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  • 09 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 9

clients. We stated that even honest auditors were incapable of independence within the current regulatory framework. We document the failure to make sufficient changes to our institutions, highlight the barriers to needed changes, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2012
  • Article

Management Practices across Firms and Countries

By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing American, Japanese, and German firms are the best... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Competency and Skills; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Organizations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Sectors; Performance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Private Equity; Multinational Firms and Management; United States; Germany; Japan; China; India
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  • 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

routine, and the benefits accrue only to those couples who jointly view it as a symbolically meaningful ritual. We contribute to the literature on rituals by empirically documenting the relationships between rituals, specific emotions,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

is working to change these perceptions and document inner city business opportunities. In partnership with Inc. magazine, the ICIC scours America each year looking for the most rapidly growing private... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 22

how power struggles activated faultlines and were, in turn, reinforced by them, and documenting the emotion regulation processes triggered by subgrouping and enacted through language-related choices and behaviors.   Cases & Course... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

assessment and valuation technique used in the private equity industry. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218106-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-484 Institutionalized... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • January 2025
  • Case

Apax Partners: Deciding Whether to Bid for Trader Corp.

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
Apax Partners’ investment committee was schedule to meet on March 21, 2011, to decide whether to invest in Trader Corporation, a Canadian classified advertising business for used automobiles with both print (magazines) and digital (website) distribution. What made this... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Network Effects; Private Equity; Growth Management; Digital Marketing; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; E-commerce; Valuation; Competition; Digital Platforms; Digital Strategy; Digital Transformation; Transition; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Advertising Industry; Auto Industry; Information Industry; Canada; United Kingdom; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
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  • 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

However, high purpose firms come in two forms: firms that are characterized by high camaraderie between workers and firms that are characterized by high clarity from management. We document that firms exhibiting both high purpose and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

investment from an international private equity company, and it has decided to focus on expanding tertiary care capabilities in its hospitals. A consulting team has identified cardiology, oncology, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

and 2009, $1.8 trillion worth of public company assets entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection— almost 20 times more than during the prior two years." A significant portion of the private equity... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

pricing theories. First, in an era when efficient portfolio diversification was not possible, the intrinsic risk of an equity security was an important input into investor decision making. Second, our evidence suggests that businesspeople... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs

his current stint at General Catalyst, a private equity fund. Filipowski, who founded software maker PLATINUM Technology and sold it to Computer Associates International in 1999 for approximately $4 billion,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

Course MaterialsAustin, Blakeley, & Cambridge, LLC Harvard Business School Case 207-098 The founding partners of ABC, LLC, one of the leading private equity firms in the world, are trying to understand... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

(BCECP), which provides tax credits to private equity investors that meet several eligibility criteria. The case study is written from the point of view of a policy maker, with a perspective on the entire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 28

straightforward processing to update prices, while the other set requires more complicated analyses to incorporate the same piece of information into prices. We document substantial return predictability from the set of easy-to-analyze... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

be best performing in terms of annual profitability; membership was considered highly prestigious. We document that index-inclusion incentives led firms to increase return on equity (ROE) proportionally by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008

respond to a revised proposal from two private equity firms to take the company private. In November of 2006, the Board had unanimously approved an offer of $37.60 per share after going through intense... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2024 (Revised May 2025)
  • Case

Carrie Wang: Choosing Between the Family Firm and the Family Spirit

By: Lauren Cohen, Fei Wu and Sophia Pan
Carrie Wang, Investment Head of the Wang’s single-family office, contemplated her next career steps. As one of the first businessmen who had risen from China’s industrial rise, her father had grown his wealth to a considerable level, eventually requesting that his... View Details
Keywords: Family Office; Interests Of Consumers; Family Business; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Financial Markets; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return; Private Equity; Customer Relationship Management; Interests; Reputation; Work-Life Balance; Real Estate Industry; China
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  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

the scholarship emanating from this research stream has grown substantially in quantity, quality, and breadth. Likewise, firms across the world have increasingly implemented broad and sophisticated non-market strategies. Within strategy beyond markets, there are a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 10, 2008

managers will use the discretion given by such estimates to convey private information on future cash flows, while agency theory predicts managers will use the discretion opportunistically. We test these alternative hypotheses using a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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