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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
were largely gained in the trenches of a multiyear research project with Professor Tarun Khanna that explores the implications of conglomerate business structures in emerging markets. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, research showed... View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
Firm in a Nascent Industry By: Zuzul, Tiona, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—This paper explores how entrepreneurs' efforts to legitimate a firm and a nascent industry affect the internal development of the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
firms in primary markets. We characterize two effects on primary market firms caused by intermediaries entering secondary markets: the "cannibalization" and "option value" effects.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
last several decades, there has been a lot of work showing that finance plays a strong role in shaping where companies will end up locating. In some sense, infrastructure has the potential to overcome constraints. So, if finance did not exist in a place, what if we... View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
afford to write off these firms as noncompetitive threats or unworthy partners on the global business stage. "There is still a lot of apprehension about state-owned enterprises," says Musacchio. "The debate is very polarized. Either you... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
initiated a series of strategic shifts and evolved from a predominately fund-of-funds manager into a large, multi-asset class PE firm focused on direct investments. PG was the first PE firm to go public in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
start up an unusually innovative venture. It was a "launch" truly deserving of that designation - a company that would rocket commercial payloads into space. Today, the firm they established, Orbital Sciences Corporation, having broadened... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
Organization Tax Aversion in Labor Supply By: Kessler, Judd B., and Michael I. Norton Abstract—In a real-effort laboratory experiment, labor supply decreases more with the introduction of a tax than with a financially equivalent drop in wages. This “tax aversion” is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog
among others. The course also features an online computer-gaming simulation that enables students to compete against one another as rival SaaS firms vying for users, market position, and capital investment. Case classes are organized into... View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
that way.” After graduating, he spent a decade at the Hawaii-based Castle & Cooke, which was at that time a large agriculture firm that included Dole Food Company. Sprinkles began in the seafood division at... View Details
- 29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
and behaviors, is also critical. In this review, we document the often large differences between actual levels of inequality and citizens’ (mis)perceptions of those levels. This inaccuracy extends to people’s beliefs about the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We study how a stock index can affect corporate behavior by serving as a source of prestige. After decades of low corporate profitability in Japan, the JPX-Nikkei400 index was introduced in 2014. The index selected 400... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
model where firms choose which suppliers to integrate and whether to delegate decisions to integrated suppliers or keep them centralized. We test the predictions of this model using a novel dataset that combines measures of vertical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
that "firm performance and top management compensation are inversely related." And this may not have taken into account the large severance payments made to those being asked to leave their leadership jobs because of mediocre... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
being created, while in others, the stock of technical knowledge that can potentially be transferred into new ventures is locked up in companies. The best example is Japan, where most innovations are generated within research laboratories operated by View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
competitors locked into a product development strategy calling for growth through product obsolescence and more and more largely unused but expensive bells and whistles. We're told that the typical user of information technology today... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
distance" is extremely low, especially in high-potential ventures. People like Bill Gates and Larry Ellison, who are able to lead their companies for quite a while, get all the attention because they are rare, not because they are typical. NB: What do we know... View Details
- 10 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice
Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021), Rebel One Ventures: I am working with at an impact venture capital firm that funds founders of color and solutions that help to address inequality in financial services, education, and work. Cathy Chukwulebe (MBA... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 24
financing risk-that is, the risk that later—stage investors will not fund the startup, even if the fundamentals of the firm are still sound. We show that financing risk is part of a rational equilibrium where investors can flip from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
reacting to similar challenges. As trendy financial dot-coms with huge technology and advertising budgets emerge offering everyone an equal—and inexpensive—chance to trade stock, apply for a loan, buy insurance, or pay a bill, traditional financial View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young