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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
monitor my investments as often as I like, and that I can perform all kinds of financial transactions from my home computer at a fraction of the cost I would have had to pay twenty years ago. In this sense, these are good times for...
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by Ann Cullen
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
would reduce Shift’s labor per transaction and thereby improve the venture’s unit economics and its scalability, Shift might risk undermining users’ trust by handing off responsibility for critical tasks. Purchase this case:...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size (a very persistent characteristic) at one end of the spectrum and high frequency reversal at the other. Unlike low-turnover tilts, a full history...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
to everyday transactions like selling a house, buying a car, or landing a new contract. Wheeler also draws lessons on agility and creativity from fields like jazz, sports, theater, and even military science. Publisher's link:
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
decade have been (1) the rise of business ecosystems caused by falling transaction costs; and (2) the empowerment of users caused by the global spread of communication technologies. A business ecosystem is a group of firms that together...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
"unraveled" and experienced transactions at dispersed and apparently inefficiently early times. Often these markets develop institutions to coordinate and delay the timing of transactions. However it has proved difficult to...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
the world for their ability to minimize transaction costs, maximize liquidity and access, and fund a lot of very innovative and complex businesses. Unfortunately, the same forces that made markets so liquid may have made market...
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Garry Emmons
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
investors. We find that solo investments by institutions outperform co-investments and a wide range of benchmarks for traditional private equity partnership investments. The outperformance is driven by deals where informational problems are not too severe, such as more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
off a project, and in busy times they are added to it. This makes sense in a transactional world, where it is assumed that people can pick up where they left off. But there is no guarantee that the same staff will return. If they don't,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495 transactions with a focus on one form of long-term activities, namely investments in innovation as measured by patenting activity. We find no evidence that LBOs decrease...
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
certainly in our industry, for sure, automation over decades has impacted the nature of our workforce, starting with the ATM. There’s less transactions in branches. Therefore, there are a lot less tellers in the business than there were...
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- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
more than $10 billion in deal volume per year, on average, but they also play an important role in defining the relationship between inside and outside shareholders in every public company. Delaware courts and lawyers in transactional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
than the underlying assets, funds engage in substantial liquidity management. Specifically, they hold substantial amounts of cash, which they use to accommodate inflows and outflows rather than transacting in the underlying portfolio...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5
Nursing of North Carolina, and he had negotiated a purchase price of $3.5 million, or 4.2x trailing EBITDA. Medoff had completed his due diligence, arranged financing, and completed the legal documents required to complete the acquisition and anticipated closing the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and...
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- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
software—is similar to constant social influence: it increases mean performance but decreases exploration Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54901 August 19, 2018 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
corporate archives to explore the fine details of how firms actually operated. It also includes work by those who have been influenced by evolutionary, transaction cost, and resource-based theories of the firm. The book will be an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3
five-year term as chairman of State Bank of India (SBI), India's largest commercial bank. He had led SBI on a journey of transformation from an old, hierarchical, transaction oriented, government bank to a modern, customer focused, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
was recouped through a schedule of commission rates on stock transactions by the firm's clients. These commissions were regulated by the exchanges along with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The result was high commission rates and...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
1960s. Nundy attended boarding school in India and later worked there during college summers. Her years in India have caused her to reexamine her priorities. "For me, closing a billiondollar merger transaction between two large corporate...
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