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- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
PublicationsThe New M&A Playbook Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising, and Andrew Waldeck Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Companies spend more than $2 trillion on View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as...
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- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
suggest that phenomenological assumptions linking micro-processes to organizational contexts highlight the relevance of micro-process research findings to broader organizational questions, and therefore increase the likelihood that the...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
estimates suggest that a one dollar increase in the minimum wage leads to a 14% increase in the likelihood of exit for a 3.5-star restaurant (which is the median rating) but has no discernible impact for a 5-star restaurant (on a 1 to 5...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
workforce diversity initiatives. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-019.pdf Cases & Course Materials Accounting for Business Combinations: Acquisition Method Harvard Business School Note 108-067 A technical note...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
market, with only a modest net impact on employment. The creative destruction response mainly involves a more rapid reallocation of jobs across establishments within target firms. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-033.pdf The Impact of Horizontal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
that between-firm social ties have a significantly negative effect on the abnormal returns to the acquirer and to the combined entity upon merger announcement. Moreover, acquirer-target social ties significantly increase the likelihood...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
in our data set by non-negotiation organizational research reveals that more open systems assumptions increase the likelihood that a negotiation article will be cited in organizational studies, after controlling for other, previously...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
Would-be innovators know that one of their biggest challenges is systematically identifying the innovations with the greatest likelihood of creating disruptive growth. Pick the wrong one, and squander a year or more of focus and...
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- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
contributions—regarding which greater team heterogeneity reduces the likelihood of equal splitting. Second, we show that these same founder characteristics also significantly affect the share premium in teams that split the equity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
estimation with propensity score matched samples. We find that relative to propensity score matched control firms, treated firms significantly increased disclosure following the regulations. We also find increased likelihood by treated...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
find that increases in demand for entrepreneurial capital—as proxied for by patenting, IPOs, and stock market valuations—led to a higher likelihood of the introduction of second-tier exchanges. We find no evidence that new second-tier...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
data from a large law firm, we examine the influence of demographic match with workgroup superiors and workgroup peers on attorneys' likelihood of turnover and promotion. Survival analyses reveal that higher proportions of same-sex and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
likelihood of turnover and promotion. Survival analyses reveal that higher proportions of same-sex and same-race superiors enhance junior professionals' career mobility. On the flip side, we observe mobility costs accruing to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
within targeted firms, the likelihood of adoption increases in the degree of voting support for the proposal; (iii) non-targeted firms were more likely to adopt ESO expensing when a peer firm was targeted by a proposal. With respect to...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
likelihood of meeting or beating analyst expectations. Collectively the results shed light on the effect of increased ownership concentration on tax avoidance. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51123 June...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
likely to dissent, we do not find that academics, accountants, and lawyers are significantly more active in dissenting. Lastly, we show that dissent is consequential to the director and the firm. For directors, we show that dissent is significantly associated with the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
selecting investments, VCs see the management team as more important than business-related characteristics such as product or technology. They also attribute more of the likelihood of ultimate investment success or failure to the team...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
Julianne White (MBA 2017) is vice president for food acquisition at the Greater Boston Food Bank. How did you become interested in the food industry? “I grew up with a lot of ties to agriculture. I was raised in a small community where...
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- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
people's likelihood to cross ethical boundaries. A promotion focus leads individuals to be more likely to act unethically than a prevention focus (Studies 1, 2, and 3). These higher levels of dishonesty are explained by the influence of a...
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Sean Silverthorne