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- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
assembled an experienced staff during a highly volatile period for such start-ups itself seemed a milestone, and a symbol of the enterprises that might be imagined and attempted in an American economy with deep reserves of risk capital... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
hand, the company was finally gaining traction with developing its technology, and the search to replace the current CEO had yielded two prospective candidates who were extremely well suited to drive the company forward with a more View Details
Keywords: 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
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
Japan, and have gained the cooperation of their states when looking for large contracts abroad. Business historians need to add their voices to the debate that is on everyone's minds: is globalization a positive or a negative force?... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Putting the Project Puzzle Together
McFarlan: Fifty percent of all capital investment today is being done in IT projects. The way this money is spent deeply impacts the organization's future. It is because of the size of investment as a percentage of View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50562 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Entrepreneurial Beacons: The Yale Endowment, Run-ups, and the Growth of Venture Capital By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, Benjamin J. Hallen, Rory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
examine the legal basis of applicable rights and identify the circumstances in which such transfers are permitted. Publisher's link: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/legal-aspects-of-transfer-of-ips-may2013.pdf 2006 Review of Financial Studies The Price of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
aspirations for what is to be gained in the current relationship, and these aspirations fuel opportunism. Finally, we show that other parties may fail to anticipate these effects, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation. State Activism... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
customers and business partners). Q: Could you elaborate more on this point that firms might choose to follow the rules when they cross-list on a U.S. exchange not because they're concerned about repercussions, but because of the business reputational assets they View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
PublicationsDo Strong Fences Make Strong Neighbors? Authors:Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Publication:National Tax Journal 63 (December 2010) Abstract Many features of U.S. tax policy towards multinational firms—including the governing principle of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
underscored the risk and uncertainty inherent to capitalism itself. Sean Silverthorne: Why did you decide to write this book? Walter Friedman: The idea came to me years ago when teaching "Creating Modern Capitalism," a short course that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
competitors' anticipated actions. Using new entrants into the United States from 1985 to 1994, we find that firms favor locations with academic innovative activity. Other results highlight differences in firms' location strategies suggesting that firms consider not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
chose to host conference calls in English, placing themselves on shaky linguistic ground. The recent working paper Capital Market Consequences of Non-Plain English in Conference Calls of Foreign Firms appears to be one of the first... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
applications, such as Snapchat filters, but AR is being applied in far more consequential ways in business. Pioneering organizations are already implementing it in product development, manufacturing, logistics, marketing, service, and training—and are seeing major... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
California pharmacist and drugstore owner who balked at the price-slashing practices of chain store competitors and spearheaded a local price-control movement to protect her own bottom line—a crusade that would ultimately gain such... View Details
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
corporate abuses or (2) less-developed nations roughly equal in power and with some control of corporate abuses. Unfortunately, much of today's international trade does not meet these conditions. Under the colonial system, powerful industrialized countries View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 28 Aug 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters
compromised its legitimacy. The business history literature is extremely weak in Africa, and not much better in Latin America, many Asian countries, and the Middle East. What Can The Work Of Joseph Schumpeter Tell Us About Modern Capitalism? Rediscovering Schumpeter:... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Projects/BPEA/Fall-2014/Fall2014BPEA_Weinzierl.pdf?la=en Working Papers Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie X. Chen... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne