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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
investment of $5 million from Canadian financial institutions, Doriot helped establish the Canadian Enterprise Development Corporation (CED), one of Canada's first venture capital firms. The European Enterprise Development Company (EED)... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
Decision Processes Poker-faced Morality: Concealing Emotions Leads to Utilitarian Decision Making By: Gino, Francesca, and J.J. Lee Abstract—This paper examines how making deliberate efforts to regulate aversive affective responses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
forthcoming Journal of International Economics Corporate Debt, Firm Size and Financial Fragility in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract— The post-Global View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5
Regulation? By: Drake, David F., and Robin L. Just Abstract—A regulator's ability to incentivize environmental improvement among firms is vital in achieving long-term sustainability. However, firms can and do respond to environmental View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
sustainability disclosure regulations on firms’ disclosure practices and valuations. Specifically, we explore the implications of regulations mandating the disclosure of environmental, social, and governance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29
2012) Abstract Controversy surrounds occupational health and safety regulators, with some observers claiming that workplace regulations damage firms' competitiveness and destroy jobs, and others arguing that they make workplaces safer at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Invention of Data Privacy in the United States and France Author:J. Gunnar Trumbull Publication:In The Voice of the Citizen Consumer, edited by K. Bruckweh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Lessons from the Crisis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 14, 2015
current estimates placing financial losses at greater than $3.7 trillion dollars annually. Unfortunately, fraud prevention has been stymied by lack of a clear and comprehensive understanding of its underlying causes and mechanisms. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007
ownership patterns across different towns, allowing credible identification of the effects of bank ownership on financial development, lending rates, and the quality of intermediation, as well as employment and investment. Credit markets... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
in productivity in the U.S. in recent years. In fact, a recent report by the McKinsey Global Institute has found that five of the top seven industries that have led productivity growth in the period of 2000 to 2003 are service industries like retailing and View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
the most influential education is going to happen when Bitcoin finds a killer use case. So far, that case hasn’t emerged, but once those use cases start solving real problems for large groups of people, governments and financial... View Details
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
the Poronui Associate Professor of Business Administration. Pharmaceutical companies have long opposed efforts to regulate drug prices, arguing that prices reflect the companies’ massive research investments. But Germany’s approach shows... View Details
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
democracies. "Rodrik rejects the notion that efficient markets for capital, goods, and labor will always regulate themselves" Recent books by Dani Rodrik and Robert Kuttner generally support these notions. In his book, Straight... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
may be less effective in protecting financial stability. Our analysis sheds light on the fundamental tensions inherent in regulating the shadow banking system. Publisher's link:... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
(One cure for stock option abuse, say proponents, is to change accounting rules so that option grants are reflected in a company's principal financial statements. High-tech start-ups blister at that idea, saying it would harm their... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19
PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
of telemedicine. At MGH these virtual visits skyrocketed, allowing patients and doctors to reduce the risk of spreading the virus. How did that change come about so suddenly, after years of existing on the fringes? Robert Huckman: What we’ve seen is at least a... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010
Financial Crisis Robert C. Pozen and Melissa HammerleHarvard Business School Note 311-014 This note will examine the regulatory framework for hedge funds in the United Kingdom (UK) before and after the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne