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- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
idea was that maybe it was alright for GE, but could a smaller, less well financed organization employ it? And how safe should an organization play it when employing such a strategy? Several of you offered other examples of performance... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
http://hbr.org/search/512049-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 213-033 Introduction to Private Equity Finance This note will aid in introducing students to the Private Equity Finance course. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
regulators and bank examiners are inconsistent, which leads to confusion and an aversion to taking on more risk from bankers. During the most difficult part of the crisis, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued guidance... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54634 forthcoming Journal of Finance Limited Investment Capital and Credit Spreads By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary credit default swap (CDS) data, I investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
institutions? The answer, the authors argue, is yes. The key lies in market-creating innovations: products and services that speak to unmet local needs, create local jobs, and scale up quickly. Examples include MicroEnsure, which has made View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
of equal or greater concern: Will shoppers, diners, students, and workers feel safe returning? How can they be comfortable that the space is safe beyond just taking someone’s word for it? Cautious and shell-shocked employees and customers—as well as skittish lenders... View Details
- 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
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
other out and to work in concert on issues on which they share common ground.—Cynthia A. Montgomery and Rhonda Kaufman Reinvigorate Shareholders. As Michael Jensen observed in a 1993 Journal of Finance article, "Financial... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
similar to the failures we have seen historically. Again, I believe private markets should price and provide the catastrophe insurance for the resulting risks, not public guarantees. The issue in my mind is should we accept the likely... View Details
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
well as criteria for the timing of intervention and, just as important, "the exit process once the desired results (predefined) are achieved." Several argue that prevention whether through planning, laws and regulations-or the View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
the cultural differences between immigrants and natives. These results indicate that diversity might be economically beneficial but politically hard to manage. Harvard Business School Case 218-127 Introduction to Life Settlements Life View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
Experiment By: Cole, Shawn, Xavier Giné, and James Vickery Abstract—Weather is a key source of income risk, particularly in emerging market economies. This paper uses a randomized controlled trial involving a sample of Indian farmers to study how an innovative rainfall... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
three adaptive functions: deceiving others, social status, and psychological benefits. We suggest potential directions for future research. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50431 forthcoming Journal of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
interest to torch the planet. Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, points out that insured losses from extreme weather events have risen five-fold in the last 30 years. He wonders if the financial markets face the risk of a... View Details
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
to lead the way, forcing other countries to act with or without an agreement? And should countries that will benefit most from the entrepreneurial opportunity, as Bharath Krishnan and Ajay Kumar Gupta implied, help finance others? What do... View Details
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
health insurance may delay its arrival. Q: How is your idea of a height tax greeted among economists and policymakers? How do you address potential criticisms as mentioned in your paper, such as fears about a slippery slope leading to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We study how US branch-banking deregulations affected the entry and exit of firms in the non-financial sector using establishment-level data... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
company created within the last five years that produces the number one flat-panel TV brand in the U.S., beating Sony, Samsung, and Panasonic. It created a brand and financed itself to grow fast despite a limited number of staff—because... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
relying on $500,000 in financing provided by family members, friends, and "angel" investors, recurred in accounts of what she was trying to accomplish. "This is by far the most challenging thing I've ever done," she... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
relocation of resources in affected fund families and in the asset management industry in general, as well as decline in capital of issuers borrowing from money funds. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51404 forthcoming Review of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel