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- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
which other online upstarts such as Amazon.com changed retail and Square changed the small business payments business. A few factors account for the rapid growth of the entrants. First, institutional debt and equity View Details
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Building the Water Cube Robert Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, and Dilyana KaradzhovaHarvard Business School Case 410-054 Arup, an engineering firm, collaborated with PTW Architects and China Construction Design Institute to develop a design... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
characteristics and fixed effects. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16294 Law and Finance c. 1900 Authors:Aldo Musacchio Abstract How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
Brochet, Francois, and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract—We examine which independent directors are held accountable when investors sue firms for financial- and disclosure-related fraud. Investors can name... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom By: Chernenko, Sergey, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—Many have argued that overoptimistic thinking on the part of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets Authors:Pol Antras, Mihir Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines how costly financial contracting and weak View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
case:http://hbr.org/search/211107-PDF-ENG Jim Johnson's Re-election to the Goldman Sachs Board Srinivasan, Suraj, and Kelly BakerHarvard Business School Case 113-050 The case presents the opposition by a leading institutional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
2017 reveals that customer compatibility affects financial performance. Branches with more divergent customers grow deposits more slowly than branches with less divergent customers. Institutions serving customer bases with more dispersed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
raised Audax Group's first fund, and are not able personally to finance the purchase, which would require approximately $30 million. They must decide whether to go through with the purchase, and how to finance it, keeping in mind any issues such an investment would... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
PublicationsSpanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Juan Alcácer and Paul Ingram Publication:American Journal of Sociology (forthcoming). Abstract Global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
institution was able to successfully restructure and emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, challenging conventional views that a financial firm could not survive bankruptcy proceedings as a going concern. A diverse group of private View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Kingdom's National Health Service. We show that low levels of structural closure (i.e., structural holes) in a change agent's network aid the initiation and adoption of changes that diverge from the institutional status quo but hinder the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
of the Private Capital Research Institute By: Lerner, Josh, and Leslie Jeng Abstract—Private markets are becoming an increasingly important way of financing rapidly growing and mature firms, and private View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
South or as the only stop-gap preventing a breakdown in the international system. This article analyzes how the WTO has sought legitimacy for itself and for the underlying institution of free trade in the midst of questions regarding its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
the airline to work with the court to restructure and unload a significant amount of its debt, giving an iconic company "a second bite of the apple," says Gilson. An unabashed advocate of Chapter 11 and debt restructuring, Gilson is an expert in the legal... View Details
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
experience as a policy maker—as well as 25 years of experience as an investor and small business owner—to the U.S. Competitiveness Project at Harvard Business School. Mills left the SBA last summer and accepted a two-year fellowship at... View Details
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
of capital markets in fostering such convergence through, for example, cross-border listings and global institutional investor activism. The software industry offers a unique setting to test the role of... View Details
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
quite limited. The best path forward involves extensive experimentation and careful evaluation. Publisher's link: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo18508109.html August 2013 Advances in Strategic Management The Effect of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
meant making quick, difficult staffing decisions when some of her colleagues weren't able to grow with the company. "It took a long time to get funding," she continued, recalling that she was eight months pregnant when she made her initial, unsuccessful... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
George Serafeim, and David Wood Abstract—A new generation of corporate reporting-integrated reporting-is emerging that will help investors and other key stakeholders such as employees, customers, suppliers, and NGOs develop a deeper and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne