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  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

Z. Ahmed, and Charles Cohen Abstract We use yearly variations in the price of oil to construct a powerful new instrument to test the impact of an important but often-overlooked foreign aid channel: money given by wealthy OPEC nations to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2021 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

Barbarians at the Gate or Turnaround Gurus? Private Equity and the Rise of the LBO

By: Tom Nicholas and John Masko
During the 1980s, leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and the private equity (PE) firms responsible for carrying them out revolutionized both investment and management in the U.S. Between 1980 and 1989, buyout activity in the U.S. surged from $1 billion per year to $60 billion.... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt; Private Equity; Bonds; Investment Return; Institutional Investing; Profit Sharing; Business History; Management Style; Private Ownership; Performance Effectiveness; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • February 2019 (Revised January 2021)
  • Case

Quiksilver Inc. and Oaktree Capital Management

By: Kristin Mugford and Mike Harmon
Sports lifestyle company Quiksilver filed for bankruptcy in September 2015. Oaktree is considering an additional investment in the company to facilitate the restructuring. Students must consider whether Oaktree should invest given the risks of the turnaround... View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy; Bankruptcy Reorganization; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Acquisition; Restructuring; Debt Securities; Transformation; Decision Making; Borrowing and Debt; Investment Return; Crisis Management; Negotiation; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; France; United States
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  • November 2001 (Revised December 2002)
  • Case

Tracking Stocks at Genzyme (A)

By: Malcolm S. Salter
Genzyme, a tracking stock pioneer, has used its innovative capital structure as a way to frame and grow its R&D-intensive business. Facing the question of how best to integrate a new acquisition into its tracking stock structure, Genzyme's top management is forced to... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Value Creation; Motivation and Incentives; Conflict of Interests; Stocks; Capital Structure; Research and Development; Corporate Governance; Biotechnology Industry
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  • 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

(shortest expected processing time). Moreover, they exercise more discretion as they accumulate experience. Exploiting random assignment of tasks to doctors’ queues, instrumental variable models reveal that these deviations erode... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

rituals. We define a ritual as a predefined sequence of symbolic actions often characterized by formality and repetition that lack direct instrumental purpose. Using different instantiations of rituals and measures of anxiety (both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

Motivates values-based capitalism and drives companies to contribute to solving social and environmental problems while also providing employees stimulating and satisfying work. Restores trust by committing to government as an instrument... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standard. Using matching methods, panel data, and instrumental variables, we find that government procurement rules produce spillover effects that stimulate both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

and third-party content (complements or substitutes). As a result, first-party content is a strategic instrument that plays a dual role. On the one hand, it enables platforms facing unfavorable expectations to compensate for their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

comparability and credibility. Instrumental variables analysis suggests that increases in sustainability disclosure driven by the regulation are associated with increases in firm valuations, as reflected in Tobin’s Q. Collectively, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

operations. Improvements have mostly occurred at the project and policy levels, where sustained pressure from civil society and some governments has been instrumental in the establishment of social and environmental safeguards, greater... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

engage in open communication. Because open communication is vital to any project, these perceptions can hurt team performance. These negative effects of leader power can be virtually eliminated simply by clearly communicating the idea that every team member is... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 14 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

cooking the books, keep promises, respect and protect human rights, and refrain from bribery. The research team created a codex of widely endorsed standards based on these similarities. Phase 2 of the project focused on developing a survey View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

as complicated local etiquette, obscured decision-making processes, and heavy reliance on interpersonal relationships instead of legal instruments all add to the complexities of Sino-foreign business negotiations and can make the process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

and Economic Development By: Schwab, Dan, and Eric Werker Abstract—Using industry-level manufacturing data, this paper demonstrates a negative effect of rents, measured by the mark-up ratio, on productivity growth. This result is robust to alternate specifications,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

powerful instruments a manager can use to influence the take-up of her product, especially in a subsidized and noncompetitive market as is common for global health products. However, the question of whether and how to price has been the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

constraints. Moreover, we provide evidence that both of the hypothesized mechanisms, better stakeholder engagement and transparency around CSR performance, are important in reducing capital constraints. The results are further confirmed using an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting A Stop to the Earnings Game

By: Joseph Fuller and Michael C. Jensen

Putting an end to the "earnings game" requires that CEOs reclaim the initiative by avoiding earnings guidance and managing expectations in such a way that their stocks trade reasonably close to their intrinsic value. In place of earnings forecasts, management should... View Details

Keywords: Stocks; Performance Expectations; Goals and Objectives; Risk and Uncertainty; Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Risk Management; Budgets and Budgeting; Earnings Management; Value; Projects
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  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

effects, we look within multinational firms and show that higher levels of bilateral trust between the multinational's country of origin and subsidiary's country of location increases decentralization, even after instrumenting trust using... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

instruments intended for worst-case scenarios. If you’re an OldCo leader looking to proactively manage defection risk, you should: Stay close to your teams. Pre-pandemic, office culture functioned as a kind of surveillance by virtue of... View Details
Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

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