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- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
during peaks of the private equity market, when the parent banks arrange more debt financing for in-house transactions yet have the lowest exposure to debt. Using financing terms and ex-post performance, we... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
State. And, he has immense resource wealth to finance his efforts. I don't know if he'll succeed politically, but if he does not abandon human rights and constrains political power, then Russia could be a very good place to invest. Q:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17
contributions—regarding which greater team heterogeneity reduces the likelihood of equal splitting. Second, we show that these same founder characteristics also significantly affect the share premium in teams that split the equity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
offshorability and wage level, where Blinder found no correlation. While Blinder found a slight wage penalty for the most offshorable jobs, the student data exhibited no evidence of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
accounts for more than a quarter of the overall increase in labor supply to the private sector during 1986-2005. Using the reform to instrument for private-sector labor supply, we find that private-sector labor demand is very elastic. We provide suggestive evidence... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=15-010.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 214-083 An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance-2014 Update Provides an introduction to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
PublicationsForward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance Authors:Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric Belsky, eds. Publication:Brookings Institution Press and Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, 2011 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
must choose to improve an old technology (steel) or to develop a new material (carbon fiber). The decision must take into account a complicated context: increased demand for the "old" steel products made in Italy, increasing power of carbon fiber... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
characteristics also significantly affect the share premium in teams that split the equity unequally. Third, we show that equal splitting is associated with lower pre-money valuations in first financing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
strategies with the new entrants. Yet, while the much needed increase in sources for financing has been welcome by small businesses, these innovative fintech lenders have sparked concerns around transparency and the high costs charged to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- March 1995
- Case
Donald Salter Communications, Inc.
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jeremy Cott
A new CEO is hired to manage the turnaround of a family-owned newspaper publisher. In a departure from previous management, he implements a new compensation scheme that explicitly ties executive pay to market-value-based measures of firm performance. Because the... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Transformation; Asset Management; Wages; Balanced Scorecard; Family Ownership; Motivation and Incentives; Valuation; Journalism and News Industry
Gilson, Stuart C., and Jeremy Cott. "Donald Salter Communications, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 295-114, March 1995.
- 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50191 Wage Elasticities in Working and Volunteering: The Role of Reference Points in a Laboratory Study By: Exley, Christine L., and Stephen J. Terry Abstract—Volunteers provide a large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
Publications March 2015 AFP Exchange Well Said: Why Articulating Your Strategy Can Set You Apart. By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract—Senior finance managers now operate in an altered c-suite landscape. The executives reporting to the CEO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8
PublicationsConcentrating on Governance Authors:Dalida Kadyrzhanova, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a novel trade-off view of corporate governance. Using a simple model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
These new establishments were concentrated in industries where women entrepreneurs have been traditionally active and the entry was mainly found among household-based establishments. We measure and discuss the extent to which this heightened entrepreneurship is due to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
forthcoming Journal of Finance Brokers and Order Flow Leakage: Evidence from Fire Sales By: Barbon, Andrea, Marco Di Maggio, Francesco Franzoni, and Augustin Landier Abstract—Using trade-level data, we study whether brokers play a role in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
leads the loan syndicate (parent-financed deals). Bank-affiliated deals are similar in characteristics and financing to stand-alone deals but have worse outcomes if consummated during the peaks of the credit market. Parent-financed deals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
ones, thereby increasing the impact of composition and complexity on CEO pay beyond the premium the CEO would demand for bearing additional compensation risk. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53288... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
Foley, and Kristin J. Forbes Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper analyzes the impact of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
(inflows minus outflows of private capital) are positively correlated with countries' productivity growth; (2) net sovereign debt flows (government borrowing minus reserves) are negatively correlated with growth only if net public debt is View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne