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  • 04 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 4

that majority-owned PE-backed firms engage in more book-tax conforming and nonconforming tax planning than other private firms. We attribute these results to the managerial sophistication and resources available to majority-owned... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

can print out customized shopping lists complete with recipes, coupons, and suggestions for replenishment purchases. Retailers can tailor their services in any number of ways using the available technology--if they focus on how it can... View Details
Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

is the impact of foreign bank entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies? The Mexican banking system provides a quasi-experiment to address this question because in 1997 the Mexican government radically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

our statistical results with qualitative information from interviews, which highlighted the importance of reinforcing the organizational goals’ message and providing support for their attainment. We also show more favorable effects for stores with tenured managers and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

proxy for incentive conflict) impact the use of a subset of available performance measures. Consistent with a signaling model of the allocation of contingent control rights, we find that contracts involve fewer contingent control rights... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

cost of capital and in turn the rates available to borrowers. Standard theory predicts that, in perfect and efficient capital markets, reducing banks' leverage reduces the risk and cost of equity but leaves the overall weighted average... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2019
  • News

The Merchant of Osaka

with fewer resources available to address them—or even the training to keep up with technology. Oishi discovered this firsthand toward the end of her pregnancy in 1997, after the second of two ultrasounds by as many doctors. “Your baby... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 20

engendered fierce loyalty from those who worked with him. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/415031-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-032 Jean-Claude Biver (B): Leading Change at Hublot No abstract View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Leading In a New Era

arrival at LC in 1994 that the company had done relatively little consumer research, he immediately launched an intensive survey of customer needs. He also performed an asset inventory of the entire organization, which revealed "a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 13 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Cash and the Woman-Owned Business

2003.8 These loan programs, readily available credit cards, and equal opportunity lending have improved women's options dramatically over the past thirty years and have brought early-stage financing within closer reach for women... View Details
Keywords: by Candida Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene & Myra M. Hart
  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

had an impact on entrepreneurship, using individual-level micro data from Denmark. The reform allows us to disentangle the role of credit access from wealth effects that typically confound analyses of the collateral channel. We find that a $30,000 increase in credit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

illustrates how deep dives guide the formation of a set of new core activities in the variation-selection-retention process. No PDF is available at this time.   PublicationsWhat Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

From Where We Stand

career. The inherent value of the Harvard MBA enables you to take game-changing risks that others might not be able to avail themselves of. You will always be able to find a "job." Therefore, when a chance is presented to take a role or... View Details
  • 06 Jan 2017
  • News

Mental Illness and the Workplace

solutions. It really is a matter of taking a personal inventory and thinking about your own situation. What you need to be healthy. And then, working with those around you to get that. But again, as I said earlier, very careful not to... View Details
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industries. Art. Music. Sports . Entertainment. This course will run over 13 standard 80 minute classes. There will be an array of interesting outside speakers some of whom will be available for conversations after the classes. This... View Details
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

dramatically increase its profits. ALAC critically needed to obtain financing for the explosive growth in its inventory and accounts receivable balances. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211065-PDF-ENG Businesses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne