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- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
performance of a comprehensive set of alternative peer identification schemes. Our results show the peer firms identified from aggregation of informed agents' revealed choices...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
employees influences their startup's performance. We conducted a randomized field experiment in India with 100 high-growth technology firms whose founders received in-person advice from other entrepreneurs who varied in their managerial...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
economies, many business enterprises defy traditional industry boundaries. In this study, we evaluate six "big data" approaches to peer firm identifications and show that some, but not all, "wisdom-of-crowd"...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
rationales for forming the relationship) are endogenous to the matching process, while others (those that are incidental to the formation of the relationship) may be conditionally exogenous, thus enabling causal estimation of peer...
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Martha Lagace
- Profile
John Clayton
growth to developing areas.” Not just the “how,” but the “why” Why HBS? John doesn’t hesitate to list the reasons. “First, it’s the global perspective,” he says. “HBS is committed to teaching 30-40% of cases on firms outside the United...
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- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
doing so, you have to screen for lone stars. Q: Is there a particular industry or type of firm that is most susceptible to the lone star syndrome? The problem with these people is that they can poison the organization.— Morten T. Hansen...
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by Mallory Stark
- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Entrepreneurship
support emerging talents, I quit my job and embarked on another entrepreneurial journey. I co-founded Meridian Ventures—an early-stage venture capital firm investing in enterprise SaaS startups. At Meridian, we have invested in 36 B2B...
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- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
worked are positively correlated with firm performance, and differences between family and non-family CEOs account for approximately 18% of the performance gap between family and non-family firms. We investigate the sources of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Memoirs of an International First Year Student
on the career front. As an RC, our initial professional priority is to secure that coveted summer internship offer. There are some firms willing to hire only American residents or international students who already have an authorized work...
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- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
likelihood of implementation, while traditional governance indicators do not seem to play a key role. In particular, the likelihood of implementation is increasing in the percentage of votes cast in favor of the proposal and in the ownership and influence of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
O’Neal returned to Doraville, working as a supervisor at the GM facility. When he was accepted at HBS, GM gave him a no-strings-attached scholarship. “I was naive, but I was also undaunted,” says O’Neal of his arrival at Soldiers Field — his first trip to Boston. “I...
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Ameel Somani
you use all of them to shape your own." Those individuals stand out for the breadth of their experiences. "You have peers who have worked in emerging economies and can provide invaluable context on what it's really like."...
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Leila Meliani
bulk of her career at Goldman Sachs. In her three-year tenure, she worked with the Chief Diversity Officer and Global Head of Talent on a number of initiatives including succession planning for firm partners, and multiple diversity and...
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Consulting
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
method for identifying economically related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent searches...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework predicts, we find that leverage is...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
those firms operating outside the major coastal cities, “the most important thing you can do is to get to know the local government officials, because they can be your biggest ally in growing your business.” View Details
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
developed between analysts and managers by investigating analyst coverage decisions in the context of CEO and CFO moves between publicly listed firms. We find that top executive moves from an origin firm to a destination View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
Managing such a firm in the era of globalization posed enormous challenges. The book covers the company's strategies and provides compelling evidence of its decision making, marketing, brand management, innovation, acquisition strategies,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
integrated innovation? Our model has firms with limited visibility that either control all aspects of product innovation (integrated innovation) or open their designs to components developed by other players (open innovation). We show...
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Sean Silverthorne