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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
on the HBS campus created a deep reservoir of goodwill. “This place means something to us,” Spangler explains. “It was significant in my dad’s life, my life, and my daughter’s and son-in-law’s lives. But more than that, it the Spangler Center was an opportunity to do... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
Benefits Fund (PBF) enacted by the state legislature. With renewed effort by activists in 2006 to expand AE's role, there was a possibility of the PBF swelling to $50 to $80 million. Naturally, this put AE at conflict with electric... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16
I. Norton Abstract—This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). In Study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009
world-class business. Following modern management practices, keeping sharp attention to cost control and capital operations, making aggressive entries into international markets, and maintaining a special corporate culture, Chairman Chen... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
group that first voiced skepticism, demanded accountability, and catalyzed dissent. Andrew Zimbalist is the leading researcher on the hidden costs of hosting megaevents like the Olympics and the World Cup. They provide a blueprint for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
that many never sign up for pay TV at all. “I suspect that what is happening is much more profound, and that revolution will come from individuals and companies creating content at a fraction of the cost per hour of traditional pay-TV... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
invested in India. Companies that stripped out costs in the more competitive environment were able to compete and grow; those that didn’t went bankrupt. That created new opportunities for financial services, Kejriwal adds. “When I came... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
explicitly a function of current product offerings. The setting illustrates firms' dual incentives at work: A firm better differentiates products under a looser standard but may want to induce a tighter standard if it can benefit from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
tolerated with others. The sales manager who brings in big bucks but acts in a hostile, domineering way with his team may be seen as the definition of success, yet letting “a brilliant jerk be a jerk” could cost a company many other... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
Newman Abstract This paper shows that product prices determine organizational design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. Property rights theory asserts that firm boundaries are chosen by stakeholders to mediate organizational goals (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
that both effects are operative. Instrumental variables analysis indicates that plausibly exogenous changes in payout policy result in shifting institutional ownership patterns. Similarly, exogenous changes in the tax code indicate that as the tax View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
Most individuals who had converted bonds for shares in 1711 and 1719 had seen their South Sea shares appreciate in the meantime, and the government had lowered its debt-servicing costs as a result of these two conversions. The conversion... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
group of small businesses and nonprofits that could benefit from MBA talent. Now in the process of hiring an executive director, the nonprofit connects service-minded MBA students from 20 schools with community organizations that need... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
with the added benefit that they could be eaten at the end of the season, so in 1986 Whiteside began farming on the side, expanding his herd to about 50 animals in 2000. Whiteside supplemented their diet with grain, then tried soybeans... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1984) and Dan Olmsted Skyhorse Publishing Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic. The authors believe autism is new,... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
56.9% for all other analyst recommendations. We also show that appointed analysts' optimism is stronger at precisely those times when firms' benefits are larger. Lastly, we find that appointing firms are more likely to have management on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
result higher cost of capital. However, this result is not mitigated by the presence of long-term investors, consistent with these investors requiring a risk premium for holding the stock of short-term oriented firms. Overall, our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
(MBA 1996) (Plon) Cavaretta argues that France is a paradise for entrepreneurs. It has one of the best ecosystems for opportunity in the world. Entrepreneurs in France have a wide choice of areas of excellence to work in (fashion, gastronomy, high-tech, energy). They... View Details