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  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

Cuts Harvard Business School Case 709-037 As his inauguration approached, President-elect Obama faced a financial sector meltdown, a costly bailout, and massive government deficits. With the economy in recession, interest rates near zero,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30

Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro Abstract—We propose a relational theory of how change agents in organizations use the strength of ties in their network to overcome resistance to change. We argue that strong ties to potentially influential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

  PublicationsOvercoming Resistance to Organizational Change: Strong Ties and Affective Cooptation Authors:Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We propose a relational theory of how change View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying agents to stay loyal. We show how the principal can influence the value of these options by modularizing the system and by hiring clans of agents, thus exploiting relationships among them.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0733-558x&volume=33 Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements Authors:Krishna G. Palepu and Paul M. Healy Publication:5th ed. Cengage Learning, forthcoming An abstract is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

by market forces. We recognize the advantage of using fair values in circumstances where these are based on observable prices in liquid secondary markets but caution against expanding fair values to financial reporting more generally. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

strengthened. These changes may reflect the growing role for the euro as a reserve currency in the international financial system. The risk-minimizing currency strategy for a global bond investor is close to a full currency hedge, with a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7

  Working PapersConsistency and Monotonicity in One-Sided Assignment Problems Authors:Bettina Klaus and Alexandru Nichifor Abstract One-sided assignment problems combine important features of two well-known matching models. First, as in roommate problems, any two View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

some ways in which firms' business models may impact their negotiation outcomes. Several of the proposed pathways work intuitively through the intrinsic characteristics (motivation, personality, etc.) of agents negotiating on behalf of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Jul 2014
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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
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

traces the consequences of these differences. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44781 How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study in Two Financial Institutions By: Hall, Matthew, Anette Mikes, and Yuval... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/articles/2010/fall/52118/how-to-do-well-and-do-good/ Corporate Governance When Founders Are Directors Authors:Feng Li and Suraj Srinivasan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008

was an essential ingredient in the success of the transformation. The case ends with a review of changes in financial performance, employee attitudes and customer satisfaction. The case describes the important role that the human... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

economic trends a central economic activity and shed light on the mechanics of financial markets by providing a range of statistics and information about individual firms. They also raised questions that are still relevant today. What is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

the early years of the 20th century, as much as any business in America, is marked by dramatic changes in the context in which CEOs had the opportunity to forge their identity and the fortunes of their companies," the authors write in the book's introduction.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation
  • 17 May 2004
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Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

to business school students about their role and responsibilities. They are not merely agents of shareholders. They are leaders and trustees of perhaps the most significant institutions in the contemporary era. How managers see themselves... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

likely would be difficult to finance externally. We argue that a developed financial system can facilitate exports, and we test three implications. First, a more developed financial system is associated with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

themselves moral agents with distinct moral responsibilities. To date, the debate about corporate moral agency has focused on responsibility for past wrongdoing that involves violating negative duties (i.e., duties to refrain from certain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2003
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The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

to helping the combined companies compete with rivals such as Disney and Cap Cities/ABC. To get the deal done, however, Michael Ovitz, talent agent turned unorthodox corporate matchmaker, kept the parties mostly apart during the process,... View Details
Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering (IPO), I differentiate between those that have private equity sponsorship (PE-backed firms) and those that do... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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