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  • 13 Feb 2019
  • News

We’re All Going to Get Hacked

It’s looking for a particular pattern, probably a credit card pattern in this case, and didn’t find it. So it keeps on, every time it finds a new pathway—it just goes down it and marches down to the next computer, to the next computer, and then on and on. The View Details
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

they'd like to have some very low-risk assets like cash and fixed income and — rather than worry about the public-equity markets — barbell that with much higher-risk assets, such as private equity, real estate, and hedge funds. How would... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 03 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 3

risk managers, can become influential. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-068.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsNote: Net Cash, Share Repurchases and EPS Growth William E. Fruhan Jr. Harvard Business School Background Note 212-101 How companies with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans

power for more than 20 years). Vallée and Pérignon analyzed how the politicians used the loans—whether they had invested the money in equipment or services for the city, or used the cash to lower taxes for their constituents, or both. It... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

programs as a win-win-win scenario: compliance improves, regulators conserve enforcement resources, and firms save money. But this outcome can only be achieved if the self-regulatory activities of corporations can effectively substitute... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

12, 2012, BH Media Group, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, announced an offer to buy Media General's (MEG) newspaper division for $142 million in cash and provide debt financing to the struggling firm. Reactions from... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

proportion of their rising incomes, in marked contrast to Americans, who in recent years have saved almost none at all. Chinese corporations save an even larger proportion of their soaring profits. So plentiful are savings that, for the... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

whose role is to listen to and help resolve employees' work-related problems. It offers perspectives from two business experts who have opposing viewpoints on a family like corporate culture and on whether the People Support plan is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

companies in South Africa and abroad, and sheds a light on the harsh realities of corporate environments. Drawing on her years of experience and research, the author argues that many young Black professionals struggle early on in their... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

Sloan Management Review (forthcoming) Abstract Many people today in the information technology world and in corporate boardrooms are talking about "big data." Many believe that, for companies that get it right, big data will be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

developing fresh capabilities for organizations. Based on a study of all the programs offered by the business schools, consultancies, corporate universities, and online education providers, we analyze the advantages, and the constraints,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

taxing our companies on foreign income, which has led to dozens of companies moving their corporate headquarters offshore and American companies holding more than a trillion dollars of cash abroad rather... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

Drivers of Corporate Sustainability and Implications for Capital Markets: An International Perspective Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Publication:In The Landscape of Integrated Reporting, edited by Robert G. Eccles, Beiting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 23

high rates of return on corporate political investment, but evidence for this puzzle is largely descriptive in nature. We exploit the setting of the American Jobs Creation Act's passage in 2004 to provide more robust estimates of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

would continue hedging primarily with forward contracts, but in much higher volumes and at increasingly unfavorable rates, or to break with past practice and begin using foreign exchange option contracts. The decision would have consequences for EADS' profitability,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

interviewing techniques, term sheets—the kinds of things that people who start companies have to do.— Paul Marshall The second is forecasting cash flows, which is obviously not unique to entrepreneurs. We try to get students to recognize... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 11 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

entrepreneurs as completely formidable. "They're hungry. They're fearless. I remember recently being with a group of girls and thinking, 'Oh my God. I've got to cash out really soon because this is my competition.'" The Playbook... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

forthcoming Journal of International Economics Corporate Debt, Firm Size and Financial Fragility in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract— The post-Global Financial Crisis period shows a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

competitive strategy; (2) accounting analysis for representing the firm's business economics and strategy in its financial statements and for developing adjusted accounting measures of performance; (3) financial analysis for ratio analysis and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

Review 90, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2012) Abstract The article argues that U.S. taxation reform should reduce corporate taxes, incorporate an awareness of the global marketplace, and generate revenue-neutral incentives for innovation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne