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  • November 1999 (Revised July 2003)
  • Case

Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc.

By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Pre-Paid Legal Services' business model reveals two key issues--managing the sales force and sales growth and managing claims. Students analyze the economics of the business and consider how to measure firm performance, how to evaluate and reward the sales force, and... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Salesforce Management; Marketing Strategy; Accrual Accounting; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Insurance; Business Growth and Maturation; Insurance Industry
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  • June 2011
  • Case

Fighting a Dangerous Financial Fire: The Federal Response to the Crisis of 2007-2009

By: David Moss and Cole Bolton
By the summer of 2009, many observers concluded that a catastrophic financial collapse- which seemed all but imminent the previous fall and winter - had been averted. Although the recession had still yet to be declared over and the economy's footing remained far from... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Financial Institutions; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Policy; Knowledge Acquisition
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  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle? By: Asker, John, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—We investigate whether short-termism distorts the investment decisions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

Provision in a Business Cycle Model By: Begenau, Juliane Abstract—This paper develops a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model in which households' preferences for safe and liquid assets constitute a violation of Modigliani and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence

By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet fluctuations in bank-loan supply have been hard to quantify in the time-series. While loan issuance falls in recessions, it is not clear if this is due to... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Banks and Banking; Bonds; Financial Markets; Financing and Loans; Banking Industry
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  • 20 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

New inventors received more patent citations than incumbent inventors, suggesting a cycle of creative destruction. The financial returns to technological development were high. At the macro level we identify a strong relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

anticipate that blogging and user-generated video would become mainstream phenomena within a few years. Because it turned a blind eye to these black swans and big trends, Speed Trap assumed that market shares would remain stable in key... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology
  • 17 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

supply. "It's a very cyclical business," he said. "But even a down cycle can provide opportunity for people with their eyes wide open." Constantini said he favors the hotel and assisted-living businesses. "I would... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate
  • 15 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 15, 2007

the vicious cycle of poverty, and/or how aid can be used effectively. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707029 Aid, Debt Relief, and Trade: An Agenda for Fighting World Poverty (B) Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 9

has a positive effect on current hours. As we show, the model also has reasonable implications for stock prices. We estimate our model for data post-1984 and show that the innovations shock accounts for nearly a third of the variation in output at business View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Oct 2016
  • What Do You Think?

Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

very proficient in mobilizing capital to stoke innovation and create new industries for sustained growth. It should focus on immense global market opportunities ” Tip Parker suggested what those new global View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 26 Aug 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

Thanks to the Internet, entrepreneurs are no longer confined to a local geography when building a new business—the world can be their market from day one. But building a startup as a global business requires managers with skills and... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Students of recent United States real estate history can't help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate
  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

examples such as TripAdvisor, Wikipedia, and the New York Times, the authors offer strategies for competing in markets with network effects. New entrants should focus on customer groups that they are uniquely positioned to serve or appeal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 1, 2006

of "organized" retailers such as Pantaloon. Pantaloon's management faced some exciting opportunities as well as some potential competition both from global retailers planning to enter the Indian market and from large Indian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

urgent needs of the future. Start-ups, on the other hand, are intensely focused on innovation but are also beholden to the impatience and boom-and-bust cycles of the venture capital industry. In his new book, The Architecture of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

revolutionary functionality. We explore a second entry path that does not rely upon Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment. Through envelopment, a provider in one platform market can enter another platform market, combining its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses

to wait for payment for the work they had performed. With small businesses responsible for nearly $100 billion in contracts with the federal government, our goal was to get this cash to these small firms faster, so they could expand their businesses, View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

vulnerable are economic interventions to capture by politicians, how are captured resources used, and how costly are the resulting distortions? This paper answers these questions in the context of the credit market in India. Integrating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

http://hbr.org/product/aspada-in-search-of-the-right-structure-for-impact-investing/an/314099-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-085 Financial Policy at Apple, 2013 (A) By the end of 2013, Apple had $137 billion in cash and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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