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  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

tool to alleviate capital constraints in scarce credit markets and unlock productive investments, others see those banks as conduits of cheap loans to politically connected firms that could obtain capital elsewhere. We test these contrasting views using data on loans... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27

finance a new venture? In this note, I will try to help answer this question by addressing the following topics: 1) Types of funding. The two major types of startup capital are equity funding and debt funding although there are a few... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction Authors:Eyal Ert, Ido Erev, and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 2 (2011) Abstract Two independent, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

issues on the subject at the Cyberposium panel "Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?" Although the forms of their organizations vary in large and small ways, one thing all the participants agreed on was that incubators are... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
  • 02 May 2017
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First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

Asante Should Governments Demand Equity in Foreign-Owned Extractive Projects? By: Wells, Louis T. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52573 2016 The Challenge of BRIC... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Sep 2019
  • Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

always be there to bail out WeWork? Is Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son’s mutual admiration with Neumann part of the unspoken issue? It has been suggested that SoftBank may backstop the IPO in some respect by buying a major portion of the IPO when it goes effective.... View Details
Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate
  • 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52168 Rainy Day Stocks By: Gormsen, Niels, and Robin Greenwood Abstract—We study the good- and bad-times performance of equity portfolios formed on characteristics. Many characteristics... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity markets that support it, has channeled money to innovative ideas that have transformed industries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317039-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-011 Qalaa Holdings and the Egyptian Refining Company This case follows Qalaa Holdings, a successful Egypt-based private equity firm, and gives... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

investors than they absorb in new investment funds. From 1982-2010, repatriated earnings from foreign affiliates exceeded net capital investments by $1.1 trillion in 2010 dollars; and from 1950-2010, repatriated earnings and net interest from foreign affiliates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

economics and political system. Datar: MBAs need to understand what it means to be a general manager in a global world and the differences in institutions, norms, cultures, and legal frameworks. It would be fascinating, for example, to have student teams work on an... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 28 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

these efforts have brought real results. For example, many companies have increased diversity in their workforce. But overall, all these efforts have not been enough to actually stop or reverse serious challenges we are facing. Environmental degradation and challenges... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining
  • Research Summary

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

By: Sandra J. Sucher

In this research I develop cases and articles that provide thought-provoking, real-world examples of the ways in which social identity differences emerge and are managed in the workplace, and the skills needed to constructively engage with differences to create and... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Equity; Social Issues
  • May 2011
  • Supplement

Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum (B)

By: Lakshmi Iyer and John Macomber
In July 2009, as investors prepared to submit financial bids for the $3 billion Dharavi slum redevelopment project, considerable economic and political risks remained. View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Private Equity; Social Issues; Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; Mumbai
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  • 08 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

Harvard Business School Case 818-039 Cumplo.com In August 2017, Cumplo’s Founder Shea and CEO Kirberg meet to discuss growth and strategy issues faced by this Chilean fintech startup. What sales and marketing strategy will best foster the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26

acquisition (CPA). However, these standard online advertising metrics are plagued with attribution problems and do not account for dynamics. These issues can easily lead firms to overspend on some actions and thus waste money, and/or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

countries, firms are more likely to issue equity when investment opportunities are high, becoming widely held in the process. We find scant evidence, however, that changes in percentage blockholding forecast... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

CEO is the highest paid executive and almost always out-earns her direct reports by a significant margin. Also, multiple studies have found that the more equity the CEO holds, the more compensation she commands. However, the patterns are... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

1990s and 2000s magnified these challenges, as illustrated by the deployment of the descendent of the NCSA HTTPd server, otherwise known as Apache. This study asks whether this experience could produce measurement issues in standard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?

who wrote, "... legislative and regulatory response treats the symptoms (means) rather than the disease (motivation). Transparency is only as successful as the least creative obscurantist." He recommends, among other things, prohibiting "by regulation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

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