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  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

regulatory framework, and adjudication capability; but in the private sector there is also the need for a tremendous number of institutions and intermediaries such as information analyzers and advisors, transaction facilitators,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Structural Closure and Exposure: Market Reactions to Announcements of Acquisitions and Divestitures

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Nitin Nohria
This paper develops an exchange-network perspective on corporate diversification and proposes two measures of corporate scope: structural closure and structural exposure. Structural closure focuses on exchanges of goods and services inside the firm... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Market Transactions; Diversification; Boundaries; Valuation
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  • 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
  • February 1995 (Revised August 1995)
  • Case

Microsoft in the People's Republic of China, 1993

By: Tarun Khanna
Explores some of the economic and political tradeoffs that need to be negotiated by a firm seeking to influence industry structure. The setting is the nascent personal computer software industry in the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1993. Microsoft has to localize... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Product Marketing; Market Entry and Exit; Market Transactions; Industry Structures; Partners and Partnerships; Vertical Integration; Software; Information Technology Industry; China
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  • May 2008
  • Article

Regulation and Bonding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Flow of International Listings

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Joseph Piotroski
In this paper, we examine the economic impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) by analyzing foreign listing behavior onto U.S. and U.K. stock exchanges before and after the enactment of the Act in 2002. Using a sample of all listing events onto U.S. and U.K. exchanges... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Stocks; Government Legislation; Market Transactions; Motivation and Incentives; United Kingdom; United States
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  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

  Working PapersDesigning a Two-Sided Platform: When to Increase Search Costs? Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We propose a model for analyzing an intermediary's incentives to increase the search costs incurred by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

advertiser operate an in-house agency that produces a specific set of services at a lower cost than the compensation required to retain an outside agency? In addition, there are transaction costs. How do the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • October 2009
  • Supplement

Merger of Equals: The Integration of Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York (C)

By: Ryan D. Taliaferro, Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
[Continuation of "A" and "B" cases.] Less than a month after the close of the merger between The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial, managers at the two firms realized that plans for combining their asset servicing businesses – and realizing the $180 million of... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Horizontal Integration; Financial Institutions; Business Processes; Risk Management; Strategy; Market Transactions; Assets; System; Saving; Banking Industry; New York (state, US)
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  • 15 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 15

hiring and socialization policies. Institutional Demand Pressure and the Cost of Corporate Loans Authors:Victoria Ivashina and Zheng Sun Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Between 2001 and 2007, annual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 9

massive cost overruns and delays. Second, the United States captured most of these economic benefits, partially because of its geographical situation and partially because it could leverage its military might to obtain a better agreement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 20, 2016

Feeley, Robert S. Kaplan, and Steven J. Frank Abstract—Question: Can we create a value-based tool to visualize the outcomes and cost of various treatments that could facilitate patient-centered decision making? Summary Answer: We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 27, 2009

($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14699 Forced Sales and House Prices Authors:John Y. Campbell, Stefano Giglio, and Parag Pathak Abstract This paper uses data on house transactions in the state of Massachusetts over the last 20 years... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

like an empty gesture or a mere financial transaction and may not act as a strong motivator to work hard, Whillans says. It’s best to avoid merely adding a cash bonus to a worker’s paycheck; a separate bonus check stands out more as a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • February 2005
  • Article

European Integration and Corporate Restructuring: The Strategy of Unilever c1957-c1990

By: Geoffrey Jones and Peter Miskell
This article examines the role of the large Anglo-Dutch consumer products company in promoting European integration. It shows that Unilever contributed financially to campaigns to support the creation of the European Union, and its subsequent expansion, despite a... View Details
Keywords: Horizontal Integration; Organizations; Policy; Expansion; Market Transactions; Geographic Location; Restructuring; Competition; Brands and Branding; Production; Capital Structure; Value; Consumer Products Industry; European Union; United States
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  • Research Summary

Overview

My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
  • Research Summary

Overview

My focus is empirical financial accounting research, with particular interests in governance, valuation, M&A, and short-sellers. All three of my papers to date fall under the broad heading of “alternative governance mechanisms”—studies of how accounting information is... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Law
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 17, 2015

evolving structure of corporate debt markets—and given rise to new questions about the private and social costs and benefits of leverage and, in particular, the role of leverage in affecting the likelihood and extent of systemic financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

and research applications, yet little is known about their relation to prices in physical stores where most retail transactions occur. I conduct the first large-scale comparison of prices simultaneously collected from the websites and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2023
  • Book

Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

live our everyday life (Autio et al., 2021). In fact, the combined effects of these four key technologies have driven an unexpected dramatic compression in the cost of producing, searching, amassing, storing, analyzing, and sharing data.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology
  • 09 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

to portfolio investment), yet these are by no means straightforward concepts. A great deal of the theory of multinationals relates to the benefits—or otherwise—of controlling transactions within a firm rather than using market... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail

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