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22 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

"Pareto's theory was that 80 percent of the cost is caused by 20 percent of the problems, so you find lots of issues, identify patterns, and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

October 2002 (Revised December 2003)
Case

Collabrys, Inc. (A)-The Evolution of a Startup

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Brian DeLacey

The CEO of a two-year-old start-up must now decide whether to become a technology provider or a service agency. In a time of enormous uncertainty about the viability of various business models for Internet-delivered services and products, Collabrys has survived the... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Internet and the Web; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Technological Innovation; Cost vs Benefits; Partners and Partnerships; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Corporate Finance; United States

19 Apr 2017
News

Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action

position as “capital of the heartland” (making it a magnet for graduates of the Midwest’s top universities), its relatively low cost of living... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Emmanuel

April 2000
Case

Financing of Project Achieve, The (B)

By: Mihir A. Desai

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Forecasting and Prediction; Venture Capital; Cash Flow; Equity; Negotiation Deal; Valuation

February 2006 (Revised August 2006)
Case

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Art of the Entrepreneur

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the artists who created The Gates in New York City in 2005, are trying to decide how best to finance their next project. Over the River, a project to drape sections of the Arkansas River with translucent fabric is a very different enterprise... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Arts; Fine Arts Industry; Arkansas

29 Jun 2016
News

Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story

lot of similarities in what they were trying to do and what all the women at that meeting were trying to do.” For all that, Equity is anything but a capital-M message movie, says Munger. “It does not fall... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; photography by Chris Taggart; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

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2015
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Staggered Boards and Shareholder Value: A Reply to Amihud and Stoyanov

By: Alma Cohen and Charles C.Y. Wang

In a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics in 2013, we provided evidence that market participants perceive staggered boards to be on average value-reducing. In a recent response paper, Amihud and Stoyanov (2015) “contest” our results. They... View Details

Keywords: Staggered Boards; Takeover Defense; Antitakeover Provision; Firm Value; Agency Costs; Delaware; Chancery Court; Airgas; Governing and Advisory Boards; Acquisition; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Delaware

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30 Nov 2009
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Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

numerous subsets of the songs on the album—but when the process is fully digital the costs of reproducing music are much lower. The Internet makes mixed bundling feasible. Q:... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

December 2002 (Revised June 2003)
Case

A Wider Europe: The Challenge of EU Enlargement

By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Kimberly A. Haddad

By 2002, the euphoria that accompanied the grandest achievement to date of Europe's 50-plus years of integration--full monetary union--was fading fast. European policy makers completed the historically unprecedented monetary integration of 12 countries, and then they... View Details

Keywords: History; Cost vs Benefits; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Problems and Challenges; European Union; Europe