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Are Buybacks Really Shortchanging Investment?
By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang
It’s no secret that the American economy is suffering from the twin ills of slow growth and rising income inequality. Many lay the blame at the doors of America’s largest public corporations. The charge? These firms prefer to distribute cash generated from their... View Details
Keywords: Economy; Investment; Stocks; Business and Shareholder Relations; Equality and Inequality; United States
Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Are Buybacks Really Shortchanging Investment?" Harvard Business Review 96, no. 2 (March–April 2018): 88–95.
- 27 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Impact Investing Fund Course: An Experiential Education in Social Financing
report. Small businesses are a major growth lever for wealth creation and employment in Massachusetts and across the country. Yet, many BIPOC-led and -owned businesses currently face systemic barriers to raising capital, including... View Details
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Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell
productively engage customers in the creation of value. The alignment of our interests and our complementary experiences in financial services—Michelle’s as a practitioner and mine as a researcher—make us a great team. Introduction... View Details
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Demo Day | New Venture Competition
Systems Lisa Yan (MBA 2025), Drew Borinstein (MBA 2025) Argus Systems accelerates AI model development for physical AI. Atlas Reese Dorrepaal (MBA 2025), Meredith Rintoul (MBA 2025) Atlas is an AI-powered... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
reactor" in accelerating the rise in health-care costs. Why is this system such a problem? A: By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients' needs. Today's doctors work in a... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private firms operating in free markets. We wanted to know in what ways forces within capitalism itself might create... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
conflict—that could be revived with an influx of financial resources, and that would ensure fair distribution of the fruits of the resulting growth. Today the poorest regions of the world benefit from no such infrastructure. And what... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings illuminate a continuum of open systems to closed systems phenomenological... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jan 2021
- News
Better Than Cash
Goals. Whether it’s improvements in sanitation or health or education, it starts with a payment system everyone can use.” The Better Than Cash Alliance advocates for this type of digital financial inclusion,... View Details
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
little progress has been made in reducing cost overruns even though more than 20 reform proposals were launched during this time. "Despite the focus and effort dedicated towards reform in the past fifty years, important systemic... View Details
Arjun Chopra
production systems on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for 10 of the top 20 Global financial institutions), managed over 200M hours of uptime in the public cloud and was recognized as one of AWS' top 22 partners... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
Motor was turned around by Carlos Ghosn. Ghosn was sent from Renault, the French auto company, which acquired management control of the financially distressed Nissan in March 1999. Ghosn motivated Nissan’s middle management and... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
correct the underlying weaknesses. When it comes to corporate governance, for too long we have relied on the first approach. It's time to take a deeper look, see where the stressors in the system lie, and commit to structural reforms. In... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
in my spare time, and we were trying to find our way. Right from the beginning, the question was: What is the role of business in the broader systemic conversation? My own work has always been focused on climate change, and if I have to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
state after an outbreak of illness. Approved the first generic versions of Coreg, a widely used medication for high blood pressure and chronic heart failure. Proposed new standards for formulating, testing, and labeling sunscreen drug products and established a UVA... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
difficult to save money or establish a financial history. Goodwin-Groen’s career-long commitment to international development led her to start the Better Than Cash Alliance—now a consortium of 75 governments, corporations, and... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
emerging Asian markets. Paper: http://www.asiabusinessinsights.com/articles.html#sub_articles_E-commerce_in_Asia Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel G. Hanson Publication:Review of Financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
ordering system and takeout food. Business after business pivoted remarkably quickly. To me, that was the huge and very positive lesson of this crisis: Businesses are amazing at figuring out a path forward. FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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State (CATS) (also listed under General Management) Debora L. Spar Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Capitalism: Past, Present, Future Sophus A. Reinert Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Creating the Modern Financial System David Moss... View Details