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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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  • November 2013
  • Article

The Performance of Corporate Alliances: Evidence from Oil and Gas Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

By: John Beshears
I use data on oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico to measure how a corporate alliance—a group of firms that jointly develops an offshore tract—performs relative to a solo firm. I employ a regression discontinuity strategy based on bids in first-price sealed-bid... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Form; Corporate Alliances; Oil And Gas Production; Lease Auctions; Regression Discontinuity; Alliances; Organizational Structure; Auctions; Performance; Energy Sources; Leasing; Energy Industry
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  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including the average skill intensity and reliance on external capital. Third, we use a new dataset... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

look at the creation of the Carnegie Tech Graduate School of Industrial Administration after World War II. This episode illustrates the increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by philanthropic foundations, on business... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field

colleagues, he has also begun looking at how competitive shocks affect industry structure and business strategy in emerging markets. Adam Brandenburger and Assistant Professor Harborne W. Stuart, Jr., have... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 02 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best

management structures. So casino hosts in some units are more tightly watched than others, allowing the researchers to evaluate results in both loosely and tightly monitored environments. In what appears to be an industry standard, casino... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 06 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

pumps they sell annually, but Grundfos is building the knowledge and infrastructure that will be necessary to scale. In Kalundborg, we saw circularity applied to energy as NGO Kalundborg Symbiosis presented Kalundborg Bioenergy’s production of biogas from local View Details
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Steve Schwarzman

Schwarzman defended his industry and cautioned that the good times can’t go on forever. Private equity’s been all over the headlines for months. Why is it suddenly such a big deal? Over the last ten years it has grown from 5 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

its trek through that? Grove: Our last-generation growth has been fueled by a fairly major structural transformation of the computing industry from mainframe, centralized computing to distributed computing,... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology
  • 03 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

allocating resources is distributed across all levels of the company. Those activities go on simultaneously. As a consequence, the way in which the structure divides up responsibility and the way the processes of the organization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

in global supply chains have engaged in activism that led transnational corporations to adopt codes of conduct and monitor their suppliers for compliance, but it is not clear whether these organizational structures raise labor standards.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • June 2011 (Revised November 2014)
  • Case

Vehbi Koç and the Making of Turkey's Largest Business Group

By: Asli M. Colpan and Geoffrey Jones
The case describes the creation of Turkey's largest business group by Vehbi Koç. The foundation of this group in the interwar years, and its subsequent diversification into many industries, including automobiles, household goods, and services, is analysed. The case... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Organizational Structure; Diversification; Manufacturing Industry; Turkey
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  • April 1995 (Revised June 1996)
  • Case

Choice Hotels International, 1995

By: Tarun Khanna and Israel Yellen Ganot
Illustrates the various ways in which Choice Hotels, the franchiser for seven mid-market hotel chains, can realize economies of scope across its multiple products. Also provides an opportunity to discuss the benefits and limitations of various organizational forms... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Competition; Franchise Ownership; Accommodations Industry; United States
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  • May 1989 (Revised September 1989)
  • Case

Jacobs Suchard: Reorganizing for 1992

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.
Jacobs Suchard, the Swiss-based coffee and chocolate producer, is preparing for the common market and EEC 1992. At the time of the case, the company is still organized toward independent, local country markets, and believes it must move toward a more global... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Expansion; Organizational Structure; Markets; Global Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Switzerland
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  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

may benefit from limited developer access. Second, an open platform may lead to higher investment than a proprietary platform. Third, opening one side of a proprietary platform may lower incentives to invest in platform quality. Fourth, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 1994
  • Case

Kirin Brewery Company, Ltd.

Describes the introduction of two profit planning and control systems at Kirin as part of its shift from a production-oriented to a consumer-oriented strategy. Specifically, documents Kirin's use of profit centers to increase efficiency and its use of pseudo profit... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Organizational Structure; Management Systems; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
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  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 to 1994. The interaction of this preexisting network View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

http://www.springerlink.com/content/91647u2175267563/ Ownership Structure and Financial Constraints: Evidence from a Structural Estimation Authors: Chen Lin, Yue Ma, and Yuhai Xuan Publication: Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

Division.Silverthorne: Your work examines how the newspaper industry responded to the perceived threat of the Internet, and how that response matched—or failed to match—what might be expected from models of disruptive technology and other... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

that allocates capacity efficiently. Although downstream firms have symmetric production technologies, we show that industry structure is symmetric only if capacity is sufficiently scarce. Otherwise it is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne