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  • 05 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

accumulated $74 billion in debt and beginning in 2014, the island had withheld debt payments despite the commonwealth’s constitutional guarantee of its general obligation bonds. In turn, the island found itself effectively excluded from View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008

Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets Authors:Pol Antras, Mihir Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines how costly financial contracting and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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founder’s obligations to stakeholders challenged under pressure and uncertainty? More broadly, why does the startup ecosystem contain so many market failures that lead to biases and inequities – particularly in terms of access to View Details
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

that corporate and capital market short-termism are related. Moreover, consistent with analytical models that emphasize the costly nature of short-termism, we find that short-term oriented firms exhibit lower future accounting and stock... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jan 2021
  • Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

Large numbers of entrepreneurs are self-deploying in this space and will be, and large amounts of capital are being deployed and will be. More companies are finding themselves trying to solve public problems. There are a lot of lessons in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

high levels of entrepreneurial activity, which in turn gave me a large enough sample to work with. Second, it is not an industry where venture capital activity is very high, making it a good setting to study growth in the absence of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been plagued by frictions: it is hard for a lender to determine which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

J’s board, became its new CEO and was able to successfully manage competing stakeholder demands, keep the business running, and ultimately paid back every dollar it owed to its creditors by selling the company’s core assets—its travel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

capital firm investing in BIPOC founders in the education space. She is also the vice president of advocacy in the Women’s Student Association at HBS, and an author. “As a published fiction writer, I aim to share and amplify the voices of... View Details
  • 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

the chief regulatory officer) voice their views on the risks, collectively bringing a multiple stakeholder perspective to the risk profile. The case challenges students to define the problems and risks that the company faces, given its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

integrated-markets models in which the rationally determined price of risk fluctuates in a countercyclical fashion. The results can be partially explained by models in which shocks to intermediary capital or agency problems drive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010

economy and are specifically focused on a three objectives: 1) building a community of Certified B Corporations (B=Benefit) that legally expand their corporate responsibilities to include consideration of diverse stakeholder interests; 2)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

organizations as being focused on tangible hard metrics like profit or market capitalization. But for-profits also do a lot of organizational capacity-building work. Venture capital investments are very much about building the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

forthcoming Abstract A broad literature has emerged over the past decades demonstrating that firms' environmental strategies and practices are influenced by stakeholders and institutional pressures. Such findings are consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

action against banks they deemed "too big to fail." Regulators around the world stepped in to increase capital requirements while the U.S. government passed the Dodd-Frank bill, which improved transparency and accountability,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital funded entrepreneurial start-ups. Access to the marketplace is needed to help... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

emerging markets. Companies are now taking seriously the need to be truly global. How do we develop leadership able to work in diverse markets with ever more demanding stakeholders (employees, customers, communities) around the world? How... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

growing evidence of pollution and resulting political pressures. The variety of capitalism literature has suggested that the German coordinated market economy model was more conducive to green corporate strategies than liberal market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

future performance and cost of capital and (ii) to critically assess the implied assumptions underlying the market's expectations. The case is best suited for a course on business valuation at all levels (undergraduate, MBA, executive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

legitimacy-building activities provided benefits (leading diverse stakeholders to value the new firm and the new industry) but also created risks. Specifically, legitimacy building relied on and reinforced individual-level behaviors (an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne