Capital Gains - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1998
News

World Class Learning

committed to the idea of developing new understanding, deeper knowledge, and intellectual capital about business around the world," he stated. Along with increased support for global research, another visible manifestation of that... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

indifference. Whether they are helping inner cities capitalize on their inherent competitive advantages, working to make assetbuilding financial services available to low-income families, analyzing the benefits of welfare-to-work... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

06 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

below the poverty line. But this varied from less than 10 percent in the capital Kathmandu to more than 50 percent in several districts. Nepal is very diverse socially as well. One of our innovations over much of the existing literature... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2017
News

Supercharged

covering long-distance travel routes in Europe. That last bit of news is telling: While electric cars are finally gaining traction here in the United States, much of the action lies elsewhere. “Within mainstream, old, dinosaur auto... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

true economic performance. In particular, students learn accounting concepts related to securitization, gain on sale accounting, valuation of available for sale securities, and analyzing the statement of cash flows. The case also allows... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

didn't happen. Big companies with cash didn't spend it. Banks with cash didn't lend it. Small businesses didn't attract capital and thus didn't help reduce unemployment. Europeans were paralyzed by debt crises and transportation shutdowns... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

05 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

all things, at aggressively low prices." With the fall of communism in the 1980s and 1990s, American brands, ambitious, confident, and flush with capital soon established beachheads in the emerging economies. Local consumers, long... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising

20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

hold greater amounts of cash but do not carry a smaller amount of electronic value indicating that they devote more capital to their inventory. These results offer insight to mobile money operators with respect to monitoring, training,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

In her new book SuperCorp, Rosabeth Moss Kanter argues that capitalism is near a crossroads. The old ways of doing business no longer work. Traditional leadership roles are breaking down. And the public is fed up with greedy executives... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

familiarity, i.e., individuals' prior shared work experience, may help explain this difference, as familiar teams may be more effective than unfamiliar teams at using the knowledge gained from the concurrent completion of multiple tasks.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Feb 2010
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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

07 Sep 2021
News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

this second part of our Skydeck conversation with Immelt, we talk about the trials of the financial crisis, the loneliness of life at the top, and what his post-GE career in education and venture capital have taught him about the future... View Details

20 Feb 2006
HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

Throughout late 2002 and early 2003, Koehn and her team continued working on the project. However, after many months of research and a visit to Chicago to watch Winfrey tape a show, they still had not gained access to company executives.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

filing of the 13D. Informed traders find it profitable to concentrate their trades with a leaking broker because the loss due to the information leakage is more than compensated by the gains derived from trading on the information... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

tax savings. We find that 2,281 top executives strategically realized their built-in capital gains prior to the tax hikes to save nearly $741 million in personal taxes in 2012. These executives also (1) make... View Details

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

assembled an experienced staff during a highly volatile period for such start-ups itself seemed a milestone, and a symbol of the enterprises that might be imagined and attempted in an American economy with deep reserves of risk capital... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About

will need to be resourceful to embrace new opportunities that come your way. I believe that as you look back at your HBS experience a few years from now, you will remember not what you lost , but what you gained : important skills of... View Details

18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54963 Investing Outside the Box: Evidence from Alternative Vehicles in Private Capital By: Lerner, Josh, Jason Mao, Antoinette Schoar, and Nan R. Zhang Abstract—This paper undertakes a... View Details