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  • 11 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

effective nonprofits and away from underperforming ones. We illustrate how innovative information and financial intermediaries, using new measurement approaches tailored for the nonprofit sector, have recently arisen to help direct funds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

professionals and institutions in building better financial futures. The Sustainable Investing team is focusing on a variety of environmental, social, and governance projects, including the launch of a new... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

the universal bank had long been disputed. After 2008, the financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession damaged many global and domestic financial services firms. While the government bailed out universal... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

the network of relationships between brokers and institutional investors shapes the information diffusion in the stock market. We exploit trade-level data to show that central brokers gather information by executing informed trades, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 8

the value of shareholder proxy access. We find that firms that would have been most vulnerable to proxy access, as measured by institutional ownership and activist institutional ownership in particular, lost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Financial System David Moss Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions (also listed under General Management) Laura Alfaro Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Globalization and Emerging Markets... View Details
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

competitive firms. August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Winners in the Spotlight: Media Coverage of Fund Holdings as a Driver of Flows By: Soltes, Eugene F., David H. Solomon, and Denis Sosyura Abstract—We show that media coverage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • News

The Year in Ideas 2015

It’s also about a movement of people away from jobs where they’re not sure they are innovating to jobs at startups where they can be entrepreneurial.” -Diane Hessan (MBA 1977), CEO, Startup Institute Daughters of employed mothers are more... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

other forms of competition in strategy and organizations. Next, we organize and review the findings of three ostensibly separate theoretical perspectives that have arisen from game theory, competitive dynamics, and institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Trust

"The Speed of New Ideas: Trust, Institutions and the Diffusion of New Products." [PDF] The basic question at hand: Would TrapGuard encounter significant barriers to entry from plumbers who enjoyed trusting relationships with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Service
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

- Bloomberg L.P. Scott D. Cook - Intuit Thomas A. James - Raymond James Financial Sandra L. Kurtzig - E-Benefits READ MORE Gordon M. Binder - Amgen Michael R. Bloomberg - Bloomberg L.P. Scott D. Cook - Intuit Thomas A. James - Raymond... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

  Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek. Abstract The empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 4

knowing "who we are" might depend in part on repeatedly remembering to forget "who we were not." The Enabling Role of Social Position in Diverging from the Institutional Status Quo: Evidence from the U.K. National... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

struggled to get twenty-five people to the conference. At that conference the academics and consultants came together and created a professional society called the Family Firm Institute (FFI) to develop professionals in the field. Now,... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Books

of their goals, write the authors, is to correct the mistaken belief among some entrepreneurs, corporations, and academic institutions that "venture capitalists can add little value to young firms aside from money." After a historical... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

incompatibility. We also investigate how factors such as exclusive content and hardware-only adopters affect compatibility incentives. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55682 January 4, 2019 Harvard Business Review How Companies Can... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

of Kansas City) The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet as a Financial-Stability Tool By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—We argue that the Federal Reserve should use its balance sheet to help reduce a key threat to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2010
  • Other Unpublished Work

Why Takeover Vulnerability Matters to Debtholders

By: Joan Farre-Mensa
Recent work documents that firms that are more vulnerable to takeover have higher borrowing costs. This paper investigates the reasons behind this stylized fact. My results show that firms with few antitakeover defenses face a higher cost of debt because lenders are... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Borrowing and Debt; Cost; Equity; Banks and Banking; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution
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  • 03 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Viewpoints: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

Optimism: Younger Black Knowledge Workers +Jim Andrew (MBA 1986)Chief Sustainability Officer, PepsiCo+Audrey Choi (MBA 2004) Chief Sustainability Officer and CEO, Institute for Sustainable Investing, Morgan StanleyNow Is the Time for Bold... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Thomas C. Høegh

by Messrs. Arafat and Peres. Given his artistic bent, why did Høegh enroll at HBS? "I see myself as a catalyst," he explains. "Having both an artistic and a financial background makes it easier for me to bring brilliant people together... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons