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- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
Credit: iStockPhoto Startups often struggle to find their first customers—especially in the sharing economy, where survival depends on securing users on both the supply and demand sides. No surprise, then, that our readers flocked to a...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
earmarked for philanthropy ends up going toward efforts to rescue the firm itself. (Call it a case of securing your own oxygen mask first.) As it turned out, the researchers' findings more or less split the difference. In cases of small-...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
School Case 615-017 Qihoo Qihoo, one of the largest Internet companies in China today, was founded in 2005. The company started its business by offering a security software produc, and quickly dominated the market in China after its...
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Sean Silverthorne
- November 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Case
Loewen Group Inc., The
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jose Camacho
A publiclytraded funeral home and cemetery consolidator faces imminent financial distress. The company has aggressively grown through use of debt. Restructuring the debt is potentially very costly to creditors, shareholders, suppliers, and other corporate stakeholders....
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International Accounting;
Restructuring;
Capital Structure;
Cost of Capital;
Debt Securities;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Crisis Management;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Service Industry
Gilson, Stuart C., and Jose Camacho. "Loewen Group Inc., The." Harvard Business School Case 201-062, November 2000. (Revised December 2000.)
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
Securities Corp., Camp Dresser & McKee Inc., Landmark Communications, and the Baupost Group, Inc., said when he initially came to HBS to research and teach on the field of entrepreneurship, the idea was greeted with a certain disdain....
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by Carrie Levine
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
Hiring more minority loan officers could help people of color secure significantly more home loans and address one of the biggest factors driving the racial wealth gap, new research finds. In the white-dominated US banking industry,...
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- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
personal persuasion. Kearney, her twin sister, is an entrepreneur and scholar whose research is fueled by both a frustration with and curiosity about the dearth of venture capital for women. (In the first half of 2013, companies with at least one female founder View Details
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
case in China, adequate investment had been put into roads, bridges, and power plants, I suspect that a much larger fraction of the money coming into India would have been productively deployed into longer-term fixed assets, securing it...
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by Zeenat Potia
- 28 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Can We Expect in the Other War?
large, traditional form of organization and workplace? Will both have to be adapted to a need that some talented people may feel for safer, more comfortable "cocoons" in which to work? Will the daily reminders of the need for increased View Details
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by James Heskett
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
http://www.cengage.com/aushed/instructor.do?disciplinenumber=1028&product_isbn=9781133626701&courseid=MN05&codeid=2A3A&sortBy=copyrightYear&sortByShow=all August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Accountability of Independent Directors-Evidence...
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Anna Secino
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
third-party opinions about the credit-worthiness of a firm or a security. Over the past decades, the financial system has come to rely more and more on such ratings. For example, many institutional investors are legally obliged to hold only View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: scyther5] Related Reading Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation? Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People How Managers Stifle...
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by Michael Blanding
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
identified by KT’s team include the Internet of Things (including connected cars and smart city/homes), media, health, energy, and security and surveillance, which might provide some quick wins both in terms of revenues and market lead....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
work." He would address the issue by: (1) (greeting) "all immigrants with a social security card" (implying payment of taxes, Medicare, etc.) and (2) requiring employers to "pay immigrants with check or automatic bank...
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by Jim Heskett
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
accidents and their radiological health impacts. We can develop new tools and techniques for managing and securing radioactive materials as well as slashing storage requirements by burning waste in specialized reactors. But we’re under a...
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- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
At the same time, shareholders and some debt holders will suffer losses, since their securities will no longer have value. Second, Congress dramatically reduced the risk of trading financial derivatives by requiring most of them to go...
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- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
Widely deemed the most important piece of security legislation since formation of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was born into a climate still reeling...
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- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
capital on their ability to secure resources. "In biotech it can take eight to ten years to develop a product and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to bring it to market," says Higgins. "Therefore, funding is...
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by Judith A. Ross
- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
corrupt company. Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SECThe United States needs a health care equivalent of the Securities and Exchange Commission to increase transparency and competition. But sometimes a little secrecy wins the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
adversarial situation, and it's just a lost opportunity." A Call To Arms So how can business managers make better use of a company's support departments? They need to keep in mind three issues: securing identity, fostering...
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by Carmen Nobel