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  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

American Economic Review The Costs of Sovereign Default: Evidence from Argentina By: Hébert, Benjamin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—We estimate the causal effect of sovereign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)

focus areas across the school: the actual socioeconomic diversity of the class itself the cost of attending HBS the cost View Details
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

New Post for Finnegan

Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm. “Harvard means a great deal to me, and I’m grateful for this opportunity to help guide its future,” said Finnegan, a 1975 graduate of the College. View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 09 Jan 2013
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Understanding Customers

product. How Can I Understand My Customers Better? Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail Retailers can offer great product selection and value, but those who lack empathy for their customers are at risk View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • August 1994
  • Case

Kyocera Corporation: The Amoeba Management System

Describes Kyocera's unusual approach to profit centers. The firm's basic units of operation are profit centers called "amoebas," which are sales or manufacturing units with full responsibility for their planning, decision making, and administration. Amoebas are... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Organizational Structure; Profit; Management Systems; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

A Canadian Hero

list of the most successful business leaders this country has ever produced," according to the Toronto Globe and Mail, is president and CEO of ONEX, a thriving public company he founded sixteen years ago. A... View Details
  • 16 Oct 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Core Earnings? New Data and Evidence

Keywords: by Ethan Rouen, Eric So, and Charles C.Y. Wang
  • March 2008 (Revised May 2008)
  • Case

The Blackstone Group's IPO

By: Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Steven Schwarzman, Chairman of the Blackstone Group, has just learned that an investment group associated with the government of China wants to buy the majority of Blackstone's leveraged IPO. As he considers how to respond to this offer, Schwarzman reviews the firm's... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Ownership Stake; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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  • 29 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration
  • 29 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 29

to be the most efficient. The central insight of the theory is that each method offers a different way of aligning decision-making authority with valuable "specific knowledge" inside the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • December 2021
  • Article

Cash-for-Information Whistleblower Programs: Effects on Whistleblowing and Consequences for Whistleblowers

By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos
We study the effect of financial incentives on whistleblowing and the consequences for whistleblowers under the cash-for-information program of the False Claims Act (FCA). Exploiting appeals-court decisions that increase financial incentives for whistleblowing, we find... View Details
Keywords: Whistleblowers; Cash-for-information Whistleblower Programs; False Claims Act; Corporate Misconduct; Consequences For Whistleblowers; Crime and Corruption; Information; Cost
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  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Curing Health Care

every time," Tecco notes. "It's a great example of using technology to reduce costs and save time." Musing on the risk-reward equation of launching a start-up in the digital... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • August 2021 (Revised April 2022)
  • Case

KKR

By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
In June of 2021, KKR’s executive team convened to prepare for an upcoming board meeting. From a small, three-person partnership that started in 1976 and invested only in U.S. LBOs, the firm 45 years later was a public company that employed over 1,600 people and managed... View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Public Equity; Globalized Markets and Industries; Growth and Development Strategy; Profit; Strategy; Finance; Private Equity; United States
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  • 28 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

poor by removing the high cost of everything they need. Chu discussed the benefits and complexities of microfinance with Harvard Business School alumni on June 4, in a session... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 2

corporate directors' fiduciary duties in that state. This change limited incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt. We show that, as predicted, this increased the likelihood of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jul 2020
  • News

The Strategic Problem the Army Doesn’t Seem to Care About: African Americans Aren’t Branching Combat Arms

  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge depending on the tradeoff between the opportunity View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

pre-selection by a menu setter. We develop a model to study the relation between the ability of the menu setter and the size and quality of the menu. We show that when the cost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Up on the Green Roof

BEFORE AND AFTER: Step one involved removing the stones (top) that covered the old, leaky roof. Areas not suitable for a green roof were covered with sheets of white PVC (above) that reflect the sun’s rays. A living roof can View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Construction of Buildings; Construction of Buildings
  • 03 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss

potentially make electric cars more common and faster than we thought. Can you walk me through it? Jurgen Weiss: Companies like Amazon or FedEx or UPS that own all the delivery trucks look much more closely at the total cost View Details