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  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

understand why experimental subjects might begin negotiations anticipating "fair" bargains. The model also explains why some parties may have incentives to deliberately write incomplete contracts which cannot be enforced in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

Turley (PMD 43, 1982) The Brier Patch Petroleum engineering professor Tony Zanatelli signs a summer-job contract to manage the drilling of a 20,000-foot-deep exploration well in the Gulf of Mexico. Energy company MillPet owns the lease... View Details
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

restraints it will face. Better CSR performance is the result of improved stakeholder engagement, which in turn reduces the likelihood of opportunistic behavior and pushes managers to adopt a long-form strategy. This introduces a more efficient form of View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

Focusing on relative total shareholder returns (rTSR), the predominant metric specified in these contracts and used by market participants to evaluate managers, we document that 60% of firms—those that choose specific peers—do a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

and impose competition between the pieces. By 2017, tracts of offshore oil were auctioned, renewable contracts were auctioned, and new regulators were trying to impose competition downstream in electricity. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

Alternative Asset Management's (BAAM) growth from 2007 to 2013, a time when the overall fund of hedge funds industry contracted substantially. Additionally, the case analyzes evolving business models and value propositions within the fund... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912030-PDF-ENG PAREXEL International Corp. (A) Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie KindredHarvard Business School Case 311-068 Despite severe market turmoil, in 2001, the biopharmaceutical contract... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

Inside Intel

conceived, no one knew there was a “microprocessor war.” Intel’s top brass understood that Motorola was attacking an important Intel franchise and that they had to fight back. No one dreamt, however, that this contract would be a defining... View Details
Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

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

get significant tax breaks under a Trump administration, to give more of their supply chain contracts to U.S.-based small businesses. In addition, National Federation of Independent Business surveys show that access to affordable health... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

more profitable lending, their power is muted by both deferred compensation and the limited liability typically enjoyed by credit officers. Second, we present direct evidence that incentive contracts distort judgment and beliefs, even... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

positive demand for external funds. Conditional on issuance of new debt, we interpret firm's switching from loans to bonds as a contraction in bank credit supply. We find strong evidence of substitution from loans to bonds at times... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

opportunity to see both sides of the issue. When Hrad enters into a contract to create a new accounts payable system for Welsh toy distributor Tegan, the outsourcing firm from the Czech Republic views the project as another step in its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Sep 2018
  • News

Havana Rising

personal network to look for potential clients. The market has been a bit of a revelation to her, a whole world of corporate planners contracted by the Oracles and Genentechs of the world to put together deep, off-site experiences. “All... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

New Horizons for Iraq

miserable conditions, are inspiring. I was contracted through the Coalition Provisional Authority to help the oil ministry think about strategies for financing reconstruction. In the short term, the options are fairly limited; over time,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government
  • October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
  • Supplement

Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
By many measures the largest health-club chain in the United States in the early 2000s, Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness clubs to 24 Hour Fitness in 2014 and disappeared from the industry top 100 rankings. After Bally was bedeviled by accounting... View Details
Keywords: Bally Total Fitness; Accounting; Accounting Audits; Accrual Accounting; Business Earnings; Revenue Recognition; Financial Statements; Acquisition; Business Exit or Shutdown; For-Profit Firms; Crime and Corruption; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; Capital Structure; Cash; Cash Flow; Public Equity; Financial Condition; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; Investment Activism; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Business History; Executive Compensation; Resignation and Termination; Annual Reports; Contracts; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Marketing; Market Entry and Exit; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Health Industry; Accounting Industry; United States; Illinois; Chicago
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the process by which companies renegotiate the financial contracts and commitments they have entered into with their creditors and other stakeholders, usually in response to some financial challenge or crisis. This process of... View Details
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

Recovery, and Final Disposal." Says Lorentzen, "We have to get the facts — whether good or bad — on the table to elevate the debate about paper to the highest level." For its part, Aracruz Celulose, the first Brazilian company to be listed on the New York Stock... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb