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  • May 2022
  • Article

Coins for Bombs: The Predictive Ability of On-Chain Transfers for Terrorist Attacks

By: Dan Amiram, Evgeny Lyandres and Daniel Rabetti
This study examines whether we can learn from the behavior of blockchain-based transfers to predict the financing of terrorist attacks. We exploit blockchain transaction transparency to map millions of transfers for hundreds of large on-chain service providers. The... View Details
Keywords: Blockchain; Bitcoin; Accounting; AI and Machine Learning; National Security; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • Spring 2014
  • Article

Charting Dynamic Trajectories: Multinational Firms in India

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna
In this article, we provide a synthesizing framework that we call the "dynamic trajectories" framework to study the evolution of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in host countries over time. We argue that a change in the policy environment in a host country presents an... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Change; India
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    Coins for Bombs: The Predictive Ability of On-Chain Transfers for Terrorist Attacks

    This study examines whether we can learn from the behavior of blockchain-based transfers to predict the financing of terrorist attacks. We exploit blockchain transaction transparency to map millions of transfers for hundreds of large on-chain service providers.... View Details
    • 07 Jul 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    4+2 = Sustained Business Success

    research effort in which we carefully examined more than 200 well-established management practices as they were employed over a ten-year period by 160 companies. Our findings took us quite by surprise. Most of the management tools and techniques we View Details
    Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson
    • Research Summary

    International Trade

    Economists believe that there is substantial “missing trade” due to trade barriers, such as tariffs and transport costs, that constrain the global activities of firms. Professor Steinwender goes a step farther by studying indirect trade barriers, notably information... View Details

    • 25 Feb 2016
    • Blog Post

    Dealing with FOMO at HBS

    We’ve heard that many HBS students suffer from FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) when they first arrive on campus. There are so many events to attend, people to meet, and clubs to join – it can be a challenge to soak it all in and prioritize... View Details
    • 04 Dec 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: December 4

    disasters had a positive impact. Firms' philanthropic history and communities' inter-corporate network cohesion moderated some of these effects. This study extends institutional and community literatures by illuminating the geographic... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 06 May 2021
    • HBS Case

    How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

    creating an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem can be seen through the stories of four women—two of them Black, one Latinx, and one white—who launched new enterprises in Miami with an eye to diversifying tech jobs in the future. According to a recent case View Details
    Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Managing Through Organizational Change: Employee Alignment in the Presence of Unexpected Career Concerns

    By: Ohchan Kwon and Jee-Eun Shin
    This study examines performance consequences due to unexpected career concerns – layoff risks due to institutional reasons. Exploiting a company-wide announcement of a merger decision by management as a trigger event for unexpected career concerns, we examine employee... View Details
    Keywords: Career Changes; Performance Measures; Incentives; M＆A; Employees; Personal Development and Career; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance; Motivation and Incentives
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    • 10 Jul 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

    Manage Time By: Porter, Michael E., and Nitin Nohria Abstract—In 2006 Harvard Business School’s Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria launched a study tracking how large companies’ CEOs spent their time, 24/7, for 13 weeks: where they were,... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Securities Litigation Risk for Foreign Companies Listed in the U.S.

    By: Beiting Cheng, Suraj Srinivasan and Gwen Yu
    We study securities litigation risk faced by foreign firms listed on U.S. exchanges. We take into account not only the propensity for foreign firms to commit violations of U.S. securities laws but also the costs that investors face when suing foreign firms. We find... View Details
    Keywords: Litigation Risk; Cross Listing; Bonding; 10b-5; Securities Litigation; U.S.Listing; Class Action; Risk and Uncertainty; Debt Securities; Globalized Firms and Management; Ethics; Lawsuits and Litigation; United States
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    • 18 Apr 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Ideas, April 18

    slowly over time. We discuss the implications of our findings for interest rate predictability, the transmission of monetary policy, and the validity of high-frequency event study approaches for assessing... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Politics at Work

    By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Valdemar Pinho Neto and Edoardo Teso
    We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002–2019 period, we first document the presence of political... View Details
    Keywords: Private Sector; Employees; Prejudice and Bias; Brazil
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    • 03 Jun 2022
    • Blog Post

    HiHome Sweet HiHome

    The story of HiHome is really the story of all the resources available to students at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering (SEAS). Co-founders James Parker and Tony Shu met at a SEAS event in 2019. Parker was in his first... View Details
    • January 2002
    • Article

    Organizational Endowments and the Performance of University Start-ups

    By: Scott Shane and Toby E. Stuart
    The question of how initial resource endowments—the stocks of resources that entrepreneurs contribute to their new ventures at the time of founding—affect organizational life chances is one of significant interest in organizational ecology, evolutionary... View Details
    Keywords: Resource Allocation; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Research; Company History; Initial Public Offering; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Social Movements and Public Opinion in the United States

    By: Amory Gethin and Vincent Pons
    Recent social movements stand out by their spontaneous nature and lack of stable leadership, raising doubts on their ability to generate political change. This article provides systematic evidence on the effects of protests on public opinion and political attitudes.... View Details
    Keywords: Attitudes; Social Issues; Voting; Public Opinion; Social Media
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    • Program

    Program for Leadership Development

    HBS Live Online Classroom. Just as HBS pioneered the case study method, we also built the first live online classroom in 2014 and have been refining and optimizing our virtual program experience ever since. In a world that is now centered... View Details
    • Research Summary

    The timing of team leader coaching interventions

    People who coach teams – including team leaders, senior members of an organization, and external consultants – must observe team dynamics and diagnose opportune moments to intervene.  My dissertation, “The timing and type of team... View Details
    • 11 Mar 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: March 11

    "dynamic trajectories" perspective. We collect and analyze a unique dataset of all entry and exit events for Fortune 50 and FTSE 50 firms (as of 1991) in India in the period from 1858 to 2013 and, additionally, we document... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Program

    Advanced Management Program

    COO, CFO, executive vice president, division president, or managing director Leaders in Virtual Learning This program features sessions in the HBS Live Online Classroom. Just as HBS pioneered the case study method, we also built the first... View Details