State Capitalism - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Mar 2016
News

The New Space Race

engineers to work on exciting projects like designing rockets for satellite delivery. Besides, he held the “naive view that starting a space company might be fun and profitable.” Founded with two HBS classmates, Bruce Ferguson (MBA 1979, JD 1981) and Scott Webster (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Sep 2006
News

Street Singer

your classmates’ experiences. That’s part of the value of HBS. It’s huge.” At Morgan Stanley, which she joined right out of HBS, Harris leads the equity private placements effort in global capital markets and covers the retail and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance

01 Mar 2006
News

The Producers

producer, if you can maintain the rights, or have a pool of capital at your disposal, or both, you are ahead of the game.” Zee and the other alums interviewed for this article agree that it’s become more difficult over the past ten to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

equipment over time. The case details PEG’s business model, growth strategy, financial structure, and the landscape of investment capital in West Africa during the time of the case. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

be useful for managing change after the Kyoto period is a challenge both for Kyoto ratifiers and for countries like the United States that have not ratified the agreement. Summarizes the science and economics of climate change, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 2019
What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

what is happening currently in the US. As deficits mount, interest rates remain low in part because of a good credit rating relative to other countries, a strong currency, and the ready flow of capital into the country. Inflation is held... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52939 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Computer Vision Uncovers Predictors of Physical Urban Change By: Naik, Nikhil, Scott Duke... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework predicts, we find that leverage is... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

necessarily surprising. Also worth noting—those wide receivers who switched teams and experienced a subsequent decline in performance saw that performance stabilize after only a year, suggesting that after an adjustment period “the team-specific human View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

started with the company's employees a few years earlier, was an effort to educate and inform customers on how to lead a healthier lifestyle. What CEO Craig Boyan had in mind was creating a state-wide healthy living movement in Texas, where obesity was high relative to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2013
News

Who Are We?

vertically integrated, local market. In technology, capital flows to the location where products can be produced most quickly and cheaply for the moment; our model focuses on the long-term sustainability that comes from the health of the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

inherently a platform for performing computations as dictated by their programs. I state and prove five propositions about platform systems, which stand in contrast to the propositions derived for step processes in Chapter 8. The... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

to Cerberus Capital Management in a bid to stay afloat. Even large chains, like Safeway, have struggled with generating high returns on invested capital, and Safeway has also been purchased by Cerberus View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

October 2023 (Revised January 2024)
Case

Ball: EVA Driving the World's Leading Can Manufacturer (A)

By: Jonas Heese and Susan Pinckney

The case describes Ball’s multi decade history of using Economic Value Added to drive decision making and workforce compensation. In 2016, the company acquired Rexam PLC and became the world’s leading metal beverage container company. Consumer demand for varied... View Details

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April 2024
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Dr. Tom Mihaljevic and Cleveland Clinic

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

In December 2022, Dr. Tomislav (“Tom”) Mihaljevic, CEO and President of Cleveland Clinic, was reflecting on the last few years at the hospital, marked both by unprecedented challenges and remarkable achievements. Cleveland Clinic had recently been ranked the world’s... View Details

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01 Sep 2008
News

Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead

hard up that it’s slashing $500,000 a year in office-supply spending. With its shares near a decade low, the New York Times Company now has just 1.33 percent the market capitalization of Google. “Like most print journalists,” wrote Miami... View Details

Keywords: Roben Farzad; journalism; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

and Martina Cusano (MBA 2009), cofounder and CEO of Mukako. SEPTEMBER 16 In March Reena Jadhav (MBA 1998) launched FreeMeals.org to feed families in need by buying nutritious meals from local restaurants. She was moved by the dramatic rise in food insecurity due to... View Details

14 Nov 2024
News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

at funding infrastructure. The government has to be as they did with IRA providing incentives for capital to come in, to work on some of these projects and the banking and asset management and insurance industries have to be there, ready... View Details