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  • Research Summary

The Real Effects of Capital Controls: Financial Constraints, Exporters, and Firm Investment

By: Laura Alfaro
In aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008–2009, emerging-market governments have increasingly restricted foreign capital inflows. The data show a statistically significant drop in cumulative abnormal returns for Brazilian firms following capital control... View Details

    Why Do Firms Respond to Environmental Regulation the Way That They Do?

    A regulator’s ability to incentivize environmental improvement among firms is a vital lever in achieving long-term sustainability. How a firm will respond to such regulation depends, in part, on the expected cost of noncompliance, which is a product of the stated... View Details

    • Research Summary

    The Role of IT in Firm Scope Choice: Diversification or Specialization?

    The use of IT can have two, actually opposing, effects on product diversification depending on how technologies are used by the firm. On the one hand, some uses of IT can increase specialization because they allow customers to research and order products remotely,... View Details

    • 02 Jun 2017
    • News

    Venture capital’s gender gap is costly for firms and the economy

    • October 2021 (Revised May 2023)
    • Case

    Engine No.1: An Impact Investing Firm Engages with ExxonMobil

    By: Mark Kramer, Shawn Cole, Vikram S. Gandhi and T. Robert Zochowski
    ExxonMobil, the world's fifth largest source of carbon emissions, remained committed to aggressively expanding its oil & gas business despite global warming. During the COVID pandemic this strategy resulted in massive losses as the price and demand for oil declined. ... View Details
    Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Global Warming; Impact Investment Funds; Hedge Fund Activism; Leadership Development; Business Model; Renewable Energy; Resource Allocation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Governing and Advisory Boards
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    • 24 Jul 2014
    • Op-Ed

    Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

    in restricting the ability of firms to locate where it makes sense for them to be, but rather to create tax reform that makes US firms more competitive. Chairman Wyden, Ranking Member Hatch, and Members of... View Details
    Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical
    • 20 Jun 2016
    • Working Paper Summaries

    What Else Do Shareholders Want? Shareholder Proposals Contested by Firm Management

    Keywords: by Eugene F. Soltes, Suraj Srinivasan, and Rajesh Vijayaraghavan
    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Securing Jobs or the New Protectionism?: Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms

    By: Mihir A. Desai
    Tax policy toward American multinational firms would appear to be approaching a crossroads. The presumed linkages between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; Taxation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; United States
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    • 06 Aug 2024
    • Cold Call Podcast

    How EdTech Firm Coursera Is Incorporating GenAI into Its Products and Services

    Keywords: Re: Suraj Srinivasan; Education; Technology
    • 15 Jun 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

    “which is a fancy way of referring to all of the things you don’t have as a new company—products, knowledge, connections, resources.” The most common and effective way to make up for that lack is to find someone who can help you overcome it—most often a venture capital... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking
    • July 2022
    • Case

    Yinglan Tan: Scaling a Venture Capital Firm in Southeast Asia

    By: Josh Lerner and Richard Zhu
    Yinglan Tan considered the future of his young Singapore-based venture capital firm. On the one hand, the intuition that was behind the initial creation of Insignia in 2017 had been proven correct. The venture capital market in Southeast Asia had grown rapidly, driven... View Details
    Keywords: E-commerce; Scalability; Globalized Markets and Industries; Venture Capital; International Finance; Growth and Development; Expansion
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    • 14 Jul 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival

    Keywords: by Oliver Falck, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich & William R. Kerr; Manufacturing
    • 26 May 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets

    Are international firms that interact with U.S. capital, labor, and product markets more likely to be more transparent than companies without those interactions? In this e-mail interview, HBS Suraj Srinivasan delves into a recent working... View Details
    Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
    • February 2009 (Revised April 2011)
    • Course Overview Note

    Growing, Financing, and Managing Family and Closely Held Firms

    By: Belen Villalonga
    This note provides instructors with an overview of the course, its module structure and its unifying framework. The note contains information that should only be available to instructors, and should not be distributed to students. A shorter version of the note for... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Corporate Finance
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    • Mar 2008
    • Conference Presentation

    Shamed and Able: How Firms Respond to Information Disclosure

    By: Michael W. Toffel
    Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Information
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    • October 1997 (Revised September 2004)
    • Background Note

    Relationships Among Siblings and Cousins in a Family Firm

    By: John A. Davis
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    • Article

    The Entrepreneurial M-Form: Strategic Integration in Global Media Firms

    By: T. R. Eisenmann and J. L. Bower
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Integration; Global Range; Business Ventures; Media; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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    • 23 Jan 2017
    • News

    Big pay raises bring big benefits, Quincy firm decides

    • 17 Jul 2018
    • Podcast

    Ep 9: How firms are building strategy around AI

    As businesses grapple with advancing artificial intelligence they must make strategic choices. Senior McKinsey Partner Scott Rutherford finds that the best companies ask: How can we delight customers? Which functions can we trust to the technology and how will employee... View Details
    • 16 Jun 2017
    • News

    Gibson Brands Transforms Guitar-making into Diverse 'Music Lifestyle' Firm

    Keywords: Manufacturing