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  • August 2004
  • Article

Capital Controls, Risk and Liberalization Cycles

By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
The paper presents an overlapping-generations model where agents vote on whether to open or close the economy to international capital flows. Political decisions are shaped by the risk over capital and labor returns. In an open economy, the capitalists (old) completely... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Development Economics; Voting; Risk and Uncertainty; Cash Flow; Saving; Investment; Economy; Wages
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  • 17 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Money Isn’t Everything: The Dos and Don’ts of Motivating Employees

reviews. That might mean a reward for an employee whose values stood out, even if they didn’t necessarily flow directly to a bottom line measurement. “Most great companies will have elements of subjective... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • Program

Leading Professional Service Firms

clients and motivate staff, build a strong vision and implement an effective strategy, and employ the fiscal discipline to maintain a sound bottom line and maximize enterprise value. Details Design and implement effective strategies that... View Details
Keywords: Professional Services; Professional Services
  • 19 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 19

investigate nine open source programming contests in which 875 software programmers submit over 4.7 million lines of code. We conduct our analysis at the individual level and identify how programmers gain the ability to adopt and invent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

on average, more valuable—they are more clinically effective; have higher patent citations; lead to more revenue and to higher stock market value. Using variation in the expansion of Medicare prescription drug coverage, we show that firms respond to a plausibly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2019 (Revised January 2020)
  • Case

Dulcie Madden (A)—Growth or Exit?

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Christopher Payton and Shweta Bagai
This is part of a three-case series that follows Dulcie Madden's journey as a founder over five years. Case (A) is about managing growth and cash flow; Case (B) is about the exit decision and conditions on a sale; Case (C) shows Madden dealing with adversity and the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Family; Family Conflicts; Founders' Agreements; Growth And Development; Hardware; VC; Scaling; Start-up; Female Ceo; Risk Assessment; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Equity; Cash Flow; Success; Failure; Acquisition; Business Model; Information Technology; Valuation; Family and Family Relationships; Information Infrastructure; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; United States
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  • Web

Students on the Job Market - Doctoral

and trade flows of dual-use goods respond to changes in the security environment over time. To put structure on the national security externality, we introduce military procurement into a trade network model and add a military contest to... View Details
  • Research Summary

Managing the Advantages and Tradeoffs of Collaborative Structures

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

To solve complex problems, organizations must both collect facts and use them to solve problems. In one study, my coauthors and I show that increased connectivity—measured as network... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Human Behavior; Performance; Virtual Work; Hybrid Work; Office Space; Workplace Design; Communication; Social and Collaborative Networks; Behavior; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Leadership; Management
  • 14 Mar 2023
  • In Practice

What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

private equity subscription lines—that is, lines secured by VC and private equity fund commitments but ones used to fund investments in the short- to mid-term in lieu of capital call. It appears that this unusual specialized business... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

within markets: When sentiment is high, future returns are low on relatively difficult to arbitrage and difficult to value stocks. Private capital flows appear to be one mechanism by which sentiment spreads across markets and forms global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

The Railroads: The First Big Business - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

of 1866 noted, “So considerable is the existing commerce, and so rapidly on the increase that competent railway authority expresses the belief that within less than the five years from the opening a single track will be inadequate to the business View Details
  • Web

Profiles - MBA

DUNSTER 2020 Cohort 1 Alex Wendland "If you build it, they will come"—great line for a movie, but a bad line for a startup. As an engineer I wish it was true, but I know there are other skills needed.... View Details
  • 22 Feb 2018
  • Book

The New History of American Capitalism

infrastructure for transactional activity, new scholarship asks what forces shape modern patterns of economic activity and how those patterns sort people and resources. Instead of reproducing conventional dichotomies, current historians of American capitalism contest... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

research costs, cut across multiple expense line items in the Statement of Activity and Cash Flows . Expenses (in millions) 766 FY18 821 FY19 831 FY20 779 FY21 908 FY22 Expenses Components 47% Salaries &... View Details
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

will be required about cleaning and sanitizing. Management effectiveness at controlling numbers and flow of customers and enforcement of local requirements, such as requiring customers to wear masks when not eating, will impact the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • Web

Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Small Business Outcomes and Expectations (pdf) , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020. With Alexander Bartik, Marianne Bertrand, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, and Michael Luca. Workplace Knowledge Flows (pdf) ,... View Details
  • 16 Oct 2015
  • Blog Post

HBS and the Arts

company.  I applied my newfound knowledge on process flow to help senior staff redraft their procedures for receiving incoming property, among several other key operations. I worked to understand the existing process by shadowing and... View Details
  • Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

research here , and Jeffrey’s other research here . More Info Loan types and the bank lending channel By: Victoria Ivashina , Luc Laeven & Enrique Moral-Benito MAR 2022 There are four main types of commercial credit: asset-based loans, cash View Details
  • 11 Mar 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

controversial policies or unpopular leaders, or make an oppressive regime seem tolerant. There’s also a fine line between influential outreach and propaganda that leaves audiences feeling manipulated, Ofek says. However, the right... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism
  • 16 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

and Ester Faia explore the unraveling of GVCs and related disruptions to money flows caused by the coronavirus. Their paper is titled Pandemics Fragilities: The Double-Coincidence of a Halt in Hyper-specialized GVC and the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne