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- December 2004
- Article
Market Valuation and Merger Waves
By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and S. Viswanathan
Does valuation affect mergers? Data suggest that periods of stock merger activity are correlated with high market valuations. The naïve explanation that overvalued bidders wish to use stock is incomplete because targets should not be eager to accept stock. However, we...
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Valuation;
Market Transactions;
Value;
Cash;
Stocks;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Bids and Bidding;
Market Design;
Stock Shares;
Accounting Audits;
Performance Evaluation
Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew, and S. Viswanathan. "Market Valuation and Merger Waves." Journal of Finance 59, no. 6 (December 2004): 2685–2718.
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The Public Funder’s Dilemma - Forum for Growth
we must be able to beat those odds significantly by selecting only the most outstanding applicants. You may think this is an easy task, since the EC has made explicit its intentions to fund market-creating innovation. It’s not. In practice, the EC delegates the View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
all these students, learning practical business skills every day but not yet applying them in the real world,” says Petitti. “And we saw all these businesses with needs.” To connect the two groups, the team built an online marketplace where MBAs could View Details
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April White
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
218-001 Bega Cheese: Bidding to Bring Vegemite Back Home In January 2017, the leadership team of Bega Cheese—the Australian dairy company—was considering a bid for Mondelez International’s Australia and New...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
religious norms. We report on a field experiment that examines when auction participants will respond to an appeal to continue bidding for secular charitable causes. The results reveal that religious individuals are more likely than...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
involved in a frantic bidding war for a proposed book on the life of cat Dewey, billed as the feline answer to the best-selling "Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog." Literary agent Peter McGuigan, who...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
an appeal to continue bidding for secular charitable causes. The results reveal that religious individuals are more likely than non-religious individuals to respond to an appeal for charity only on days that they visit their place of...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
own ethicality. We argue that the temporal trichotomy of prediction, action and evaluation is central to these misperceptions: People predict that they will behave more ethically than they actually do, and when View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
city, state and federal level, and explores the role of economic and cluster performance through 2005. Detailed historical economic and social data allows for an evaluation of policy results. The case finishes with Mayor Michael Bloomberg...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
the auction of Cable & Wireless America (CWA), a bankrupt subsidiary of the British telecommunications company Cable & Wireless. While an initial "stalking-horse" bid valued the assets at $125 million, after a long day...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
change in the composition of its board. Now the Medtronic directors must evaluate how the board has changed, how it will continue to change, and how it should prepare for the future. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
multiparty risk and disaster management, namely that the organizational challenge is to enable multiple actors and subunits with competing and often conflicting values and expertise to establish a virtual, well‐aligned organization. Organizational structures that can...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
suddenly erupt in a full-blown crisis. The CCA approach is well-suited to capturing such "non-linearities" and to quantifying the effects of asset-liability mismatches within and across institutions. Risk adjusted CCA balance sheets facilitate simulations and...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
Internet (mobile) businesses and users (have) already evaluated the benefits (and) analysts' valuations can be more predictable " Shankar N. Mandapaka added: "The earlier dot.com bubble was due to lack of proper valuation...
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- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
working relationship and asks students to evaluate the alternatives facing the two Joffes as they consider the future for themselves and AME Learning. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810065-PDF-ENG Buro Happold...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
misperceptions: People predict that they will behave more ethically than they actually do, and when evaluating past (un)ethical behavior, they believe they behaved more ethically than they actually did. We use the "want/should"...
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Martha Lagace
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What theory did you just use? News brief — week of Feb 26 2016 - Forum for Growth
Truven Health Analytics for $2.6 Billion (2/8/16): IBM will use Truven’s trove of medical data to improve its Watson artificial-intelligence system. International Business Machines Corp. is buying data company Truven Health Analytics Inc. for $2.6 billion, in a View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
For example, with a better-protected and better-defined idea, the seller can more easily induce a bidding war. The buyer’s perspective Regardless of what stage the idea is at, there’s always the challenge of persuading a buyer to consider...
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- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
evaluation of submitted ideas. Methodology/Approach: The contest held in a hospital cardiac center invited all clinicians and support staff (n = 1,400) to participate. We used the 27-item Learning Organization Survey to measure staff...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
with its key theoretical arguments. This inconsistent reception warrants a thoughtful evaluation of research on disruptive innovation within management and strategy. We trace the theory’s intellectual history, noting how its core...
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Dina Gerdeman