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  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is often lauded for bringing economic growth and know-how to developing countries. The conventional wisdom is not necessarily wrong, but the real story is much more nuanced than is commonly believed, says... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

included in shareholders' equity, and profit is calculated as the change in equity between two periods. In contrast to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), this approach produces higher shareholder's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector neoclassical growth model, while, at the disaggregate level, has implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 24

Prosperity In 2014, Khuram Mir, CEO of HN Agri Serve, an innovative apple orchard company in the Kashmir region of Northern India, wonders about the best growth strategy for his company. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

during financial crises because they are more dependent on bank capital to fund their growth and operations. They feel the swings up and down more acutely due to their reliance on the free flow of bank credit, according to a 1994 study by... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

CCP relied on the manipulation and distribution of the national land supply either to stimulate economic growth or to rein in an overheating economy. China’s land institutions, therefore, share “complementarities” with fiscal and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jan 2008
  • News

Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

numbering 98) grouped in “sectors” (now eight) headed by presidents with general management responsibilities. Unlike a conglomerate, each sector has one flagship company with its own listing on the Bombay Stock Exchange. “The model resembles a private View Details
  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

108-092 An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth, 3) push to profitability, 4) refocusing process, and 5) takeover by new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

  Working PapersWhen Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth? Authors:Philippe Aghion, Diego Comin, Peter Howitt, and Isabel Tecu Abstract Can a country grow faster by saving more? We address this question both theoretically and empirically. In our theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)

the idea of a potential internship program began to grow. So, when Westphal read about Facily and was connected with Dzodan, the timing and pairing was ideal. As the first intern in Facily’s history, Westphal utilized his experience from investment banking and private... View Details
  • 14 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

encourage participation, reduce gaming, and aggregate information in order to improve liquidity, efficiency, and equity in markets. We also discuss a number of fruitful applications of market design in other areas of economic and public... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

United States began to use standardized color, achieved by synthetic dyes, as part of their marketing strategies. The emergence of the synthetic dye industry paralleled the growth of mass production and mass marketing in the American food... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 30

Crossroads Wayne Ferrari has bridged the gap between being an independent entrepreneur and a "professional manager." After selling his business to a Private Equity (PE) firm, Ferrari takes on the role of CEO and with their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Impact Stories - Business & Environment

Charting a Path, Point by Point "I spend my days working with a small, entrepreneurial team helping to build companies that are working to solve some of the most pressing challenges we face in terms of energy and the environment." David Chan MBA 2018 | Redefining... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Two Kinds of Green

social and environmental concerns into daily operations. In the multimedia case “Burt’s Bees: Balancing Growth and Sustainability,” HBS associate professor Christopher Marquis uses text exhibits and video interviews to show how the small... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; natural products company; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 21 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

demand for liquidity and immediacy into long-term lending of the kind that promotes growth and prosperity. And banks are the institutions with the expertise to do this. Thus banks had to find new ways to recapture these now more expensive... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

the CEO of its U.S. subsidiary and his challenge to sustain the company's exceptional growth in the face of an unprecedented slowdown in the U.S. construction industry. The case also offers a window into the processes and related issues... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

Case 119-030 Fair Value Accounting at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. In May 2018, Berkshire Hathaway announced an unprecedented loss of more than $1 billion for the first quarter of 2018. Warren Buffett blamed this loss on the new accounting rules for View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

political, as they faced widespread host government hostility and expropriation. In the contemporary global economy, political risk partially declined with the spread of liberalization, although the management of relations with host governments remained a challenge,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

Course MaterialsAustin, Blakeley, & Cambridge, LLC Harvard Business School Case 207-098 The founding partners of ABC, LLC, one of the leading private equity firms in the world, are trying to understand why some of the other top firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace