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- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Schoar, Jialan Wang Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-024.pdf The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis, Zhi Huang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
don't hire armed guards to prevent the occasional nonbusiness use of copy machines, nor do you keep your company's cash in a filing cabinet. You protect each corporate resource in proportion to its value. The same principle applies to... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has said, "Nations talk. Cities act." D: Demand Management. Many policy suggestions include blanket restrictions on activity (let's have mileage caps) or pure supply-oriented interventions... View Details
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?
outside the United States. The cost to the American economy could be far greater than the cost of war.—John Quelch But now a deepening opposition to American foreign policy is threatening the long-term strength of these brands. And the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
grateful to Professor Nick Retsinas for supervising me in my HKS Policy Analysis Exercise; and Professor Rebecca Henderson had a great way of framing ethical challenges and decisions in LCA. “But I’d have to say that Nori Lietz left the... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
evaluate policies that change incentives for entry into self-employment. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51676 Short-Termism and Capital Flows By: Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
and economics in developing countries, examining how distribution of power impacts policy and social groups. "I don't think we can understand the effects of economic View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/916024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-077 Environmental Health No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516077-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-072 Government View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
retailers to determine shelf space and promotional activity. The new metric, cash flow productivity, captured the value of Pepsi's Direct-Store-Distribution (DSD) service and the strong attraction of its nationally advertised brands.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
Managers of public corporations sometimes need to be reminded that they work for shareholders. Without proper monitoring, managers may receive excess compensation or perks, or misuse free cash flow. Historically, poorly performing... View Details
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
businesses. They also distributed shares of the bank to the state governor or made a loan to the local state government—with the understanding that it most likely would not be repaid. A number of countries have experienced political... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
the optimal exchange-rate regime when developing countries can borrow internationally with local-currency-denominated debt. We find that, as local-currency-bond markets develop, a "pseudo-flexible regime," whereby a country accumulates reserves in conjunction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
restaurateur, broke, and with a wife and four young children at home, Rogers converted his aging Porsche into desperately needed cash to cinch the best deal he ever made — ownership of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream. It’s one of the stories... View Details
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307069 Note on U.S. Public Education Finance (B): Expenditures Harvard Business School Note 307-070 Describes the cost structure and spending policies of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
Abstract—The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
Non-Repatriation of Foreign Cash Negatively Affect U.S. Firms’ Operations? Evidence from Product Market Competitiveness By: Alhusaini, Badryah, Rick Laux, Henock Louis, and Anywhere Sikochi Abstract—Cash holdings provide the crucial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
Policy Author:David Moss Publication:Chap. 2 in Shared Responsibility, Shared Risk: Government, Markets and Social Policy in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Jacob Hacker and Ann O'Leary, 22-38. New York:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Symposium 2023: Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale
The overarching theme of the 2023 Annual Climate Symposium was “Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale”, exploring not only the existing climate solutions but also the crucial aspects of capital and policy deployment required to accelerate... View Details