Real Assets - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

invest in fixed income securities, public equities, and alternative assets such as hedge funds, real estate, or private equity. What are the costs and benefits of each asset... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

difficulty to their struggle to grow and succeed. 3. The impact of intangible assets on economic transactions: I plan to study commercial transactions in which finances are not the sole currency of exchange, and intangibles like status... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

18 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 18

available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/313068-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 913-037 Rough Justice: Stuart Eizenstat and Holocaust-era Asset Restitution (A) Beginning in 1994, a series of articles and public... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

24 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

Strategic Value Of Values: A New Guidance System By Rosabeth Moss Kanter Any company can say it has values, but what Banco Real did was to embed them in business practice and make them credible to the skeptics inside and outside of their... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

13 May 2014
Op-Ed

The Alibaba Effect

both raise and burn cash. Its only asset was Mr. Ma, its charismatic and dynamic founder. After we wrote our first case study about the company in 2000, we were afraid it would go bankrupt before we could teach the case for the first... View Details

Keywords: by Bill Kirby & Warren McFarlan; Retail

10 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

and best options in-store along with the electrical supplies and tools you will need to install the fixture. Online they carry an endless aisle of products and they provide videos and expert advice to help with installation. They do not deploy their TIPS View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

effect a change in asset allocation. The market for real estate derivatives is beginning to grow quite rapidly and the firm is trying to understand how to use these instruments in managing its business.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

complex. The deal was proof-of-concept for Fluidity, which hoped to develop a business digitizing securities issuance for other real estate assets on the basis of its technical facility with blockchain... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

from digital platforms have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification and enable new measures of how neighborhoods change in close to real time. Combining data on businesses from Yelp with data on gentrification from... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

take their place and the need for stocking or tidying up merchandise at store level doesn't exist. Without a store network, real estate costs are confined to a handful of distribution centers. Inventory aggregation at a few key points of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

contributed to the development of a business-oriented society with increased short-term opportunity for MNCs. "The dot-com bubble brought practices, ambitions, and goals to China that are here to stay," he added. "Increasingly, MNCs will see corporatized... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

we put people on the moon. There was this sense that: “Wait a minute, I thought we were going to have space hotels and moon bases.” Instead, the United States was going to have to buy trips for our astronauts to the Space Station from Russia. This caused View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

telecoms, commercial real estate, and more. Harvard Business School students visit the Reppie Waste to Energy Plant, the first waste-to-energy project in Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Credit: John Macomber We have conducted several... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

something? Based on my experience as a real estate and construction CEO and my academic research on urbanization, new cities, and the finance of sustainable infrastructure, I propose these simple ABCs (actually A-F) for business leaders... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

03 Mar 2010
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?

the commitment and loyalty of employees who perceive themselves as the most disposable of corporate assets ." What will it take to turn around negative trends in "identity"? Ajay Kumar Gupta suggests that "creation of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 Jan 2005
What Do You Think?

Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?

government-imposed investment guidelines similar to those in Mexico, whether the money is publicly or privately managed. Several questioned whether the framing of the challenge that the column posed was even correct. In Bittner's words, the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

16 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

their government—a distinct contrast to the current sentiment in the United States. Almost all the Chinese executives I met believe that their nation's leaders possess the foresight and the courage to think long term. These executives are not Pollyannas: They recognize... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria

20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

instant availability of funds invested in liquid assets overseas, thereby limiting firms’ ability to rapidly and/or aggressively respond to competitive market conditions. More specifically, we show that the effects of cash holdings on... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

employees, their investors, and their partners, knowing that if they don't, then the market will punish them. “If you don't appear to be making good on those commitments, a lot of your key assets will go out the door” "Those commitments... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 10, 2009

average in the period 1953-2005, it was particularly high in the early 1980s and negative in the early 2000s. This paper specifies and estimates a model in which the nominal term structure of interest rates is driven by five state variables: the View Details