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- 13 Mar 2023
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Should Leave
Advise, but only if asked. A good organization will plan for your succession, and to help out, you may want to develop a couple of plausible candidates. Your boss or human resources may ask for your opinions about who should succeed you,... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 18 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Leaning In
was less than the individual contribution,” Exley explains. “The purpose for that was to create a situation where individuals might plausibly want to negotiate a better agreement.” When workers entered negotiations with their firms, they... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
novelty into a broad range of video entertainment and information content. TikTok today has the same quirky feel that YouTube once had. It is small revenue-wise, compared to YouTube. Although it does not report financials, plausible... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
my life,” said RJ Melman, president of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises and creator and developer of more than 13 restaurant concepts. “I know a good chunk of those people, this is a family business.” In 2012, the World Economic Forum published an assessment of View Details
- 09 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?
policy decisions. So the question is, ‘What drives those policy decisions?’ Those will be driven by the geopolitics. If we want to make sense of what happens next with financial markets, energy markets, and sanctions, we need to be able to make educated guesses and... View Details
- Forthcoming
- Article
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
Roe, Mark J., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Half the Firms, Double the Profits: Public Firms' Transformation, 1996–2022." Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting (forthcoming).
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
job, if you're building a happy family: to realize that they need to be motivated and that there's a clear way to motivate them." Listing your assumptions about a prospective plan and assessing their plausibility can help determine the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Research Summary
The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 21 Mar 2012
- Op-Ed
Finding the Right Jeremy Lin Storyline
Protestant faith makes him seem less "other" to a non-Asian-American audience than his race, especially in the context of current public discourse about politicians who have Muslim names or Mormon faith? There are two plausible... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
term's end. A family needed to amass a 50 percent down payment; few Americans could. So homeownership was neither a plausible individual aspiration nor a policy prescription. The word home had no investment connotations. The ultrarich... View Details
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
living longer—but eventually dying of diseases that could plausibly have an environmental component. Just as there has been progress in scientifically detecting foreign contaminants in the air and water, the public clamors for protection... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
impeding competition among search engines. Looking beyond the proposed Google-Yahoo transaction, I urge the Committee to examine the "may not cop[y]" provision in Google's AdWords API Terms & Conditions. This provision lacks any View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
to illegally hack into the phones of select individuals. That these hackers seem not to be News of the World employees illustrates the Russian nesting doll model, which contains the seeds of moral hazard, since it allows for the View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
governance and large firms, both inside and outside academia, would say that it's plausible that there are at least a few firms in the S&P 1500 where shareholders might have some useful ideas, Becker says. "This is not to say... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
emissions reductions immediately, Henderson and the other speakers were optimistic that it is completely plausible to change today’s practices and norms. Despite ongoing debate about the cost of decarbonizing the world’s economy,... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions
variables that might plausibly impact the proposal or enactment of legislation. Here’s what they found: Of the roughly 30,000 annual gun deaths in the United States, roughly 56 percent are suicides, 40 percent are homicides, and 4 percent... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
cannot only rely on immediate, short term returns," Henderson writes in the paper. "Instead it rests on a sophisticated understanding of the risks entailed in doing nothing and on the opportunities inherent in moving early to prepare for a range of View Details
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
paper, we examine the impact of the AIDS epidemic on African nations through 2002 using the male circumcision rate to identify plausibly exogenous variation in HIV prevalence. Medical researchers have found significant evidence that male... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
display a lot of information about their careers, which makes them available to headhunters and other employers as passive candidates. But they also establish relationships with others to stay in touch with peers and to make new contacts. This network allows them to... View Details