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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
any type is a thorny problem at every stage — innovation, funding, product development, and distribution. “Big companies are not particularly good at innovating, and incumbents are very good at protecting the status quo,” said Dave Prend... View Details
- 26 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Driving Change in Education-to-Employment
young people and companies in need of skills. Year Up’s core program offers skills training and a six-month internship in high-growth fields like IT, Business Operations, and Finance. To date, the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Christopher Cox: Capitol Hill Intellectual
U.S. Court of Appeals; made partner at Latham & Watkins, where he specialized in corporate finance; founded (with his father) a company that published an English version of the... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
as the way to have the most meaningful impact, and what implications their ultimate decision will have on the Family Office in terms of its capital outlays, structure, staffing, and many View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
extrapolating past returns. Such beliefs are hard to reconcile with existing models of the aggregate stock market. We study a consumption-based asset pricing model in which some investors form beliefs about future price changes in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Blog
How the Pandemic Changed Case Development in Latin America
other executives. We did not have to worry that a key executive might be out of the office during our visit. We could schedule Zoom meetings at everyone’s convenience, which... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
positions were significantly more likely than others to repatriate dividends to parent companies in the United States. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18107 How Do Risk Managers Become... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
Historical Collections and faculty interaction surround the north, river-facing lobby, and the new south entrance is home to The Exchange, a gathering place offering real-time news and business information. Faculty offices line the upper... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two hypotheses. The "demand" hypothesis holds that earnings View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
for a number of years in Southeast Asia and have a rather less restrictive view of corruption than most Westerners. In Thailand, my company would not leave envelopes View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
workers with access to free vaccination clinics take advantage of them. (Overall, about 20 percent of vaccines are administered at work.) To boost the number of employees... View Details
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
Federal Reserve's 2003 Survey of Small Business Finances indicated that the average PAYDEX score of those surveyed was 53.4. By contrast, the 2011 NFIB Annual Small Business Finance Survey indicated that the... View Details
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
facilitating their entry at larger firm sizes. On the other hand, the process of lowering financing constraints democratized entry and created a lot more churning among entrants, particularly at the low end... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
commodity, which is far from true, and have focused on lowering costs and improving their competitive position with the gains of one participant coming at the direct expense of View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
investors shapes information diffusion in the stock market. We exploit trade-level data to show that central brokers gather information by executing informed trades, which is then leaked to their best clients. We show that after large informed trades, a significantly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
consumer products. Finally, a series of cubes represents major customers. The shapes lie scattered on your desk. Your job is to fit the pieces together. Do you place the spheres on top of the blocks so that... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
a virtual world than a video game: Millions of users have gathered on the platform for online concerts headlined by Ariana Grande, Travis Scott, and other stars. Tim Sweeney, the CEO View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
DSMC holds as a consistent pattern in a dynamic equilibrium. Given DSMC, clusters of firms making different complementary goods, including open platforms with surrounding ecosystems, can survive and compete... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
investment decisions. Our research, however, documents other critical criteria that investors use to make these decisions: the gender and physical attractiveness of the entrepreneurs themselves. Across a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
many aspects of health care delivery in the United States changed—at least temporarily—out of a need to expand access to care. Outpatient care shifted from offices to... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News