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- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
to work in your favor for that next job. And privacy disclosure notices on websites, rather than convincing consumers that their private data is well protected, can make them less likely to make a purchase. Here is recent research on the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
wavebreakmedia Last month, the venerable organization Coca-Cola publicly announced that a project to hire more Black employees that stemmed from the settlement of a 2000 discrimination lawsuit had failed to achieve its objectives. Along with many others, I had assumed...
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by James Heskett
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
buyout raiders of the 1980s eventually morphed into the legitimate private equity business, greenmailers of a generation ago are now taken seriously as hard-nosed change agents who may be doing the right thing when they take on management...
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- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
diversified from there. Now, as CEO and managing director of Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited, he oversees thirty-two department stores in fifteen cities. "Ordinary people are buying what the rich can afford," he said, adding that a surprising number of...
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- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
Letters Abstract Strategic orientation studies often provide 'best practice prescriptions' for firms in a given context-matching orientations to environmental conditions. While this perspective has value, empirical results are equivocal,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
of seventeen owner-managed diversified companies; 11.5 percent were customers of three agent-led focused firms; and 38.5 percent were customers of thirteen agent-led diversified companies. 22 Through the 1970s, both owner-managed and agent-led focused View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: you can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards—as well as personal and professional fulfillment. Leading a View Details
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
Working Papers The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds Authors: Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner, and Antoinette Schoar Abstract This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
vistas for commerce and, in the process, will challenge relations between private firms and the governments that seek to regulate them. The information revolution is alive and well. It will change the way we...
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by Debora L. Spar
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
engage in collective behaviors that diminish their ability to do so. Sarah Jane Gilbert:What led you to study the effects of performance pressure on work teams? Heidi Gardner: I experienced similar team dynamics when I worked in a consulting View Details
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
offerings that people truly want to buy, firms instead need to home in on the job the customer is trying to get done. Some jobs are little (pass the time); some are big (find a more fulfilling career). When we buy a product, we...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
initiated a series of strategic shifts and evolved from a predominately fund-of-funds manager into a large, multi-asset class PE firm focused on direct investments. PG was the first PE firm to go public in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
non-profit organizations, and for-profit firms including financial institutions. They embody a number of different assumptions about incentives, drawing from economics, psychology, and sociology. We describe examples of each program and...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
families lost their homes, personal bankruptcies soared, and it seemed that every weekend one financial firm after another failed. There was substantial doubt about the ability of the financial system to return to any kind of...
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- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
superior economic performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-110.pdf Trade Policy and Firm Boundaries Authors:Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, and Andrew F. Newman Abstract We study how trade policy...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
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....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
portfolio stock return regressions we find that firms with good performance on material sustainability issues significantly outperform firms with poor performance on these issues, suggesting that investments...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
Working PapersNone this week PublicationsFinancial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Author:Shawn Cole Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract In 1980, India nationalized its large View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
average, use unverifiable discretion to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, use unverifiable discretion opportunistically. We test these alternative hypotheses using a...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
Working Papers Using By-Product Synergy for Competitive Advantage Author: Deishin Lee Abstract We study how a manufacturer can leverage by-product synergy for competitive advantage. By focusing on the economic impact to the firm and the...
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Martha Lagace