Capital Controls - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

business. It is argued that the country of origin of a technological innovation is less economically important than the ability of a society to capitalize on that innovation and convert it into profitable business opportunities.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race

engineers to work on exciting projects like designing rockets for satellite delivery. Besides, he held the “naive view that starting a space company might be fun and profitable.” Founded with two HBS classmates, Bruce Ferguson (MBA 1979, JD 1981) and Scott Webster (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008

IBM's "Radical Collaboration" model has been an innovative approach to meeting the challenges of the huge R&D and capital investments that are needed to stay competitive in the global semiconductor industry. This model has... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way

faculty members will lead sessions at the conference, with about forty distinguished panelists. These experts, many of whom wield international influence on topics such as exchange rate policies, controls on View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact

influence an organization can have on social factors beyond its boundaries." Most research on organizational performance focuses on cause-and-effect situations that assume degrees of linearity and control that exist only in limited... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

experiment: a 1990 law that imposed a SBs on all firms incorporated in Massachusetts. We find that the law led to an increase in Tobin's Q. Examining mechanisms for the change in firm value, we find that managers protected by a SB increased investment in View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

directors. Controlling for these effects and other ratings determinants, we find that firms with lower residual ratings have higher subsequent citations in corruption news events. They also report higher future sales growth and show a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2008
News

Innovation, Inc.

entrepreneurship itself. At HBS we define entrepreneurship as the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources you currently control — so, obviously, creativity is a big factor.” In her new elective course, Leading Innovative Ventures, HBS... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Mar 2006
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The Producers

producer, if you can maintain the rights, or have a pool of capital at your disposal, or both, you are ahead of the game.” Zee and the other alums interviewed for this article agree that it’s become more difficult over the past ten to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Jun 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

condemnation and sanctions plague Russian adventurism in Ukraine, Putin retains control of Donbass and Crimea and threatens to take more. How should the West (specifically, the United States) support Ukrainian democratic View Details

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

when its market capitalization increased 4,500 percent from about $4 billion to about $197 billion. The sense of, as they say at Intel, of bleeding blue. Q: An Intel way. A: Yes. Oh, very much so, there was an Intel way. They had their... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

delivery app Dolly, and Peter is creative and brand director at PitchBook, which he likens to a “Bloomberg for the private capital markets.” Peter Escher reads to Josh while Diane Escher tackles toothbrushing duty as part of the bedtime... View Details

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

spending needs as well as economic factors such as rising interest rates that affect different assets in different ways. Viceira's research analyzes asset allocation strategies for personal and institutional investors. He teaches investment management and View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

the co-founders and co-CEOs of salaUno, Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, were encouraged by the results of their fledgling start-up. salaUno was founded as a for-profit enterprise in order to have the capital needed for rapid growth... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 May 2020
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“Walking a Tightrope”

on shareholder capitalism. We need to move from shareholder capitalism and more to stakeholder capitalism. And yes, there are some CEOs leading the charge. Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982) at JP Morgan Chase is one case in point. He is someone... View Details

15 Dec 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air

it up to that, what are the costs and what are the revenues? So you’re thinking about energy, you’re thinking about materials, you’re thinking about capital costs. You’re thinking about, once we have the carbon, how do we sequester it?... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

03 Jun 2016
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Again in a Great City

future begins along Woodward Avenue in the central business district—“Dan Gilbert’s duchy,” Cummings says, as he navigates the city behind the wheel of a silver Chrysler minivan, his Detroit-made Shinola watch glinting in the sun. Gilbert View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

multibillion-dollar Capital Cities/ABC media empire of the 1990s. Not long after, laboring in similar obscurity in rural Ohio, Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. (MBA '61), and H. Irving Grousbeck (MBA '60), cofounders of Continental Cablevision,... View Details

19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

different organizational contexts, i.e., summer field training and during academic semesters. Leader performance was measured with leadership grades (supervisor ratings) aggregated over four years at West Point. Findings-After controlling... View Details