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- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
exiting shareholders receive fair value in MBOs. This article identifies four factors that create an unlevel playing field in that market check: information asymmetries, valuable management, management financial incentives to discourage...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
"boilerplate" to the agents' incentives to just lack of creative thinking and willingness to push the boundaries of what's done. One of the goals of the book is to put these kinds of moves on the table for people to consider. Q:...
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by Julia Hanna
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55632 forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
companies. The partners were allowed to spend up to $2 million at any one time without getting permission from the corporation. For larger expenditures, they were required to obtain permission from XTV's governing board, which consisted...
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
paper on studying the circumstances under which alignment will or will not happen. Using game theory, we find that, although misaligned economic incentives can play a role in explaining misalignment of planning behaviors, there is another...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
incentive award was announced for the best new application of technology, he set his sights on winning it—and did. "AutoCAD had been around, but it wasn't being used at Bath Iron Works," he recalls. "I ran the numbers on the cost savings...
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- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. "The world of business has been governed by an implicit leadership model," Beer explains. "With the exception of a minority of CEOs, however—those we interviewed and others like them—the purpose of the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
across countries, since that is the main channel through which legal origin affects financial development, and shows that all the evidence supports the idea of relative convergence in corporate governance practices across legal families...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
of 1906 further assisted the management of product color in the food business by regulating and endorsing the industry's color control practices. By 1938, food dyes had achieved such widespread use, and had raised such public concern, that the federal View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
there are some potential advantages in that Microsoft has an incentive to understand if I’m going to work well on teams? Am I a creative person? And they also have some capacity in saying, “You know what? A bachelor’s degree in artificial...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
School Publishing) Public and philanthropic dollars are not enough to address global issues of poverty and disease, but innovative finance can bring governmental, commercial, and philanthropic resources to bear on the common good. Keohane argues that innovative finance...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the pace of change? And who is responsible for the lifelong learning workers will need to remain competitive in the digital economy? Employers have an incentive to create career paths, but many are increasingly unsure of how to go about...
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