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- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
classmates at Harvard Business School, and became fast friends over their passion for the gig economy and the future of work. They both spent their summer before HBS working with fintech-focused venture capital funds in India and the US,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
includes a dozen years at General Foods, “our strengths were highly flexible assets and a deeply skilled workforce. Our niche clearly was in products where skilled cheese making was more important than capital investment for high... View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
reflect fundamental values in the current environment. After announcing the alternative valuation methodology in September 2009, he must convince industry participants—ship owners, appraisers, and bankers—to adopt the new valuation methodology and bank View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
reflected in stock prices. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43177 Cost of Capital Dynamics Implied by Firm Fundamentals Authors:Lyle, Matthew, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract We provide a tractable stock valuation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317003-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-049 Securities Exchange Board of India: Developing and Regulating India's Capital Markets No... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
reasons—and revisits the associated implications for investing and corporate finance, examining asset allocation, high leverage in financial firms, low leverage in industrial firms, private equity, venture capital, and bank capital View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
recall of 450,000 tires missing a key safety feature that a U.S. importer had purchased from a Chinese manufacturer and distributed to retail outlets. “I don’t think there is a strong culture of adherence to regulations in China right... View Details
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
joining the battle against climate change will signal a significant shift in governance ideology for this highly regulated industry so critical to the global financial system. While global custody banks provide the unseen but essential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
exchanges. Shareholder protection strongly predicted exchange success, even in countries with high levels of venture capital activity, patenting, and financial market development. Second-tier exchanges in countries with better shareholder... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-004.pdf What Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis (revised) Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we articulate a positive theory of GAAP under the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
business. It is argued that the country of origin of a technological innovation is less economically important than the ability of a society to capitalize on that innovation and convert it into profitable business opportunities.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
is being abandoned by the two remaining large capital exporters—the U.K. and Japan—that had maintained similar regimes. The conundrum facing policymakers is how to reconcile mounting pressures for increased tax burdens on foreign activity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
concerns with foreign direct investment. Ends with a depiction of the Bills passed unanimously by the U.S. House and Senate to further regulate foreign investment in the wake of the DP World debacle. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
economic theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to facilitate efficient capital allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP, as shaped by the economic forces of demand for and supply of financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
perspective of originators. All originators benefit from the presence of additional informed investors in bad times, but each originator minimizes his reliance on costly informed capital in good times by issuing safe securities. Our model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
environment is any indicator, biotech companies - and the large pharmaceutical firms many of them are affiliated with - won't be the only sector of the economy trying to capitalize on the new pool of genetic information. In a recent... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
global CO2 emissions. They also remain the hubs and engines for the world’s economic, political, cultural, and social development. Fortunately, because of their legislative power to regulate buildings, density, energy use, and... View Details
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
on how it is implemented—what regulations the SEC develops and how it actually is done—we easily could see a law implemented in a way that will exclude small companies from the public capital markets.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
113-006 Equitas Microfinance (C): Advent of Regulation Supplements case 510-104. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/113006-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-157 Brazos Partners and the Tri-Northern Exit Randall Fojtasek, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
with the many exciting opportunities and innovations in the sector, and to engage them in critical questions about regulation and organization. “We now have companies with the capability, and the desire, to put people in space. That's... View Details