Transactions - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 15

we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Apr 2021
News

Road Work

death made the next big VC deal or M&A transaction seem much less important. Instead, Friedman reoriented his life, focusing more on philanthropy—and also getting back into one of his favorite childhood pursuits: motorcycle riding.... View Details

18 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

Those selecting earlier settlement options pay higher fees and interest, therefore revealing the level of credit constraints or impatience. We find that more credit constrained or impatient individuals spend their monies more quickly. The mix of cash and merchant View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

different, yet effective diversity efforts, each one closely aligned with the unique character of the particular firm. "Part of the key to an organization's success was adopting a model that worked well in its particular culture," Thomas explains. As a... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

06 Apr 2016
What Do You Think?

As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?

peculiarity.” Guy said, “If you don’t have sizzle, who cares about security?” LarryWilhel added, “Cook should get focused on leading the company. Apple Pay has the opportunity to manage a trillion dollars of transactions a year ... There... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

23 Feb 2016
First Look

February 23, 2016

transactions in the market for ideas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45527 Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay By: Keloharju, Matti, Samuli Knüpfer, and Joacim Tåg... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

Proprietary and Shared Platforms: A Life-Cycle View Author:Thomas R. Eisenmann Abstract In a platform-mediated network, users rely on a common platform, provided by one or more intermediaries, that encompasses infrastructure and rules required by users to View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

View Video Cashex is building services to make life easier for African migrants by offering seamless digital banking that allows Africans in the US to send money to their families with zero transaction fees. Peter M. Sacerdote $25,000... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Laura Scher of Working Assets

advertising," Scher explains. Similarly, from the royalty it receives for marketing a credit card, Working Assets donates to the nonprofit pool a dime for every credit-card transaction its customers make. Through various virtual market... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Feb 2000
News

Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet

all of their shopping and communicating from there. Our services - password management, merchant mail, and find and compare - stick to the consumer, following them wherever they shop on the Web." With companies like Brodia breaking down the barriers to doing personal... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Books

and influencing, and their agility enables them to reach agreement when others would be stalemated. He explains how the best practices of diplomats like George Mitchell, the late dealmaker Bruce Wasserstein (JD 1970/MBA 1971), and Hollywood producer Jerry Weintraub... View Details

16 Oct 2013
News

Progress Through Preservation

a former urban developer, likes the art of closing. The Trust helps to negotiate land transactions between landowners and public entities or groups hoping to preserve it. It also focuses on conservation funding and finance, conducts the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; Real Estate

24 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages

16,000 people unemployed at the end of April 2021 who received federal benefits through the CARES Act of 2020. The authors analyzed anonymized bank transaction data from January 1 through September 17, 2021. Researchers then compared the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

30 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

of patent applications, on facilitating transactions in the market for ideas. Standard-Essential Patents Josh Lerner builds a framework for the analysis of standard-essential patents and suggests a policy reform. Playing Favorites: How... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

13 May 2002
Op-Ed

A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures

account for transactions under generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) while reducing transparency and aggressively maximizing earnings and debt. Creative accounting is part of the competition among auditors that has led to lower... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch; Accounting

06 Dec 2021
News

Tipping Point

tips impractical, explains Nyamumbo, but cryptocurrencies don’t have the same transaction fees, which could allow someone buying a cup of coffee to leave a tip for the coffee farmers at the same time they leave one for the barista.... View Details

Keywords: April White; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Profile

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

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

01 Apr 1997
News

Manager's Notebook

customer information. But now, conveniences such as Web browsers and "smart cards" (which today are used to store electronic money in several European markets and, in the future, could record an individual's daily transaction information)... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

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