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  • 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

and the profitability to engage in exports and R&D, thereby relaxing borrowing constraints and enabling more firms to overcome the fixed-cost hurdle for financing R&D. We decompose the effects of RER changes on productivity growth into these View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

share price, (2) where announced earnings are particularly likely to be an important source of information about managerial ability and effort, and (3) before the implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley made opportunistic earnings management more challenging. Our evidence... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

to what they've done to reinvigorate their business. They looked strategically at all aspects of their offering across the various channels they have at their disposal to maximize customer satisfaction and the return they get on their... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 21 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

the long-term lending most borrowers need—is now performed outside the channels most visible to the Federal Reserve or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. We should not blame anyone but ourselves for this. Almost 40 years ago, savers... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007

often fail to achieve results because they channel too much effort into selling their own position and too little into understanding the other party's perspective. To get the best deal—or, sometimes, any deal at all—negotiators need to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

community transformation, currently works in six African countries. We challenge our youth to channel their rage into starting positive change projects. One participant in our Youth Leadership Program addressed the high rates of... View Details
  • 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016

staggered boards can be beneficial for early-life-cycle firms, which exhibit greater information asymmetries between insiders and investors. These results are validated using a larger sample of firms from the Investor Responsibility Research Center. In exploring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9

created a new market that entrepreneurs rushed to enter, channeled by regulations that aimed to minimize marijuana's access to minors while not stifling the emergent new industry. The case describes Colorado's initial experience with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16

channel is the most relevant one. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2419522 Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm By: Kato, Takao, and Pian Shu Abstract—We study the impact... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6

Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract It is well known that the divergence between control rights and cash-flow rights is associated with firm value. In this paper, we identify an important channel through which the divergence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006

Authors:Laura Alfaro and Eliza Hammel Periodical:Journal of International Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Studying the relation between equity market liberalization and imports of capital goods, we examine one channel through which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jun 2021
  • News

The Power of Resilience

now channel that in a different way? That’s what led me to this realization that public speaking and experience sharing could actually be my mission. Instead of being employed by someone else, I could be an entrepreneur and spread my own... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

engineer to design a new version of the product with higher steel content and wider ribs so that the panels were easier to nail together and channeled rain water more effectively. Union says she’s found this kind of attention to detail... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing
  • April 2021
  • Case

Codecademy: Where to Next?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Max Mailman and Sarah Ascherman
In March 2020, Zach Sims, co-founder and CEO of online education platform Codecademy, prepared for a meeting with his Chief of Staff Kunal Ahuja to discuss the company’s goals. Codecademy billed itself as the largest online resource for computer science literacy and... View Details
Keywords: Monetization Strategy; Business Model; Change Management; Venture Capital; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Teams; Marketing Channels; Product Marketing; Network Effects; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; United States
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  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Back to School

There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran
  • 31 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 31

an important factor in explaining cross-sectional variation in the loan interest rate and covenant structure. Our results indicate that two channels allow leveraged buyouts sponsored by private equity firms to receive favorable loan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

determination, but the benefactor helped to channel that energy into an opportunity with potential. In a sense, this personal network or connection helped to facilitate access to others in positions of influence which in turn provided... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

outpaced the growth of the economy, and this disconnect increases as the difference between the corporate income tax rate of the U.S. and the other OECD countries increases. The underlying mechanism is fewer corporate profits being View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

his career, Christensen channeled his time, talents, and energy into researching and writing cases designed to help teachers become more proficient at the distinctive skills—organization of course material, preparation for class, opening... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education
  • 22 Sep 2017
  • News

The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice

float up. And so I got the big telescoping net and I held it up against the seawall. And I urged her to go and call the Channel 7 news truck. I remember that that ad that said, if you see news in the making, call—whatever it was—... View Details