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- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Schoar, Jialan Wang Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-024.pdf The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
It's the dream business location. Vital infrastructure feeds the area. A committed workforce lives nearby. A large number of potential customers are packed around you. And it's the last place you thought to look: the inner city. But the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
School is at an inflection point, an insight that meant different things to different people. Some focused on the fact that HBS is beginning its second century. Ironically, it's also a moment similar to when the School was founded in 1908, with a View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
answer is the political system. It is enabling, but it is also highly limiting—there is a glass ceiling beyond which talent can't rise." Competing Against The State State-owned banks exist to support state-owned enterprises, leaving... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003 Authors:Sergio G. Lazzarini and Aldo Musacchio Abstract There is a growing literature comparing the performance of private vs. state-owned... View Details
- 1999
- Chapter
How Financial Firms Decide on Technology
By: Lorin M. Hitt, Frances X. Frei and Patrick T. Harker
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
it. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/01/the-big-idea-creating-shared-value/ar/1 Minimal Settlement Assets in Economies with Interconnected Financial Obligations Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Publication:Journal of Money, Credit and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
perspectives, or points of view. "There's got to be a plausible tension in the case," says W. Carl Kester, chair of the M.B.A. program and Industrial Bank of Japan professor of finance. "It's... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
Twittersphere that they would investigate. Technology is undeniably transforming the financial services industry. Fintechs, Big Tech, and banks are using increasing volumes of data, artificial intelligence,... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
forthcoming World Bank Economic Review Productivity Gains from Foreign Direct Investment: Macro and Micro Approaches By: Alfaro, Laura Abstract—This paper discussed the importance of an “integrated approach”... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
economy, and in 1990-91, we had a major recession. Back then I think a lot of people who had a latent desire to be in small businesses or to be entrepreneurial didn't see the entrepreneurial opportunities. They didn't want to go into... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
venture, but the coalition was fundamentally unstable. Quadir was facing roadblocks no matter which way he turned in his quest to assemble the venture. He came to a point where the rational decision seemed to be to abandon the venture and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
Financial, LLC was a modern merchant bank that provided high quality advisory services and capital to small- and mid-sized inner city businesses. Next Street was a for-profit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2000
- Teaching Note
Woodland Partners: Field of Dreams? TN
By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda and Stephanie L. Woerner
Teaching Note for (9-800-070). View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
by looking out that far. When you start with a blank page more than a decade hence, you need to analyze how the next Allahabad Kumbh Mela city will be laid out. Will all of the elements be in the same or different locations, depending on the new channels View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
transcripts, Yu says the team encountered plenty of bad calls, and it was "mind-boggling" how poorly some CEOs and CFOs communicated. Take the CFO of one of the largest retail View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
saw—that's a ton of fun," he said. There was general agreement on this point, but land and buildings aren't always part of the equation when it comes to calculating the industry's appeal, added Vincent J. Constantini, founder View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
and to avoid the larger economies of Spain and Italy becoming involved. The European financial system became strained. Banks were found to be undercapitalized View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
creative destruction move so fast and forcefully across the landscape as that ushered in by the financial crisis of 2008. Beginning in the United States, this crisis took the capital markets and the larger... View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
through its development bank (BNDES), we find a positive effect of those stakes on firms' return on assets and on the capital expenditures of financially constrained firms with investment opportunities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne