Broad Institute - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

requirements, reorienting the discussion around housing finance reform from keeping mortgage credit cheap to ensuring financial stability, and instituting measures that compel asset managers to compete on the true value of the services... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 28

are deciding whether to refinance their home less than two years after taking out an initial mortgage and a subsequent home equity line of credit. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/209043-PDF-ENG How Institutional... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Harvard and HBS: The Next 100 Years

"build cathedrals." This entails educating leaders who make a difference not just in the world, but for the world. As the institution looks ahead to the next century, there are key areas where new work is planned: The School... View Details

Keywords: Education

28 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

When Harvard Business School launched its Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) in 1993-1994, few academic institutions were conducting serious research and teaching about how to create social value through the nonprofit, private, and public... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

this is not what business does or should do, Henderson said. “If managers can support public institutions and provide public goods and make money, why aren't they?” "They say the answer is regulation or the answer is taxation,"... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

since a few studies examining the earliest offerings in the 1980s," says Lerner. "Instead, broad claims are being based on a few highly visible failures, such as Refco, or else analyses of a handful of recent offerings."... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

08 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 8

that egalitarianism distance has a negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the prevailing legal and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

argument and methodological innovation have moved academic subjects forward, not bland rejections of previous frameworks. The editorial team has identified six broad areas that hold promise. The list is neither exclusive nor prescriptive... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

healthcare industry. Wadhwani earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Pennsylvania, where his research focused on the institutional and regulatory origins of popular banking in the United States. He has received awards and... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

01 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

maximize the purchasing power of consumers or if it is to reinforce certain government favoured industries and, indirectly, the people who work and invest in those industries. After more than thirty years when broad international... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

(that total half the value of the U.S. market). "On the trading level," says Seifert, " we need a liquidity pool that gives us low-cost, cross-border access. To accomplish this, we are merging institutions and employing a... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

contests with real impact in healthcare. We have two programs underway with the Connectivity MAP at the Broad Institute for accelerating drug discovery, and one program with Massachusetts General Hospital on... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

think there's a movement away from maximizing shareholder value as the primary focus and motivation for a corporation's existence, and toward a growing recognition that companies are economic institutions that provide benefits to many... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

12 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

which transparency can backfire. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55804 forthcoming PS: Political Science & Politics Informal Institutions and Survey Research in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq By:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Slaughter, managing director and head of North American real estate investment banking for Morgan Stanley. Some refer to the post-crash era as a paradigm shift for commercial real estate. Others call it a sea change. Whatever the choice of words, there's View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

manage investors' expectations, and how you manage partners. The competitive advantage of the U.S. economy lies in our great science institutions and university infrastructure. —Gary Pisano "I see a lot of great research going on... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

you: more police equals less crime. But there has been no evidence to support that [in previous studies]. "In 1994 there was a terrible terrorist attack on the Jewish community in Buenos Aires. Afterwards, the government placed one police officer in front of each... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

variety of important domains, from education and business to law and societal discourse. An emerging research literature has revealed the many ways in which colorblindness shapes individual, group, and institutional efforts to handle... View Details