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Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

We show that business development companies (BDCs)—closed-end funds that provide a significant share of nonbank loans to middle market firms—are very well capitalized according to bank capital frameworks. They have median risk-based capital ratios of about 36% and,... View Details

16 Feb 2012
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Platform Competition Under Partial Belief Advantage

Keywords: by Hanna Halaburda & Yaron Yehezkel; Consumer Products

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Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment (joint with Andrew Charlton)

By: Laura Alfaro

We identify a new type of vertical foreign direct investment (FDI) made up of multinational subsidiaries producing intermediate inputs, which are of similar skill intensity to the final goods produced by their parents, and which are overwhelmingly located in high skill... View Details

06 Feb 2020
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What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents

familiar with Amazon, what is surprising is that two of these patents involve unmanned aerial vehicles, a technology that Amazon has yet to exploit to its full potential commercially. Bezos’ involvement in these patents suggests that he... View Details

Keywords: by Tricia Gregg and Boris Groysberg; Retail

04 Apr 2011
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Reinventing the National Geographic Society

exploit that opportunity when someone does figure it out." When he teaches the case in the future, Garvin says, he wants to up the volume on certain ingredients. For example, the ability for NGS to offer membership benefits—access to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

03 Apr 2008
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Bridge Building in Venture Capital-Backed Acquisitions

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Yuhai Xuan

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The Role of Financial and Information Intermediaries in the Capital Markets

Hutton's research investigates the role of financial analysts and short sellers in the pricing of equity securities. Recently, Hutton examines (with Patricia Dechow and Richard Sloan) the role of sell-side analysts' earnings forecasts in the pricing of common equity... View Details

July 2020 (Revised September 2021)
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Mr. Five Percent: Calouste Gulbenkian and the Origins of Global Oil

By: Geoffrey Jones and Yazeed Al-Rashed

This case describes the business career of Calouste Gulbenkian, a skilled intermediary who was able to secure 5 percent of a vast oil concession covering much of the Middle East that was signed in 1928. Gulbenkian was an ethnic Armenian born in the Ottoman Empire,... View Details

Keywords: Oil; Globalization; Energy Sources; History; Biography; Energy Industry; Turkey; Central Asia; Middle East

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By: Joshua Lev Krieger

In examining the competitive dynamics of R&D strategy, Josh has become particularly interested in how the introduction of new knowledge generated by rivals impacts the direction of R&D efforts. Understanding how new information alters project portfolio decisions is... View Details

29 Jan 2019
HBS Seminar

Bryan Bollinger, Fuqua School of Business at Duke University

20 Apr 2015
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The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

simultaneously be able to see the eventual path to checkmate and the best next move to get there. Gates, Grove, and Jobs's Keys to Success Look Forward, Reason Back Make Big Bets, Without Betting the Company Build Platforms and Ecosystems—Not Just Products View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

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Executive Education - Entrepreneurship

learn how to exploit disruptive opportunities to build successful businesses and product lines. Who should attend: Entrepreneurs or executives who are launching their own startup or preparing to jump-start innovation in established firms.... View Details

2009
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Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan

By: Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu

Japan's industrial landscape is characterized by hierarchical forms of industry organization, which are increasingly inadequate in modern sectors, where innovation relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Government Legislation; Innovation and Invention; Industry Structures; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Manufacturing Industry; Japan

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Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit in a Consumer Society

able to exploit their customers in their times of need. Better regulation of small consumer lenders in the 1920s both opened access to credit and reduced borrowers’ vulnerability. Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College... View Details

15 Sep 2022
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Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

and anecdotal information, but despite having over 65,000 citations in the last 50 years, there have been no large-scale experimental causal tests of this theory as it relates to employment.” Enlisting a LinkedIn algorithm To put the theory through a rigorous test, the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Jaramillo Business Track Runner-Up Physica Solutions aims to start and operate office-based medical practices to provide minimally-invasive treatment for varicose veins. Supply Solutions Kevin Sousa Jun Wang Business Track Runner-Up View Details

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By: Leslie K. John

Professor John is a behavioral scientist who uses both laboratory and field experiments to investigate questions that are at the intersection of marketing, organizational behavior, and public policy.

Professor John’s work has been published in leading... View Details

09 Sep 2015
HBS Seminar

Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University

12 Sep 2022
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When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

Evolutionary Nature of Breakthrough Innovation: Re-Evaluating the Exploration vs. Exploitation Dichotomy Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas Engineering Serendipity: The Role of Cognitive Similarity in Knowledge Sharing... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace

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