell himself. "Traditional... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Investment Management / Hedge Fund

04 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 4

Working PapersThe Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Corporate Tax Avoidance Authors:Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz, and Sonja Olhoft Rego Abstract This study investigates how private equity ownership... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

such that more people qualified for the food stamp program. He found that newly eligible households were 20 percent more likely to include an entrepreneur as a result of the policy. Incorporated businesses ownership increased by 16... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

30 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

rewarding high-performing teachers, and retraining and/or firing badly performing teachers," the paper states. In the United States, India, and China, managerial use of incentives are much more common than the use of monitoring and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-101.pdf Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality? Authors:Dan Givoly, Carla Hayn, and Sharon P. Katz Abstract We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of public... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 1997
News

OPM Reunion Snapshots

Erik Sorensen (22nd OPM) Currently the managing director of Club Sultan in Marbella, Spain, an exclusive European holiday ownership club, Erik Sorensen specializes in marketing luxurious vacation opportunities. "My business is about... View Details

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

in health and education, including founding Koç University in 1992, now one of the most prestigious universities in the country. Silverthorne: In what ways is Turkish business history distinctive and in what ways does it share View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

School's Alfred Chandler, the doyen of business historians, famously ascribed Britain's relative economic decline to the United States from the late nineteenth century to that country's proclivity towards family or "personal capitalism." This was contrasted... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

22 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

or more agencies (or "networks" of specialized service agencies) under common ownership as quasi-independent entities. But since the mid-1980s, waves of mergers and acquisitions have created potential... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

08 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

supply expenses are provided. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55343 Financing the Response to Climate Change: The Pricing and Ownership of U.S. Green Bonds By: Baker, Malcolm, Daniel Bergstresser, George... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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