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- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset on the universe of corporate loans for 2003–2013 to identify bank-specific shocks for each year using methods from the matched employer-employee... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
for the company. It was about keeping the business unit alive and not jeopardizing thousands of jobs overnight." A financial analysis of the return on such contracts called those beliefs into question. "After completing a thorough audit... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
company whose management engaged in a massive accounting fraud. ChuoAoyama was PwC's Japanese affiliate and one of Japan's largest audit firms. In May 2006, the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) suspended ChuoAoyama for two months... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Systems Leadership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society
Proceedings, April 2025 Finance, Coalitions, and Climate Risk Financial systems are evolving to address climate change through investor pressure, disclosure regulation, and alliance-building. “We need to teach students about the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
today? The answer is yes and no. The no (or probably not) answer reflects the likelihood that executives of private-equity firms do not, on average, possess any more ethical discipline than leaders of public companies. Maintaining ethical... View Details
- Profile
Kayode Ogunro
a difference that has an enduring impact on the development fortunes of underserved emerging markets. What did you learn during the job search process? My job search process was atypical, as I had a very specific idea of what I wanted and reached out to only a handful... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
organization that provides essential services, technology, or connections used by a large number of other participants. Orchestrating an ecosystem as the hub can be a significant undertaking. It often requires a firm to make up-front... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
non-CEO executives in banks with materialistic CEOs insider trade more aggressively around government intervention during the financial crisis. Finally, we find that banks with materialistic CEOs have significantly more downside tail risk... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Women and VC
bottom line is all business. Said Dodi, “As with any private equity firm or venture capital fund, it’s our fiduciary duty to look out for our investors and get a return.” View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
list of “systemically significant” financial firms that would face the strictest regulation—a move that some critics claimed would encourage companies to try to get on the list, believing it would guarantee... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
take a hard look at their mentorship programs, a widely embraced concept that now too often degenerates into pro forma and intermittent “check-in” lunches. More important, companies must offer clear pathways to real responsibility. The kidney dialysis and medical... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
Recently featured on the cover of Forbes with Intel chairman Andrew Grove, Associate Professor Clayton M. Christensen is the author of The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail. His research on "disruptive... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
systematically examined. This contempt for business groups in mature market settings stands in sharp contrast to the intensive research that has been conducted on other major models of large modern enterprises in those economies, such as functionally organized View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
systems, the influence of cryptography tools and big data on financial services, the deployment of different forms of capital into Web3 startups, and the ways in which blockchain technology will disrupt businesses. Additionally, the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
often become obsolete in as little as six months, a firm can seldom predict accurately how much of its inventory will actually sell. A company like Compaq, for example, may suddenly find itself with three thousand extra modems on hand.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
retired U.S. Army brigadier general) Georges F. Doriot, who had founded American Research & Development Corp. (AR&D) in 1946, the first public venture capital firm in the United States. As the American economy began to soar after World... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Harvard’s Next Frontier
John A. Paulson (MBA 1980), founder and president of the investment management firm Paulson & Co., has made the largest gift in the University’s history—a $400 million endowment to support the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences... View Details
Keywords: Drew Faust
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
slightly different approach to research in this area by deciding that entrepreneurship should not be what we study, but rather, the entrepreneurial firm should be where we study. Q: What have been the main findings of the inquiry that has... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
the e-business revolution has focused on highly publicized, often overvalued start-ups and the radical new business models they have created, this book argues that it is the established, traditional firms that will do the difficult work... View Details