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- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
yields. However, the fraction of seniors is uncorrelated with share repurchases, investment, or profitability, suggesting that geographic variation in dividend payout is not driven by some unmeasured firm characteristic affecting the ability or willingness to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
University Press) Walter Friedman’s Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America documents the history of salesmanship, from the days of peddlers to the creation of modern sales forces at companies like National Cash... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
who may have private relationships with intelligence officials.” The President’s executive order also set in motion the creation of specific information sharing and analysis organizations, which would allow for anonymous distribution of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
deeply personal. In 2021, wind and solar comprised 70% of new U.S. generating capacity additions, with natural gas accounting for just 16%. Diana specifically cited Lazard’s analysis of the relative costs of unsubsidized energy sources,... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
are covered by employers or Medicaid. The healthy people in these insurance pools subsidize the costs of the sick. But many employers, weary of uncontrolled and unpredictable health care costs, will likely soon switch to a pension-like defined contribution system,... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
considered so basic that, regardless of culture, they are accepted as public responsibilities. However, for the low-income populations in developing countries, which constitute the majority of the world, access to these takes place through View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
way to solve it. Morrell: With this goal and the investments from Omidyar and others, Ruma pivoted and soon rebranded as Mapan, a word that implies something is “financially self-sufficient.” Haryopratomo: What Mapan does is it solves a really clear View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
global cooperation, and promote cultural contact and awareness. We use a network approach to demonstrate that the connections between two countries through joint-membership in the same IGOs are associated with a large positive influence on the foreign direct investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
India, Brazil, and other developing nations shook off decades of economic stagnation to achieve remarkable growth. Concurrently, world trade advanced to the point that capital and products now flow freely around the globe. All these... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
entrepreneurs, Bradach and Tierney identified a problem in need of a solution. A booming economy during the 1990s, culminating in dot-com mania, generated a tremendous amount of new wealth that in turn ratcheted up the flow of charitable... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
lowest quality. Our results underscore the importance of considering dynamic effects in the economic analysis of tort laws. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50634 Corporate Purpose and Financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
Working PapersSilent Saboteurs: How Implicit Theories of Voice Inhibit the Upward Flow of Knowledge in Organizations Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines, in a series of three studies, how people... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
that its legality and limited occurrence underline crucial new developments in markets for anatomical goods. While the international organ trade is almost unanimously condemned, human cadavers can legally freely flow across the globe. B.... View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
spurred concerns about its potential impact on the economy more generally. This analysis looks across nations and industries to assess the impact of private equity on industry performance. Industries where private equity funds have... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
operational measures of social enterprise success. Finally, we identify present trends along both dimensions that contribute to changing the research infrastructure for empirical social enterprise research. Originality/value: Our analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
own profits when one side is subsidized in equilibrium. By contrast, if platforms make positive margins on both sides, the same investment has the regular, expected effects. Our analysis implies that the strategy space and the logic of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
euros, so people buy into the coin and cash out of it in more or less the same way as you would with deposits at a bank. Wang: And the reason this is desirable is presumably that it’s a superior system for transparency and trust.... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
customers, and the variables involved in designing an optimal credit card. Concludes with a consideration of the decisions the CRM team had to make in designing the project, including whether to use conjoint analysis or implement a mini... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
are logistical constraints that differ? Are there legal or regulator concerns? For B2B companies, similar concerns must be considered. Additionally, in countries where the cash economy is prevalent, startups must consider how they can... View Details