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  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

world's poor live in countries where governments lack either the will or the ability to raise living standards on their own. Financial assistance to such governments, therefore, has often not helped their neediest citizens. In fact, in... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

the conventional financial system and the real economy. Publisher's link: http://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.29.2.213 May 2015 Journal of Public Economics De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract In 1980, India nationalized its large private banks. This induced different bank ownership patterns across different towns,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

  PublicationsForeign Direct Investment and Growth: On the Role of Complementarities, the Search for Mechanisms, and the Potential for Linkages Authors:Alfaro, Laura, and Matthew Johnson Publication:Encyclopedia of Financial Globalization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

additively separable in its state variables, leading to conquering the curse of dimensionality and the opportunity to manage the supply chain using independently acting managers. We develop conditions under which myopic policies are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Aug 2021
  • News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

were rare. The Better Chance program that offered students in poor neighborhoods a chance to attend public schools in more wealthy suburbs. There were real financial investments in these programs that were required to do the hard work of... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering (IPO), I differentiate between those that have private equity sponsorship (PE-backed firms) and those that do... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

Vikram Sunderam Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We present a model that helps explain several past collapses of securitization markets. Originators issue too many informationally insensitive securities in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • February 1991
  • Background Note

Note on Sealed Bid Auctions

By: David E. Bell
Describes a simple approach to determining an appropriate bid for a sealed bid auction. View Details
Keywords: History; Management Style; Financial Management; Consumer Behavior; Accounting; Bids and Bidding; Decisions; Market Transactions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competitive Strategy; Negotiation Style; Auctions
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  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

competitive firms. August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Winners in the Spotlight: Media Coverage of Fund Holdings as a Driver of Flows By: Soltes, Eugene F., David H. Solomon, and Denis Sosyura Abstract—We show that media coverage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

regional clusters. Naomi Lamoreaux and others have also underscored the financial and regulatory conditions in which innovation has flourished. Large datasets and econometric methods have enabled researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
  • 07 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

it as a chronic condition like cardiovascular disease, rather than as an acute, fatal disease," Maderis concludes. Hitting The Target When human lives are at stake, the urgency involved in turning such predictions into reality goes... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • Web

Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

1834 and 1839. The correspondence details the trade of silk, tea, and spices; business conditions including market fluctuations and business climate; financial affairs and the marketing of goods; and the... View Details
  • 07 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

hours reduce electricity bills? Perhaps for the first time, small-business owners accustomed to monthly accounting might need to track day-to-day spending so they can react quickly to changing economic conditions. Free and low-cost tools from banks and fintech firms... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service
  • 14 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?

Nobody questions that there's whopping gender imbalance in today's boardrooms, despite ample evidence that it makes financial sense to put women on the board. Companies with female board representation routinely outperform those with no... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing

our son had autism spectrum disorder, a lifelong handicap with no cure or treatment, we knew that all our plans needed to change. We needed to accept that." "The business model is tricky for a CEO." ASD is not a single View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services; Computer
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

also discussed. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607081 Dollar General Going Private Harvard Business School Case 108-015 Intended to improve students' understanding and encourage their use of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

creative thinking yields possibilities, or hypotheses, and rigorous analysis tests them. They should ask what must be true for a given possibility to succeed-and explore whether those conditions hold. Read the article:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

foreign bank capital flows; thus, U.S. monetary policy affects credit conditions for EME firms. We show that the spillover is stronger in higher-yielding and more financially open markets and for firms with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman