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  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Short Takes

familiar business imperative of creating value. "A firm that delivers cash to shareholders only by selling off assets is not sustainable," he says, "and neither is a firm that creates accounting profits only by liquidating natural capital... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 28 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina. What the scholars found could be the start of a better understanding of why capitalism remains unpopular through large swaths of the world—particularly in areas where property rights are weak... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • June 2011
  • Article

Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act

By: Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley and Kristin J. Forbes
This paper analyzes the impact of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings and thereby reduced the cost to U.S. multinationals of accessing a source of internal capital. Lawmakers and lobbyists... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Performance Effectiveness; Code Law; Taxation; Cost; Capital; Financial Strategy; Research and Development; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Shareholder Relations; United States
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  • 08 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 8

target firms and their 150,000 establishments before and after acquisition, comparing outcomes to controls similar in terms of industry, size, age, and prior growth. Relative to controls, employment at target establishments declines 3%... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

experience at Harvard, to address a variety of child-rearing challenges. Instead of control and discipline, this approach aims to help children to think for themselves, own their behavior and choices, and develop confidence from a young... View Details
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

outcomes. Instead, in most lines of business—with the exception of a few commodities in which international trade had developed—firms had an incentive to remain small and to employ as little fixed capital as possible. It was in this era... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

time recorded was used to obtain estimates for physician documentation time on both control (no scribe) and intervention (scribe) shifts. Results: Control shifts yielded approximately 3 hours of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Nov 2020
  • Blog Post

We Rise

When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that coveted venture View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

We Rise

Above: Illustration by Hannah Barczyk When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that... View Details
Keywords: April White; Finance
  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

http://hbr.org/product/McKinsey---Co----Protecti/an/415022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-025 Fast Ion Battery John Davidson, a partner at Ware Street Capital (WSC) and a board member at Fast Ion Battery, had just received a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 1996 (Revised July 1997)
  • Case

Hostile Bid for Red October, The

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Alan Bigman
Manatep Bank, a Russian investment bank, has just announced the country's first hostile tender offer for Red October, a confectionery company located in Moscow. As the chief financial officer of the target company, Yuri Yegorov must decide how to respond, how much his... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Cash; Governance Controls; Financial Condition; Investment Banking; Financial Markets; Trade; Valuation; Financial Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Moscow
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  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

now give to the overall benefits of globalization. As practiced today, Ricardo's classic system results in win-win exchanges when both trading partners are either (1) industrialized nations with modern impulse/check/balance governments, no excessive unemployment, and... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • Web

Stamps Reading Room | About

gift from the charitable foundation of E. Roe Stamps IV (MBA 1974) and Penelope W. Stamps funded the meticulous restoration of Baker Library’s historic lobby and reading room during the building’s 2003–05 renovation. The gift also supported the creation of two floors... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

‘Green’ Trailblazers

Perkins Caufield & Byers Menlo Park, Shanghai, Beijing Greentech venture capital Andrew Falender (MBA 1969) Appalachian Mountain Club Multiple US locations United States' oldest outdoor recreation and conservation organization James... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Management; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

trustworthiness vary systematically across different stakeholder types and provide strong support for the validity of the depth and locus dimensions.   Working PapersSovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances Authors:Laura... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

within markets: When sentiment is high, future returns are low on relatively difficult to arbitrage and difficult to value stocks. Private capital flows appear to be one mechanism by which sentiment spreads across markets and forms global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

products for different business contexts requires that a firm deploy different new-product development processes. Products designed for stable and mature end-user markets require a process optimized for control and efficiency. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

care industry to give customers more choices, freedom, power, and information, and at far lower prices. He recommends disruption of the status quo through new business models, new payment models, and new technologies that give patients more View Details
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

composition of outbound capital flows-a 10% decrease in a foreign country's corporate tax rate increases U.S. investors' equity FPI holdings by approximately 10%, controlling for effects on FDI. Investor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

consumer collaboration, in which consumers use digital media that lie beyond the control of marketers to communicate among one another, responding to marketing's intrusions by disseminating counterargument, information sharing, rebuttal,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace