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  • 09 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

emphasis on valuation and capital structure. Serves as the basis for a bankruptcy reorganization game that has been used for many years in Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring, a second-year finance course. The game is played in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

Fernando Abstract Attempts to explain the astonishing differences in agricultural productivity around the world typically focus on farm size, farmer risk aversion, and credit constraints, with an emphasis on how they might serve to limit... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Oct 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

advantage in a world of impatient investors, restive employees, and demanding customers? Do they require leaders who have fewer answers, more questions, and a bias for testing and quick action? Are investors, employees, and customers... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

demonstrate that supplier factory compliance is associated not only with institutions in the supplier's home country, but also with institutions in the global buyer's home country: suppliers are more compliant with global labor standards when they View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

Psychological Science Psychologically Informed Implementations of Sugary Drink Portion Limits By: John, Leslie, Grant Donnelly, and Christina Roberto Abstract—In 2012, the New York City Board of Health prohibited restaurants from selling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

any claims about the actual perception of any manager. Rather the perceptions here serve as a device for modeling and categorizing a range of inventory policies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-036.pdf   Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

firms: approximately 35,000 plants in 86 different manufacturing industries. The sheer amount of data allowed her to test for incremental versus radical innovation among firms in a unique way. For incremental change, McElheran looked at a firm's "e-buying" activities... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

the final stages of a 10-year plan of rejuvenation under CEO Kim Lopdrup. When he took over as CEO in 2004 the chain was closing restaurants and suffering declining same-store sales and declining customer satisfaction. But in 2010, even... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

communities for major corporate clients. These communities have provided its clients with insights into how consumers view their brands, with quick feedback on potential marketing decisions, and with a sounding board for new product... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

clubs," we show that 1) fees serve as a signal of price discounts, such that stores that charge fees are perceived as offering better deals for identical items; 2) the presence of fees can increase consumer spending and overall store... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

performed strongly in the late 1980s, the mid-1990s, and the 2000s. Large RLBOs that are backed by private equity firms with more capital under management perform better. We also find the so-called quick flips—when private equity firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

intervention are quick to point out that more than two decades of well-meaning attempts to constrain ever-soaring corporate pay and to reform governance through legislation, regulation, and shareholder pressure have, for the most part,... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 17 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Resisting the Seductions of Success

ahead of him—in a recent election, he almost beat a heavily entrenched incumbent. Tony is a veteran, with a Silver Star for bravery in Korea, and an entrepreneur. With his good friend Max, another attorney, he has started a law firm and made large investments in a... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 18 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

conversation to broader topics pertaining to venture formation. Her first-name rapport with Dubinsky reflected more than their experience as business-school classmates. Beyond serving as MBA Class of 1961 professor of management practice... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

competitive advantage"-and one of their core skills has to be quick and effective response when the travelers on one of their trips are exposed to flood, famine, pestilence, disease, earthquakes, tsunamis, terrorism, and other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

banking under the Glass-Steagall Act. As Moss is quick to point out, there was an implicit strategy: "We insured and regulated the most systemically dangerous part of the system, the commercial banks, and we exercised a much lighter touch... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

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