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  • October 2013 (Revised May 2014)
  • Supplement

The TELUS Share Conversion Proposal, Spreadsheet Supplement

By: Lucy White and Benjamin C. Esty
A proxy battle between a Canadian firm and a US hedge fund over a proposal to unify the firm's dual class share structure. View Details
Keywords: Stock Shares; Capital Structure; Investment Funds; Telecommunications Industry; Canada; United States
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  • 19 Jan 2021
  • Video

Hemendra Kothari

Hemendra Kothari, chairman of DSP Investment Managers in India, discusses how his firm reacted to the Harshad Mehta Stock Exchange scam in 1992. View Details
  • 20 Aug 2012
  • News

The Acquirers

  • March 2012
  • Article

China's Growing IT Services and Software Industry: Challenges and Implications

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia and Justin Wong
The Chinese management software and IT services industry has grown dramatically over the past two decades and today is about the size of the Indian industry a decade ago. The objective of this article is to help CIOs in firms outside of China better understand the... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology Industry; China
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  • Article

Consequences of Financial Reporting Failure for Outside Directors: Evidence from Accounting Restatements and Audit Committee Members

By: Suraj Srinivasan
I use a sample of 409 companies that restated their earnings from 1997 to 2001 to examine penalties for outside directors, particularly audit committee members, when their companies experience accounting restatements. Penalties from lawsuits and Securities and Exchange... View Details
Keywords: Outcome or Result; Business Earnings; Financial Statements; Lawsuits and Litigation; Labor; Markets; Financial Reporting; Accounting Audits; Cost; Reputation
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  • Research Summary

Interfirm Alliances as Mechanisms to Access and Exploit Technological Capabilities

How do firms choose alliance partners, and how do alliances affect the subsequent evolution of partners' technological capabilities? Silverman is examining how pre-alliance 'technological overlap' between firms influences partner selection. He is also examining... View Details
  • September 2013
  • Article

Do Short Sellers Front-Run Insider Sales?

By: Mozaffar N. Khan and Hai Lu
We study the behavior of short sellers as informed market participants and examine potential sources of their information. Using a newly available dataset with high-frequency short sales data, we find evidence of significant increases in short sales immediately prior... View Details
Keywords: Information; Consumer Behavior; Accounting; Financial Services Industry
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  • December 1999 (Revised August 2001)
  • Case

Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (A)

By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade
Focuses on Millennium's strategy to grow and revolutionize drug development through the use of new technologies such as genomics. Describes how Millennium Pharmaceuticals--a fast-growing biotechnology firm in Cambridge, MA--has used strategic alliances to finance the... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Financing and Loans; Medical Specialties; Retention; Growth and Development Strategy; Time Management; Product Development; Problems and Challenges; Alliances; Technology; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Cambridge
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    The Flattened Firm--Not as Advertised

    For decades, management consultants and the popular business press have urged large firms to flatten their hierarchies. Flattening (or delayering, as it is also known) typically refers to the elimination of layers in a... View Details

    • Article

    Sales Methodologies and Selling

    By: Frank V. Cespedes
    Sales methodologies play an important role. A common approach in a sales force allows for consistency, dissemination of best practices, acceleration of learning, and it helps the firm to scale because management then has common metrics to monitor and evaluate. However,... View Details
    Keywords: Methodology; Sales; Analysis
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    • Web

    Technology & Operations Management - Doctoral

    gross margins; How familiarity among team members fosters organizational capabilities among teams; The implications of operations management for investors; and How firms influence service quality, and how service quality affects... View Details
    • 28 Feb 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 28

    Pierce, Jason A. Snyder, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Competition among firms can have many positive outcomes, including decreased prices and improved quality. Yet competition can have a darker side when View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • April 2022
    • Supplement

    MicroStrategy: Accounting for Cryptocurrency (B)

    By: Jonas Heese and Annelena Lobb
    In early 2022, the technology firm MicroStrategy unveiled a series of letters with the SEC that questioned its accounting practices around its holdings of Bitcoin. Since 2020, the firm had shifted its strategy to include not just selling software but buying and holding... View Details
    Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Bitcoin; Holding Structures; SEC; Accounting; Finance; Financial Strategy; Technology Industry
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    • March 2006
    • Case

    EMC Corporation: Proposed Acquisition of VMware

    By: Constance E. Bagley, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Chris Lombardi
    Involves the decision by the CEO of EMC Corp. whether to acquire VMware, a small software firm in California that makes virtualization software. Among the factors to be considered are a pending patent case involving WMare and Microsoft and integration challenges... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Decision Choices and Conditions; Lawsuits and Litigation; Applications and Software; Acquisition; Information Technology Industry; California
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    • October 2006 (Revised September 2014)
    • Case

    Summit Partners - The FleetCor Investment (A)

    By: Michael J. Roberts
    Part of a 3-case series in which students get to see the unfolding of due diligence on private equity (buy out) deal. In this, the A case, the deal team has negotiated a letter of intent with FleetCor, a firm that operates a fuel payment network for vehicle fleets.... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation Preparation; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Investment; Negotiation Offer; Service Industry
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    • Research Summary

    The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity

    By: Laura Alfaro
    We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001-2010. We uncover the following stylized facts about regional variation of manufacturing firms'... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Job Market Paper

    When to Take the Leap:
    The Antecedents and Consequences of Leapfrog CEOs

    Much of the prior research on CEO successions focuses on differences between CEOs appointed from within the firm and those appointed from outside;... View Details
    • January 2004 (Revised March 2005)
    • Case

    Valuation Ratios in the Restaurant Industry

    By: Paul M. Healy and Krishna G. Palepu
    Examines factors underlying differences in valuation multiples (price-earnings and price-to-book) across four firms in the restaurant industry. View Details
    Keywords: Business Earnings; Valuation; Mathematical Methods; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • 23 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality?

    Keywords: by Dan Givoly, Carla Hayn & Sharon P. Katz
    • Research Summary

    Get in Line: Chapter 11 Restructuring in Crowded Bankruptcy Courts

    This paper tests whether Chapter 11 restructuring outcomes are affected by time constraints in busy bankruptcy courts.  On average, total bankruptcy filings rise by 32% during economic recessions, leaving bankruptcy judges with far less time per case exactly when... View Details
    Keywords: Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Financial Distress; Insolvency and Bankruptcy