Skip to Main Content
HBS Home
  • About
  • Academic Programs
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Research
  • Baker Library
  • Giving
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Initiatives
  • News
  • Recruit
  • Map / Directions
Faculty & Research
  • Faculty
  • Research
  • Featured Topics
  • Academic Units
  • …→
  • Harvard Business School→
  • Faculty & Research→
  • Research
    • Research
    • Publications
    • Global Research Centers
    • Case Development
    • Initiatives & Projects
    • Research Services
    • Seminars & Conferences
    →
  • Publications→

Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (279) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (279) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

  • All HBS Web  (279)
    • News  (39)
    • Research  (203)
    • Events  (2)
    • Multimedia  (2)
  • Faculty Publications  (131)

Show Results For

  • All HBS Web  (279)
    • News  (39)
    • Research  (203)
    • Events  (2)
    • Multimedia  (2)
  • Faculty Publications  (131)
← Page 12 of 279 Results →
  • 18 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 18

capital to pay fixed and variable costs affects choices firms make regarding export entry and operations, and, as a consequence, influence aggregate trade patterns. Financial frictions and the use of internal capital markets shape... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

company’s engineers integrated a sensor into the bearings used on light trucks that would not only serve the friction reduction purpose of the bearing, but also be the sensor for the antilock braking system. As a result of this added... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

deal-driving third party (Ovitz). As a result, each side had an optimistic but badly distorted view of the other's real intentions, leading to post-deal friction and the sale of MCA a few years later to Seagram, at a substantial loss to... View Details
Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius
  • 17 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

Programs By: Hanson, Samuel G., David S. Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop a model of government portfolio choice in which a benevolent government chooses the scale of risky projects in the presence of market failures and tax distortions. These two... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

relating to the agricultural assets, which create frictions such that market value and book value do not converge despite the application of fair value for the majority of the firm's assets. The case also highlights how fair value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 1, 2016

literature on the role of financial frictions in macroeconomics, this paper suggests that time-variation in expected returns to credit-market investors can be an important driver of economic fluctuations. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 13, 2007

deployment of their technology abroad. The paper demonstrates that when firms want to exploit technologies abroad, multinational firm (MNC) activity and foreign direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring is nonverifiable and financial View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

governance-related frictions and not driven by plausible alternative theories. Both structural calibration and reduced-form estimates reveal significant negative performance implications from suboptimal peer selection. Compensation... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

the country had become a darling of the international aid community. As the country was preparing for the 2011 Party Congress, however, signs of growing economic frictions were becoming increasingly visible. The case closes by setting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

on compensation of talented people, then you stop this mechanism, and you run the risk of having your company be less profitable," Vallée says. "You're putting a friction on a competitive market that's doing what it's meant to do." He... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 18 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 18

managers-firms with the greatest information frictions prior to the rule change. We report three changes related to compensation after 1992 for division managers. First, within firms with dispersed managers, division manager pay co-moves... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 18 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry

more sustainable world? In the short term, I’m committed to helping big companies decarbonize because we desperately need them to move today. Long term, I want to use my skills and experience to reduce the friction that tough-tech ideas... View Details
  • 16 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 16, 2016

frictions play a first-order role in determining market prices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49425 Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-Based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

substantial variation exists across organizations with regard to management, suggesting frictions in the broader diffusion of management knowledge. We argue that peer networks may allow for the diffusion of productive management across... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring is nonverifiable and financial frictions exist. The mechanism generating MNC activity is not the risk of technological expropriation by local partners but the demands of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

environments. Further, this effect is larger when (i) there are greater cross-border frictions between the parent and subsidiary and (ii) the parents are relatively more involved in their subsidiaries' investment decision-making process.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Staff Directory | Baker Library

reducing the friction of accessing content both through improved physical access and leveraging current and emerging technologies to provide digital access. In addition to experience in library administration, knowledge management,... View Details
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

United States economy, and how innovation in financial services will reduce the friction and barriers in small-business lending, helping more of them thrive. In our Q&A, Mills, who served as a member of the Obama Cabinet and headed... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

located upstream versus downstream from that stage, as well as by the firm's productivity. Our results suggest that contractual frictions play an important role in shaping the integration choices of firms around the world. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

a given stage of the value chain is shaped by the relative contractibility of the stages located upstream versus downstream from that stage, as well as by the firm's productivity. Our results suggest that contractual frictions play an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • ←
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • →
ǁ
Campus Map
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
→Map & Directions
→More Contact Information
  • Make a Gift
  • Site Map
  • Jobs
  • Harvard University
  • Trademarks
  • Policies
  • Accessibility
  • Digital Accessibility
Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College.