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- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
controlling stake in Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (Satyam), a troubled Indian IT company managed since January 2009 by a six-member government-appointed caretaker board. Anand Mahindra, chairman and managing director of the Mahindra... 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
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
complex problem that was poorly conceived, inadequately reviewed, discriminatory, counterproductive, and fundamentally anti-American. Why do I say lazy? The ostensible purpose of the executive order is to provide “extreme vetting” for... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
These are not short view real estate traders. Key Lessons What can we learn from these two projects, joined in common purpose but separated by 10,000 kilometers, Islam and Buddhism, and 70 inches of annual rainfall? What is the urban... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
been abandoned by its owners and had come under the control of CW Capital, the special servicer for the vast amount of debt that was in default. Any investment in a distressed property could be very risky and might require the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
a tool . The problem is not the tool, but the user if the company were better run, you wouldn't need to bribe people to stay (but) there are times when the retention bonus is appropriate, such as when a View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
focuses on a board director of a diversified holding company. The CEO is raising the idea of joining with a special purpose acquisition company... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
my own history and ancestry. I think it’s so important for us to know about where we came from and what our ancestors experienced. I’ve read several of Kazuo Ishiguro’s books and they always inspire me and continue to haunt me long after I’ve put them down. The Remains... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
activists (e.g., social movement organizations vs. religious groups and activist investors) rely on dissimilar tactics (e.g., boycotts and protests vs. lawsuits and proxy votes). Further, we show how protests and boycotts drag companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
School Case 217-018 Rose Electronics Distributing Company Itamar Frankenthal was evaluating bank loan proposals to finance his acquisition of Rose Electronics Distributing View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
Joy M., Liana Victorino, Ryan W. Buell, Michael J. Dixon, Susan M. Goldstein, Larry J. Menor, Madeleine E. Pullman, Aleda Roth, Enrico Secchi, and Jie Zhang Abstract—The purpose of this article is to present exciting and innovative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
provide reason to dismiss them as the wanderings of a restless mind. We propose that it is precisely the lack of control over and access to the process by which spontaneous thoughts come to mind that leads them to be perceived to reveal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
valuable insights for founders and universities as they invest more into the higher-risk, early-stage research that often results in meaningful innovation. Companies have long teamed with academia, but such partnerships might become more... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
been successful in executing an aggressive growth plan that found its crown jewel in the acquisition of Celtel, one of the largest telecom companies in sub-Saharan Africa. However, this View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
senior executives specializing in everything except sales. “The number of executives reporting to the CEO in the average S&P 500 company has doubled in the last 20 years,” says Frank V. Cespedes, a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
to the special role reinsurers have played in the capitalist system. As the industry developed, it had a vested interest in preventing excessive risks, while also providing complex societies with a mechanism to limit the damage that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
frustrated by their track record in making acquisitions. Many companies find that large acquisitions provide stable but lackluster returns, whereas small acquisitions typically... View Details
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
II, Tata was able to navigate his family-owned companies through the tumultuous political climate of India. He worked with British colonial officers, and later closely with several Indian leaders under both pro- and anti-business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
meeting room for that purpose at Flatiron Partners in New York. Companies in which Flatiron had invested scheduled the room, one after another, for their board meetings. In our case, we had moved our meeting... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
years. One final note: I think that American wineries have begun to recognize that the way that they have marketed wine has limited their ability to make wine appealing to a wider audience. As Michael Mondavi has said, "For decades, our industry sent the wrong... View Details