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Investor Activism and Takeovers
By: Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor
Recent work documents large positive abnormal returns around the time that a hedge fund announces its activist intentions with a publicly listed firm. We show that these returns are largely explained by the ability of activists to force target firms into a takeover: In...
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Private Equity;
Investment Return;
Investment Activism;
Investment Portfolio;
Public Ownership
Greenwood, Robin, and Michael Schor. "Investor Activism and Takeovers." Journal of Financial Economics 92, no. 3 (June 2009): 362–375.
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Young and No Money? Never Mind: The Material Impact of Social Resources on New Venture Growth
By: Mukti Khaire
Although growth is a desirable outcome for new ventures due to the many advantages of large size, most new firms fail to grow, largely due to their limited resources and adaptability. This paper addresses the question of how new ventures grow despite their limited...
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Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Status and Position;
Advertising Industry;
Chicago;
New York (city, NY)
Khaire, Mukti. "Young and No Money? Never Mind: The Material Impact of Social Resources on New Venture Growth." Organization Science 21, no. 1 (January–February 2010): 168–185.
- April 2002 (Revised September 2002)
- Case
Transformation of Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002
Investigates the reform of the Seattle Public Schools from 1995 to 2002. To initiate reform in 1995, the district hired John Stanford, an Army general, and Joseph Olchefske, an investment banker, as the district's superintendent and chief financial officer,...
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Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Leading Change;
Organizational Structure;
Education;
Business Strategy;
Public Administration Industry;
Education Industry;
Seattle
Leschly, Stig. "Transformation of Seattle Public Schools, 1995-2002." Harvard Business School Case 802-197, April 2002. (Revised September 2002.)
- 25 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Machiavelli, Morals, and You
of one of the keys to leadership: the notion of accountability. Badaracco, the school's John Shad Professor of View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
to change your life. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54720 in press Health Care Management Review Innovation Contest: Effect of Perceived Support for Learning on...
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Dina Gerdeman
- October 2007 (Revised February 2008)
- Background Note
Evaluating M&A Deals: Accretion vs. Dilution of Earnings-per-share
When discussing the pros and cons of an acquisition, practitioners often talk about the impact of the deal on the buyer's earnings-per-share (eps). An acquisition is said to be "accretive" if the buyer's eps goes up post-deal; it is "dilutive" if the buyer's eps goes...
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Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Evaluating M&A Deals: Accretion vs. Dilution of Earnings-per-share." Harvard Business School Background Note 208-059, October 2007. (Revised February 2008.)
- 2017
- Chapter
U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence
By: William R. Kerr
High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for roughly a quarter of U.S. workers in these fields, and they have a similar contribution in terms of output measures like patents or firm starts. This...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Diaspora;
Diasporas;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Immigration;
United States
Kerr, William R. "U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence." Chap. 6 in The International Mobility of Talent and Innovation: New Evidence and Policy Implications, edited by Carsten Fink and Ernest Miguelez, 193–221. Intellectual Property, Innovation and Economic Development. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Sustainalytics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
data from a variety of sources, including company reports, regulatory filings, public documents, news and media coverage, NGOs, and industry associations.Sustainalytics...
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- 22 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Key Drivers of Successful Implementation of an Employee Suggestion-Driven Improvement Program
- 26 Apr 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Is the SEC Captured? Evidence from Comment-Letter Reviews
- 16 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.
the author Sean Silverthorne is editor-in-chief of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStock Photo] Related Reading Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness How a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
HBS and the Arts
experiences. Coming from a business development background, I had never thought about working on the operational side of a business. But my Technology and Operations View Details
- 2005
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The Rise in Firm-Level Volatility: Causes and Consequences
By: Diego Comin and Thomas Philippon
We document that the recent decline in aggregate volatility has been accompanied by a large increase in firm level risk. The negative relationship between firm and aggregate risk seems to be present across industries in the US, and across OECD countries. Firm...
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Volatility;
Risk Management;
Relationships;
Research and Development;
Financing and Loans;
Industry Growth;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Economy;
Outcome or Result;
United States
Comin, Diego, and Thomas Philippon. "The Rise in Firm-Level Volatility: Causes and Consequences." NBER Macroeconomics Annual 20 (2005). (Read an article about this paper in The Washington Post, Newsweek and The Charlotte Observer.)
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
analysis. And a few are motivated simply by the vision of a better and more humane way of conducting business. Overall, though, my experience has...
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by Carla Tishler
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The Evolution of Science-Based Business: Innovating How We Innovate
By: Gary P. Pisano
Science has long been connected to innovation and to business. As early as the late 19th century, chemical companies, realizing the commercial potential of science, created the first industrial research laboratories. During much of the 20th century, large-scale...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Governance;
Innovation and Management;
Risk Management;
Research and Development;
Science-Based Business;
Commercialization
Pisano, Gary P. "The Evolution of Science-Based Business: Innovating How We Innovate." Special Issue on Management Innovation—Essays in the Spirit of Alfred D. Chandler. Industrial and Corporate Change 19, no. 2 (April 2010): 465–482.
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Capital IQ - Identifiers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Librarian Item About this Database Identifiers provide CUSIP numbers, standardized descriptions and additional data attributes for over 5 million corporate, municipal and government securities offered in...
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- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
Fialkow, managing director of General Catalyst Partners, he would first employ the "earnest young man routine" to get an interview with an old guy in business who...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Program
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
experimentation with financial stability. You will return to your company prepared to build change strategies that inspire organizational change and drive corporate success. This program is eligible for the Certificate View Details
- 02 Feb 2012
- News
Should Facebook Investors Worry About Lack of Control?
- April 1992 (Revised April 1997)
- Case
Reconstruction of Zambia
Examines the causes of decline--economic, social, and political--of the Zambian economy since 1974. It takes place at the time of the election of Frederick Chiluba, in October 1991. Examines the problems of economic development in Africa, and especially, of structural...
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Keywords:
Business Cycles;
Development Economics;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Borrowing and Debt;
International Finance;
Political Elections;
Africa;
Zambia
Vietor, Richard H.K. "Reconstruction of Zambia." Harvard Business School Case 792-089, April 1992. (Revised April 1997.)