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  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

through its development bank (BNDES), we find a positive effect of those stakes on firms' return on assets and on the capital expenditures of financially constrained firms with investment opportunities. However, these positive effects are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2014
  • Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

along partisan lines, from overhauling the US corporate tax to punishing companies who choose to move elsewhere. On July 22, 2014, Mihir A. Desai, Miuzho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School, testified before... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Harvard Business Review Managing Political Misfits By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, and Rory McDonald Abstract—Not all employees agree with your politics. That's OK. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54406 forthcoming Management Science The ABCs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

current estimates placing financial losses at greater than $3.7 trillion dollars annually. Unfortunately, fraud prevention has been stymied by lack of a clear and comprehensive understanding of its underlying causes and mechanisms. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 11

Invention of Data Privacy in the United States and France Author:J. Gunnar Trumbull Publication:In The Voice of the Citizen Consumer, edited by K. Bruckweh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Lessons from the Crisis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

low and moderate income non-savers—and discusses the laws and regulations in the United States that largely prohibit their issuance. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16433   Cases & Course MaterialsHang Lung... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

Professor Jonas Heese. When local newspapers shutter, some businesses evidently treat the lack of press coverage as permission to act badly and end up committing more illegal violations, including pollution, workplace safety infractions, and View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 30 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 30

advance empirical research on social enterprise. From this perspective, research infrastructure-building provides an important opportunity for researchers interested in social enterprise and others interested in enabling high-quality empirical research in this setting.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers

on financial controls, not on risks to consumers and brand reputations. That's not good enough" Even marketers who pay special attention to safety are reluctant to tout their superiority. You never see comparison advertising from an... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 20 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

ownership patterns across different towns, allowing credible identification of the effects of bank ownership on financial development, lending rates, and the quality of intermediation, as well as employment and investment. Credit markets... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Aug 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

democracies. "Rodrik rejects the notion that efficient markets for capital, goods, and labor will always regulate themselves" Recent books by Dani Rodrik and Robert Kuttner generally support these notions. In his book, Straight... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

rebalancing in the financial portfolio of participants. These patterns conceal strong household-level evidence of active rebalancing, which on average offsets about one half of idiosyncratic passive variations in the risky asset share.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

"too-big-to-fail" policies and bailouts by regulators in general. Finally, the approach taken here shows that financial crises may be a consequence of observed but unexpected deviations from the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech

(One cure for stock option abuse, say proponents, is to change accounting rules so that option grants are reflected in a company's principal financial statements. High-tech start-ups blister at that idea, saying it would harm their... View Details
Keywords: by Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan & Robert C. Merton
  • 09 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

were able to navigate the structures of regulation during this stage. As an industry peaks and begins to decline, leaders take center stage. Leaders are change agents who see opportunities and promise where others see only defeat. That... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

lays policies that have been proposed to deal with either the consequences or the causes of the crisis. These include policies for reforming the supervision of the financial system, changing bankruptcy rules and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

in the country's economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to systematically examine the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy's collapse, from the cost of labor View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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

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