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  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

After more than a decade of nearly can’t-miss growth, China’s stock market began a precipitous summer slide that has spooked investors worldwide. In July, the Shanghai composite index dropped 15 percent from June, prompting the People’s... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 19 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

In the debate over whether to increase or decrease the stringency of environmental regulations, the possibility that government agencies might use purchasing to stimulate market demand for "green" products... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

The Issuance and Design of Sustainability-linked Loans

By: Maria Loumioti and George Serafeim
Sustainability-linked loans (i.e., syndicated loans for which pricing is linked to a sustainability performance indicator) have rapidly evolved into a significant private debt product. We find that sustainability-linked lending has been available mostly to borrowers... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Credit Products; Loan Contracts; Loans; Corporate Finance; Credit Risk; Environment; ESG; ESG Ratings; Climate Change; Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Risk and Uncertainty; Credit
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  • 04 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Outsource Your Marketing?

comfortable and familiar with outsourcing arrangements, they've become willing to trust outside suppliers with business functions that, until recently, have not been outsourced. Q: What are you working on now? A: I am exploring board View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin
  • October 2024
  • Case

Sacoor Brothers: From Co-Family CEOs to No Family CEOs?

By: Lauren Cohen, David Ager and Alpana Thapar
Sacoor Brothers, a luxury clothing retail company, was founded in 1989 in Lisbon, Portugal, by four brothers—Malik, Salim, Rahimo, and Moez. After establishing a strong presence in Portugal, the brothers were drawn to the rapidly growing retail markets in the Middle... View Details
Keywords: Growth; Geographic Mobility; Family Office; Professionalization; Institutional Development; Second-generation; Third-generation; Family Business; Private Equity; Investment; Governance; Transition; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Succession; Market Entry and Exit; Family and Family Relationships; Expansion; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Middle East; United Arab Emirates; Saudi Arabia; Portugal; Jordan; Dubai
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  • 19 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 19

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2350805 Surfacing the Submerged State with Operational Transparency in Government Services By: Buell, Ryan W., and Michael I. Norton Abstract—As Americans' trust in government nears... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jun 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Evaluating the Impact of SA 8000 Certification

Keywords: by Michael J. Hiscox, Claire Schwartz & Michael W. Toffel
  • Fall 2013
  • Article

In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms

By: Mariana Pargendler, Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini
A large legal and economic literature describes how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suffer from a variety of agency and political problems. Less theory and evidence, however, have been generated about the reasons why state-owned enterprises listed in stock markets... View Details
Keywords: State-owned Enterprises; Oil Companies; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Energy Industry; Brazil; Mexico; Norway
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    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government; federal government
    • June 2006 (Revised April 2007)
    • Case

    BioScale

    By: H. Kent Bowen and Bradley R. Staats
    In 2004, Mark Lundstrom must decide on a funding method and strategic approach for BioScale, a biotechnology company that he founded. BioScale has developed a microchip-based bioanalytical platform that can be used to detect very small concentrations of cells, viruses,... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Science-Based Business; Capital; Financing and Loans; Partners and Partnerships; Biotechnology Industry
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    • November 2019 (Revised May 2020)
    • Case

    Collibra

    By: Lynda M. Applegate, Jeffrey F. Rayport and Julia Kelley
    Founded in 2008 at Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Collibra was a data intelligence company that found product-market fit in the years after the global financial crisis when many companies were under pressure from consumers and governments to improve their data management... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governance; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Markets; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Expansion; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Europe; Belgium; Brussels; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
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    • 19 Jul 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: July 19

    ChiNext's operation, Dr. Wei Chen, chairman and founder of Oriental Fortune Capital, one of the fastest-growing venture capital firms in China, met with an SZSE research fellow to discuss how the rules governing the View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Implied Materiality and Material Disclosures of Credit Ratings

    By: Robert G. Eccles and Tim Youmans
    This first of three papers in our series on materiality in credit ratings will examine the materiality of credit ratings from an "implied materiality" and governance disclosure perspective. In the second paper, we will explore the materiality of environmental, social,... View Details
    Keywords: Governance; Markets; Credit
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    • 2022
    • Article

    Dynamic Pricing Algorithms, Consumer Harm, and Regulatory Response

    By: Alexander MacKay and Samuel N. Weinstein
    Pricing algorithms are rapidly transforming markets, from ride-sharing apps, to air travel, to online retail. Regulators and scholars have watched this development with a wary eye. Their focus so far has been on the potential for pricing algorithms to facilitate... View Details
    Keywords: Competition Policy; Regulation; Algorithmic Pricing; Dynamic Pricing; Economics; Law And Economics; Law And Regulation; Consumer Protection; Antitrust Law; Industrial Organization; Antitrust Issues And Policies; Technological Change: Choices And Consequences; Competition; Policy; Price; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Microeconomics; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Law
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    • March 2003 (Revised January 2004)
    • Case

    CDC Capital Partners: December 2002

    By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
    Paul Fletcher, CEO of CDC Capital Partners, a private equity group investing in the world's poorest countries, is wrestling with questions raised by the imminent reorganization of the firm. Previously an arm of the United Kingdom's international aid agency, CDC is... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Portfolio; Privatization; Venture Capital; Business and Government Relations; Emerging Markets; Infrastructure; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; United Kingdom
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    • October 2011
    • Case

    CNBM: Rolling Up China's Cement Industry

    By: Joseph L. Bower and G.A. Donovan
    The Chinese government has charged Song Zhiping with the job of rationalizing China's cement industry. He has acquired 200 plus companies, but the industry is still fractured. Can he succeed? View Details
    Keywords: Industry Growth; Mergers and Acquisitions; Policy; Government and Politics; Construction Industry; Industrial Products Industry; China
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    • 18 Nov 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Martin Kanz, Economist, Development Economics Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Research, The World Bank

    • Article

    Space, the Final Economic Frontier

    By: Matthew C. Weinzierl
    After decades of centralized control of economic activity in space, NASA and U.S. policymakers have begun to cede the direction of human activities in space to commercial companies. NASA garnered more than 0.7% of GDP in the mid-1960s but is only around 0.1% of GDP... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Markets; Economics; Private Sector; Aerospace Industry
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    • Article

    The Evolution of Science-Based Business: Innovating How We Innovate

    By: Gary P. Pisano
    Science has long been connected to innovation and to business. As early as the late 19th century, chemical companies, realizing the commercial potential of science, created the first industrial research laboratories. During much of the 20th century, large-scale... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governance; Innovation and Management; Risk Management; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Commercialization
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    • August 2, 2017
    • Article

    The Real Reason Uber Is Giving Up in China

    By: William C. Kirby
    The article examines the role of the Chinese government in transport firm Uber's decision to sell its China operation to a rival Chinese ride-sharing company. View Details
    Keywords: Uber; China; Disruptive Innovation; Emerging Markets; Transportation Industry; China; Asia
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