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  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

large, interconnected financial institution is likely to lead to the failure of many other large institutions. Most of the 600 institutions recapitalized by the federal government over the last year do not satisfy either criterion. A lot... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 04 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

there is rapid and massive urbanization everywhere as people leave farms for cities in search of opportunity. Half of the world is urban today, and the urban population will double in the next three decades. Second, this migration is View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate
  • 26 Sep 2018
  • News

Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

Katy Prairie Conservancy’s goal of preserving and restoring prairie lands west of the city. The prairie land absorbs large amounts of water, providing natural water management for the city. Coady’s sponge credit is a new idea for Houston... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

Consistent with theories of optimal liquidation, investors largely traded in more liquid securities, such as government-guaranteed MBS, to meet their liquidity needs during the crisis. Download working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities
  • 02 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

problems. Werker's research adds to a body of work, largely in Africa, that examines fragile states, foreign aid and investment, and conflict and governance. Into Africa Werker found his way to Africa after taking a leave of absence from... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • Web

Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment

you bad news I’m here to help you make a plan.” From there, HBS Professor Brian Trelstad spoke with Wendy Woods , Vice Chair of Social Impact and Climate & Sustainability at BCG , on corporate climate commitments and the challenges and successes of how View Details
  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Books

point out that the choices women entrepreneurs make often cause investors to classify their ventures as undesirable investments. The book includes chapters on the human capital component, financial savvy and risk propensity in women, the... View Details
Keywords: book review; faculty books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

ventures aimed to grow the company from its core HMO business into the consumer health organization market, Phanstiel threw out a system in which managers' variable compensation was largely based on overall company performance and tied... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

The Entrepreneurial Venture

entrepreneurial activity, which drew people away from large companies and encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity... View Details
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

they merely added a new layer of legal obligations for governance without improving the quality of people serving on the boards or changing their behavioral dynamics. The author—formerly the president or chairman of two global financial firms, an independent director... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2016
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September 27, 2016

equity investors (Gompers, Kaplan, and Mukharlyamov forthcoming). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51659 Executive Development Programs Enter the Digital Vortex: I. Disrupting the Demand Landscape By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

lasting changes in the lives of people and their societies. Rather, some organizations would be better off measuring shorter-term outputs or individual outcomes. Funders such as foundations and impact investors are better positioned to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

are not always made in a competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The Blue-Green Revolution

Much hope and plenty of money are riding on the idea that batterypowered electric cars will help slow global warming by reducing tailpipe emissions. But when it comes to reducing the greenhouse gases produced by heavy transportation—namely, the trucks, planes, trains,... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist
  • 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009

component of bid-ask spreads. We empirically examine these predictions for a sample of large U.S. banks, exploiting recent mandatory disclosures of financial instruments designated as fair value levels 1, 2, and 3, which indicate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

politicians and the voters who elected them—fostering greater employment, say. SEC enforcement actions can be costly for companies, about a third of which go out of business after being targeted. Heese wondered, all things being equal, would the SEC show some... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 07 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela

a case about the Kumbh Mela focusing on finance and strategy. An A case will be largely descriptive about what we saw on this trip. It will be followed by a B case set at the next festival, which will take place twelve years from now.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Construction; Real Estate
  • 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

acquisition, offer branding guidelines, and explain how a choir of angel investors often will sing different parts. Publisher's link: http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Startups-Best-Blog-Posts/dp/1449367879 2006 Journal of Economic Behavior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

third-party sellers largely carried inventory costs, the Board had made a drastic decision: Jumia would shift from an online retail model to a marketplace model. They also made it very clear that a failure to properly implement this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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