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  • 18 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

On a journey that began 17 months ago, General Motors entered and emerged from bankruptcy to become a private company with Uncle Sam as its largest shareholder. The company reaches another milestone today by offering an initial public... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

class, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power of New York in the world of finance, America has come to symbolize capitalism for... View Details
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

attempting the transformation required to embrace a new, dominant technology—the choice to maintain focus on the old technology. In considering this choice we distinguish between "racing" strategies, which attempt to fight off... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2010
  • Article

Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930

By: Andre C. Martinez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio
There is a large literature looking at the determinants of country risk (defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk-free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion by arguing that an important explanatory factor is the... View Details
Keywords: Bonds; Performance Capacity; Taxation; Revenue; Governance; Geographic Location; Trade; Price; Cost of Capital; Risk and Uncertainty; Public Administration Industry; Brazil
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  • 13 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

are you working on now? A: I am very interested in how markets for intellectual property work and don't work. This has been something I have looked at throughout my career, but I continue to be puzzled by it. We see IP View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors

By: Susan Helper and Rebecca Henderson
General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the US market fell from 62.6 to 19.8 percent, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. In this paper we argue that the conventional... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Decision Making; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry
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  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

of Entrepreneurship and Innovation By: Chatterji, Aaron, Edward Glaeser, and William R. Kerr Abstract—This chapter reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United States. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

and subsequent frustration of Red Sox Nation.) Groysberg contends that the "plug and play" mentality about stars simply doesn't work, whether the playing field is a baseball diamond or a trading floor. View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking
  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a simple setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 4

with U.K. and U.S. regulators the firm agreed to pay $450 million in fines. Within a few days of the settlement, Barclays' CEO, Robert Diamond, had resigned under pressure from British regulators. Diamond blamed a small number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2016
  • Supplement

2016 Update: Argentina Turns the Page

By: David E. Bell, Forest Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
This brief case is a supplement to “Cresud and Argentina” (515-043) and “Note on Agriculture in Argentina” (515-069). Set in early 2016, it describes developments in Argentina under newly elected President Mauricio Macri, including the country’s return to international... View Details
Keywords: Argentina; ＂ Cresud; Agriculture; Economic Reform; Economic Policy; Land Investment; Macri; Currency; Agribusiness; Diversification; Economy; Emerging Markets; Credit; Currency Exchange Rate; Investment; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; Inflation and Deflation; Trade; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Argentina; Buenos Aires; South America
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  • 18 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

property access, which then lead to the creation of private property rights because that's the only way of solving the problem," he said. Solving the problem by treating water like any other commodity sparked lively discussion. “If the world View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 17 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Building Communities as Well as Companies

Morgan Roberts at a recent conference. But what are the nuts-and-bolts details of starting and sustaining a minority-owned business in today's tough economy? Panelists at the 2003 H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference emphasized the well known... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 11 Sep 2015
  • Blog Post

What is the JD/MBA Program at HBS?

public service. The combination of degrees allows JD/MBA students to be thinkers and doers, giving us the tools to work through challenging problems and implement effective, timely solutions. Tian: Similar to Zach, I wanted to build some perspective and experience.... View Details
  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

announcements on trading behavior in a simulated and real stock market setting. I find evidence that the involvement of stars impacts movies' expected theatrical revenues, and I provide insight into the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 2, 2016

bankruptcy losses (moral hazard) and are subject to a regulatory capital requirement. In contrast, shadow bank liabilities are subject to runs and credit risk and thus typically less liquid compared to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

disclosure of fundamentals and trading transparency. This is socially inefficient if a large fraction of market participants are speculators, and hedgers have low processing costs. But in these... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 12

capture of accounting regulation by segments of the financial-services industry. Paper: http://hbr.org/2013/03/why-fair-value-is-the-rule/ar/1   Working PapersCarry Trade and Exchange-Rate Regimes Authors:Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

May 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2010
  • News

Driving the Market for Big-Rig Engines

Keywords: Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing