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  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

society through a cultural change that had solidarity as its core value. In our sample alliances, this motivation was associated with a specific company type: family-owned businesses. These are companies controlled by an individual or a family, despite the existence of... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

    Luis M. Viceira

    Luis M. Viceira is the George E. Bates Professor in the Finance Unit  and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research, course development, and teaching focus on the areas of investment management... View Details

    Keywords: banking; education industry; financial services; nonprofit industry; retail financial services
    • 21 Sep 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

    that led to the financial crisis. And while the intricate details of pay plans don't evoke the outrage of multimillion-dollar paydays, curbing the risk-taking incentives embedded in those plans is key to resolving the current crisis and preventing another. That task... View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson
    • 04 Feb 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

    recognition with their partners to advance the mission, not their organizations. Q: Social entrepreneurship isn't just for NGOs, nonprofits, and philanthropists. What is the opportunity for corporate social entrepreneurship? A: My... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 28 Jul 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)

    headquarters maximize an organization's overall revenues by efficiently (and effectively) monitoring the desires of consumers representing a wide range of ethnicities and income levels, large families and singletons? Much has been written... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
    • 24 Jun 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: June 24, 2008

    Working Papers Firm-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences Authors: Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract We investigate, using firm-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • March 2018
    • Article

    Global Business over Time

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    This article explores how business enterprises have been powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism between 1840 and the present day. It also shows how global firms, emerging out of industrialized Western economies, created and co-created markets and ecosystems... View Details
    Keywords: Global; Multinational; Business History; Globalization; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Economic Systems
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    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    The Impact of Funds: An Evaluation of CDC 2004-12

    By: Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, Steve Dew and Dong Ik Lee
    CDC was founded in 1948 as part of the U.K. government's efforts to develop the economic resources of Britain's remaining colonies. Since then, CDC has pursued a series of strategies to "do good without losing money," as its original mission was phrased. Its approach... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Funds; Great Britain
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    • 24 Apr 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: April 24

    to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product.... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 24 Feb 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: February 24, 2009

    and has a more positive relationship to performance for organizations that perform more complex tasks. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-002.pdf   Cases & Course... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 11 Feb 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman

    magazine's fifty most powerful women in corporate America for the past two years, smiled and nodded knowingly. "Treat the appointment with your family like you would treat the appointment with your CEO," she counseled. "Put... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 19 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    $15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy

    analysis was tax filings made with the US Internal Revenue Service, which is the most comprehensive and reliable source of nonprofit financial information. Our financial data reflects the year prior to the one in which the Scott grant was... View Details
    Keywords: by Matthew Lee, Brian Trelstad, and Ethan Tran
    • 2015
    • Book

    MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
    Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads; shipping delays on clogged railways; and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent flyer,... View Details
    Keywords: United States; Railroad History; Airlines; Airline Industry; Air Transportation; Passenger Transportation; Cities; Urban Planning; Freighting; Change; Leadership; Public Policy; Change Leadership; Public Finance; Infrastructure; Policy; Technological Innovation; Change Management; Leading Change; Urban Development; Project Finance; Entrepreneurship; City; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Shipping Industry; Rail Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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    • 14 Dec 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation

    encouraged, but neither activity engages the unique skills and capabilities of business. Consider the typical corporate volunteer program. It almost invariably draws on the lowest common skills in a company by mobilizing people to do... View Details
    Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    • 01 Aug 2005
    • What Do You Think?

    Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

    companies have seen their companies' CEOs rewarded with bonuses, stock option megagrants, retroactive monetary awards for past performance, pensions, and other compensation that makes the annual income of even media personalities and the... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 01 Jan 2024
    • Blog Post

    Answers to Your Top Questions about Financial Aid at HBS

    picture when determining eligibility for our need-based scholarships. We will collect income tax information from the previous three years as well as other information about your assets, student debt, and... View Details
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Financing Payouts

    By: Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely and Martin Schmalz
    We study the extent to which firms rely on the capital markets to fund their payouts. We find that 42% of firms that pay out capital also initiate debt or equity issues in the same year, resulting in 32% of aggregate payouts being externally financed. Most firms with... View Details
    Keywords: Payout Policy; Financing Decisions; Debt Issues; Equity Issues; Capital Structure; Decision Making; Financing and Loans; Corporate Finance
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      Capitalism at Risk: How Companies Can Lead

      Q. Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism? A. Business, not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion,... View Details

      • 24 Jan 2024
      • Op-Ed

      Why Boeing’s Problems with the 737 MAX Began More Than 25 Years Ago

      older airplane models at the expense of all-new aircraft. Secondly, in 2001 Condit moved Boeing’s headquarters from its original home in Seattle to Chicago—all to gain $60 million in state and local tax credits over 20 years. With none of... View Details
      Keywords: by Bill George; Air Transportation; Transportation; Aerospace
      • 03 Jun 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: June 3, 2008

      China‘s income inequality has risen rapidly over that same time frame, Vietnam‘s has only grown moderately. Structural and socio-cultural determinants fail to account for these divergent pathways. Existing political variables are also... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace