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  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

matter? Examining firms with standard long-run measures of corporate governance as they are shocked by plausible misvaluation, we provide consistent evidence that firm performance is impacted by governance when firms become... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

research by Harvard Business School Professors Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson begs to differ. Financial crises, even ones as calamitous as the 2007-2008 banking meltdown, are surprisingly predictable to those who know the warning signs. “Three years of rapid... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 24 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 24

  PublicationsThe Need for Sector-Specific Materiality and Sustainability Reporting Standards Authors:Robert G. Eccles, Jr., Michael P. Krzus, Jean Rogers, and George Serafeim Publication:Journal of Applied Corporate Finance (forthcoming) Abstract Even though the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2021
  • Blog Post

Catching the Entrepreneurship Bug at HBS

me. Slowly but surely though, at HBS I started to get the entrepreneurship bug. I’d be sitting in class thinking about the decisions I would make in the case protagonist’s shoes and realize with total shock that I would want to be in that... View Details
  • 19 Feb 2020
  • News

Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

inward at their operations, and then to their supply chain,” Toffel said. “But another key lever is public policy. What are we doing to foster—or undermine—climate policy?” Approximately 100 people gathered for the discussion entitled... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
  • 18 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

co-financier. So in the end, being able to raise the co-financing capital is critical. Raising capital depends on specific factors such as social networks the entrepreneur has access to, or the level of development of credit markets—but... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

Economics 1, no. 1 (December 2009) Abstract Much of empirical corporate finance focuses on sources of the demand for various forms of capital, not the supply. Recently, this has changed. Supply effects of equity and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

majority of aggregate productivity gains, suggesting that ignoring this channel could lead to substantial bias in understanding the nature of gains from multinational production. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2101302 Implied Materiality and Material... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

Editor's note: The credit crisis and subsequent recession has thrown many financial and business institutions into, if not chaos, then at least a sense that the landscape underneath has shifted significantly. One institution undergoing... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

dollar lending more than euro lending in response to a shock to their credit quality. Because these banks rely on wholesale dollar funding, while raising more of their euro funding through insured retail... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap

Quartner started her career in banking at Credit Suisse and Nina Mullen started her career in consulting at Bain) ended up starting a natural remedies brand, Hilma. Our process before taking the entrepreneurial leap: 1.       Have an idea... View Details
  • 06 Jan 2012
  • Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

impossible feat, claimed by a growing number of companies, is achieved by calculating the greenhouse-gas emissions of the organization's operations, investing in energy efficiency and other methods to reduce those emissions, and purchasing carbon View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

Monetary Economics Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm-Level Evidence By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Bo Becker Abstract—Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015

Statistics Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints By: Garicano, Luis, and Claudia Steinwender Abstract—We introduce a novel empirical strategy to measure the size of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

long-term innovation output rather than for private benefits. Code Contingencies: Designing Monitoring Regimes to Promote Improvement in Supply Chain Working Conditions By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

credit for any of it." Starting The Strategy The authors argue that every company should have a CSR strategy that unifies the diverse range of its philanthropic giving, supply chain, "cause" marketing, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

another influential factor in the development of the wind turbine business following the oil shocks of the 1970s. Suddenly faced with the end of the cheap oil era, the United States, Denmark, and Germany made significant investments in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

How did you first become interested in PRT systems? Ben Edelman: As a longtime user of public transportation, I often wish for more widespread transit links, more frequent services, and faster journeys. Yet I'm shocked by the costs of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Bo Becker Abstract—Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

volatility. Using our model we quantify how capital injections impact the risk of financial institutions and estimate firm-specific precautionary capital needs. In addition, the longstanding observation that volatility is more responsive to negative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne