Raising Capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

supermarket for "dolphin-safe" tuna, so Star-Kist decided to fish in safer waters and raised prices accordingly. In reality, even the most well-meaning customers didn't want to shell out more money for a can of tuna even if it... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

domestic distributions of productivity and revenue. We show that knowledge spillover shifts both distributions rightward while market reallocation raises the left truncation of the distributions and shifts revenue leftward. Using a rich... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

spending may involve continuation of the payroll tax holiday as well as improvements in this country's infrastructure. Politicians' pledges to resist restructuring entitlements or to rule out raising revenues are the antithesis of what is... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

Vallée explains. To that end, he and Célérier set out to quantify talent. To do so, they capitalized on data from French engineering schools. Measuring Talent In France, students are selected for engineering programs based solely on their... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

use tools they already had, or they neglected to request new tools to meet the challenges of an evolving financial system." -David Moss Among the proposed new regulations: higher capital requirements; leverage limits; FDIC-like insurance... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

20 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: December 20

that managerial fiduciary duties affect equity-bondholder conflicts in a way that is economically important, has impact on ex ante capital structure choices, and affects welfare. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

turned their attention from local to more distant sources of news and entertainment. While the integration of media markets will raise the private welfare of many consumers, critics of a globalized information and entertainment industry... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

it could not raise equity capital, due, in part, to some accounting problems. Should El-Nazer bring this deal opportunity to the attention of TA's CEO, or should he do precisely what the CEO had told him two months earlier, "stop... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

2018 Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism American Capitalism: New Histories By: Beckert, Sven, and Christine Desan, eds. Abstract—The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat... View Details

01 Aug 2012
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

management of all resources that surround that particular scale of operation." Questions raised by Salli's and other of the comments include the following: Can leaders sense successfully when an entity is functioning at its proper... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

all contact with his or her organization—in other words, leave the BlackBerry at home. But participants soon recognize the value they are receiving at a crucial time in their careers, Simons says. The program includes rigorous dives into management concepts from 3... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

21 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Sink a Startup

forks in the road, Rich options directly conflict with King options. For example, on the one hand, founders who do not raise money risk handicapping their venture if money dwindles or dries up completely. On the other hand, founders who... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

continue to raise huge new sums of money to invest, targeting some of the world’s largest and most prestigious companies. “ Greenmailers of a generation ago are now taken seriously as hard-nosed change agents” Beyond that, these activist... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

19 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech

which was historically plagued by frictions, is becoming potentially more accurate, efficient, and cost effective. For small-business lending, technology is changing the game, providing access to capital for more small businesses that... View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18

international trade and investment. Insights about differences in the development of financial institutions across countries, the role of financial constraints, and the use of internal capital markets are proving central in understanding... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?

asked, “Is this a good time to begin thinking about prudential limits so that the brick-and-mortar stores will continue to be around when the next lockdown happens?” Perhaps the most basic question was one raised by NickC when he said,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

10 Nov 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again

intellectual capital was drained" —Reynold Levy Levy, who was a senior lecturer at HBS before he took the Lincoln Center job, has stayed committed to the institution's funding base—the fiercely dedicated baby boomers who have... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

activity. Today China has again emerged as a great power. Beijing is once more the capital of a multi-ethnic empire that dominates East Asia. Foreign students flock to China to live, study, and work. New infrastructure of airports,... View Details