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  • 20 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business with Structured Finance

In the wake of the financial crisis, many once-esoteric investment terms have become a familiar part of our vocabulary. The role of structured finance securities such as collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), for example, and the part played by ratings View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 07 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

quickly to produce and air new advertising creative that tapped into the rapidly changing zeitgeist. The result, the Retail Heroes campaign, featured CEO McMillon Zooming in remotely from home to thank the one million Walmart front line... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

system to an entirely new level," he warns. But Moss has a fix: The federal government should slap tough new regulations on all firms that pose "systemic risk" —the risk that a failure of one institution... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • Research Summary

The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management

In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details

  • 22 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

elements do not translate well from manufacturing and what challenges exist in a unique setting, such as this. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-001.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsNew Schools for New Orleans 2008... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis, private equity firms have higher quality accruals and a lower propensity to manage income than public equity firms. We further find that public equity firms report more conservatively, in line with their greater... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

therefore, to see how this law will be implemented in practice. In addition, there are likely to be some unintended negative consequences. Will the new derivatives rules pull in various industrial companies that will now have to use... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 04 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

of our lives, we just deprive ourselves of a very important input." Christensen explores the synergies between economic logic and personal conviction in his new book, How Will You Measure Your Life? Coauthored with James Allworth (HBS MBA... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

and build and manage new systems. Throughout, the HBS community worked together to overcome the complexities inherent in this hybrid approach. Students Arrive More than 9,300 applicants sought a place in the MBA Program and nearly 800... View Details
  • 08 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

distribution, where new startups fail within the first three years following entry. This churning emphasizes a new mechanism through which financial sector reforms impact product markets. It is not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2006
  • Working Paper

The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination

By: Eric J. Van den Steen

This paper studies the effects of open disagreement on motivation and coordination. It shows how, in the presence of differing priors, motivation and coordination impose conflicting demands on the allocation of authority, leading to a trade-off between the... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Governance Controls; Organizational Culture; Agency Theory; Conflict and Resolution; Motivation and Incentives
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  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

and investors and borrowers will keep on believing that they've been hoodwinked and fleeced. Moreover, he points out that only a thorough repair of the agencies that handle securities and banking regulation can prevent View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

harder. It also means the day-to-day business may be less fun. Further, as in all evolving industries, the risks are not apparently clear in this new world of securitization. The second main trend has been in the environmental arena from... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate
  • 25 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 25

  Publications 2006 pub Leviathan Evolving: New Varieties of State Capitalism in Brazil and Beyond By: Musacchio, Aldo, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

report their own violations. In this study, we examine how regulatory enforcement activities influence organizations' decisions to self-police. We created a comprehensive dataset for the "Audit Policy," a United States Environmental Protection View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 3

social cues from reputation stakeholders and from prominent third-party bureaucratic actors can serve as symbolic signals that can affect the decision making of regulatory agencies. Our findings suggest that while social cues from reputation stakeholders and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Step Change

use a smartphone better than we do,” Shousha says. The announcement that Enan would lead 500 Global’s first office on the African continent came in tandem with news the firm would partner with the IT Industry Development View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
  • 21 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

Online Video Harvard Business School Case 709-447 In late March 2007, CBS faces an important decision about its online video strategy. A just-announced joint online distribution venture between NBC Universal and News Corporation (Fox) is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate a firm in the intermediate goods sector, entrepreneurs must develop a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

Are the world's poor, who individually have less than $5 a day in disposable income, a viable market for new goods and services? Consider the fact that there are four billion people around the globe that fit this description and you have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne