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- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
that, although misaligned economic incentives can play a role in explaining misalignment of planning behaviors, there is another important issue to consider: in our setting, the key factor that determines whether two functions or firms...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
Karen Mills is a Senior Fellow with the Harvard Business School. She served in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet as Administrator of the US Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013. Brayden McCarthy is Vice President of Strategy for Fundera. He served as a Senior...
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- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
May 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading relationships shape their trading...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Access Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge Authors:Bo Becker, Guhan Subramanian, and Daniel B. Bergstresser Publication:Journal of Law and Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We use the Business Roundtable's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
Allison Ciechanover (Harvard MBA 2002) and Kunal Modi (Harvard MBA/MPP 2013), a manager at McKinsey & Co. in San Francisco. The influx of wealthy tech workers into San Francisco'sneighborhoods is the subject of a case study.©iStock.com/franckreporter At a time when...
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- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
and Jonathan T. Kolstad Publication:American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (forthcoming) Abstract We consider the welfare economics of firm...
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Martha Lagace
- December 2009 (Revised June 2010)
- Supplement
Goldman Sachs: A Bank for All Seasons (C)
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Tiffany Lynne Obenchain
After posting its first-ever quarterly loss in 2008, Goldman Sachs surpassed market expectations for the first quarter of 2009 but came under intensive fire for, among other things, announcing its intention to repay TARP thereby avoiding its compensation limitations.
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Financial Crisis;
Investment Banking;
Corporate Disclosure;
Policy;
Executive Compensation;
Business and Government Relations;
Banking Industry
Goldberg, Lena G., and Tiffany Lynne Obenchain. "Goldman Sachs: A Bank for All Seasons (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 310-057, December 2009. (Revised June 2010.)
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
committed tenders) are associated with increased biosimilar entry and penetration, price patterns are more difficult to glean from the available data. Our estimates can inform ongoing policy discussions on both sides of the Atlantic about...
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Sean Silverthorne
- December 2010
- Article
Management and the Financial Crisis (We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us...)
The financial crisis of 2008-2009 has revealed that our broad model of corporate governance is broken, independent of the shortcomings in the regulatory system. Managers and boards of directors in scores of systemically important firms failed to protect employees,...
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Risk Management;
Human Capital;
Ethics;
Policy;
Corporate Governance;
Financial Crisis;
Finance;
Business and Shareholder Relations
Sahlman, William A. "Management and the Financial Crisis (We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us...)." Economics, Management, and Financial Markets 5, no. 4 (December 2010): 11–53.
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U.S. Multinationals in British Manufacturing before 1962
By: G. Jones and Frances Bostock
This article presents a new database on U.S. multinationals active in British manufacturing between 1907 and 1962. Britain was the largest European host economy for U.S. direct investment in manufacturing and the second largest host worldwide. This article identifies...
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Production;
Trade;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Research and Development;
Business Subsidiaries;
Policy;
Investment;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States;
Great Britain
Jones, G., and Frances Bostock. "U.S. Multinationals in British Manufacturing before 1962." Business History Review 70, no. 2 (Summer 1996): 207–256.
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
household decision making and the development of the financial system more broadly. What interests me in the topic is the extent to which the issues involved link developments in households, the economy, and public policy in the United...
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- March 1998 (Revised November 2004)
- Case
FAG Kugelfischer-A German Restructuring
By: Stuart C. Gilson
A large German manufacturer of ball bearings and precision machinery experiences severe financial difficulty brought on by poor management practices, an ill-conceived acquisition of a former East German ball-bearings company, and an industry recession. The company...
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Accounting;
Acquisition;
Restructuring;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Machinery and Machining;
Policy;
Resignation and Termination;
Management Practices and Processes;
Performance Evaluation;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Europe;
Germany;
United States
Gilson, Stuart C. "FAG Kugelfischer-A German Restructuring." Harvard Business School Case 298-046, March 1998. (Revised November 2004.)
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
last story deals with the Department of Justice's (DOJ) civil lawsuit against the tobacco industry, arguably the largest civil litigation in history. In each story, I will highlight the insights that I see behavioral decision research providing to an important View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
an asymmetric market structure, with a few large P firms and many small OS firms. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-149.pdf Anticommons and Optimal Patent Policy in a Model of Sequential Innovation Authors:Gastón...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
innovative design in the built environment. To create an environmentally sustainable built environment, design that focuses on maximizing natural resource efficiency, planning that fosters public health, business models that attract the capital to fund it, and public...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
quickly as it began. "The offshoring of activities is predicated on a huge number of non-obvious, sensitive policy choices," Rivkin says, citing India's economic liberalization efforts of the early 1990s and...
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by Julia Hanna
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
economically self-sufficient and prosperous through entrepreneurship, the event was the seventh in a nationwide series. I think we need people with that kind of courage and vision, and they need those of you who have capital to invest.—...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
existence of rural areas not supplied by grid electricity was an important motivation for early movers in both the U.S. and Denmark. Public policy was the problem rather than the opportunity for wind entrepreneurs before 1980, but...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
May 2017 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We build on the analysis in Akcigit, Grigsby, and Nicholas (2017) by using...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
compliance function to being a profit center. The ratio of corporate taxes to GDP declined through the late 1990s even during an economic expansion. There has been a growing disconnect between the income reports to capital markets and tax...
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by Ann Cullen