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- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
Co-op is experimenting with a transactive energy rate that will enable members to partner with the co-op, supplying energy from their EV batteries when it is most needed, and charging up when demand — and prices — are low. The technology... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
hypothesis that perceived network benefits from the extant worldwide adoption of IFRS can explain part of countries' shift away from local accounting standards. That is, as more jurisdictions with economic ties to a given country adopt IFRS, perceived benefits from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Fast Answer
Corporate Strategy Course - Project Resources
href="http://www.library.hbs.edu/go/capitaliq.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 122, 183); text-decoration-line: none;">here. LSEG Workspace Includes M&A transactions screening and league tables. View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
knowledge and value creation are distributed across many actors. We propose a theory of IP modularity based on value maximization net of transaction and agency costs. We then use case examples to extend the theory into practical settings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
long-dated liabilities and need to deploy cash continuously, Soares says. “The appetite for ever-larger buyout transactions from those mega funds trickled into the music industry also.” Those trends collided with a “combustion” of other... View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
that they would otherwise have a hard time entering into. As one participant in a Group Gift transaction said in an interview: "If it wasn't for the eBay update from my friend that I saw on Facebook, I don't think I would ever know that... View Details
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
transactions to discover and collect funds owed to their clients. PRG had historically been profitable, and clients were satisfied with their service. In recent years, however, the industry overall and PRG's sales, had been in decline.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
After sixteen years at the editorial helm, Navasky became the magazine’s owner in 1994 thanks to a $1 million transaction largely funded by supporters including Paul Newman and E.L. Doctorow. As The Nation’s publisher, he then turned to a... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51460 Concentrated Capital Losses and the Pricing of Corporate Credit Risk By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary data on all credit default swap (CDS) transactions in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
firms that operate online marketplaces. "Online marketplaces are a great innovation with extraordinary potential, but they also present important challenges, as explored in this paper. We hope companies will design their sites to facilitate View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
business models used by patent intermediaries. A key conclusion is that platform-type intermediaries (that facilitate transactions without taking possession of assets) have struggled, whereas merchant-type intermediaries (that acquire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
recalls needing to be wise about how she proposed ideas as a new director. There was one situation in which the board needed to select an investment banker for a transaction that had previously failed. Needless to say, tensions were high.... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
costs, vendor profitability is often driven by the ability to "lock in" customers. Despite a large theoretical literature, there are few empirical studies on the success of vendor pricing and product strategies to achieve lock-in. This paper uses a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
intermediary's technology. We develop a model to show that the intermediary would want to restrict sellers from charging buyers more for transactions it intermediates. With this restriction an intermediary can profitably raise demand for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
third-party retail sales might cannibalize some of Amazon's own revenues in certain product categories. Then Amazon went a step further with its Prime membership announcement, offering participants free shipping for all transactions for... View Details
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
equity shop effectively scooped up Celanese, stripped it of its German identity, and repotted it in the United States nine months later, thereby closing a large valuation gap. And there were other situations that were similar. I was struck by the ease with which this... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber? By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Damien Geradin Abstract—New software platforms use modern information technology, including full-featured web sites and mobile apps, to allow service providers and consumers to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July 2010 (Revised August 2021)
- Supplement
Vereinigung Hamburger Schiffsmakler und Schiffsagenten e.V. (VHSS): Valuing Ships (CW)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert W. Sheen
After booming for more than five years, the global shipping (maritime) industry experienced a dramatic crash in late 2008 as the global financial system froze and the global economy slid into recession. Ship charter rates (revenue) fell by as much as 90% causing prices... View Details
- 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