Firm Level Data - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

31 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

duties in firms incorporated in that state. This change limited managers' incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

15 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

colleagues found striking trends as they looked closer at dining patterns. The team analyzed almost six months of data from the foot traffic analytics firm SafeGraph to gauge how many people were leaving... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

fixed costs/scale sensitivity on the supply side, are all capable of reducing the equilibrium level of global standardization, as is the ability of local producers to pre-commit costs to particular markets. Convergence of the price of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

economy of the '90s brought a golden age and aura to VC firms in the United States. In 1999, venture capitalists controlled more than $46 billion, with skyrocketing returns to match the risks of their early-stage investments. Europe,... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

01 Dec 2016
News

Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel

“discover, buy, and sell authentic tour experiences.” Zhang, the founder of travel firm WildChina which serves foreign visitors, launched NewUGo to connect the rapidly growing domestic Chinese travel market to off-the-beaten-path tourism... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

to financial performance, a long-term approach towards maximizing inter-temporal profits, and an active stakeholder management process. Societal concern about sustainability, at both the level of the firm... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

10 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

the highest levels of the executive search business. In response, Kelly had begun making strategic investments in firms offering technology-based solutions, but had not yet made significant progress... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

biggest surprise to me was the level of involvement that firms engage in with community forms on software development and standard setting in general. That is, forms that are not government sponsored nor... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

24 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 24

sustainability investments, and an increasing number of investors integrate sustainability performance data in their capital allocation decisions. To date, however, the prior academic literature has not distinguished between investments... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Mar 2017
News

Turning Teachers into Leaders

Sophie Lippincott Ferrer (MBA 2006) is a senior consultant with Education First, a national policy and strategy consulting firm that partners with education leaders to design and accelerate policies and plans that help all young people,... View Details

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

to a particular job, rating the importance of each. After considering this information, the learning team created an "offshorability rating" between 0 and 100 for each of its assigned occupations, with a rating of 100 indicating that the task (such as View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Web

Video Management Policy | About

support of campus security, HBS Security maintains a 24/7 Security Operations Center with live video monitoring to support the security environment on campus. Supervisory level employees have full access to duration of video playback for... View Details

24 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

Working Papers Firm-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences Authors: Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract We investigate, using firm-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Apr 2016
Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

traditional process, focused on firm awareness and skills training. The two identity groups received the same training as the control group, but also an additional hour-long presentation, which varied according to the group. In... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

14 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

rate. Thus, at a certain level of mutual dependence, the more powerful actor obtains a greater share of a much smaller exchange surplus leading him or her to be worse off than he would be in an equal-power dyad. We support this prediction... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

researchers noticed. Using data from the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, they were able to tie a government's level of sales tax dependence directly to the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Staff Directory | Baker Library

Staff Directory Ana Elena Azpúrua HBS Working Knowledge Ana plays a key role in bringing faculty research to a broader audience of business professionals through compelling maps, charts, and other forms of visual storytelling. Before joining HBS, she worked with the... View Details

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

Increased financial disclosure standards on such issues as executive compensation should provide more useful information for investors, policy makers, and regulators. But do the companies themselves benefit? What researchers are now discovering is that increasing View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

01 Sep 2017
News

Research Brief: As the Wind Blows

While bold, innovative public policy played an important role in fostering success, the level of policy consistency was just as important, Jones discovers. “There’s a Janus face of public policy, particularly in the United States, where... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

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