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  • 08 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

manner that increases reimbursement or avoids financial penalties. Identifying upcoding in claims data is challenging due to unobservable confounders (e.g., patient risk). We leverage state-level variations in adverse event reporting View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

Moreover, we discuss, through a series of case studies, what constitutes an effective integrated report (Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company) and the role of regulation in integrated reporting (Anglo-American). Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

what we have learned about how best to accelerate innovation from industries like IT and pharmaceuticals - sectors in which the US leads the world and which saw enormous rates of technical progress over the last fifty years. The results... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

reasons—and revisits the associated implications for investing and corporate finance, examining asset allocation, high leverage in financial firms, low leverage in industrial firms, private equity, venture capital, and bank capital View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

IFC India 2025: Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture - Blog - Business & Environment

credits provide farmers with additional income while supporting companies’ carbon neutrality goals. Though India’s carbon market is currently voluntary, Varaha is preparing for the transition to a regulated system by ensuring that credits... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

One-on-One with Robert McNamara

kid” at Ford Motor Company, McNamara climbed the corporate ladder and, after fourteen years, was named president (the first from outside the Ford family) in November 1960. Bucking sacrosanct industry notions, he promoted vehicle safety... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 23 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

banking and would result in the 10th-largest bank in the world. Discusses the main sources of value creation from international expansion and acquisitions in the commercial banking industry. Also, highlights the barriers to integration within the single market of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

where you stand. You also need to prevent competitors from imitating your methods. A second strategy is to up the ante on a competitive level within your industry by raising your own costs in order to provide an environmental good, but... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jul 2000
  • What Do You Think?

Where Is the Microsoft Board?

or compensation are either non-existent or academic. And the founder and largest shareholder is very active in governance matters. Then the public offering occurs. Regulation or law requires changes in behavior. Outside members of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 25 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 25

scale and influence in the technology industries that fall under the incidence of their assets. We also discuss some efficiency issues raised by the growing prominence of patent merchants. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

expand internationally with a regional focus on East Asia or, alternatively, a focus on the U.S. and other Western markets. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708479 HNA Group: Moving China's Air... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

believe that these extraordinary times call for massive public funds to be used for economic interventions, shouldn't these efforts be at least partially designed to promote new enterprises? Second, in many nations the venture industry is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 02 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

money wages. Although many workers were now living better than before, many were also less secure, since they could no longer rely on extended family support networks, which were a common feature of farm life. Any interruption in an View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

is a need for a fund like this at the time of the case. Supports discussion of specialized versus generalized venture capital funds. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=805075 John Moran and the Orthopedics View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

causes leading to the Mexican crisis of 1994-1995 (known as "The Tequila Crisis"), and its short- and long-term consequences. It argues that excessive enthusiasm on the part of foreign investors, not based on Mexico's fundamentals, and weak View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

Up by the Roots

regulated industry containing a number of distinct verticals, from capital markets to asset management and lending. Few cities on earth can boast a talent pool with quite as much relevant domain expertise as... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page
  • Web

Demo Day | New Venture Competition

that automates the customs brokerage process end-to-end to improve the efficiency of logistics companies. Kykloris Hande Ilhan (MBA 2025) Kykloris installs modular systems in industrial seafood processing facilities, converting waste into... View Details
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

company. A simple portfolio strategy of going long the buy recommendations with school ties and going short buy recommendations without ties earns returns of 5.40% per year. We test whether Regulation FD, targeted at impeding selective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

http://papers.nber.org/papers/W15551 Labor Regulations and European Private Equity Authors:Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

prompted many industrialized states worldwide to increase their stakes in private corporations. This wave of partial nationalizations has come amidst full-scale expropriations in developing countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace