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- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
neglected in an atmosphere focused on deregulatory work, is in critical need of new models and theories that can guide effective policy-making. This interdisciplinary volume points the way toward the modernization of regulatory theory.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
examine how such changes may affect the accumulation of experience within, and the performance of, teams. We find that the level of team familiarity (i.e., the average number of times that each member has worked with every other member of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
1960, electronic data processing as well as information storage and retrieval had made a lasting impression in both the private and the public sectors, and discoveries and improvements in areas such as circuit design and solid-state electronics promised better View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Within and in Others By Dr. Srikanth Gaddam (OPM 43) Independently Published From vision setting and decision-making to creative thinking and risk-taking, you need to juggle numerous demands at once to become an effective and thriving... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and money managers. We thought we had a pretty good system, one the rest of the world looked to as a capital market that effectively allocated resources in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- February 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Barbarians at the Gate or Turnaround Gurus? Private Equity and the Rise of the LBO
By: Tom Nicholas and John Masko
During the 1980s, leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and the private equity (PE) firms responsible for carrying them out revolutionized both investment and management in the U.S. Between 1980 and 1989, buyout activity in the U.S. surged from $1 billion per year to $60 billion.... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt; Private Equity; Bonds; Investment Return; Institutional Investing; Profit Sharing; Business History; Management Style; Private Ownership; Performance Effectiveness; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; United States
Nicholas, Tom, and John Masko. "Barbarians at the Gate or Turnaround Gurus? Private Equity and the Rise of the LBO." Harvard Business School Case 821-016, February 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
examines how teams draw on knowledge resources in the firm in the production of novel output. We theorize positive effects of team use of an organizational knowledge repository on two measures of team View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
designed to enhance safety and effectiveness had the unintended effect of changing how men enacted their masculine identities at work. Interview and participant observation data show that the major... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek. Abstract The empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
value-creating processes. Diverse analogical training, wherein negotiators compare several different value-creating strategies, was shown to be more effective for learning underlying value-creating principles. This method facilitated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
which patents are assigned with the firm names in the Census Bureau's SSEL business registry. Through the Census Bureau's file structure, this R&D platform can be linked to the operating performances of each firm's establishments,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
Summing Up The authors of a recently-published book, Creative Destruction, have more work to do to convince our readers of their primary argument that creative destruction, based on an assumption of discontinuity, is a more effective... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
period 2002-2009 by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), one of the largest development banks in the world. In our fixed effect regressions, we find that BNDES' allocations do not seem to affect firm-level operational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
may not be experts on wine. Italian wineries also have begun to develop effective marketing and consumer education efforts for the U.S. market. The French, in particular, have not been as effective; consequently, their export View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
information and financial and other intermediaries. How will the Asia-Pacific region benefit from the presence of the HBS research office? The intellectual capital created by the exchange of ideas and the study of Asian business practices will contribute toward the... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
Care, Christensen and his coauthors, the late Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang (MBA '06), focus not on how the United States will pay for health care in the coming decades, but rather on targeting innovations that will make health care both more affordable and more... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
cooperation and coordination. Prior research has emphasized cooperation, and specifically the partners' commitment and alignment of interests, as the key determinant of collaborative success. Scholars have paid less attention to the critical role of coordination-the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
Christopher Stanton Abstract—Wage rigidity creates real and financial frictions, though the real-world drivers of rigidities remain largely unstudied. We use staggered commission reductions at a sales firm to estimate effects on worker... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
toward other interests. Staying on mission and building an effective organization to carry out the mission requires a clear strategic focus and a well-developed strategy backed by well-aligned operations. This is the focus of our research... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
theory has developed. To reinvigorate academic interest in disruptive innovation, we propose several underexplored topics—response strategies, performance trajectories, and innovation metrics—to guide future research. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman