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10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

marketing and field service expenses. With low penetration and high capital and operating expenses, cable operators experienced significant losses in most urban systems. Hence, in 1975, the industry was not very profitable. Based on... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About

moment of great opportunity. Business has been an engine of prosperity in countries around the globe, lifting millions out of poverty and bringing vital services and products to markets and people in ways that have enhanced their lives. View Details

19 Apr 2016
First Look

April 19, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/416046-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-064 The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Management of Globalization No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716064-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

want to tell the academy that we think CEO activism is a very interesting phenomenon well worth studying, and we think there are lots of interesting questions to explore. So we hope this is the first word rather than the last word in management research around this... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

08 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

home. The idea of a national bank, or any bank at all, ran counter to his revolutionary spirit. Q: You suggest that these men's immigrant backgrounds gave them the ability to see capital as a mobile, rootless entity, since they had those... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking

01 Jun 2000
News

The Business of Biotech

environment is any indicator, biotech companies - and the large pharmaceutical firms many of them are affiliated with - won't be the only sector of the economy trying to capitalize on the new pool of genetic information. In a recent... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

election of more conservative legislators, higher support for anti-immigration legislation, and lower public goods provision. Exploring the causes of natives’ backlash, I document that immigration increased natives’ employment and occupational standing and fostered... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

opportunities that they did have. The relative inflexibility has crept in since the 1970s—and not just for reasons internal to the company. The second reason is that they had the human capital, knowledge, and skills to take advantage of the opportunities that presented... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

shocks to borrowers' collateral, which affect firms' ability to raise capital if agency and information problems are significant (Ben S. Bernanke and Mark Gertler, 1989). Or it can stem from shocks to bank capital, which affects the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2021
Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

attracting people back. Some facility owners are spending a lot on capital improvements for better filtration, or for ultraviolet lights. Others are spending a lot on work rules, distancing, or bringing in half of the office staff on half... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

December 2015 (Revised May 2017)
Case

Corning, 2002

By: Malcolm Baker

Corning, with large investments in fiber optic technology, was hit particularly hard by the collapse of the telecommunications industry in 2001. With over $4 billion in debt, the firm's survival appears to rest on raising additional equity capital. James Flaws, the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Strategy; Financial Condition; Financial Instruments; Valuation; Capital; Public Equity; Stock Shares; Business or Company Management; Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Industrial Products Industry

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April 2007 (Revised June 2007)
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Aid, Debt Relief, and Trade: An Agenda for Fighting World Poverty (A)

By: Laura Alfaro, Eric D. Werker and Renee Kim

At the 2005 Group of Eight summit, world leaders agreed to relieve the world's poorest countries' debt burdens and double aid to Africa by 2010. The announcement raised questions whether debt relief would really help the poor. By examining past aid trends and policies... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; International Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Poverty; Welfare; Africa

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Fanele Mashwama

regulation. In the first, he is looking at episodes of capital flight in emerging markets and the way that the currency composition of firm liabilities can have serious ripples effects in times of turbulence. “Firms in emerging markets,... View Details

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5-Year Data Summary - Annual Report 2014

597 m. 542 504 456 415 Cash from operations 36 45 42 53 52 Capital investments 98 78 51 34 14 Building debt outstanding 85 91 99 103 112 Unrestricted Reserves 99 83 119 79 99 Endowment 3,224 2,880 2,665 2,779 2,311 Total Assets 4,409... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Hope for Reform Dims

reforms.” In a freewheeling Q&A session with some 400 students in Burden Hall on September 30, Thain advocated action on three fronts: consolidating the six federal agencies that regulate financial institutions to eliminate overlapping and duplicative jurisdictions... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

Career Coach

Jill Huggett

Jill Huggett (Carroll '00), Principal, Bridgepath Career Advisors, is a certified professional career coach and certified professional resume writer. Jill combines professional coaching theory with her previous experience as a financial services management executive... View Details

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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

teachers and staff and are consistently challenged to fill vacancies. This project focused specifically on working with the Human Capital Staffing team and analyzing their hiring process to identify pain points that are preventing them... View Details

17 Jan 2025
News

Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

International in the early 70s, is that right? FL: Yes. We decided to use our precious capital to make a toe hole position in a troubled airline. And the most trouble at that time was Texas International, the smallest of the 18 airlines.... View Details

16 Dec 2020
News

A Creator in the Era of Disruption

have arrived. Indonesia is now the second largest venture capital market in Southeast Asia, and more than one-third of Indonesians from age 15 to 35 say they want to be entrepreneurs. Haryopratomo: My God, it's a bit too much now. I feel... View Details

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

introduces methods for increasing the efficiency of retail store liquidation, which we define as the time-constrained divestment of retail outlets through an in-store sale of inventory. The retail industry depends extensively on liquidation, not only as a means for... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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