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- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
pre-specified age, his shares are liquidated and the proceeds are distributed to the other contributors to the MIF. Contributors who are alive at the pre-specified age are also paid the value of their accumulated shares. Like tontines, of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
easier to achieve in a for-profit organization than in a comparable nonprofit," he writes in a recent working paper, "Philanthropic Social Capital Markets and Performance-Driven Philanthropy," and the most important reason is capital. "It... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
trustworthiness vary systematically across different stakeholder types and provide strong support for the validity of the depth and locus dimensions. Working PapersSovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances Authors:Laura... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
allocating resources is distributed across all levels of the company. Those activities go on simultaneously. As a consequence, the way in which the structure divides up responsibility and the way the processes of the organization View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do about It. Government has played similar catalytic roles in creating hubs of innovation is places such as Tel Aviv and Singapore. Such success stories... View Details
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
agricultural equipment manufacturers. The industry offered few prospects now for small entrepreneurs without access to large capital resources. "These policies transformed wind energy into lucrative opportunity," Jones and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
shocks to borrowers' collateral, which affect firms' ability to raise capital if agency and information problems are significant (Ben S. Bernanke and Mark Gertler, 1989). Or it can stem from shocks to bank capital, which affects the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
focusing on trust and reputation mechanisms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51606 Harvard Business School Case 916-033 Advika Consulting Services: Challenges and Opportunities in Managing Human View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911033-PDF-ENG Sidoti & Company: Launching a Micro-Cap Product Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy, and Sarah L. AbbottHarvard Business School Case 411-072 It is 2010 and Sidoti & Company, a New York-based brokerage firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
team's knowledge-integration capability. We test our theoretical framework using data on knowledge workers in professional services and discuss implications for research and practice. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-009.pdf The Cost of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
more than 20 case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement. At the center of this work is the concept of organizational coherence: aligning organizational design, human View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Online Video Harvard Business School Case 709-447 In late March 2007, CBS faces an important decision about its online video strategy. A just-announced joint online distribution venture between NBC Universal and News Corporation (Fox) is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database. The comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how both the entry rate and the distribution of entry sizes for new startups responded to changes in banking competition. Moreover, we distinguish the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
at the individual level. We discuss the implications of our results for the study of learning as well as for providers and consumers of outsourced services. Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation Authors:Golosov,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Republic of Geneva), and other immigrant founders who guided the nation to prosperity. Their expertise with liquid capital far exceeded that of native-born plantation owners Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, who well understood the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5
bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance companies, the largest institutional holders of corporate bonds. Insurance companies have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007
problem for the consortium is how much to raise its previous bid. A reasonable bid must be based upon how much value the private equity consortium can create through improvements in Hertz's global operations on the one hand, and a more efficient View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
very proficient in mobilizing capital to stoke innovation and create new industries for sustained growth. It should focus on immense global market opportunities ” Tip Parker suggested what those new global market opportunities might look... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett