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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
thinking, the authors argue that an effective policy response to the pandemic will require the government to accept the prospect of significant losses on credit extended to private sector firms. See Sam’s other research here , Jeremy’s... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
standard, the FASB predicted managers will, on average, use the fair value estimates to convey private information on future cash flows. The current fair value of goodwill is unverifiable because it depends in part on management's future... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
Working Papers The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds Authors: Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner, and Antoinette Schoar Abstract This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 9
characterization of indirect dominance, we investigate von Neumann-Morgenstern farsightedly stable sets. We show that a singleton is von Neumann-Morgenstern farsightedly stable if and only if the matching is stable (Theorem 1). We also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
customers to deliver services in a rapidly changing, uncertain, and complex environment (e.g., hospitals)—play an important role in the economy. Organizational learning studies in these settings have largely investigated autonomous... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
access to Coartem in the private sector through a low-margin, high-volume social business model to eventually enable the Malaria Initiative to break even and become financially sustainable. Was this the right strategy? Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
PublicationsAn Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions Authors:Craig J.Chapman, Thomas J. Steenburgh Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract Prior research hypothesizes that managers use "real... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Finance - Faculty & Research
Entrepreneurship ; Venture Capital ; Working Capital ; Private Equity ; Financial Strategy ; Microfinance ; International Finance ; Currency Exchange Rate ; Profit Sharing ; Revenue ; Developing Countries and Economies ; Economic Growth ;... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5
embodied in the regulatory schemes they help to implement. Drawing on insights from the literatures on street-level bureaucracy and on regulatory and audit design, we theorize and investigate the economic incentives and social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Our Team - Impact Investments
Our Team Our Team Principal Investigators Shawn Cole John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Shawn Cole is a professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and conducts research on financial... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
economies is so high. There are all kinds of opportunities for entrepreneurs to develop markets in the private sector. According to some estimates, about half of U.S. GDP is due to business done by intermediaries in the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5
worldwide establishment dataset, we investigate both the significance and causes of multinational firm co-agglomeration. In contrast to the conventional emphasis of the literature on the role of input-output linkages, we assess the effect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Business History - Faculty & Research
interdisciplinary and global approach to understanding business history. Today business historians at the School investigate a broad range of themes, including entrepreneurship, innovation, globalization, and environmental sustainability.... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
incentives to invest in the face of potential holdup problems and also with the proposition that exclusive arrangements lead firms to seek contingent control rights to avoid lock-in when environmental uncertainty is high. Private Equity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Apr 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders
W. Bush to bail the company out. Even so, GM declared bankruptcy months later. Mary Barra, GM’s CEO since 2014, demonstrates the difference courage can make. Immediately after her appointment, she testified before a hostile Senate View Details
- 14 Mar 2023
- In Practice
What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?
private equity subscription lines—that is, lines secured by VC and private equity fund commitments but ones used to fund investments in the short- to mid-term in lieu of capital call. It appears that this... View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4
Private Equity By: Ewens, Michael, Charles M. Jones, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—This paper explores the private equity and venture capital (VC) markets and extends the standard principal-agent problem... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Profiles - MBA
harnessing technology to achieve this on a broader scale. Professional goals: Private sector innovation has tremendous potential to solve pressing social problems. I aspire to contribute to building and scaling a mission-driven team that... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28
ability to benefit from private information. Consistent with these expectations, we find that abnormal returns to insider purchases-used to proxy for private information-are reduced following IFRS adoption.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne