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  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

sustainability moving from the Compliance to the Efficiency and then to the Innovation stage. However, we also document a decentralization of decision rights from the CSO to different functions, largely driven by sustainability strategies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Specific Knowledge and Divisional Performance Measurement

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen & William H. Meckling
  • May 2022
  • Article

Strengthening Digital Infrastructure: A Policy Agenda for Free and Open Source Software

By: Frank Nagle
While there is little debate that digital forces are playing an increasingly crucial role in the economy, there is limited understanding of the importance of the digital infrastructure that underlies this role. Much of the discussion around digital infrastructure has... View Details
Keywords: Open Source; Applications and Software; Policy; Infrastructure; Open Source Distribution
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  • April 2010
  • Article

Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930

By: Andre C. Martinez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio
There is a large literature looking at the determinants of country risk (defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk-free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion by arguing that an important explanatory factor is the... View Details
Keywords: Bonds; Performance Capacity; Taxation; Revenue; Governance; Geographic Location; Trade; Price; Cost of Capital; Risk and Uncertainty; Public Administration Industry; Brazil
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930

By: Andre C. Martinez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio
There is a large amount of literature that aims to explain what determines country risk (defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk-free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion by arguing that an important explanatory... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Sovereign Finance; Goods and Commodities; Risk and Uncertainty; Trade; Taxation; Cost of Capital; Revenue; Brazil
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930

By: Andre C. Martinez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio
There is a large amount of literature that aims to explain what determines country risk (defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion by arguing that an important explanatory... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Cost of Capital; Revenue; Sovereign Finance; Goods and Commodities; Taxation; Business History; Risk and Uncertainty; Brazil
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  • 07 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big

results don’t offer a smoking gun. Enthusiasm is inherent in the decentralized finance culture, where eager investors generally expect that market values will soar. “There's a belief that because crypto is... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 15 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

anything we do to improve quality becomes almost irrelevant if we can't finance the system to deliver it." Hence the imperative to focus on value, the quality of outcome achieved per unit of cost spent by the system. "There's a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 11 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

command-and-control approach to management, remains in place, the newer tools designed to decentralize strategic decision making will never achieve their full potential, Hope and Fraser argue. The solution is not better budgeting... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
  • 17 Nov 2011
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

Questions To Be Answered: What are the best techniques for fostering innovation in multicultural teams? I want my functional experts to influence high-level strategy. How can managers get the best thinking out of support staff? What role does information technology... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
  • 16 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 16

unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521192194 The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance: Evidence from Angel Financings Authors:William R. Kerr, Josh Lerner, and Antoinette... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-006.pdf Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We examine the effect of U.S. branch banking deregulations on the entry size of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

The Irrational Economist: Making Decisions in a Dangerous World, edited by Erwann Michel-Kerjan and Paul Slovic, 151-160. New York: Public Affairs Books, 2010 Abstract Particularly since the 1960s, the federal government has played a significant role in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

strong finance and legal teams" as sources of risk aversion. But other respondents concluded that it doesn't have to happen, and proposed antidotes to the phenomenon, starting with David Levine's "list" of "a strong... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

long-term study. Now owned by Mannesmann, the factory itself still manufactures large-diameter pipes today. Before the 1920s, German firms were often messier, more haphazard, less decentralized than many American corporations. However,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

past few years, the pro-Malay policy remains in place. Executives would do well to identify a country's power centers, such as its bureaucracy, media, and civil society, and figure out if there are checks and balances in place. Managers must also determine how View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

valuations in first financing rounds. Further econometric tests suggest that, as predicted by the theory, this effect is driven by unobservable heterogeneity, and it is more pronounced in teams that make quick decisions about founder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

capitalism. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/09/global-capitalism-at-risk-what-are-you-doing-about-it/ar/1 A Darker Side to Decentralized Banks: Market Power and Credit Rationing in SME Lending Authors:Rodrigo Canales and Ramana... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

Product Market Competition Lead Firms to Decentralize? Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 100, no. 2 (May 2010) Abstract There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in management practices and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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