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- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
forbid the most popular form of life insurance (tontine insurance), limit the growth of life insurers (which included several of the nation's largest financial institutions at the time), and prevent insurance firms from owning the stock...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
Firm in a Nascent Industry By: Zuzul, Tiona, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—This paper explores how entrepreneurs' efforts to legitimate a firm and a nascent industry affect the internal development of the...
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Anna Secino
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
IT that is not quite justified, based on all the work that continues to be done around the world, he said. Managers need to understand the opportunities and threats of Internet2 for their companies, because savvy new firms will come in...
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26
find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that adopt GPs experience negative...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We study how a stock index can affect corporate behavior by serving as a source of prestige. After decades of low corporate profitability in Japan, the JPX-Nikkei400 index was introduced in 2014. The index selected 400...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
them." Congestion: When Roth and his colleagues were invited to improve the way New Yorkers are matched with high schools, they recognized a problem of market congestion. This is a common problem in markets where lots of parties are deciding whether to choose each...
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- 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707030 Lion Capital and the Blackstone Group: The Orangina Deal Harvard Business School Case 807-005 The managing partners of two private equity View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 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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- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
challenge, which is aligning the interests of different stakeholders. When you think about a business, ideally the customers are paying for a product that generates revenue for the firm, which ultimately generates value in the form of profit or some sort of return for...
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by Julia Hanna
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
government and not thought much about. There seems to be an increasing feeling among consumers that much of this ended with the deregulation and privatization of these industries. According to neocritics of deregulation, for example, we...
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by James Heskett
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
of Wall Street rather than developing nations. And the crisis raises questions about the development policies of Asian nations: Did too-close "crony" relations between politicians and owners of major banks or firms pave the way...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare. Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health assembles 17 case studies at the intersection of business and public...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm...
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- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
corporate directors' fiduciary duties in that state. This change limited incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt. We show that, as predicted, this increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced risk taking. The changes are...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
innovation, and peer production—relate to theories of the firm, with particular attention on “sociality” in firms and markets. We first briefly review extant theories of the firm and then discuss three...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
privately or in multiple non-bankruptcy courts. The American-US Airways deal is part of American's plan of reorganization and will have to be approved by its creditors and shareholders. However voting rules in Chapter 11 require only a...
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- 07 Mar 2005
- What Do You Think?
Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?
board." There were, however, counterviews. Rowland Freeman makes the case that "Our body of knowledge is as firm as law...Certification would be no more difficult than it was to certify logisticians or professional procurement...
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by James Heskett