Capital Gains - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

How Companies Benefit When Employees Work Remotely

to rise with each step toward the full work-from-anywhere policy, the researchers found. Productivity increased 4.4 percent when employees moved from working at home on a limited basis to the location of their choice. Based on a patent's average value, this... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Professor Sawyer’s research focuses on U.S. political economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, concentrating on the development of competition policy and the administrative state. While the conventional history of U.S. competition policy portrays the... View Details

27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

gain more experience with online DVD rentals, the extent to which they hold should films longer than want films decreases. Our results suggest that present bias has a meaningful impact on choice in the field and that people may learn... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

households’ stock holdings, the authors find that unrealized capital gains lead to a marginal propensity to consume of 23% for the bottom 50% of the wealth distribution and about 3% for the top 30% of the... View Details

28 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Payout Policy

Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely & Martin C. Schmalz

06 Oct 2016
HBS Seminar

Edward Fertik, Yale University

02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new open architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules and allows others... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

income rather than to maximize the capital value of the savings. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/07/the-crisis-in-retirement-planning/ar/1 July-August 2014 Harvard Business Review Sustainability in the Boardroom: Lessons from Nike's... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Dec 2022
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The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

Black venture capital and growth investors have a much harder time getting funding than white investors, because—despite efforts to bring more racial diversity to financial services—private equity’s gatekeepers remain mostly white,... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services

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The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

total capitalization of $1.4 billion, inspired the Wall Street Journal to write of its “uneasiness over the magnitude of the affair.” 2 Through its combined subsidiaries, U.S. Steel’s integrated system held control over the mines and... View Details

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Profitable Souls: Foreign Investment and the Fate of Human Rights

By: Debora L. Spar

This is a project about foreign investment, about what happens when big multinational firms invest in small, poor, and often nasty places. Typically, most observers assume that this is a largely negative relationship: that multinationals exploit the local population,... View Details

19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

reasons—and revisits the associated implications for investing and corporate finance, examining asset allocation, high leverage in financial firms, low leverage in industrial firms, private equity, venture capital, and bank capital... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Japan - Global

Innovation Ecosystem.” During their time in Japan, the students participated in team-based consulting projects and attended a venture capital panel session in Tokyo. In Tohoku, they met local social entrepreneurs, engaged with the Mayor... View Details

09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

supplement: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208125 China's Financial Markets: 2007 Harvard Business School Note 208-147 Provides an overview of capital markets in mainland China in 2007,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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A New Vision – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

great researchers, the possibility for developing an imaginative reordering of life through the careful observation of a subject was part of the original impulse for why they studied these workers for so long. Consequently, we must ask what did they hope to View Details

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Ways to Give Today - Alumni

Donor name, degree/year, and intended gift purpose (fund name) Stock Transfer When giving long-term appreciated stock to HBS, donors may take a charitable income tax deduction for its mean fair market value on the date of the gift and avoid View Details

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Profiles - MBA

for users to more readily understand corporations’ political donations, I got to see first hand the ways in which the domains of technology and business can and should overlap. Professional goals: I believe that delivering impact starts with growing potential, and so I... View Details

07 Jul 2008
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Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

Legacy of Enron's Collapse (Harvard University Press), the devastation of Enron was total—yet there is much that business today can gain from a postmortem of the once-triumphant company. Salter had access to an extensive library of public... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

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Mark Giragosian

College and Northwestern University, including internships in consulting and investment banking. Upon retiring from the Joffrey, Mark worked at Morgan Stanley. “I wanted to have another career, not just another job. I looked for opportunities to learn about business... View Details

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HBS - The year in Review

make capitalism work better. The goal of BiGS and its faculty is to tie research to practice, developing insights, tools, and metrics that managers can use to guide their decisions and leadership goals. During its initial phase, the... View Details

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