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- 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52149 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Get It Right? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Standard principal-agent models suggest that boards design incentive View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016
competitive imitation. Make it tough for rivals to copy your product-to-platform strategy: consider creating proprietary standards, using exclusivity contracts and erecting other barriers to competition. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4
the venture capitalist and the entrepreneur. Since the investor-VC contract is set before the VC finds any investments, we show that it is the entrepreneur who must compensate the venture capitalist for any extra risk in the project even... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14
proxy for incentive conflict) impact the use of a subset of available performance measures. Consistent with a signaling model of the allocation of contingent control rights, we find that contracts involve fewer contingent control rights... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
understand why experimental subjects might begin negotiations anticipating "fair" bargains. The model also explains why some parties may have incentives to deliberately write incomplete contracts which cannot be enforced in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
In their contracts with Walmart, suppliers must agree to accept any financial or criminal liability resulting from the sale of their products. Elmburg felt that Walmart, given its size and as the point of purchase, had an ability to... View Details
- 28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28
Supplements case 712-424. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/713436-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-084 Apartheid in South Africa A short history of Apartheid in South Africa. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/113084-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007
facilitates the design of new instruments and contracts to control or transfer sovereign risk. Business Methods Patents as Real Options: Value and Disclosure as Drivers of Litigation. Authors:Atul Nerkar, Srikanth Paruchuri, and Mukti... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10
make sure that in the drive to add new customers, existing clients whose contracts were expiring were not "slipping through the cracks" when it came time to renew. But who within the company should be responsible for renewals?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 26
by a public health organization are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group receive a standard volunteer contract often offered for this type of task, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29
contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly-competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the pecuniary benefits of coordinating production decisions and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
Working PapersDon't Just Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad (revised) Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
about 22,000 employees and made about 4.5 billion Swiss Francs (or $4.589 billion USD) in sales in 2015, managed 1.5 million tools under fleet management contracts in 40 countries, resulting in a contract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
findings. First, non-financial rewards are more effective at eliciting effort than either financial rewards or the volunteer contract and are also the most cost-effective of the four schemes. Second, non-financial rewards leverage... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10
prices of used ships to fall by as much as 80%. As ship prices (values?) fell, ship owners began to default on loans and new purchase contracts while banks holding loans secured by ships faced the possibility of increasing defaults... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
you have seen recessions and market fluctuations), what is your advice to less-seasoned HBS graduates? O'Lear: Buckle your seatbelt. If you accept the premise that the U.S. postindustrial economy reflects Darwinian capitalism, then it follows that economic View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
restraints it will face. Better CSR performance is the result of improved stakeholder engagement, which in turn reduces the likelihood of opportunistic behavior and pushes managers to adopt a long-form strategy. This introduces a more efficient form of View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16
Goldberg and Annelena LobbHarvard Business School Supplement 313-019 The international joint venture that successfully bid for $6 billion in contracts to build LNG trains on Nigeria's Bonny Island became entangled in a widening bribery... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
agreements or use the threat of such rejection as leverage to obtain financial concessions from lessors and other counterparties. For an airline that leases its planes, this can generate enormous cost savings. This ability to reject or renegotiate certain View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311135-PDF-ENG Penn Warranty Corporation Richard S. Ruback and Royce YudkoffHarvard Business School Case 212-007 Penn Warranty Corporation sold warranty contracts to the used-car market.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne