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  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

correlations between their risk-based return premia, and periodic flights to quality. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/Comovement_RAPS.pdf The Effect of Reference Point Prices on Mergers and Acquisitions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Is AI OK?

techniques to analyze that data and build an algorithm that successfully predicted job fit while minimizing bias—matching candidates to the right jobs based on their traits and aptitudes, for example, without discriminating on the basis... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 01 Jan 2006
  • News

William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958

News. And as soon as he graduated in 1953, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps and became an officer. Fast forward to 1959. Just out of Harvard Business School, Donaldson, 28, was rooming with Dan Lufkin (MBA ’57) in New York and working in the mergers and View Details
  • 09 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

disruptive attack. The next place to look for overserved customers is in adjacent markets where competitors might be creating an opening for a disruptive assault by overserving their customers. How should companies determine whether customers are indeed overserved?... View Details
Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

best way for me to establish this argument is to trace the history of research on corporate boards and analyze the trends in that research, including the relative value of the types of data that researchers in this field have used.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2016
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March 1, 2016

can trigger large price bubbles. We analyze the patterns of cash-flow news that generate the largest bubbles, the reasons why bubbles collapse, and the frequency with which they occur. The model also predicts that bubbles will be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that adopt GPs experience negative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

concentration—a belief that bridges both sides of the divide about whether globalization is good or bad. However, data on more than a dozen global/globalizing industries that Fariborz Ghadar of Penn State and I have assembled and analyzed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 1999
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

creating the sort of ambidextrous organizations we described earlier. How is the program structured to facilitate learning and the acquisition of new skills? Tushman: We employ a combination of approaches throughout the program to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 23 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706442 Central Bank: The ChexSystems(SM) QualiFile(R) Decision Harvard Business School Case 208-029 The "Central Bank" series analyzes the use of information and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

research. We test this assertion by analyzing studies of negotiation published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings reveal a continuum of open-systems to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

analyze conditions under which these attack types are likely to succeed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-104.pdf Unstable Equity? Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing Authors:Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26

Evidence from a Natural Experiment Authors:Cohen, Alma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract This paper examines whether staggered boards reduce firm value or are merely associated with it due to the tendency of low-value firms to maintain staggered boards. To View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

Economic Analysis, agencies continued to bundle their advertising services and collect media commissions for decades. By analyzing US Census Bureau data, the researchers demonstrated that unbundled services accounted for only 13 percent... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
  • 28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

Abstract—The well-established negative correlation between staggered boards (SBs) and firm value could be due to SBs leading to lower value or a reflection of low-value firms' greater propensity to maintain SBs. We analyze the causal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

Statistics Trade Credit and Taxes By: Desai, Mihir, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Abstract—This paper analyzes the extent to which firms use trade credit to reallocate capital in response to tax incentives. Tax-induced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25

Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy By: Simons, Robert Abstract—This study focuses on the relationship between business strategy, organization structure, and diagnostic control systems. The project analyzes... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 24 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

think warrant further exploration? A: One issue that I would really like to understand better is the reaction of individual domestic firms that had been imitators prior to reforms. Do they disappear? Some anecdotes I have heard suggest that these firms often become... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 23 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American business education over the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross-industry projects and the ways they must be managed. The authors analyze contemporary cases that expose the complex demands of cross-boundary collaboration... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne