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- August 2006
- Background Note
Factors that Influence Cross-Border Equity Investment
Introduces students to factors that impact global equity flows, including institutional friction, investor protection, firm visibility, firm understanding, and culture. View Details
Miller, Gregory S. "Factors that Influence Cross-Border Equity Investment." Harvard Business School Background Note 107-020, August 2006.
- 06 Oct 2020
- Video
Black Founders: Brian Hollins, MBA 2021
- 17 Sep 2010
- News
Something for the weekend
- 13 May 2011
- News
Something for the weekend
- 09 Jun 2016
- Video
Hold Onto Your Complexity: Bringing Multiple Identities to Work
- 04 Mar 2024
- Video
Highlights from Demo Day 2024
- 02 Nov 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Organizational Response to Environmental Demands: Opening the Black Box
Keywords: by Magali A. Delmas & Michael W. Toffel
- 2018
- Chapter
Between Economic Planning and Market Competition: International Law and Economics in the U.S.
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
The impact of institutional economics in shaping the American regulatory tradition has largely been dismissed as an incoherent attack on the neoclassical economic paradigm. This essay briefly reconstructs the interwar institutionalist movement, exploring the... View Details
Keywords: Economics; History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; United States
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Between Economic Planning and Market Competition: International Law and Economics in the U.S." In New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy, edited by Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert, 349–374. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
James A. Hamilton Award, American College of Healthcare Executives
- Research Summary
Overview
My research is centrally concerned with aspects of social cognition writ large, i.e., organizational identity, learning, creativity, intelligence, and leadership, as well as its social embeddedness in larger systems of meaning arising from organizational fields, market... View Details
- 22 Jun 2017
- News
Building greater capacity
- 15 Nov 2023
- Video
Choosing Learning Over Knowing
- March 2025 (Revised June 2025)
- Background Note
Getting to Net Zero: The Role of the Financial Sector
By: Shawn Cole, Jonah Zahnd, Karina Chung and Jack Cenovic
In early 2025, momentum towards the goal of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 continued in many parts of the world, even as it appeared to face a set-back following the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States. Financial institutions... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Law; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Risk and Uncertainty; Competitive Advantage; Financial Services Industry
Cole, Shawn, Jonah Zahnd, Karina Chung, and Jack Cenovic. "Getting to Net Zero: The Role of the Financial Sector." Harvard Business School Background Note 225-066, March 2025. (Revised June 2025.)
- Working Paper
How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?
By: Paul A. Gompers, William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan and Ilya A. Strebulaev
We survey 885 institutional venture capitalists (VCs) at 681 firms to learn how they make decisions across eight areas: deal sourcing, investment selection, valuation, deal structure, post-investment value-added, exits, internal firm organization, and relationships... View Details
Gompers, Paul A., William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ilya A. Strebulaev. "How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 22587, September 2016.
- August 2020
- Article
Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan
By: Daron Acemoglu, Ali Cheema, Asim I. Khwaja and James A. Robinson
Lack of trust in state institutions is a pervasive problem in many developing countries. This paper investigates whether information about improved public services can help build trust in state institutions and move people away from non-state actors. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Dispute Resolution; Lab-in-the-field Games; Legitimacy; Motivated Reasoning; Non-state Actors; State Capacity; Trust; Conflict and Resolution; Information; Developing Countries and Economies
Acemoglu, Daron, Ali Cheema, Asim I. Khwaja, and James A. Robinson. "Trust in State and Non-State Actors: Evidence from Dispute Resolution in Pakistan." Journal of Political Economy 128, no. 8 (August 2020): 3090–3147.
- 2006
- Comment
The Rise and Fall of the Widely Held Firm: A History of Corporate Ownership in Canada
By: Jordan I. Siegel
This chapter features an admirable effort by by Morck, Percy, Tian, and Yeung to apply recent developments in law and finance theory to a longitudinal country-level case study. The authors closely examine nearly 500 years of Canadian corporate governance and analyze... View Details
Siegel, Jordan I. Comment on "The Rise and Fall of the Widely Held Firm: A History of Corporate Ownership in Canada." A History of Corporate Governance around the World: Family Business Groups to Professional Managers, edited by Randall K. Morck. University of Chicago Press, 2006.
- 25 Aug 2009
- News
An Ounce of Prevention
- Teaching Interest
Organization and Management Theory
This doctoral seminar explores fundamental aspects of organizations and organization theory. This seminar will cover various approaches to organizations and the institutional contexts within which they operate. We will pay particular attention to innovation and... View Details
- September 2001
- Background Note
Financial Reporting Environment, The
Provides a framework for understanding the role of financial reporting and various intermediaries as mechanisms for reducing both adverse selection and moral hazard problems in capital markets. Financial reports reduce adverse selection by providing basic information... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Capital Markets; Venture Capital; Corporate Disclosure; Conflict of Interests
Healy, Paul M., Amy P. Hutton, Robert S. Kaplan, and Krishna G. Palepu. "Financial Reporting Environment, The." Harvard Business School Background Note 102-029, September 2001.