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- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
lifecycle analysis, food waste is a major factor,” having tremendous harmful environmental impacts due to the unnecessary expenditure of natural resources to grow products that consumers don’t actually use, plus the additional emissions... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
cross-country analysis for the claim that OECD polices worsen poverty in developing countries. To better understand what might drive these results, we turn to national employment and household consumption and expenditure surveys from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
offerings. The economic turbulence of the past several years, along with the subdued revenue growth environment, underscores the need for continued vigilance. In fiscal 2024, we saw operating expenses increase by 6%, twice the rate of revenue growth. While these View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Relief Program (TARP). It was a losing battle. Over the course of an hour, he fielded a half-dozen urgent calls from his staff regarding a draft version of a report on TARP expenditures due to Congress the next day (December 10).... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
for a reduction in financial expenditures due to the subsidies accompanying loans. However, BNDES does not systematically lend to underperforming firms. Our results indicate that BNDES subsidizes firms that could fund their projects with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
micro data sets, we show that investors are indeed far more likely to consume from dividends than capital gains. In the Consumer Expenditure Survey, household consumption increases with dividend income, controlling for total wealth, total... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
quantify the impact of scientific grant funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on patenting by pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Our paper makes two contributions. First, we use newly constructed bibliometric data to develop a method for flexibly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
boards (SBs) on managers' behavior and on long-run firm value using a natural experiment: a 1990 law that imposed a SB on all firms incorporated in Massachusetts. We find that the law led to an increase in Tobin's Q, increased investment in capital View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
hospitals’ use of managing accruals or cutting discretionary expenditures. Next, I find that hospital managers prefer overbilling to managing accruals (cutting discretionary expenditures) when cutting discretionary expenditures (managing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
and the $6 billion Oyu Tolgoi copper mine expansion in Mongolia (2014). Globally, firms financed a record $415 billion in capital expenditures using project finance in 2013, and the use of project-financed investment has grown at a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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. However, these positive effects are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
average firm in his state cut back capital expenditures by roughly 15 percent, according to their working paper, "Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?" "It was an enormous surprise, at least to us, to learn... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
escalation in movie advertising expenditures over time. Yet, the returns to movie advertising are poorly understood. The main reason is that disentangling the causal effect of advertising on movie sales is difficult because of the classic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
about the causes of regional variations in health care expenditures. We use vignettes from patient and physician surveys linked to fee-for-service Medicare expenditures to test whether patient demand-side factors or physician supply-side... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
capital potentially available for investment, as R&D and other future-oriented expenditures are already deducted in computing it. Our analysis and data can help explain why investment has been increasing and cash balances have been... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
experiment: a 1990 law that imposed a SBs on all firms incorporated in Massachusetts. We find that the law led to an increase in Tobin's Q. Examining mechanisms for the change in firm value, we find that managers protected by a SB increased investment in capital View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
leading center for diabetes care, clinician training, and research. The incidence of diabetes is rising precipitously worldwide, challenging quality of life with its complications and rapidly accelerating health care expenditures for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
and has real investment implications: approximately 75% of the debt issuance funds increased capital expenditures and cash acquisitions. In the cross section, misvaluation affects financially constrained firms the most, supporting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
practice. What keeps you up at night? Right now, I’m thinking a lot about the preservation of our balance sheet and cash position. Whatever spending we have ongoing, it clearly has to be for the highest shareholder value. We have ratcheted down our capital View Details
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
financial crisis, but they may be hard to get rid of. The Washington political system struggles to deal with this gigantic fiscal challenge, and—no surprise—large tax increases and large expenditure reductions are not high on politicians'... View Details
Keywords: by Staff