Cash Distribution Policy - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Debora L. Spar

will prove to be most influential not in the Western industrialized world, but in places like Burma, or China, or Saudi Arabia. Q: What are the public policy implications in your description of this reoccurring give-and-take between... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

innovation qualities, and firm size affects innovation incentives. This framework allows us to analyze how different types of innovation contribute to economic growth and how the firm size distribution can have important consequences for... View Details

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

Asensio Associate professor in the School of Public Policy; director of the Data Science and Policy Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology Using AI to ensure an equitable distribution of EV infrastructure As... View Details

12 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

entrepreneurs. Another surprisingly small factor in the industry's development was concern about the environment and sustainable energy. Although government subsidies and other public policies helped jump start large-scale R&D in wind... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

cultural landscape after the Civil War. By the 1860s, the railroad industry had created a national network for the manufacture and distribution of industrial and consumer goods and, with it, the need for eye-catching, widespread... View Details

06 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

the past 30 years I had done considerable research on fossil fuel energy policy in the United States that has been published in several books, including Contrived Competition: Regulation and Deregulation in America; Business Management... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

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2.6 Sample Disciplinary Violations | MBA

way giving or receiving unpermitted aid on any exercise or exam, including distribution or use of notes by students without the explicit intention of having the notes serve as the basis for their own small group discussion Using... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

Water for Life

for reliable, affordable water service. Nearly two of every three gallons of water pumped through the dilapidated distribution system were lost or stolen. Desperate for a remedy, the Philippine government invited the private sector to... View Details

Keywords: Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

managers to distribute these cash flows to capital providers, both debt and equity holders, rather than reinvesting it in the firm. As I mentioned before, project finance resembles LBOs in this respect.... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

24 Jul 2014
Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

facilitate the expatriation of US corporations. Such transactions reflect the effects of policies and of the changing structure of multinational firms. From a policy perspective, the transactions highlight... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

choice is a complex issue, and that some conventional wisdom isn't always wise. For example, there are perfectly good reasons why a conservative long-term investor would hold more stocks and bonds than cash instruments such as... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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Launching Global Ventures - Course Catalog

uncertainty. Global ventures, or “born globals”, are enterprises that become distributed across multiple countries very early in their life cycle. For these businesses, globalization is a core component of their business model rather than... View Details

17 May 2016
First Look

May 17, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51070 The Impact of Mass Shootings on Gun Policy By: Luca, Michael, Deepak Malhotra, and Christopher Poliquin Abstract—There have been dozens of high-profile mass shootings in recent decades.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2019
News

Case Study: Building the Base

the beginning, but it gets easier. Are there any large deals to be made that could solve cash flow issues? —Johan Pensar (OPM 41, 2011) I think this is a clear example of mistaking a better product with market fit. Patel identified his... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

sudden rise of new entrants, especially Germany. The study shows that natural resource endowment is a poor explanatory variable for this geographical skewing. Public policy was a more important factor, although its impact was nuanced. The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

across disasters, rather than focusing on one disaster at a time, insurance-based policy reform may remain exceedingly difficult to achieve. Cases & Course MaterialsBlue Ocean or Stormy Waters? Buying Nix Check View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Feb 2019
News

We’re All Going to Get Hacked

point-of-sale systems at the retail stores. They had some policies that were interesting. One of the policies is, they cleared the POS systems every night. They’d wipe the hard drives, just in case someone... View Details

01 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing KnowHow, for Harvard Business. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Customers are the source of all cash flow. Organic growth depends on... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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Impact Stories - Business & Environment

both great financial and environmental returns." Angela Amos MBA 2014 | Shaping the Big Picture “I believe stakeholder engagement is necessary to address climate change. At work, I evaluate diverse perspectives to craft legally sound, fact-based View Details

10 May 2016
First Look

May 10, 2016

on average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic patent trolls. NPEs sue cash-rich firms—a one standard deviation increase in cash holdings roughly doubles a firm's chance of being targeted by NPE litigation. We find moreover that NPEs... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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