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- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
public research organizations, such as universities and hospitals, and private firms are an established policy tool around the world for the delivery of social or public services, and their use as a tool to foster the translation of basic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
credit and documentary collection terms. Transactions are more likely to occur on cash in advance or letter of credit terms when the importer is located in a country with weak contractual enforcement. As an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Bo Becker Abstract—Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
mechanics of private banking and federal finance correct. Their models are therefore fatally flawed, so their predictions of doom (and inflation) should not be taken seriously.” Is JohnfrmCleveland right? Is modern monetary theory a fancy... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
guidelines for when to use each strategy. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808004 ABRY Partners and F+W Publications Harvard Business School Case 207-010 After acquiring F+W Publications from a rival View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
behavior of observably similar public and private firms using a new data source on private U.S. firms, assuming for identification that closely held private firms are subject... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-012.pdf FIN Around the World: The Contribution of Financing Activity to Profitability Authors:Russell Lundholm, George Serafeim, and Gwen Yu Abstract We study how the availability of domestic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
essay briefly reconstructs the interwar institutionalist movement, exploring the continuities among heterodox thinkers and the implications for public and private institution building. It seeks to reorient the history of U.S. political... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
inequalities in the public and the private spheres are affected by childhood exposure to non-traditional gender role models at home. We test the association between being raised by an employed mother and adult men's and women's outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
Chu, Joe Lassiter, and Mike Roberts. Initially, Sahlman recalls, there was some resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA '96) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner's Venture Capital and View Details
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
people, society and government is required." David Cawlfield, citing his experiences in what he believes is a high-identity organization, credits this to "Consistent discussion and communication of 'corporate values' (that) help... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
credit for any of it." Starting The Strategy The authors argue that every company should have a CSR strategy that unifies the diverse range of its philanthropic giving, supply chain, "cause" marketing, and system-level initiatives all... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
into online payments. PayPal, owned by eBay, has targeted online merchants outside eBay's auction community for its next wave of expansion. Google represents a potential threat to PayPal's "off eBay" strategy, as do incumbent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
The United States has been both credited and criticized for its powerful role in promoting global financial liberalization—the flow of capital across country borders. But research by Harvard Business School Professor Rawi Abdelal has... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
promoting the government's goal of increased homeownership. Although lawmakers had already partially privatized Fannie Mae in 1954 and again in 1968, the agency in 1987 still retained close links to the federal government, including an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
colleagues write in the working paper. "Firms that received loan guarantees, and their employees, enjoyed far more stability than their counterparts." In the United States, where small businesses account for about 47 percent of View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—Financial constraints are not directly observable, so empirical research relies on indirect measures. We evaluate how well five popular measures (paying dividends, having a credit rating, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Experimentation In August 2017, Commonwealth Bank of Australia was looking for ways to differentiate itself from competing banks and was also trying to improve the financial well-being of its customers. One domain where this was particularly relevant was in its... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
(BCECP), which provides tax credits to private equity investors that meet several eligibility criteria. The case study is written from the point of view of a policy maker, with a perspective on the entire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne