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  • 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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Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, and Nitin Nohria. "Structural Closure and Exposure: Market Reactions to Announcements of Acquisitions and Divestitures." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-087, April 2008.
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

doesn't manufacture—computer memory systems. It makes money by licensing its patented designs to other companies, who manufacture computer memory and sell it to computer makers. Over the course of the 1990s,... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology
  • 18 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

Synthesis Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract This paper constructs a unified theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

to receive favorable loan terms. First, bank relationships formed through repeated transactions reduce inefficiencies from information asymmetry between the lender and the leveraged buyout firm. Second, banks price loans to cross-sell... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 May 2016
  • First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about—innovation far more audacious than a new way to find a restaurant or a smart phone you can wear on your wrist. Amy C. Edmondson and Susan Salter Reynolds explore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2015
  • First Look

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
  • 15 Feb 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

to today's Network Era characterized by the Internet. From roughly 1970 to 1980, DIS concentrated on the management of mainframes and the chief individual responsible for information technology, the Information Systems (IS) manager. At... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 19 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

technologies developed by the Sony Corporation. In this same astonishingly brief period, Japan's computer makers had become Europe's dominant suppliers of large computer systems and had captured the U.S. market in View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology
  • 14 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

is expressed in myriad ways, from the success of the Vietnam Memorial Wall to the proliferation of laws extending human rights in every domain. The new individuals have plenty of things. They have access to plenty of services. But they... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

location of transactions and the boundaries of firms in a productive system. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as networks, in which tasks-cum-agents are the nodes and transfers—of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

& Company, based in San Francisco. Randy W. Goldman (MBA '76), vice president for electronic brokerage product development at Schwab, explains that her company's Internet site carries more than half the firm's trading volume and handles some $4 billion in... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services
  • 23 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

simplistic class analysis, that the countryside was the proper place for peasants, the cities for workers, would lead to the system of nationwide household registration and internal passports known as "hukou," which would... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are no longer adequate to serve as the primary unit of analysis. Over the years, systems of distributed innovation-so-called business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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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Taliaferro, Ryan D., Clayton S. Rose, and David Lane. "Merger of Equals: The Integration of Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 210-028, October 2009.
  • 18 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 18, 2006

than $100 million. These transactions are large enough to require the help of a financial adviser and attract both strategic and financial bidders. The sale process described is that of a private auction, including a confidential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.

nature of health care transactions with third-party involvement, the somewhat clunky EHR systems themselves that combine billing with health records, and fee-for-service payment systems. “Every time the... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health
  • 08 Jan 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

the words of my colleague Tom Eisenmann, the "get big fast" strategy by focusing on core activities while doing the rest by partnering with others, including competitors. A large, successful firm such as Cisco Systems has used... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409017 Linux vs. Windows Harvard Business School Case 707-465  As of 2006, Microsoft is finding that its dominant position in client and server operating View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

might spur new ideas and new entries, the open system is actually a deterrent. "If I'm participating in a contest and I see Mike there, I'll walk away because I'll feel like there's no way my solution will beat Mike's," Lakhani... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 25 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

becomes confused about its purpose and whom it is designed to serve. In popular marketing textbooks, students are taught that a customer is any person or organizational unit that plays a role in the consummation of a transaction with the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
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