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- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
not need to optimize the timing of their equity issues. Consistent with these predictions, I use a unique panel of non-SEC-filing private U.S. firms to show that the average public firm holds twice as much cash as the average private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
2013, Lance Armstrong admitted in a television interview with Oprah Winfrey that he "doped" in each of his record seven consecutive Tour de France victories, confirming the findings a few months earlier by the U.S. Anti-Doping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
many others. In fact, a recent estimate from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners indicates that U.S. businesses lose approximately 7 percent of their annual revenues to various forms of unethical behavior, an amount equal to a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
business figures, such as John D. Rockefeller — gave many observers pause. The reaction was increased oversight and antibig business sentiment. I think such moments are part of something very important in the U.S. system. There is... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
done to fix it—in the following interview, first published in Harvard magazine's Can America Compete? report. “That great American job machine started sputtering around 2000” Porter and Rivkin lead the School's U.S. Competitiveness... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
made an untimely investment in Fortis, a large European bank, which failed in the global financial crisis in 2008. Ping An spent close to 24 billion Chinese yuan (RMB) or 3.4 billion U.S. dollars ($) on Fortis. In the aftermath of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
industry revenues. (Of late, however, they have been showing considerable strength; in 1996, independents collectively rallied to grasp the number one spot in total U.S. album market share for the first time - climbing over industry... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
values in circumstances where these are based on observable prices in liquid secondary markets but caution against expanding fair values to financial reporting more generally. We conclude that rather than converging U.S. GAAP with IFRS,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
air-dropped for use by paratroopers in the U.S. military. “There's a construction of creativity that involves many other actors." —Mukti Khaire Radical innovation that creates entirely new industries is another course focus. In a new... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Thinking Authors:Richard S. Tedlow and David Ruben Periodical:The American (January-February 2008) Abstract Too many U.S. businesses (including tires, super-markets, and information technology) have been infected with the disease of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
leading global player in the baking industry, expands into China while at the same time undertaking initiatives to make its U.S. and South American operations more profitable. Allows students to analyze the company's entire global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
important in the U.S. system. There is extraordinary freedom for business and other actors to race ahead, while at the same time, a range of stakeholders can question, claim their share, or put up guardrails around that headlong rush... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
hit post-war highs in the 1950s but then declined rapidly in ways that overshadow relative stability more recently. Thus, in automobiles, for example, there has been a steady decline in concentration since 1955 as the U.S. share of total... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
Scorpio hybrid, India’s first indigenous hybrid vehicle. We hope to have it available in U.S. showrooms before long! What keeps you up at night? Oil at well over $100 per gallon and customers who don’t believe we’ve delivered on our... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
anemia and cystic fibrosis, among many others. The dispute had escalated to the point where the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) declared a patent interference and began a process to determine the intellectual property’s (IP)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein, which describes the complicity of the federal government in redlining policies that confined Black people in segregated neighborhoods with low opportunity. And for leadership insights from great... View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
and nature of multinational firm activity. We examine aggregate data that captures the response of U.S. multinational firms to the formation of the ASEAN free trade agreement. Observed patterns guide the development of a model in which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
Harvard Business School Case 307-091 Mark Ernst, the Chairman, CEO and President of H&R Block, has to decide how to respond to a competitive threat posed by a competitor's refund-lending product. Block is the largest U.S. tax... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
Women-owned businesses are just as financially strong and creditworthy as the average U.S. firm, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Women's Business Research. Yet women struggle more than men to acquire equity capital.... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
(2003-2007). Romney has earned a reputation for reaching across the aisle to advance major priorities that benefit Utah and people across the country, and as a leading voice on U.S. foreign policy and national security. Romney also led... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley