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- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
hazard. Our results have broad implications for regulation, financial auditing, and private credit- and quality-rating agencies in financial markets. Read the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1640638 The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
the industry and in China. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/909403 Harvard Business School Case 216-052 Bankruptcy at Caesars Entertainment Caesars Entertainment was a large casino operator in the United States that had been purchased in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
pilot clinical trials for glioblastoma and other non-small cell lung cancer, and the first pivotal clinical trial for glioblastoma. Additional financing is needed to proceed with the strategically important second pivotal trial. In the fall of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
Business Administration and author of Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups As United States equity markets and corporate balance sheets continue their remarkable comeback from the View Details
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
leverage have to include large institutional investors. I was reminded of this when I read of David Swenson’s recent message to organizations managing Yale’s money under Swenson’s highly successful supervision. He told them that their performance would be judged on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
time," he remarks. "In my thesis, I analyzed why certain S&Ls adopted high-risk strategies while others did not and found that high leverage was an important consideration." As the S&L crisis passed and interest in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
Publications November 2014 Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias Los Buenos Tiempos Son Éstos: Los efectos de la incursión de la banca extranjera en México después de un siglo de crisis bancarias [These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
leverage and financial fragility for emerging market firms following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Corporate debt vulnerability indicators during the Asian View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
insight into perceptions of the company's conduct among a large cross section of employees around the world, and to benchmark themselves against other leading companies. When the global financial crisis hit,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49375 Enabling Versus Controlling-Online Appendix By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Abstract—No abstract available. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49378 Mobile Money... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
likely to be varsity-sports leaders in high school; they are also more likely to join fraternities and sororities, a decision typically made at college entry. Sizable differences in academic performance begin in freshman year and persist throughout college. The View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
Abstract—Google Flu Trends article of November 2008 heralded a new age for big data where it is possible to leverage the vast amount of data to speak for itself, without theory or expert knowledge of the subject matter. However, in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
Entrepreneurs in U.S. Financial History, 1775-1914 Author:T.K. McCraw Publication:Capitalism and Society 5, no. 1 (2010) Abstract Throughout its history, the U.S. has been the beneficiary of a worldwide in-migration of entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
ends with a discussion on how to build and lead a successful ambidextrous organization. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/118008-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-029 21st Century Populism While the first decade of the 21st century saw... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
multiple ways and installing reward and recognition programs. It also establishes new programs to align the extensive networks of suppliers and dealers to the strategy. But after a sharp decline in sales triggered by the global financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
Indeed, a majority of the Bank's 185-member countries never receive a chance to sit at the table, suffering in tangible and less-tangible ways in terms of continued poverty for their people. In 2008 the World Bank's two main development... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry
By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio
In Maseru, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, the stirrings of industrialization and modernization were promising, and more than 50,000 workers, mostly women, were employed in the textile sector; the figure reflected more than a threefold increase in just a few... View Details
Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Trade; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Financial Crisis; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Lesotho
Abdelal, Rawi E., Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer, and Aldo Musacchio. "The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry." Harvard Business School Case 706-043, March 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
argues that they are "institutionalizing their own irrelevance" by becoming too focused on scientific research that has little connection to business reality. Ten scholars echo Bennis's criticism in the December/ January 2008... View Details
- 22 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage
The first edition of A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics, by David A. Moss was published in 2007—just as one of the world's great economic downturns was taking off. The second edition has just been published, which includes an epilogue on the View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Moss