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  • 19 Aug 2021
  • News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

institutions don't want to burden themselves with so many students who have financial needs. DM: One of the other recommendations you give is to put money in Black-owned banks. Part of the rationale, of course, there is that Black-owned banks are more likely to lend... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

apartheid and its first democratic elections in 1994, was doing everything right. They had liberalized the economy. They had enacted economic reforms that made it easy for foreign capital to flow in and out. They performed well on various... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

corporate bonds. Insurance companies have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their investments. Conditional on ratings, insurance portfolios are systematically biased toward higher yield, higher CDS bonds. This behavior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

brought in. You are now seeing budgets and deadlines being hit, and customer feedback is more enthusiastic. The kinds of results you want—financial returns—haven't changed. The next round of financing is coming up and you have been asked... View Details
Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

and develop a construction budget and financing plan. Students are asked to evaluate the prospective financials for this development and assess the viability of the development plan and its prospective returns. The case then ends with a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

October 2014 Quarterly Journal of Economics Waves in Ship Prices and Investment By: Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel G. Hanson Abstract—We study the link between investment boom and bust cycles and returns on capital in the dry bulk shipping... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Professor, Historian, and Storyteller

it’s psychological. Life feels like it just keeps moving faster! We are not the first generation to experience such quickening, but it’s never affected so many people before. I think that overall we are not quite sure what to do with the rapid speed with which the... View Details
Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

from 3% to 15% as a fraction of government budget without negatively affecting publication quality and quantity. This follows incentive policy change and leadership change at labs, an event whose timing is plausibly exogenous being... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Ball: EVA Driving the World's Leading Can Manufacturer (A)

By: Jonas Heese and Susan Pinckney
The case describes Ball’s multi decade history of using Economic Value Added to drive decision making and workforce compensation. In 2016, the company acquired Rexam PLC and became the world’s leading metal beverage container company. Consumer demand for varied... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Cost Accounting; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Buildings and Facilities; Green Building; Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Satisfaction; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Machinery and Machining; Asset Pricing; Corporate Finance; Capital; Cost; Financial Management; Goods and Commodities; Compensation and Benefits; Executive Compensation; Employee Relationship Management; Goals and Objectives; Resource Allocation; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Arizona; California; Texas
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  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

exchanges. Shareholder protection strongly predicted exchange success, even in countries with high levels of venture capital activity, patenting, and financial market development. Second-tier exchanges in countries with better shareholder... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity by Karen G. Mills (MBA 1977) Palgrave Macmillan Small businesses are the biggest job creators and offer a path to the American Dream. But for many, it is difficult to get the capital... View Details
  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

non-American CEO, aims to reinvigorate the medical device maker's growth by focusing on emerging markets, therapy innovation, and creative business models. In 2012, budget constraints in mature economies, the lack of new medical therapies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

Keepers of the Flame

the right over some of the world's great capitals to host the Games' one-hundredth anniversary. From his sixth floor office, Frazier overlooks the Georgia Dome, an important Games venue, and Ted Turner's Cable News Network headquarters.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

shocks to borrowers' collateral, which affect firms' ability to raise capital if agency and information problems are significant (Ben S. Bernanke and Mark Gertler, 1989). Or it can stem from shocks to bank capital, which affects the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

is being abandoned by the two remaining large capital exporters—the U.K. and Japan—that had maintained similar regimes. The conundrum facing policymakers is how to reconcile mounting pressures for increased tax burdens on foreign activity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812096-PDF-ENG Hayman Capital Management Robin Greenwood, Julie Messina, and Jared DourdevilleHarvard Business School Case 212-091 In late December 2011, Hayman View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

in the month of July. A sudden drop in capital market prices for an asset class can be caused by news affecting fundamental values or by a widespread liquidity shock. The implication of a shock to fundamental value is that the price drop... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

ones. For example, the two Mars missions launched in 1998 were given a budget of only half that of Mars Pathfinder, well before anyone knew how Pathfinder would fare. As one NASA executive remarked, "It was like being in the Olympic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2021 (Revised November 2022)
  • Case

Community Solutions

By: Brian Trelstad and Tom Quinn
Community Solutions was an anti-homelessness nonprofit founded in 2011 after protagonist Rosanne Haggerty grew frustrated with the limited impact of traditional housing and outreach strategies. It set an ambitious goal, reached in some partner communities, of ending... View Details
Keywords: Change; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Communication; Communication Strategy; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Social Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Capital Budgeting; Capital Markets; Country; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Housing; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Mission and Purpose; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Opportunities; Social Enterprise; Nonprofit Organizations; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Societal Protocols; Poverty; Welfare; Well-being; System; Equality and Inequality; Consulting Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States; New York (city, NY); Florida; Texas
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  • 27 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

between government revenues and spending. “Every company and household here and abroad will ultimately be affected by the unabated and accelerating gap between government revenues and spending.” There is a great deal of confusion in the popular media about the level of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff