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- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
technology utilized domestically. As a consequence, under a carbon tariff, foreign market share is non-monotonic in emissions price, and global emissions conditionally decrease. Without a carbon tariff, foreign share monotonically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
GDP, that is, total aggregate output, the market value of all final goods and services produced. In a sense, all that you (as a country) have is the total output that you produce in a year—your GDP. Sometimes people think if everyone... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Innovation Authors:Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Financial Economics Abstract We find that VC-backed firms receiving their initial investment in hot markets are more likely to go bankrupt, but conditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
School Note 208-037 Provides the background and high-level situation of private equity in emerging markets as of the end of 2006. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208037 PlaNet Finance:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
or local companies. It was also the sheer spread of businesses it owned beyond packaged consumer products, including African trading, plantations, specialty chemicals, paper and packaging, transport, advertising, and market research... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Does 'Liking' Lead to Loving? The Impact of Joining a Brand’s Social Network on Marketing Outcomes By: John, Leslie K., Oliver Emrich, Sunil Gupta, and Michael I.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1638429 Accounting Scholarship That Advances Professional Knowledge and Practice Author:Robert S. Kaplan Abstract Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
learning and governance process. Implications for organization and leadership development and corporate governance are discussed. Read the paper: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?chapterid=1937908&show=pdf Markets as Networks:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
changes greatly reduced the canal's economic value to the United States: the dieselization of the railroads, the Interstate Highway System, and the rise of California as a market for its own natural resources. The first two meant that by... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
years. Our aim was to come up with an objective measure of performance—one that was unrelated to arguments about market power, monopoly position, or predatory tactics. This meant we excluded any consideration of measures like View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal
economics, and market design, was that the right was structured as what he terms a Before and After Right of First Refusal (BA-ROFR). The right holder is offered an initial deal by the asset owner—the... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
generally is at a tipping point, with category killers being the first significant casualties of the (r)evolution that is occurring. Retail store asset productivity has been in decline since the start of the recession in 2007, and we... View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
startup. Liquidation follows and, along with it, a contentious auction of assets to pay creditors. “There are many things that entrepreneurs can do to fail well—in ways that preserve their relationships and integrity—and to position... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
calculated and is used as the vector of market capitalization weights. With these market weights (w) and the given covariance matrix, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
show that, even in a world with perfect capital markets and without differences in innate ability, wealthy parents invest, on average, more in their offspring than poorer ones. As a result, persistence of economic status is higher at the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
skipping class. If you decide to skip work—please call in and let us know, so we can make sure your job is covered.'" Trained labor, it turns out, is a very valuable asset even in a land of 1.3 billion-plus people. "Chu's... View Details
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
the risk-adjusted balance sheet, which shows the sensitivity of the enterprise's assets and liabilities to external "shocks." At the national level, the sectors of an economy are viewed as interconnected portfolios of assets,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
estimates around 10 can match observed risk premia for the wealthiest stockholders across sets of test assets that include the 25 Fama and French size and value portfolios, the market portfolio, bond... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- December 2019 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
Carroll Family Farms
By: Forest Reinhardt, Christian Godwin and James Weber
The Carroll Family, U.S. pig and grain farmers, needed to decide what to plant, whether to purchase land, emphasize pigs or grain, or other investments.
Seven family members across three generations owned and operated Carroll Family Farms (CFF). In... View Details
Seven family members across three generations owned and operated Carroll Family Farms (CFF). In... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Operations; Strategy; Family Business; Asset Management; Globalization; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States; Brazil; China
Reinhardt, Forest, Christian Godwin, and James Weber. "Carroll Family Farms." Harvard Business School Case 720-005, December 2019. (Revised March 2021.)
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
the more complex the legislation, the more difficulty the market has in assessing the impact of these bills. Consistent with the legislator incentive mechanism, the more concentrated the legislator's interest in the industry, the more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne