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- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
in preferred equity from the United States government via the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Yet, the stock had continued to slide in early 2009. In late February, the company announced that it would convert as much as $50 billion... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice
the growth of the young American economy. Book credit-so called after the account book in which a storekeeper would record credit or barter purchases-was easily the largest category of pre-industrial credit. The volume of this invisible... View Details
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
How long can the real estate boom last? No one knows the answer, but this is the most exciting time in real estate during my almost thirty years in the business. The world is awash with liquidity, and real estate is capturing much of it for three reasons. First,... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
directors. Controlling for these effects and other ratings determinants, we find that firms with lower residual ratings have higher subsequent citations in corruption news events. They also report higher future sales growth and show a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
Business School Case 215-026 Longbow Capital Partners Longbow Capital Partners is a value-oriented long/short hedge fund focused on stocks in the energy sector. In January 2011, Longbow had invested in NiSource, a Fortune 500 company that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
the future of the global market system. In keeping with the School's learning model, we provided participants with a "case"—this one consisting of the World Bank's scenario for global economic progress, looking toward 2030. While cheered by the prospect of... View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
research at NASA. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/414057-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-048 Valuing Yahoo! in 2013 In late July 2013, Danielle Engle, Managing Director of Clairemont Capital, was contemplating what to do about a large investment her... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
framework of Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis and apply it to two unique perspectives of an identical problem. The students will then use this DCF approach to rationalize observed stock prices, connecting the two, and further reconcile... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
century, the main objective of most risk management policies—from limited liability to bankruptcy law to a fixed exchange rate—was to encourage trade and investment and thus to facilitate economic growth by making investors and traders... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
Authors:Diego Comin, Mark Gertler, and Ana Maria Santacreu Abstract We develop a model in which innovations in an economy's growth potential are an important driving force of the business cycle. The framework shares the emphasis of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Malloy, and Felicia Marston Abstract Comparing two snapshots of the historical I/B/E/S database of research analyst stock recommendations, taken in 2002 and 2004 but each covering the same time period 1993-2002, we identify 54,729 ex-post... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
international capital flows net of government debt are positively correlated with growth and allocated according to the neoclassical predictions; (2) international capital flows net of official aid flows, which are mostly accounted as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Phillip Michael Strazzulla
fifth grade. He and his brother would listen to the adults talking about investments and became intrigued. Already showing an entrepreneurial side, Strazzulla made money mowing lawns and trading baseball cards. But after he made his first View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
with small companies looking for help, struggles to define a growth plan for the future. The company, started as a class project in HBS' FIELD 3 course, is assessing three growth paths: shifting its target... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
like a win-win for both parties. [An HBS Bulletin article in 2007 gave a detailed accounting of GoLite’s founding and eventual trademark sale to Timberland.] Yet it was not to be. The following year, as the Great Recession began to take hold, Timberland’s View Details
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
insider stock purchases are significantly greater after SOX than before. Abnormal trading volumes around filings of insider sales are also greater post-SOX on average, but stock returns are not more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217071-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-114 Flatiron School In late 2016, the founders of Flatiron School, a startup offering 12-week coding bootcamps, are formulating their growth... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
potential for ecommerce growth in the country which relies (on) a lot of machine learning and AI the growth rate through the new economy prospects is just starting to take off here in Bangladesh.” Jacob... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
"In the United States, we embrace new technology with a huge amount of enthusiasm," he observes. "We develop a lexicon, rush to invest large sums of money and energy, and a phenomenon is born! Then, after a year of unsustainable stratospheric View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
work was under way to repair damage done by February's 6.8 magnitude earthquake. Despite this activity — to say nothing of the high-octane pace of Starbucks' growth — Smith was calm and seemingly unflappable, quite the opposite of the... View Details