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- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
efficiency also had more conventional paths to market based on licensing deals to large seed companies. Alternatively, Arcadia could acquire a seed company and develop and market its seed directly. A different near-term growth area... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
like we got X donations, and we took care of 1,000 children at a cost of $80 a child, which is less than $120 a child spent by comparable organizations. Even that amount of reporting would be very useful, but it is not the norm. By and View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
success, market reaction, and merger waves. Offer prices are biased towards the 52-week high, a highly salient but largely irrelevant past price, and the modal offer price is exactly that reference price. An offer's probability of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
find that during the 2008 financial crisis, PE-backed companies increased investments relative to their peers, while also experiencing greater equity and debt inflows. The effects are stronger among financially constrained companies and those whose private equity View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
influence the companies being rated. We focus on corporate environmental ratings, the primary purpose of which is to help investors select "socially responsible" and avoid "socially irresponsible" companies. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
existence of the hierarchical relationships among firms, and empirical work has focused on a single level of an industry or bilateral relationships. However, quantitative evidence on the deep hierarchy in large industrial sectors is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
its currency. Investors started to flee Asia, and the crisis rapidly spread to other countries. Central banks spent billions of dollars to try and defend their currencies, only to seek emergency bailouts from the International Monetary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
of businesses (e.g., product firms) and that every MSP entrepreneur and investor should carefully consider. In the last section I also discuss an important boundary condition: when is the MSP business model dominated by related-but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
take that into consideration. The bottom line is that you and I can talk about shareholder value not being the primary consideration—but if you're a large investor in a company, you might think that's the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50545 A Model of Credit Market Sentiment By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel G. Hanson, and Lawrence J. Jin Abstract—We present a model of credit market sentiment in which investors form beliefs... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Several CEOs are receiving significant media attention for taking public positions on controversial social and environmental issues largely unrelated to their core business, ranging from gay... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
broadly consistent with theory. Quantitatively, the network-based propagation is larger than the direct effects of the shocks. We also show quantitatively large effects from the geographic network, capturing the fact that the local... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
companies, especially the ad-buying agencies, went through tough times because their large clients decided to leave the country. “The first question HBS faculty get when we do a custom Executive Education program in China and other areas... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817114-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 216-059 Central European Distribution Corporation: Hostile Takeover, Bankruptcy Makeover In early 2013, Central European Distribution Corporation (CEDC), a View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
that business schools weren’t doing their job in terms of graduating ethical business leaders? Stevenson: What I would say was there was a sense that ethics were forgotten as investor capitalism became the new business model, with... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
investigates the impact of early relationships on entrepreneurial firm innovation. Prior research has largely focused on the benefits of network ties, documenting the many advantages that accrue to firms embedded in a rich network of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
fundamentals: the book-to-market ratio and expected ROE. We find that the model is easily applied to a large cross section of firms and that firm-level discount rates vary over time and are highly persistent. The model can forecast stock... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
increasingly tied to the sway of private financial interests, and how postwar administrations finally extricated the U.S. from economic interventionism, even though the government had the will and power to continue. Maurer examines the ways that American View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
experience high costs of capital that are only partly mitigated by the presence of venture capital, the evidence for high costs of R&D capital for large firms is mixed. Nevertheless, large established... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace