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  • June 2014
  • Simulation

Balanced Scorecard Simulation

By: V.G. Narayanan
In this multi-player simulation, students experience the benefits and challenges of using a scorecard to implement strategic initiatives and monitor firm performance. Small teams of students work together to choose a strategy for their company, create a strategy map,... View Details
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    California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition Policy

    In the decades before World War II, U.S. antitrust law was anything but settled. Considerable pressure for antitrust revision came from the states. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to... View Details

    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    The U.S. Experiment with Fair Trade Laws: State Police Powers, Federal Antitrust, and the Politics of 'Fairness,' 1890-1938

    By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
    Prior to the Great Depression and President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs, considerable pressure for antitrust revision came from trade associations of independent proprietors. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Fairness; Laws and Statutes; Supply and Industry; Business and Government Relations
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    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    The Issuance and Design of Sustainability-linked Loans

    By: Maria Loumioti and George Serafeim
    Sustainability-linked loans (i.e., syndicated loans for which pricing is linked to a sustainability performance indicator) have rapidly evolved into a significant private debt product. We find that sustainability-linked lending has been available mostly to borrowers... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Credit Products; Loan Contracts; Loans; Corporate Finance; Credit Risk; Environment; ESG; ESG Ratings; Climate Change; Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Risk and Uncertainty; Credit
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    • 30 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors

    Keywords: by Sharon P. Katz; Financial Services
    • 24 Feb 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?

    all, if the government charges the right price for bearing the credit risk of its guarantee, the effect on mortgage rates is likely to be small. Second, the government guarantee proposals that involve private financial firms are likely to... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
    • 06 Nov 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: November 6

    Science (forthcoming) Abstract While monitoring and regulation can be used to combat socially costly unethical conduct, their intended targets are often able to avoid regulation or hide their behavior. This surrenders at least part of the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • November 2000
    • Case

    Clust.com: Dream More and Pay Less

    Clust is a French group-buying Web site. Instead of marketing products to consumers, Clust is marketing aggregated consumer demands to manufacturers. Consequently, beyond the usual act of choosing among predefined alternatives, consumers are expected to bring up their... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Marketing
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    • February 2011 (Revised September 2013)
    • Case

    Sarvajal: Water for All

    By: John D. Macomber and Mona Sinha
    Entrepreneur wrestles with business model using SMS and RFID technology, franchising, and leasing to rapidly grow off-the-grid water purification business without subsidies. The company seeks to provide potable water services to rural and urban India where the public... View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Model; Communication Technology; Private Sector; Social Entrepreneurship; Cost Management; Rural Scope; Emerging Markets; Infrastructure; Problems and Challenges; Information Infrastructure; India
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    • October 2014
    • Article

    Good Cop, Bad Cop: Complementarities Between Debt and Equity in Disciplining Management

    By: Alexander Guembel and Lucy White
    In this paper we examine how the quantity of information generated about firm prospects can be improved by splitting a firm's cash flow into a "safe" claim (debt) and a "risky" claim (equity). The former, being relatively insensitive to upside risk, provides a... View Details
    Keywords: Information; Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Corporate Finance
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    • 14 Aug 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: August 14, 2007

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-005.pdf Can Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    The Value of Descriptive Analytics: Evidence from Online Retailers

    By: Ron Berman and Ayelet Israeli
    Does the adoption of descriptive analytics impact online retailer performance, and if so, how? We use the synthetic difference-in-differences method to analyze the staggered adoption of a retail analytics dashboard by more than 1,500 e-commerce websites, and we find an... View Details
    Keywords: Descriptive Analytics; Big Data; Synthetic Control; E-commerce; Online Retail; Difference-in-differences; Martech; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science; Performance; Retail Industry
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    • 13 Mar 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions

    Keywords: by Craig J. Chapman & Thomas J. Steenburgh
    • 07 Aug 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: August 7, 2007

    community and local entrepreneurs in India's software industry. We find that entrepreneurs located outside software hubs—in cities where monitoring and information flow on prospective clients is harder—rely significantly more on diaspora... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • November–December 2022
    • Article

    The Value of Descriptive Analytics: Evidence from Online Retailers

    By: Ron Berman and Ayelet Israeli
    Does the adoption of descriptive analytics impact online retailer performance, and if so, how? We use the synthetic difference-in-differences method to analyze the staggered adoption of a retail analytics dashboard by more than 1,500 e-commerce websites, and we find an... View Details
    Keywords: Descriptive Analytics; Big Data; Synthetic Control; E-commerce; Online Retail; Difference-in-differences; Martech; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science; Performance; Marketing; Retail Industry
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      The Value of Descriptive Analytics: Evidence from Online Retailers - Marketing Science

      Does the adoption of descriptive analytics impact online retailer performance, and if so, how? We use the synthetic difference-in-differences method to analyze the staggered adoption of a retail analytics dashboard by more than 1,500 e-commerce websites, and we... View Details
      • June 2018 (Revised July 2023)
      • Case

      John Chambers, Cisco, and China: Upgrading a Golden Shield

      By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean
      This case examines the role of Cisco led by John Chambers in facilitating web filtering in China. It begins by tracing the origins of Cisco as a pioneer of networking equipment. John Chambers, who had worked as a sales manager at IBM and Wang Laboratories, joined Cisco... View Details
      Keywords: Cisco; Internet and the Web; Governance Controls; Ethics; Rights; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Technology Industry; China
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      • Working Paper

      Covenant-Light Contracts and Creditor Coordination

      By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
      In 2015, 70% of newly issued leveraged loans had weaker enforcement features, called covenant-light or "cov-lite"; this is nearly a three-time increase in cov-lite issuance compared to a previous peak in 2007. We evaluate whether this development can be attributed to... View Details
      Keywords: Credit Cycles; Loan Contracts; Debt Covenants; Contracts; Financing and Loans; Credit; Borrowing and Debt
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      • 17 Feb 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

      and the paramedic. In a way, top management loses power over its employees. In gray zones involving material pursuits—such as when a clothing item that could have been sold at a higher price to a customer is kept hidden until it becomes... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 30 Apr 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: April 30

      that takes into consideration a variety of customer specific characteristics to set optimal pricing for quotations. On "go live" day, the sales force "is up in arms" requesting that their "special customer... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne