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- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
control over the use of remittances. In partnership with a Salvadoran bank, we offered U.S.-based migrants from El Salvador bank accounts in their home country into which they could send remittances. We randomly varied migrant control... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
firms - ISI Emerging Markets integrates an impressive database of news, financial statements, industry analyses, equity quotes, and macroeconomic statistics that appear on the Web in both English and the information's original language.... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
new technologies, marketing and society, and so forth. A fine representation of the author's sound scholarship, Readings in Modern Marketing offers important theories as well as practical, insightful tactics. It is an indispensable source... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
Comunale Abstract— This article highlights the benefits that rigorous use of oral history can offer to research on the contemporary business history of emerging markets. Oral history can help fill some of the major information voids... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley
into venture capital, emerging tech, and career-shaping insights. This year’s trek saw a significant expansion, with visits to six top venture capital firms — a 20% increase from last year — offering students deeper insights into the... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 18 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
HBS Students and Alumni Fostering a Supportive Community
After graduating from Cornell University, where he majored in policy analysis, Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021) spent seven years working in education and for a nonprofit that advances equity and economic mobility in the southern United States.... View Details
- 17 Jul 2025
- Blog Post
Turning Doubt into Drive: Embracing Entrepreneurship with Kait Stephens (MBA 2020)
my career in private equity behind? Was my idea big enough? I needed both the space and the confidence to figure it out, which is exactly what HBS provided. Discovering My True Motivation Before attending HBS, I had built a strong... View Details
- Profile
Cristina Ros Blankfein
look and design to inspire a positive reaction. By the holiday season in 2014, Be Mixed launched its first major production run and is currently being sold in 17 different food stores in the New York City area. The pair also unveiled a... View Details
- Web
Latin America - Global Activities 2020
Roth have overlapping research interests in financial inclusion and entrepreneurial constraints in the developing world. They have forged a collaboration during the past two years that is leading to meaningful results for Fondo Esperanza in Santiago, Chile, an... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
repatriated earnings from foreign affiliates exceeded net capital investments by $1.1 trillion in 2010 dollars; and from 1950 to 2010, repatriated earnings and net interest from foreign affiliates exceeded net equity investments and loans... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
that issuance is partly an attempt to arbitrage mispriced characteristics. Our approach helps forecast returns to portfolios based on book-to-market, size, price, distress, payout policy, profitability, and industry. Our results provide a new perspective on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
Experienced negotiators are generally comfortable working out the terms of an economic contract: They bargain for the best price, haggle over equity splits, and iron out detailed exit clauses. But these same View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
that offer them. Hall's research is focused on the optimal design and incentive effects of compensation plans built around equity-based pay and especially stock options, the instruments most responsible for the huge numbers associated... View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
respond to a revised proposal from two private equity firms to take the company private. In November of 2006, the Board had unanimously approved an offer of $37.60 per share after going through intense... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
Harvard Business School Case 208-129 Bob Kelly, the new CEO of Mellon Financial, is considering the terms of a proposed "merger of equals" with The Bank of New York, just before the final Board meeting to approve the deal. The combination View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
Dauphine, the essays offer a new architecture for the future of work. Book Excerpt Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy Essay by Julie Battilana When Sandra arrived in Boston from her hometown of Vitória, Brazil,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
participate in the equity markets unless they had a lot of money. In 2001, however, a law requiring net assets per share to remain above 50,000 yen was repealed, clearing the way for firms to split to lower prices, and thus attract retail... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
at Schulze Global Investments in Ethiopia, the country’s first private equity fund. I specifically wanted to see, in a country with a banking system off-limits to foreign investment and where there are no local capital markets, if foreign... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
“Operating 12 months a year on an island was a noble vision,” Pearson said, “but not economically viable. We knew some changes needed to be made, that the school concept had to be re-thought, and that our season should not include the... View Details