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    Michael A. Wheeler

    Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

    Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
    • 2022
    • Article

    The Pricing and Ownership of U.S. Green Bonds

    By: Malcolm Baker, Daniel Bergstresser, George Serafeim and Jeffrey Wurgler
    We study green bonds, which are bonds whose proceeds are used for environmentally sensitive purposes. After an overview of the U.S. corporate and municipal green bonds markets, we study pricing and ownership patterns using a simple framework that incorporates assets... View Details
    Keywords: Green Bond; Pricing; Climate Finance; ESG; SRI; Sustainable; Municipal; Bonds; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Markets; Price; Ownership; United States
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    • July 2019
    • Article

    Optimal Capital Structure and Bankruptcy Choice: Dynamic Bargaining vs Liquidation

    By: Samuel Antill and Steven R. Grenadier
    We model a firm’s optimal capital structure decision in a framework in which it may later choose to enter either Chapter 11 reorganization or Chapter 7 liquidation. Creditors anticipate equityholders’ ex-post reorganization incentives and price them into the ex-ante... View Details
    Keywords: Default; Dynamic Bargaining; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Mathematical Methods
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    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    The Search for Peer Firms: When Do Crowds Provide Wisdom?

    By: Charles M.C. Lee, Paul Ma and Charles C.Y. Wang
    In knowledge-based economies, many business enterprises defy traditional industry boundaries. In this study, we evaluate six "big data" approaches to peer firm identifications and show that some, but not all, "wisdom-of-crowd" techniques perform exceptionally well. We... View Details
    Keywords: Peer Firm; EDGAR Co-search; Analyst Co-coverage; Wisdom Of Crowds; Performance Benchmarking; Crowd Of Crowds; Internet and the Web; Accounting
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    • December 2013 (Revised April 2014)
    • Case

    Seeding Growth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

    By: Ray Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Djordjija Petkoski
    By 2013, the agricultural sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had long suffered from war, political instability, and dilapidated infrastructure. A country with 75 million inhabitants and the second lowest GDP per capita in the world in 2011, the DRC's... View Details
    Keywords: National Agricultural Investment Plan (PNIA); Developing Agriculture; World Bank; Poverty Reduction; Special Economic Zones (SEZs); Small-scale Farmers; Agricultural Business Parks; Agriculture Reform; Agribusiness; Economic Growth; Infrastructure; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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    • 31 Jan 2011
    • News

    Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior

    • 22 Sep 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Hunt Allcott, Stanford University

    • Web

    The Diamond Model - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC Competitiveness & Economic Development CED Competitiveness & Economic Development Frameworks & Key Concepts Research & Applications Frameworks & Key Concepts Frameworks... View Details
    • Web

    Strategy Explained - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics Strategy Explained Strategy Explained All strategy is based on understanding competition. Michael Porter’s View Details
    • May–June 2018
    • Article

    Structure That's Not Stifling: How to Give Your People Essential Direction—Without Shutting Them Down

    By: Ranjay Gulati
    Most leaders view employee freedoms and operational controls as antagonists in a tug-of-war. They tend to focus on regulating workers’ behavior, often putting a damper on commitment, innovation, and performance without realizing it. But freedom and control aren’t zero... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Structure; Mission and Purpose; Framework; Employee Relationship Management; Performance Effectiveness
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    • December 2011
    • Article

    EXEMPLARY CONTRIBUTION: Transforming Mental Models on Emerging Markets

    By: Charles Dhanaraj and Tarun Khanna
    Economic growth in the Western world increasingly depends on meaningful engagement with emerging markets such as Brazil, China, India, South Africa, and Turkey. Business schools are responding with increased attention to these markets in their research and curricula.... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Markets; Business Model; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Research; Business Education; Learning; Financial Institutions; Framework; Transformation; Perspective; India; China; Brazil; South Africa; Turkey
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    • Program

    Family Office Wealth Management—Virtual

    gaps Explore the full range of investment opportunities Apply frameworks for evaluating unique investment opportunities for family real estate, niche assets, emerging markets, public market ideas, and startup/venture-backed investments... View Details
    • Web

    Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    That Will Fix Health Care Competitive advantage. The value chain. Five forces. Industry structure. Differentiation. Relative cost. If you want to understand how companies achieve and sustain competitive success, Michael Porter's View Details
    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Channeled Attention and Stable Errors -- Previous Working Version

    By: Tristan Gagnon-Bartsch, Matthew Rabin and Joshua Schwartzstein
    A common critique of models of mistaken beliefs is that people should recognize their error after observations they thought were unlikely. This paper develops a framework for assessing when a given error is likely to be discovered, in the sense that the error-maker... View Details
    Keywords: Perception; Behavior; Theory; Situation or Environment
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    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    A Normative Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategy, Know-How, and Competition

    By: Gary P. Pisano
    The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971), attempts to... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Organizations
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    • 2014
    • Article

    Corporate Governance and the Financial Crisis in Italy

    By: Dante Roscini
    The financial crisis hit Italy harder than many other Eurozone countries. In part this was due to the fact that the crisis came upon a system that was weakened by years of sub-par economic growth. One of the several endogenous factors that explain the stagnation of the... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Corporate Governance; Italy; European Union
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    Efficiencies and Regulatory Shortcuts: How Should We Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber?

    By: Benjamin Edelman and Damien Geradin
    New software platforms use modern information technology, including full-featured web sites and mobile apps, to allow service providers and consumers to transact with relative ease and increased trust. These platforms provide notable benefits including reducing... View Details
    Keywords: Platforms; Regulation; Sharing Economy; Uber; Airbnb; Universal Service; Insurance; Market Platforms; Service Delivery; Software; Service Industry
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    • 2013
    • Report

    Competitiveness at a Crossroads: Finding of Harvard Business School's 2012 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness

    By: Jan Rivkin, Michael E. Porter and Rosabeth M. Kanter
    Harvard Business School gleaned responses from nearly 7,000 alumni and more than 1,000 members of the general public. The survey not only provides an updated view of the U.S. business environment, but also illuminates specific actions that business leaders and... View Details
    Keywords: PK - 12 Education; U.S. Competitiveness; Competition; Education; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; United States
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    • September 2010
    • Case

    Freddie Mac: Managing in Conservatorship

    By: Robert Steven Kaplan, Nitin Nohria and Ben Creo
    Ed Haldeman has recently become CEO of Freddie Mac, one of three major government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) charged with supporting U.S. residential mortgage finance. The company was placed into conservatorship by the U.S. treasury on September 7, 2008.... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Financial Crisis; Mortgages; Leadership; Organizational Culture; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 24 Jan 2011
    • News

    Harvard Business School Introduces Program to Help Realize Opportunities in Emerging Markets