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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
We examine in this paper the differential response of establishments to the global financial crisis, with particular emphasis on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide dataset that reports the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Local Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Production; Performance Evaluation; Networks
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  • January – March 2012
  • Article

Bond Risk, Bond Return Volatility, and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

By: Luis M. Viceira
This paper explores time variation in bond risk, as measured by the covariation of bond returns with stock returns and with consumption growth, and in the volatility of bond returns. A robust stylized fact in empirical finance is that the spread between the yield on... View Details
Keywords: Bonds; Volatility; Forecasting and Prediction; Interest Rates; Inflation and Deflation; Investment Return; Risk and Uncertainty; Currency Exchange Rate; Cash Flow; Stocks
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  • January 2009 (Revised April 2009)
  • Case

Disaster in April: The Obligations of Kelly Construction

By: John D. Macomber, Christopher M. Gordon and Ben Creo
A construction company experiences a crane accident with multiple fatalities. The CEO, a client, and an employee must make choices to meet the company's obligations. Set in 2006, the case looks at the choices faced by board members of a museum that is an important... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Family Business; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Contracts; Crisis Management; Construction Industry
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  • October 2009
  • Article

Making Time Off Predictable—and Required

By: Leslie Perlow and Jessica L. Porter
People in professional services believe a 24/7 work ethic is essential for getting ahead—and so they work 60-plus hours a week and stay tethered to their BlackBerrys. This perpetuates a vicious cycle: Responsiveness breeds the need for more responsiveness. When people... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Performance Expectations; Performance Productivity; Work-Life Balance; Service Industry
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  • May 2007
  • Article

Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance

By: Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval and Jeremy Stein
We explore the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Investment; Policy; Corporate Finance
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  • 2005
  • Other Unpublished Work

Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance

By: Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval and Jeremy Stein
We explore the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Behavior; Stocks; Mergers and Acquisitions; Policy; Investment; Financial Institutions; Equity; Corporate Finance
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  • 26 Jan 2018
  • HBS Seminar

John Helveston, Boston University

  • 29 Sep 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Kira Fabrizio, Boston University

    The New Market Conundrum

    Brand-new markets are like the wormholes of science fiction, where the usual rules of time and space do not apply. When a market has just been born, the forces of competition there are constantly in flux, it's unclear who your customers really are, and conventional... View Details

    • Web

    ICHOM - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    framework, Stefan Larsson at the Boston Consulting Group and Martin Ingvar at the Karolinska Institute were exploring the potential of outcomes measurement themselves while studying the impact of Sweden’s extensive disease registries.... View Details
    • 16 May 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    The Simple Economics of Open Source

    also draw an analogy to academe, writing that commercial interests can easily preclude creativity and intellectual exploration if programmers become too fixated on exciting, short-term commercial goals. Puzzles For The Future The open... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology
    • Profile

    Drew Keller

    attend HBS to better understand how firms operate, what systems and assumptions underpin their decisions, and how we can rethink those assumptions to create a more equal and sustainable world. Coming to HBS is like... ...taking a break to think about my life plans,... View Details
    • 28 Sep 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: September 28, 2010

    of their corporate governance, placing them within the wider context of the economic and social history of Germany. Based on both quantitative data and archivally based case studies, this book explores how the relationship between the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 21 May 2015
    • Blog Post

    3 Ways to Fund Your HBS MBA

    Best For? Federal loans are the best for people who want to take advantage of fixed interest rates, perhaps because you are exploring a variety of career options or may need to pay off loans over a longer period of time. Because Federal... View Details
    • 01 Oct 1999
    • News

    Banking on Success

    even a trip to Clinton, Iowa, was exciting to me. There was the lure of exploring a new place, going someplace I'd never been before. After those early years of 100-hour workweeks and countless trips to the Clintons of the world, travel -... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
    • Web

    Online Business Courses for Organizations | HBS Online

    Explore Corporate Solutions Academic Solutions Supplement your curriculum with Harvard Business School faculty-led business courses. Explore Academic Solutions 98% improved their negotiation skills, 84% have... View Details
    • 07 May 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Art of Haggling

    slice of the pie." The art of negotiation lies in simultaneously creating and claiming value, says Wheeler, who likens it to "riding two different horses at the same time." On the one hand, if we don't explore mutual... View Details
    Keywords: by Katie Johnston
    • 18 Dec 2006
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

    a mirror up to students and, with input from coaches and self-assessments, encourages them to move out of their comfort zone and explore the personal complexities of leadership. "The unit of analysis is themselves," says Sasser.... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 02 May 2025
    • Blog Post

    How to Work with Search Firms

    firm? Explore the Coach Directory to filter coaches by industry and function expertise. Search Firms Work for the Organization The most important thing to remember when engaging with an executive search firm is that they do not work for... View Details
    • 27 Aug 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Measuring and Understanding Hierarchy as an Architectural Element in Industry Sectors

    Keywords: by Jianxi Luo, Daniel E. Whitney, Carliss Y. Baldwin & Christopher L. Magee; Auto