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- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
face. Without frontier technology, they are not competitive. But they cannot adopt frontier technology by themselves. They need a partner that is familiar with the frontier, but this partner will not come for free. She will demand an... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Future has three major premises: The 1970s oil shocks were not anomalies but part of a major transition for energy users and producers; the “externalities” of energy use (its environmental, social, and geopolitical costs) had to be... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
(2011), idiosyncratic shocks to the sales growth of large firms are positively and significantly correlated with GDP growth in our emerging markets sample. Relatedly, the negative impact of exchange rate View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
“I am shocked by how many entrepreneurs and how many VCs haven’t asked the question of what creates the network effect [whereby a product or service becomes more valuable to customers as more people use it], or what creates the economy of... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
that in countries with higher GDP growth leverage is correlated with less corporate financial fragility. Consistent with Gabaix (2011) this paper finds a granularity effect in that large firms are systemically important—idiosyncratic View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
permanent cash flow shocks and transitory discount rate shocks to asset prices and returns. An increase in the cross-country correlations of cash flow shocks raises the risk of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
energy industry come away with a quite different perspective on the strategic and management challenges confronting energy executives today. As demand continues to soar, where will new oil reserves be found? What bets are to be placed by... View Details
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
Working Papers Money or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets? (revised) Authors: Shawn Cole, Thomas Sampson, and Bilal Zia Abstract Why is demand for formal financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
elective: International Entrepreneurial Finance. As he explained in a presentation to other HBS professors during the Faculty Research Symposium on May 20, the research project has led him to examine in detail twenty-nine sites that cover twenty countries. Yet many... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
earnings growth by 6%. Consistent with the hypothesis that this effect derives from the local demand channel, we find that consumption is less responsive to local labor demand View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
to the short-term ones.” Steinwender points out that their findings only apply to companies in the wake of a financial crisis brought on by a banking crash—and don’t necessarily apply to crises brought on by demand View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges
Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges “Water is a human right. It’s shocking that the United States did not sign on to the 2010 United Nations Proclamation on Water and Sanitation, but... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
times the $132 billion that the 1995 Kobe earthquake did, making it one of the Japan's most costly natural disasters. Transportation disruptions and the closing of many factories throughout Japan will shrink Japanese aggregate demand and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
society. In Unsustainable countries—including China, Hong Kong, and South Korea—there was very little integrated reporting by companies and very little interest by investors in nonfinancial performance metrics. These countries need a regulatory View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
2011) Abstract In a vitally important relationship famously caricatured as the "Mad Mullahs" v. the "Great Satan," the fraught negotiating history and future of Iran and the United States demands historical, cultural,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
dedicated their careers to unlocking the potential of agriculture in Africa and are engaged in a range of coronavirus responses. They see COVID-19 as a wake-up call. “Many global experts have underscored that this pandemic is a 12-18 month battle and that we can expect... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
dollar lending more than euro lending in response to a shock to their credit quality. Because these banks rely on wholesale dollar funding, while raising more of their euro funding through insured retail deposits, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
behavior. In a laboratory experiment, I show that crowd out in response to public incentives is much less likely among those with public, as opposed to private, reputations. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50190 Observability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
terms shape the impact of economic shocks on trade. Analysis of transaction-level data from a U.S.-based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, reveals broad patterns about the use of alternative financing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
grenade, which is a very unsophisticated weapon, in the middle of the Hindu Kush mountains, where you can't get around easily. And so to be in the right place at the right time with that kind of a weapon system, it just wasn't making sense. Morrell: After the View Details