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- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
important contributor to sustained economic growth than such things as openness to trade, a competitive exchange rate, level of foreign investment, or the quality and stability of a country's political institutions. At the risk of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
reactions to the tragedy and to share emotional support. Food and clothing drives were organized on campus, and the School set up a matching fund for contributions made by students, faculty, and staff to the American Red Cross Liberty... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Growth Fund, run by CEO Kevin Hall (MBA 1996), to raise a $30 million fund dedicated to starting and growing new charter organizations in Tennessee. One of the Growth Fund's grantees is Melissa Megliola-Zaikos (MBA 2000), founder and CEO... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
specialization, or firm prestige. We discuss the theoretical implications of these results for the literatures on status and groups, along with practical implications for strategic human resource management. The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
making something from nothing had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today's startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
financial regulatory structures in order to make it viable. Before ARD could offer its stock, for instance, it had to obtain a number of exemptions under the Investment Company Act of 1940 from the Securities and Exchange Commission. ARD... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
concentrated in hedge funds but is not present for investment advisors or pension funds. Overall, our results suggest that private meetings help a select group of investors make more informed trading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
local artisans and the timber trade without degrading the land. Are there similarities between your work in Costa Rica and the Massachusetts Audubon project you tackled after returning to Boston? The plan in Boston was a high-profile,... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a simple setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless paper, it trades off the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
Kominers: NFTs go mainstream Last year saw a huge spike in the creation and sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), digital ownership records stored on distributed ledgers called blockchains. People bought and traded NFTs of everything from... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
broker, such imitation does not occur. Similarly, we show that the clients of the broker employed by activist investors to execute their trades tend to buy the same stocks just before the filing of the 13D. This evidence also suggests... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
some risks and its politics will remain opaque and confusing to outsiders attempting to do business there." Is Foreign Investment Enough? NAFTA offers another insight into the economies of Mexico and other developing nations. In the working paper "Was NAFTA... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
opposites. The objective in war is to defeat the enemy. In negotiation, the goal is to find a solution that satisfies all the parties. Not surprisingly, little cross-learning and exchange has occurred across the two domains. In spite of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
Lalocracio In thinking about the current contested state of global capitalism, and what to do about it, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Seeking the Unconventional in Forging Histories of Capitalism, which... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
aggregate equity value of these companies from $10 billion to more than $175 billion in just five years, says Slaughter. Today, there are approximately 180 publicly traded REITs in the United States, with equity assets totaling $375... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
make more money.” The data back up that philosophy. A 2016 survey of publicly traded companies from the Peterson Institute for International Economics found that the presence of more women in top positions of corporate management... View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
make more money.” The data back up that philosophy. A 2016 survey of publicly traded companies from the Peterson Institute for International Economics found that the presence of more women in top positions of corporate management... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
believe investing in women-led companies will make more money.” The data back up that philosophy. A 2016 survey of publicly traded companies from the Peterson Institute for International Economics found that the presence of more women in... View Details