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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large cross-section of firms, we find that firms with better CSR performance face significantly lower capital constraints. Moreover, we... View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
needed. Bringing the Context Back in: Settings and the Search for Syndicate Partners in Venture Capital Investment Networks Authors:Olav Sorenson and Toby E. Stuart Periodical:Administrative Science View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
leverage. This made Pierre Foods an attractive opportunity for Oaktree Capital Management, allowing them to employ its strategy of investing in distressed debt securities with the goal of leading a restructuring during which their debt... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Does an ESG Score Really Say About a Company?
Receiving more information can clarify the complex, but not when it comes to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores. A recent study shows that the more information a company discloses about its ESG practices, the more rating agencies disagree on how well... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
intermediaries. They show that at least two types of segmentation drive arbitrage dynamics: funding and balance sheets. Their results suggest specialization on both the asset and liability sides of intermediary balance sheets is important for understanding their role... View Details
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
methods. Myth Number 1: Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs reduce returns on capital and long-run shareholder value. Reality: Companies committed to ESG are finding competitive advantages in product, labor, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 08 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs
include at least two terms associated with the debate over immigration, such as “migrant, asylum, refugee,” and “human trafficking,” as well as “anxiety, panic, bomb, crime, terror, worry, concern,” and “violent.” Kerr and collaborators then compared the View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
transcripts of 70,042 earnings calls—conference calls where executives discuss quarterly results with investors, analysts, and the media—that were held by 3,613 firms during 2002-2008. This involved searching for 14 terms used by... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20
announcement effects, and future returns, we find empirical support for the predictions in both time-series and firm-level data. Given the strong cross-sectional relationship between capitalization and nominal share price, an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
Quarterly Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia By: Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu Abstract—Organizations today can use both crowds and experts to produce... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
lead to long-term productivity improvements if it leads companies to come and investment in a more advanced capital stock. Government efforts that directly improve productivity through upgrading workforce skills or subsidizing companies... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Finance and Organizations for "Political Ideology and International Capital Allocation" (May 2023) with Mancy Luo, Larissa Schäfer, and Margarita Tsoutsoura. Ishita Sen : Received an INQUIRE Europe Research Grant in 2024 for “The Market... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
2013. 2013 Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the Columbia Millstein Center & Investor Responsibility Research Center Grant, 2013. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2013 Fama-DFA Second Place Prize for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the Areas... View Details
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Industry Information - Alumni
and user-generated content on companies and career issues. HBS alumni version available via eBaker. Covers information on case interviewing, a description of the industry, and profiles of the top 50 consulting firms. McKinsey Quarterly As... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Baker Scholar. After spending a year at HBS as assistant to the legendary Professor Georges F. Doriot, Barford moved on to work as a financial analyst at Doriot's American Research & Development Corporation, one of the first U.S. venture View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Meritorious Service Award. 2017 Prithwiraj Choudhury : Winner of the 2017 Best Paper Award from the Strategic Human Capital track at the Strategic Management Society Annual Conference. Prithwiraj Choudhury : Finalist for the 2017 Best... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
results—the next quarterly report and the rewards that come from short-term success—while ignoring their responsibilities to sustaining and building the company's long-term fiscal health. Ironically, it was the Wall Street leaders who put... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace