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- 2014
- Article
Executive Compensation and Human Capital Investments Through Industry Selection
By: Boris Groysberg and Eric Lin
We use proprietary data capturing compensation levels of executives placed by a global search firm to investigate how executives evaluate rewards and risks of human capital investment choices. Our findings suggest that more isolated industries with lower opportunity to...
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Groysberg, Boris, and Eric Lin. "Executive Compensation and Human Capital Investments Through Industry Selection." Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2014).
- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
cross-border finance and in patterns we have seen before. In his new book Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance, Abdelal documents the waxing and waning of international capital View Details
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by Rawi Abdelal
- September 2010 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Citigroup 2007: Financial Reporting and Regulatory Capital
By: Suraj Srinivasan, Edward J. Riedl and Sharon Katz
This case introduces 1) financial statements for banks, 2) basic regulatory capital calculations, and 3) actions Citigroup must consider under a scenario of continued losses/fair value declines in 2008 (leading to potential violation of regulatory capital).
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Keywords:
Fair Value Accounting;
Financial Reporting;
Financial Statements;
Financial Crisis;
Capital;
Financial Strategy;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Banking Industry;
United States
Srinivasan, Suraj, Edward J. Riedl, and Sharon Katz. "Citigroup 2007: Financial Reporting and Regulatory Capital." Harvard Business School Case 111-041, September 2010. (Revised July 2012.)
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
capital and risk. But the trade-off is that the manufacturer frequently runs short on its medium and especially its high-variability items. That means lost sales and maybe a canceled contract with a prized customer. In the third test, the...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Capital Regulation and Product Market Outcomes
By: Ishita Sen and David Humphry
We present evidence of product market adjustments and asset reorganizations from the largest ever shift in risk regulation in a developed insurance market. Using proprietary data on insurance risk exposures from the Bank of England, we develop a measure of regulatory...
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Keywords:
Non-traditional-non-insurance;
Risk Regulation;
Product Market Concentration;
Small Vs. Large Insurers;
Insurance Risk Exposure;
Insurance;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Sen, Ishita, and David Humphry. "Capital Regulation and Product Market Outcomes." Working Paper, January 2020.
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
state-owned enterprises (SOEs) such as those in the Soviet Union and China, which were tightly controlled by government, packed with party apparatchiks, and stifled honest competition by introducing all kinds of inefficiencies into the...
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by Michael Blanding
- Forthcoming
- Article
Arbitrage Capital of Global Banks
By: Alyssa Anderson, Wenxin Du and Bernd Schlusche
We show that the role of unsecured, short-term wholesale funding for global banks has changed significantly in the post-financial-crisis regulatory environment. Global banks mainly use such funding to finance liquid, near risk-free arbitrage positions—in particular,...
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Creating Value in the Age of Distributed Capitalism
By: Shoshana Zuboff
Capitalism is a book of many chapters—and we are beginning a new one. Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can't meet. When a majority of people want things that remain priced at a...
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Zuboff, Shoshana. "Creating Value in the Age of Distributed Capitalism." McKinsey Quarterly, no. 4 (2010): 45–55.
- 1999
- Other Unpublished Work
Executive Ownership and Control in Newly Public Firms: The Role of Venture Capitalists
By: Malcolm Baker and Paul Gompers
We study the implications of CEO equity ownership for incentives and control in a sample of 1,011 newly public firms. Before an initial public offering, equity investments by venture capitalists reduce CEO ownership by about half, from an average of 35 percent to 19...
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Equity;
Ownership;
Motivation and Incentives;
Initial Public Offering;
Investment;
Venture Capital;
Managerial Roles;
Cost Management;
Governance Controls;
Executive Compensation
Baker, Malcolm, and Paul Gompers. "Executive Ownership and Control in Newly Public Firms: The Role of Venture Capitalists." November 1999. (First draft in 1998.)
- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American...
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- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
controlled experiment.” Looking at the financial performance of those firms, they determined that having at least one woman in a VC fund improved performance by approximately 10 percent. That is, while the median venture View Details
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Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?
By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
We show that capitalism is far from common around the world. Outside a small group of rich countries, heavy regulation of business, leftist rhetoric, and interventionist beliefs flourish. We relate these phenomena to the presence of corruption, with causality running...
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Crime and Corruption;
Voting;
Economic Systems;
Fairness;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Emotions
Di Tella, Rafael, and Robert MacCulloch. "Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?" Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Spring 2009): 285–321.
- 2010
- Working Paper
Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Ramana Nanda
We examine the extent to which venture capital is adequately positioned for the rapid commercialization of clean energy technologies in the United States. While there are several startups in clean energy that are well-suited to the traditional venture capital...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Energy Generation;
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Technological Innovation;
Competition;
Energy Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
United States
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Ramana Nanda. "Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-020, August 2010.
- April 2022
- Article
Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment
By: Meg Rithmire
How do state-business relations interact with outward investment in authoritarian regimes? This paper examines this question in the context of China’s rapid transformation into a major capital exporter. While most political economy scholarship focuses on firms’...
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Keywords:
Outward Investment;
Capital Controls;
Corruption;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Political Economy;
State-owned Enterprises;
Investment;
Global Range;
Capital;
Globalization;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
China
Rithmire, Meg. "Going Out or Opting Out? Capital, Political Vulnerability, and the State in China's Outward Investment." Comparative Politics 54, no. 3 (April 2022): 477–499.
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant....
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- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
projects, and whether those projects are going to deliver environmental benefits.” The projects include efforts to create alternative energy by building solar panels and wind turbines, as well as projects to improve water efficiency, View Details
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
it will make investors more wary of engaging in the capital markets.” Two Supreme Court decisions, although not the only reasons, appear to have made a difference, according to the researchers. The rulings in Tellabs v. Makor (2007) and...
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- 2016
- Article
Organizational Decision-Making and Information: Angel Investments by Venture Capital Partners
By: Andy Wu
We study information aggregation in organizational decision-making for the financing of entrepreneurial ventures. We introduce a formal model of voting where agents face costly tacit information to improve their decision quality. Equilibrium outcomes suggest a...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Angel Investors;
Organization Design;
Voting;
Group Decision-making;
Information;
Strategy;
Organizations;
Entrepreneurship;
Decision Making;
Financing and Loans
Wu, Andy. "Organizational Decision-Making and Information: Angel Investments by Venture Capital Partners." Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2016): 189–194.
- 2007
- Book
Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance
By: Rawi Abdelal
Abdelal, Rawi. Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
When Should Control Over a Brand Be Ceded to the Public? The verdict is in. Our hardly scientific poll has endorsed the name of Boaty McBoatface for the new research vessel being commissioned by the UK’s National Environment Research...
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