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  • 09 Sep 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

Lending Outcomes By: Campbell, Dennis, Maria Loumioti, and Regina Wittenberg Moerman Abstract—We explore how cognitive constraints can impede the effective processing and interpretation of less salient, non-quantitative (soft) information in View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-048.pdf The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship Banking Authors:Victoria Ivashina and Anna Kovner Abstract This paper examines the impact of leveraged buyout firms' bank... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 30

happiness-if you follow five core principles of smarter spending. Purchase the book: http://www.amazon.com/Happy-Money-Science-Smarter-Spending/dp/1451665067/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0/181-7319636-0911428 The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

economic―and from a variety of related perspectives, including debt and state finance, tariffs and tax policy, the encouragement and discouragement of trade, merchant communities and companies, smuggling and illicit trades, mercantile and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut

we have a rich set of finance electives, including courses on behavioral topics, investment management, financial markets, private equity, venture capital, financial engineering (which I also coteach), and a host of other topics. Retail... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

Partners and Great Wolf Resorts: Buying from a Highly Regarded Competitor The case examines the March 2015 Centerbridge Partners investment decision regarding whether to acquire Great Wolf Resorts, a North American family-oriented indoor water parks and hotel operator,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

An American Odyssey

coauthored two books. But his longest sustained commitment has been to help public and private decision-makers more fully understand the causes of black poverty in the United States and underdevelopment in Africa and the Afro-Latin world.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Banking on HBS

other public institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund, as well as representatives from the private sector, client countries, and nongovernmental organizations. EDP cohorts typically consist of some 120 participants; the first... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework predicts, we find that leverage is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

recessions, it is not clear if this is due to demand or supply. We address this question by studying firms' substitution between bank debt and non-bank debt (public bonds) using firm-level data. Any firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

Vayanos Abstract We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in which clienteles with strong preferences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

net shareholder payouts were offset by net debt issuances and, thus, were effectively recapitalizations rather than firm-shrinking distributions. After excluding marginal debt capital inflows, net... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities
  • 23 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 23

account-giving behavior from other roles. Our study contributes to research on role-based coordination, team and organizational boundaries, and team size. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1987724   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

bring to an earlier and less costly end—relatively weak patent-infringement lawsuits; (2) strengthen the litigation and bargaining positions of patentees with especially robust cases; (3) flag weaknesses in litigation positions to the benefit of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

Newman Abstract This paper shows that product prices determine organizational design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. Property rights theory asserts that firm boundaries are chosen by stakeholders to mediate organizational goals (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 1, 2016

credit-market sentiment in year t – 2 also forecasts a change in the composition of external finance: net debt issuance falls in year t, while net equity issuance increases, patterns consistent with the reversal in credit-market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare. Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health assembles 17 case studies at the intersection of business and public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

American multinational firms respond to politically risky environments by adjusting their capital structures abroad and at home. Foreign subsidiaries located in politically risky countries have significantly more debt than do other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne