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- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been plagued by frictions: it is hard for a lender to determine which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
brand: What are people thinking? And you’d expect a much lower sensitivity to administration, to structure, to organizational dynamics, to long-term view, and to capital spending. The incoming president has a really good sense for what... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
Eastern agreements. These include the opening to China after decades of mutual hostility with the United States; détente and the first nuclear arms control treaty with the Soviets at the height of the Cold War; the Paris peace treaty with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
required to support them. Further, government payment for sick people's health care expenses will diminish the massive venture capital investment needed for developing genomically-derived therapies. We stand at the brink of a revolution... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
Drivers of Corporate Sustainability and Implications for Capital Markets: An International Perspective Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Publication:In The Landscape of Integrated Reporting, edited by Robert G. Eccles, Beiting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
not translate into a greater desire to purchase their preferred item or into an overall benefit for choice satisfaction. Time-of-day controls were used to confirm that the observed effects could not be explained by circadian influences.... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
development as a means of raising the lives of previously disadvantaged South Africans. By 1999, the company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, making 36-year-old Surve the youngest CEO of a listed diversified conglomerate. From its inception, Sekunjalo only... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
dog-sized doses,” says Minard. Going beyond supplements, SmartPak Canine introduced high-quality, premeasured dog food, inspired by Tally, Minard’s lovable but extremely overweight (94-pound) Lab. Including high-protein dry food in one of the SmartPak compartments... View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
commercial strategy that is not yet fully defined. As Nutricia defines its strategy, it also has to define the strategic control systems it will use to monitor and fine-tune the strategy moving forward. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). I find that large employers are less likely to be subject to an SEC enforcement action, after controlling for firm size, accounting quality, distance to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
new industries in Japan are things like highly skilled specialist personnel; a lack of risk capital because of heavily controlled financial markets; barriers to commercializing university research; and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
investors than they absorb in new investment funds. From 1982-2010, repatriated earnings from foreign affiliates exceeded net capital investments by $1.1 trillion in 2010 dollars; and from 1950-2010, repatriated earnings and net interest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607010 Note on Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Health Reimbursement Account Vendors Harvard Business School Note 307-034 Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
talented and more risk-averse managers, and these managers work less hard, earn less, and display lower job satisfaction. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-073.pdf Equity-Debtholder Conflicts and Capital Structure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
capital. We examine productivity differentials between machine learning and older vintage technology based on interactions with two important human capital attributes: domain-specific expertise and vintage-specific human capital. Our... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
or an equity mutual fund that holds low-dividend stocks and passes through little in the way of realized capital gains. A high-tax asset might be a standard corporate bond, since the interest payments on a bond held in a taxable account... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
supplying superior bottleneck components while outsourcing non-bottleneck components. I show that a firm pursuing this strategy will have a higher return on invested capital (ROIC) than competitors with a less modular design. Over time,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
integrated-markets models in which the rationally determined price of risk fluctuates in a countercyclical fashion. The results can be partially explained by models in which shocks to intermediary capital or agency problems drive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
"Big labor unions are trying to achieve at the board table what they cannot achieve at the negotiating table, under the guise of shareholder protection," said David Hirschmann, president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Center for View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the center of both environmental quality and economic competitiveness. Cities that can harness public and private capital and competency to build out efficient infrastructure will be far more competitive than their less prescient peers in... View Details