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  • 31 Jul 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

Keywords: by Eric D. Werker
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

these firms have made significant R&D investments that likely have economic value.’ It’s just that they don’t show up on the accounting balance sheet,” Wang says. These distortions make the book-to-market ratio difficult to compare... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Strategy - Doctoral

their particular interests, such as qualitative analysis, designing effective fieldwork, and analysis of survey data. Students in the Strategy doctoral program work closely with faculty in the Strategy Unit. In addition to the doctoral... View Details

    George Serafeim

    George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He co-leads a Lab, within Harvard's Digital, Data, Design Institute, that focuses on organizational transformation through major shifts, including those... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; insurance industry; automobiles; industrial goods; fashion; food; green technology
    • May 2016
    • Background Note

    Health Systems in the Developing World

    By: Kevin Schulman, Muhammed Pate and Gary Carbell
    This note offers an approach to the evaluation of health care markets globally. It prepares students with a set of questions about the organization of core elements of the health care system. The organization of these elements can vary across markets and can vary in... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Developing Countries and Economies; Public Sector; Private Sector; Opportunities; Analysis
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    • 18 Sep 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: September 18, 2007

    poor on a commercial basis. Publisher's site: Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value Inventory Record Inaccuracy: An Empirical Analysis Authors:Nicole DeHoratius and... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details
    • 01 Oct 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

    How politics cuts across business Written with Margarita Tsoutsoura, an associate professor of finance at Washington University in St. Louis, the analysis draws from data such as executive surveys, voter registration lists, campaign... View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
    • November 2010
    • Case

    Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (A)

    By: Clayton S. Rose and David Lane
    On May 7, 1998, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, chaired by Brooksley Born, issued a "Concept Release" inviting public comment on the relevance and appropriateness of existing regulation of the over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market, a market with a... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; Public Administration Industry; District of Columbia
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    Accounting & Management - Doctoral

    apply to the PhD in Business Administration and select Accounting as their area of study. Students work closely with faculty in the Accounting and Management Unit . Research here encompasses financial reporting and analysis and management... View Details
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    EMEs and COVID-19: Shutting Down in a World of Informal and Tiny Firms

    By: Laura Alfaro, Oscar Becerra and Marcela Eslava
    Emerging economies are characterized by an extremely high prevalence of informality, small-firm employment and jobs not fit for working from home. These features factor into how the COVID-19 crisis has affected the economy. We develop a framework that, based on... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Emerging Economies; Informality; Firm-size Distribution; Health Pandemics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economy; System Shocks; Latin America
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    Program Requirements - Doctoral

    Applied Econometrics (Econ 2120); (Econ 2110. Introductory Probability and Statistics for Economists may be a required prerequisite) Econometric Methods (Econ 2140) Time Series Analysis (Econ 2142) Advanced Applied Econometrics (Econ... View Details
    • 2019
    • White Paper

    Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy

    By: George Serafeim, T. Robert Zochowski and Jennifer Downing
    Reimagining capitalism is an imperative. We need to create a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism that works for every person and the planet. Massive environmental damage, growing income and wealth disparity, stress, and depression within developed... View Details
    Keywords: Impact-Weighted Accounts; IWAI; Background; Economic Systems; Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Measurement and Metrics; Financial Statements
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America

    By: J. Gunnar Trumbull
    Theories of legitimate regulation have emphasized the role of governments either in fixing market failures to promote greater efficiency or in restricting the efficient functioning of markets in order to pursue public welfare goals. In either case, features of markets... View Details
    Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Financial Markets; Personal Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Welfare; France; United States
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    • 05 Nov 2019
    • Blog Post

    Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact

    and the RAND Corporation, offering big-picture insight and analysis to a range of clients in the US government. Satisfying as that work was, he knew he wanted to pursue a more hands-on role in the clean tech space. Here, he describes his... View Details
    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web

    By: Marco Iansiti
    Economic analysis often reviews the role of principles—such as respect for intellectual property rights—in driving innovation. Given the interdependent nature of innovation in information technology, three core principles have emerged that work together to ensure that... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Technological Innovation; Intellectual Property; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Information Technology; Internet and the Web
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      Policy versus Practice: Conceptions of Artificial Intelligence

      The recent growth of concern around issues such as social biases implicit in algorithms, economic impacts of artificial intelligence (AI), or potential existential threats posed... View Details

      • July 2009 (Revised June 2011)
      • Case

      Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum (A)

      By: Lakshmi Iyer, John D. Macomber and Namrata Arora
      Maharashtra state is accepting bids to redevelop Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia. A real estate developer assesses the risks and tenders a bid. The bid conditions include providing new free housing to tens of thousands of slum dwellers, which is anticipated to be... View Details
      Keywords: Risk Management; Development Economics; Housing; Urban Development; Emerging Markets; Social Issues; Business and Government Relations; Real Estate Industry; Mumbai
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        Dutch Leonard

        Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details

        Keywords: education industry; federal government; health care; nonprofit industry; state government
        • 17 Apr 2009
        • Working Paper Summaries

        The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds

        Keywords: by Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner & Antoinette Schoar; Financial Services