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- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
sensitivity of investment is lower in countries with better-developed financial markets. This suggests that financial development may mitigate financial constraints. This effect is weaker in conglomerate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
interest rates (the slope of the yield curve) is currently quite large by historical standards. Some observes attribute this to the fact that the Fed policy View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
pursuit of financial gain and pay closer attention to their impact on employees, customers, communities, and the environment. But changing an organization’s DNA may require upending the existing business model and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
of countries with deteriorated corporate financial fragility indicators (Altman’s Z-score). Firm size plays a critical role in the relationship between leverage, firm fragility, and exchange rate movements... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
find that involuntary closures are most frequent in U.S. counties with high rates of households headed by single mothers, low levels of college education, high View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
effectiveness because people were not accountable to each other for progress, did not have shared understanding of their work, and faced interpersonal risks when reaching out to other roles. The redesign introduced new mesolevel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
The Brazil-USA Cotton Dispute and the Incremental Balancing of Interests Author: Arthur A. Daemmrich Publication: Trade, Law and Development (summer 2012) Abstract The World Trade Organization (WTO) features... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
case explores a new business venture to bring clean water to residents of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, who otherwise cannot afford it. Management has enough money to get the company through August 2010 but needs more capital thereafter. An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
rates to those facing high tax rates. Evidence from the worldwide operations of U.S. multinational firms indicates that affiliates in low-tax jurisdictions use trade credit to lend, whereas those in high-tax... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia
the role of professors: The average researcher in the study reported an income of $150,000 a year. The highest earners, with average incomes of $200,000, studied economics,... View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
Barclays plc admitted that it had manipulated LIBOR-a benchmark interest rate that was fundamental to the operation of international financial markets and that was the basis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
of its key staff, and whose misleading, but lawful, advertising of interest rates is drawing customers away from HDFC. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal
maintain a company's culture."—Nabil N. El-Hage "The case highlights some interesting tensions and conflicts in the private equity business between generating wealth for the firm's investment professionals via the fee stream,... View Details
- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
to grow and prosper. Manufacturing sectors in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore face the pressing problem of lower wage competition from plants in China. Thus many of those... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
volume. The distinguishing operational characteristic of by-product synergy is that quantities of the primary product and by-product are linked, with production of the primary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
economies to land politics. Dalian, benefitting from early access to foreign capital, consolidated control over urban territory through the designation of a development zone, which realigned local economic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All
While some of those new businesses are bound to fail, as is typical, perhaps the findings provide some welcome encouragement: Entrepreneurs not only land on their feet after a failure, but actually move... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53981 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Pay Now or Pay Later? The Economics Within the Private Equity Partnership By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Josh Lerner... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million
were no longer anonymous. Finally, they realized that price was important, so they concentrated on growing in cities with high priced hotel rooms, where hosts could charge from 30 percent to 80 percent lower prices than hotels in the same... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
stylized facts: (i) shocks to N have a large effect on S, (ii) business cycles in N lead over medium-term fluctuations in S, (iii) the outputs in S and N co-move more than their consumption, and (iv) interest View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel