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- 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9
adoption of feed-in tariffs, subsidies, and tax credits in the 1980s. However the poor technological capabilities of U.S.-based firms meant that it was Danish and other foreign companies that benefitted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
leakage would result in increased global emissions, undermining the intent of emissions regulation. It is also widely believed that carbon tariffs—carbon taxes imposed on goods imported from an unregulated region to a region subject to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
fraud than other kinds of advertising. An advertiser might think: "Faking that a person paid money is very hard. You need a credit card, and if I'm getting the order, how bad can it be?" In fact, fraud is not impossible. Maybe... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
induces U.S. manufacturing firms to contract their operations along multiple margins of activity goes a long way toward explaining the response of U.S. innovation to the China trade shock. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51998... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
cent in Argentina. Chile retains the highest credit rating in Latin America, based on the low 20 per cent ratio of public debt to GDP. In Argentina that ratio is 45 per cent. There remains also a solid institutional foundation for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions Last Updated: 10 Jun 2025 Print View View by Unit | View by Course Title | View by Faculty | Print View # A B C D E F G I L M N O P R S T U V W # Area Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits 3... View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-101.pdf Corporate Governance and Internal Capital Markets Authors:Zacharias Sautner and Belén Villalonga Abstract We exploit an exogenous shock to corporate ownership structures created by a recent tax... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
promoting the government's goal of increased homeownership. Although lawmakers had already partially privatized Fannie Mae in 1954 and again in 1968, the agency in 1987 still retained close links to the federal government, including an emergency line of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017
these issues. Firms devote more external capital to finance their share repurchases than to avoid regular dividend cuts. Debt is the main source of capital used to externally finance payouts, particularly when credit market conditions are... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
management; knowledge of the appropriate skills and tools, such as opportunity analysis, deal-structuring, organization design, and innovation supports; command of relevant specific knowledge, including tax law, corporate governance... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
government support as well, with the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act creating new tax credits for carbon capture. And, in December, the Department of Energy announced $3.7 billion worth of prizes and programs... View Details
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom, who will stand by whom in times of crisis, what governs the provision of credit when no one seems to have credit. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
effects to scale Module Capstone: Picabuu 6 hrs Module 3 Scaling and Sustaining a Platform (Part 2) Understand the chicken-or-egg problem and disintermediation and develop strategies for overcoming them, and summarize how network bridging can increase a platform’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
Your credit card has already been stolen. You just don’t know it yet. Thomas knows it, though. (A 12-year IT security veteran, Thomas requested anonymity to protect the reputation of his employers, which have included Fortune 100... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
There were a whole lot of risk factors in the Great Recession that contributed to the collapse: It was availability of credit to subprime borrowers, the syndication of these mortgages in the residential mortgage-backed securities market,... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
Supporting Tax-time Savings with U.S. Savings Bonds Author:Peter Tufano Abstract This paper reports the results of a 2007 experiment testing if specific process simplification can enhance savings by low-to-moderate income (LMI) households. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
homes. For example, more generous tax credits could substantially reduce the cost of adopting available children, and would make adoption more feasible for lower-income families. Our State Department could... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
200,000 qualified plug-ins domestically—a number that Tesla and GM could hit within the next year. Sales of all-electrics would undoubtedly slump were the Trump administration to end the federal tax credit... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
experiments to test theoretical predictions of why adoption may be low. Insurance purchase is sensitive to price, with an estimated extensive price elasticity of demand between -0.66 and -0.88. Credit constraints, identified through the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace