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  • 07 Apr 2011
  • What Do You Think?

When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?

meltdown is. As Philippe Gouamba puts it, "Is it a partial collapse or a total collapse? What is at risk in this collapse; is it human lives, corporate capital or national pride?" Having asked these questions, he opts for... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities
  • 13 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

very broadest terms, everyone expected biotech to "work" just like all other high-technology industries, and thus we deployed a lot of the same thinking, models, financial arrangements, and strategies that worked elsewhere, but... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology
  • 02 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 2

  Working PapersEquity-Debtholder Conflicts and Capital Structure Authors:Bo Becker and Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. "The world of business has been governed by an implicit leadership model," Beer explains. "With the exception of a minority of CEOs, however—those we interviewed and others like them—the purpose of the firm is defined by a single-minded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2015
  • Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

But that hasn't happened. Why? To a large extent it is because of the inability of firms to obtain financing. All sources of financing collapsed in the country. With bank nonperforming loans to total gross loans skyrocketing from 5 percent to 33 percent from 2007 to... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 19 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

  PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

current estimates placing financial losses at greater than $3.7 trillion dollars annually. Unfortunately, fraud prevention has been stymied by lack of a clear and comprehensive understanding of its underlying causes and mechanisms. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

  Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have offered a combination of low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

incentives influence students' acquisition of S&E human capital during college. The 2008–2009 financial crisis, which substantially reduced the availability of jobs in finance and led to a worsening... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 5, 2016

start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: you can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards—as well as personal and professional fulfillment. Leading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 5

governments rely on honest reporting. Proof of honest intent is typically provided through signature at the end of the document, e.g., tax returns or insurance policy forms. Still, people sometimes cheat to advance their financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla Abstract—This paper shows that the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

increasing in financial characteristics predicted to be associated with greater unverifiable fair-value-based discretion. To investigate whether non-impairment is associated with managers producing on average better estimates of goodwill... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 15, 2016

is that fiscal risk and social risk interact in complex ways. When considering many potential projects, government cost-benefit analysis thus acquires the flavor of a portfolio choice problem. We use the model to explore how the relative attractiveness of two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets Authors:Pol Antras, Mihir Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines how costly View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

the potential for non-traditional gender role models to gradually erode gender inequality in homes and labor markets. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49311 Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

high levels of entrepreneurial activity, which in turn gave me a large enough sample to work with. Second, it is not an industry where venture capital activity is very high, making it a good setting to study growth in the absence of View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 02 Jan 2020
  • Op-Ed

Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

its share of the capital that American taxpayers have invested in Medicare’s infrastructure, including its buildings, equipment, and workers. "The public option would harness Medicare’s pricing advantages while ensuring a competitive... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

regulatory guidelines. Finally, I consider how the regulatory process affects small firms' market entry patterns and find that small firms are less likely to be pioneers in new device markets, a fact consistent with relatively higher costs of doing so for more View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007

different development strategies. The states had to decide whether to focus their investment efforts on physical capital or improving social indicators. Both states faced constraints in the form of budget deficits, competition from other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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