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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
pay out capital also initiate debt or equity issues in the same year, resulting in 32% of aggregate payouts being externally financed. Most firms with simultaneous payouts and security issues do not generate enough operating cash View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
hydrokinetic technologies has subsequently risen to $109 million). Con Edison eventually invested in the company, but because there is no legal mechanism for paying a provider to deliver tidal power to the grid in New York State, the utility can’t give Verdant View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
and cash flow rights who nevertheless need to collaborate to help make the venture a success? We outline the ways in which these coordination frictions manifest themselves, describe the underlying drivers,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
value, the issue is framing price appropriately. Frank Cespedes: To use a small daily example: At the gas pump, the credit-card price is typically the default price while paying cash garners a discount. Yet, many executives seem to think... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
themselves avoiding the music because they were terrified. When they finally decided to take it on, they thought it would require a certain amount of time, and believed they had sufficient cash reserves. But the preparation process turned... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
(EV) reporting by firms with life insurance operations to assess the impact of unregulated financial reporting on transparency and to examine the institutional characteristics that promote unregulated reporting. Under EV accounting the present value of future View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
yields. However, the fraction of seniors is uncorrelated with share repurchases, investment, or profitability, suggesting that geographic variation in dividend payout is not driven by some unmeasured firm characteristic affecting the ability or willingness to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
business. Under Ron Johnson's "Fair and Square" program, sales had declined rapidly, and quarterly losses and expensive capital investments had put severe pressure on cash reserves. Ullman decided to combine "Fair and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Students must grapple with obstacles including changing energy prices, variations in energy needed in different climate scenarios, issues in net and gross lease responsibilities, and issues in finding adequate cash View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
kitchen, how it’s designed and how it flows is to help us achieve those really high throughputs. And some of the customer engagement you were talking about is really designed to help people understand and appreciate all the new things on... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
discounting is robust to various controls for unobserved proposal quality and alternative explanations. Additional tests suggest information effects rather than strategic effects account for the novelty penalty. Only a minority of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
trade-off between competitive price discovery and convenience. Evidence from eBay fits the theory: auctions are favored by less experienced sellers and for idiosyncratic products, and auction listings sell at a discount but with higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
1.1 billion citizens surviving on less than $2 a day. Education remains inaccessible or insufficient for millions, and the country has the world’s second-largest HIV-positive population. Mumbai’s airport is emblematic of the country’s crumbling infrastructure and its... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
business owners to understand their own cash flow and prospects. Now the fintech innovation cycle is at an inflection point—new streams of data have the power to illuminate the opaque nature of a small... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
forthcoming Handbook of International Trade and Transportation Transportation Cost and the Geography of Foreign Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen Abstract—Falling transportation costs and rapid technological progress in recent decades have precipitated an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's organizational hierarchy and the broadening of managers' spans of control. The alleged benefits of flattening flow primarily from pushing decisions downward to enhance customer and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
competitive strategy; (2) accounting analysis for representing the firm's business economics and strategy in its financial statements and for developing adjusted accounting measures of performance; (3) financial analysis for ratio analysis and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
section of stock returns, also predicts excess bond returns. These relationships remain in place even when bonds and stocks become "decoupled" at the index level. They are driven by a combination of effects including correlations between real View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne