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- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Games, and can earn enough revenue to cover large ongoing costs, their owners—local governments and taxpayers—must pay off the deficits. Summer Olympics stadiums, normally built to seat over 70,000 people, are particularly at risk of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
Working PapersLegislating Stock Prices Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Abstract In this paper we demonstrate that legislation has a simple, yet previously undetected impact on firm stock prices. While it is understood that the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Robin Greenwood | About
Robin Greenwood Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research Unit Finance Contact Phone Bio Robin is the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School. He serves as... View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, edited by David Audretsch, Oliver Falck, and Stephan Heblich. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., forthcoming Abstract Financing constraints are one of the biggest concerns impacting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
investor base. For example, adoption of integrated reporting could be a step in this direction. Integrated reporting provides a holistic picture of the business describing the economic, environmental, and social performance of the corporation as well as the View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930
By: Andre C. Martinez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio
There is a large amount of literature that aims to explain what determines country risk (defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk-free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion by arguing that an important explanatory... View Details
- 03 Jun 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Eliciting Taxpayer Preferences Increases Tax Compliance
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
team says. Deciding who makes decisions So, who gets to make those choices? One possibility would be to set broad guidelines via legislation and empower a medical board or government agency to define the details, the researchers argue.... View Details
- 21 May 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
wanted to leverage my knowledge & experience in finance to focus on making a difference in my home region of Asia through impact investing. In China, for example, the sector lacks quite a bit with regards to human capital and View Details
- July 2015 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias and Natalie Bartlett
Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank details the development of the bank's new Office of Outreach Partnerships to sustain a culture of innovation through maintaining and generating partnerships in order to fulfill the bank's greater... View Details
Keywords: Business Organization; Business And Community; Well-being; Wealth and Poverty; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Technology Adoption; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Change Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Partners and Partnerships; Restructuring; Welfare or Wellbeing; Business and Community Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Banking Industry; Latin America
Edmondson, Amy C., Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias, and Natalie Bartlett. "Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank." Harvard Business School Case 616-004, July 2015. (Revised October 2015.)
- 23 Jun 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement
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Dillon House | About
& White as part of the original 1920s campus plan. Construction was delayed until 1965, however, during the tenure of Dean George P. Baker. When it first opened, the three-story, 5,800-square-foot, stucco and brick building provided offices for the School’s View Details
- March 2012
- Article
The Incentive Bubble
By: Mihir Desai
The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea—that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock instruments for managers, high-powered incentive contracts for... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Financial Markets; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Governance; Equality and Inequality; Human Capital; United States
Desai, Mihir. "The Incentive Bubble." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012).
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
centrist Republican Party has shifted to the right edge of the scale, ten clicks to your right. You think of yourself as fairly liberal socially — so you can understand why your daughter doesn’t want the government to step into her most... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
one of 100 Black Board Members Making a Difference by Board Prospects in 2024. Archie L. Jones : Received the 2024 Dr. James I. Cash Advancing Pathways Award. Olivia S. Kim : Winner of the 2024 Best Paper Award at the Red Rock Finance... View Details
- September 2011
- Article
Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality
By: Mark J. Roe and Jordan I. Siegel
We here bring forward strong evidence that political instability impedes financial development, with its variation a primary determinant of differences in financial development around the world. As such, it needs to be added to the short list of major determinants of... View Details
Keywords: Financial Development; Political Instability; Government and Politics; Finance; Growth and Development; Economics; Equality and Inequality
Roe, Mark J., and Jordan I. Siegel. "Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality." Journal of Comparative Economics 39, no. 3 (September 2011): 279–309. (We here bring forward strong evidence that political instability impedes financial development, with its variation a primary determinant of differences in financial development around the world. As such, it needs to be added to the short list of major determinants of financial development. First, structural conditions first postulated by
Engerman and Sokoloff (2002) as generating long-term inequality are shown here empirically to be exogenous determinants of political instability. Second, that exogenously-determined political instability in turn holds back financial development, even when we control for factors prominent in the last decade's cross-country studies of
financial development. The findings indicate that inequality-perpetuating conditions that result in political instability are fundamental roadblocks for international organizations like the World Bank that seek to promote financial development. The evidence here includes country fixed effect regressions and an instrumental model inspired by Engerman and Sokoloff's (2002) work, which to our knowledge has not yet been used in finance and which is consistent with current tests as valid instruments. Four conventional measures of national political instability — Alesina and Perotti's (1996) well-known index of instability, a subsequent index derived from Banks' (2005) work,
and two indices of managerial perceptions of nation-by-nation political instability — persistently predict a wide range of national financial development outcomes for recent decades. Political instability's significance is time consistent in cross-sectional regressions back to the 1960's, the period when the key data becomes available, robust
in both country fixed-effects and instrumental variable regressions, and consistent across multiple measures of instability and of financial development. Overall, the results indicate the existence of an important channel running from structural inequality to political instability, principally in nondemocratic settings, and then to financial
backwardness. The robust significance of that channel extends existing work demonstrating the importance of political economy explanations for financial development and financial backwardness. It should help to better understand which policies will work for financial development, because political instability has causes, cures, and effects quite distinct from those of many of the key institutions most studied in the past decade as explaining financial backwardness.)
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
deal. Map the relationships among those on your all-party map by assessing the informal as well as the formal decision and governance processes. For example, to improve the odds of your ultimate target saying "yes," we often use... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
asset managers with over USD $3 trillion in assets under management. The Asset Stewardship team leverages engagements, proxy voting, and thought leadership to manage material environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks to their... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
and the availability of limited liability to raise finance for the new business opportunities which appeared at this time. They functioned in part as venture capitalists identifying opportunities and placing potential British investors in... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
with a portfolio of more than $90 billion in loan guarantees, the SBA is responsible for ensuring that 23 percent of all government contracts are awarded to small businesses. "That's $100 billion dollars a year," she stresses. Reflecting... View Details