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  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

economy.” They don’t know the inner workings, but “what are the interest rates?” They have high sensitivity to transactions and to partners, because everything’s a bespoke, one-off transaction. Typically, people like this also see the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

facilitating transactions in the market for ideas. We do so by analyzing the effects of the American Inventor's Protection Act (AIPA) of 1999, which required, as of November 29, 2000, that U.S. patent applications be published 18 months... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising
  • 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
  • 09 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 9, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49226   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 315-030 The Emergence of M&A in Microfinance Mibanco, a microfinance icon, is for sale, and Edyficar, owned by Banco del Credito (BCP), Peru's largest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 31

repetitive in nature. We introduce the concept of a restart effect—task and temporal disruptions that stimulate worker productivity—as a means of addressing challenges of repetitive work. For our empirical analyses, we use two and a half years of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

capital ought to flow across country borders with minimal restriction and regulation. Freedom for capital movements became the new orthodoxy. In an intellectual, legal, and political history of financial globalization, Rawi Abdelal shows that this was not always the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

are an enabling force legally astute management teams can use to manage the firm more effectively. In particular, it proposes that legally astute management teams can, inter alia, use formal contracts as complements to relational governance to define and strengthen... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Chairman of Citi and Chairman of the Banking, Capital Markets and Advisory business. For thirteen years, McGuire was Citi’s Global Head of Corporate and Investment Banking. McGuire has advised on transactions valued at over $750 billion.... View Details
  • Web

Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report

time: Networking is transactional , Bulls says, whereas connecting is about engaging in a sincere relationship. If you connect in a genuine way with fellow leaders consistently, they’ll learn they can trust you. This, combined with the... 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
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

transaction data from a Japanese bank's home loan application processing line. We find that over the course of a single day, specialization, as compared to variety, is related to improved worker productivity. However, when we examine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

executives were able to better price their products and services. It was now possible to price each transaction based on the value it created for the customer, as well as on its cost. As activity-based costing became more popular, it... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
  • 18 Apr 2022
  • News

Home Grown

on the planet. So we kind of use that for our own purposes, for sure. There is a transaction model because we have creators bringing their entertainment and their art on the lock screen. And they’re also selling on the lock [00:08:00]... View Details
  • September–October 2013
  • Article

The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring

By: Lamar Pierce and Michael W. Toffel
Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor quality resulting from moral hazard, which can be particularly onerous when outsourcing the monitoring and... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Accountability; Governance Compliance; Policy; Management Practices and Processes; Demand and Consumers; Market Design; Market Entry and Exit; Market Transactions; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Expectations; Practice; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Service Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
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  • 23 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

purpose, along with Chester Barnard’s compatible theory of business organizations as cooperative systems. Aristotle stresses the ethicality of cooperation in transactional settings; Barnard stresses the efficiencies and adaptive benefits... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Mar 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

also present a panoply of challenges for communities and states. Surprisingly, federal laws are chief among those challenges despite the fact that online marketplaces facilitate transactions traditionally regulated at the local level. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2021
  • News

The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)

integrate business transactions to benefit the society around us. “I don’t think it is a surprise that, with three HBS alumni on our board [the third is Tom Avery (MBA 1977)], we’ve tried to incorporate this concept into PowerUP’s... View Details