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- 25 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number
public databases, big M&A transactions have obvious economic significance, and it would be interesting to see how the market reacted to precise bids versus round ones. To determine the effect of round versus precise bids, the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?
different kinds of transactions and different time periods.” In order to analyze private equity’s effects, Lerner and his colleagues had to overcome several hurdles. The data they analyzed comes from the US... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
also necessary to allocate debt between the two entities, which will generally entail some kind of refinancing. The transaction must meet certain stringent business purpose tests to qualify as tax-exempt. And if the two entities conducted... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 05 Jul 2012
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?
which leaders are viewed by their followers. It's important to understand why this is the case, given the economic benefits that trust may impart to an organization. These include` higher morale, increased loyalty to the organization, more delegation of authority, and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
external sourcing may vary across situations. Our framework also proves useful for assessing the possible estimation biases in transaction level make-or-buy studies arising from ignoring complementarities and constraints. Where Do Brokers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
Google and Groupon, for instance, a higher percentage of employees work in sales than engineering or data mining. And at Facebook the salesforce's ability to translate 'likes' into advertisers will make or break that company's valuation... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent
While gains were focused at the executive and investor levels, these cuts fostered a transactional relationship between businesses and their workers. So, it should be a shock to no one that in recent years, the power dynamic has switched... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
Nanda Abstract Using loan-level data from Mexico, we study the relationship between the organizational structure of banks and the terms of lending to small businesses. We find that banks with decentralized lending structures—where branch... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management
of capitalism. Slave owners were able to collect data on their workforce in ways that other business owners couldn't because they had complete control over their workers. They didn't have to worry about turnover or recruiting new workers,... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'
Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
risen in Indian politics. Has there been a corresponding change in the economy? Using comprehensive data on enterprise ownership from the Economic Censuses of 1990, 1998, and 2005, we document substantial caste differences in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online
exam Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Credential of Readiness from HBS Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Apply Now Key Concepts Analyze and interpret data to inform business... View Details
- Web
Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
help providers and other players in the health care system leverage information technology to help them achieve two key aims: restructuring care delivery and measuring results . Establish common data definitions and precise language... View Details
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
year gains. We evaluate the performance of all policies under consideration using the same statistical and simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform a sensitivity analysis (for instance,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online
the process of reporting and communicating financial information. Accounting leverages past and present transactional data to determine a company's health, while finance is inherently forward-looking. Each... View Details
- Fast Answer
Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis
Topics Good for finding… Suggested Resources Company Research Data and background information for stock pitching prep Basic valuation metrics Strength and Weaknesses of the company (SWOT analysis) Lists (screening) and... View Details
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
$0.80) for processing customer orders, $35.20 (44 by $0.80) for handling inquiries, and $40 (50 by $0.80) for performing credit checks. Once you have calculated these standard rates, you can apply them in real time to assign costs to individual customers as View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey By: Amel-Zadeh, Amir, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using survey data from a sample of senior investment professionals from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
infrastructure for transactional activity, new scholarship asks what forces shape modern patterns of economic activity and how those patterns sort people and resources. Instead of reproducing conventional dichotomies, current historians... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
proactive about investigating and tackling the problem. For example, Uber created a cross-functional Fairness Working Group made up of economists, data scientists, lawyers, and product managers to explore discrimination issues. Measure... View Details