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  • June 2023
  • Article

The Effect of Firms' Information Exposure on Safeguarding Employee Health: Evidence from COVID-19

By: Lisa Yao Liu and Shirley Lu
We show that information exposure through international business networks enables firms to take proactive measures that benefit employees and potentially the local community. Specifically, in the early days of COVID-19, firms that have business networks with China and... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Networks; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Health Pandemics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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Research Links: Secondary Sources - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

Railroads" Personal Papers, 1885, in The Railroads: Pioneers in Modern Management Alfred Chandler, ed. New York: Arno Press, 1979. Perrow, Charles. Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of View Details
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Current Research

Kevin P. Coyne has taught classes in undergraduate, MBA, and executive education programs at a wide variety of schools, as well as company training programs. His current research interests include:

Sustainable Competitive... View Details

  • April 2004
  • Case

D-Wave Systems: Building a Quantum Computer

By: Alan D. MacCormack, Ajay Agrawal and Rebecca Henderson
D-Wave Systems is a start-up seeking to commercialize a quantum computer. Its business model is unique: as of 2003, it had very few technical resources within the firm. Instead, it financed a series of projects undertaken at universities and government labs. In return... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Engineering; Investment; Intellectual Property; Product Development; Research and Development; Commercialization; Computer Industry
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  • May 2005
  • Article

Customer Anger at Price Increases, Changes in the Frequency of Price Adjustment and Monetary Policy

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Keywords: Customers; Price; Change; Money; Policy
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  • 14 Aug 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game

Keywords: by Karen Mills & Brayden McCarthy; Banking; Financial Services
  • Summer 2025
  • Article

Are ESG Improvements Recognized? Perspectives from the Public Sentiments

By: Shaolong Wu
While Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) increasingly guides investment management and corporate agendas nowadays, public reactions to firms' ESG performance remain under-studied. This paper fills this gap by investigating whether the public picks up firms' ESG... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Public Opinion; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance; Investment
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  • April 2002 (Revised October 2003)
  • Case

Pension Plan of Bethlehem Steel, 2001, The

By: Peter Tufano
Bethlehem Steel's 2001 bankruptcy filing inspires an employee's daughter to evaluate her father's pension plan, weeks after September 11's tragedies exacerbated a weakening U.S. economy and just months before her father planned to retire. Battered equity markets and... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Financial Instruments; Retirement; Steel Industry; United States
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    Emily Tedards

    Emily Tedards is a Doctoral Student in the Organizational Behavior program at Harvard Business School and a Doctoral Fellow for the Reimagining the Economy Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. Emily is interested in interorganizational networks, alliances, and the... View Details

    • September 2011
    • Case

    China Development Bank

    By: Li Jin, Matthew Preble and Aldo Sesia
    In May 2011, Chairman Chen Yuan of the China Development Bank (CDB) was thinking back on CDB's financing of a major project between Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), Brazil's state-owned oil and gas producer and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), one... View Details
    Keywords: International Finance; Emerging Markets; Energy Sources; Banks and Banking; Energy Industry; Brazil; China
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    • February 1986
    • Case

    General Foods Corp.: Project Duck Soup

    General Foods must decide whether to acquire Entenmann's Bakery. Price and financing must also be decided. The teaching objectives include analysis of strategic fit, selection of purchase price, and financing method. Another issue is the debt to equity ratio that is... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Corporate Finance; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • November 2021 (Revised January 2022)
    • Supplement

    Scott Tucker (B): The Feds Catch Up

    By: Aiyesha Dey and Amram Migdal
    The case tells the story of the rise and fall of Scott Tucker, an entrepreneur, businessman, passionate race car driver, competitor, and owner of a professional racing team. From 1997 to 2012, Tucker built a nationwide network of payday lending businesses, becoming a... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Fairness; Financing and Loans; Personal Finance; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • April 2006 (Revised October 2008)
    • Case

    Marketing New York City

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Anita Elberse and Marie Bell
    New York City is a pioneer in the emerging field of municipal marketing. The city's first chief marketing officer must develop a marketing organization with a self-funded business model that creates value for the city by leveraging the city's assets, including physical... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Goals and Objectives; Marketing Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Value Creation; New York (city, NY)
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    How Resilient Is Venture-Backed Innovation? Evidence from Four Decades of U.S. Patenting

    By: Sabrina T. Howell, Josh Lerner, Ramana Nanda and Richard Townsend
    Despite theoretical predictions to the contrary, corporate innovation is strongly pro-cyclical. In this paper, we compare innovation in the economy as a whole to that of firms backed by venture capital (VC), a source of capital associated with the most impactful young... View Details
    Keywords: Recessions; Venture Capital; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Business Cycles; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation
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    • 24 Apr 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

    just across time but also across locations,” Cavallo says, adding that these are important decisions for corporate executives wrestling with dynamic pricing. “Studying fairness concerns seems crucial to know how firms might be able to use... View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail
    • 04 Jan 2022
    • What Do You Think?

    Firing McDonald’s Easterbrook: What Could the Board Have Done Differently?

    (iStockphoto/tofumax) A corporate board’s most important decision is selecting the organization’s CEO. By the same token, one could argue that a board’s most distasteful decision concerns firing a CEO. Once directors agree to release the... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 10 Oct 2009
    • News

    Making the 'public option' a simple one

    • 14 Oct 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: October 14

    Samuel G. Hanson, Joshua S. Rudolph, and Lawrence H. Summers Abstract—This paper re-examines government debt management policy in light of the U.S. experience with extraordinary fiscal View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Cynthia A. Montgomery

      Professor Montgomery's research centers on strategy and corporate governance. Of particular interest are the unique roles leaders play in developing and implementing strategy; the means organizations use to create value across multiple lines of business; and issues... View Details

      • March 2021
      • Supplement

      Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (B)

      By: Shawn A. Cole, John Masko and T. Robert Zochowski
      In 2018, Thailand’s Bank of Ayudhya (known as Krungsri), was considering whether to participate in the first issue of a new financial instrument from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), known as a gender bond. Building on the success of the Green Bond program... View Details
      Keywords: Impact Investment; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Equity; Bonds; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development; Emerging Markets; Non-Governmental Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Instruments; Gender; Financial Services Industry; Thailand
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