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- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
investments by sharing in the profits generated by broadcasting rights and advertising revenues. The founders initially placed a $100 million fundraising target on the fund, which will invest in young growth-stage companies. Causeway has... View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
enterprises” Never mind whether this was ever truly so black and white—Western countries certainly had their share of state-owned businesses back in the 1970s—but what is clear is that times have changed. Liberalization of markets in many... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
networks is to middle managers, who may become obsolete when layers of managers are no longer needed to convey messages up and down the organization.” A year ago many people poked fun at Facebook as a place where kids shared their latest... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
a field largely based to that point on practice and shared (often untested) wisdom handed down from one generation to the next. This was followed by, among other things, the growing acceptance of a 1970 declaration by Milton Friedman that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2192460 Dollar Funding and the Lending Behavior of Global Banks Authors:Ivashina, Victoria, David S. Scharfstein, and Jeremy C. Stein Abstract A large share of dollar-denominated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
from investors. CircleLending is a pioneer in the informal lending market, a largely unstudied and little understood consumer finance segment. Asheesh Advani, the founder and CEO of CircleLending, must evaluate the relative attractiveness... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
maintained his control in part by creating a banking system that functioned more as a kind of investment club, Maurer says. Local businessmen would agree to lend each other money to finance one another's companies, while also selling... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
to a disproportionate rise in innovations where information on future prospects is revealed quickly and cheaply and has reduced the relative share of innovation in complex technologies where initial experiments cost more and reveal less.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
money to invest. Associate Professor Ramana Nanda further differentiates between crowdfunding through donations or lending and equity crowdfunding. In the case of donations, which is currently much more common, funders expect little if... View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
336-339 Abstract Experimental economics and social psychology share an interest in a widening subset of topics, relying on similar lab-based methods to address similar questions about human behavior, yet dialogue between the two fields... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
April 4, 2019 Palgrave Macmillan Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity By: Mills, Karen G. Abstract—Fintech, Small Business & the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
less busy than the present, they may underweight the value of these purchases. We examine the impact of debiasing this previously unexplored barrier of consumer decisions to "buy time" in a field experiment with a U.S.-based View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
its own functionality with the target's in a multi-platform bundle that leverages shared user relationships. We build upon the traditional view of bundling for economies of scope and price discrimination and extend this view to include... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808025 PublicationsRelated Lending and Economic Performance: Evidence from Mexico Authors:Noel Maurer and Stephen Haber Publication:Journal of Economic History 67, no. 3... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
disconfirmed our initial estimate, we dropped the CEO from our sample. Q: What made these leaders unusual? A: The CEOs were quite different in personality, background, and leadership style. But they were similar in what they saw as the purpose of the firm. They View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
markets, where they were losing market share to the likes of Apple and Samsung, or defend its market leadership in the low-margin, high-volume emerging markets. This case poses the following questions: Should Nokia stay the course,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Global Change in the Built Environment
leadership of the real estate industry around the world. I also was able to share what we are trying to teach in our real estate MBA curriculum and get feedback on what we now teach or might teach in the future. Several alumni proposed... View Details
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
all parties while others inherently benefit the rich and strong at the expense of the poor and weak. Furthermore, some can be beneficial but also lend themselves to abuse, especially by people without a conscience, and therefore call for... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), to participate in a workshop with academics who study government regulation and industry compliance. The event featured a series of presentations by scholars sharing their research findings and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
country, they yearned for shelter, a sanctuary in a new land. That shelter could be a tenement, a farmstead, a ramshackle cottage. For families, home had a connotation of safety and stability. Banks did not lend with 30-year amortizing... View Details