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- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
access capital” Historically, this segment of the market has been small compared to the $700 billion in small business bank credit assets. But since the onset of the financial crisis, and particularly during the economic recovery, there... View Details
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
Media.) Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-039.pdf From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America Authors:Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
road improvement project built through the heart of the city. Ann Cullen: The Big Dig in Boston is coming to completion. In terms of project financing, what are your thoughts on this project? Was there a better way to finance the project to avoid the tremendous View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
to ensure that environmental resources are replenished for future generations - as there are people discussing the issue. But with increased pressure on businesses to consider the costs of their actions to society and the environment... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
is, as more jurisdictions with economic ties to a given country adopt IFRS, perceived benefits from lowering transactions costs to foreign financial-statement users come to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
affairs in our chapter in The Support Economy called "The Transaction Crisis." Cost reduction has continued to be the dominant strategy under managerial capitalism because new sources of wealth... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
revenue for economic assistance and conversion to cleaner energy. While the group hasn’t attached an exact figure to the amount of the tax, they estimate that it should start between $30 and $40 per ton, an amount that reflects the social... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
rising to a maximum of 13.3 percent, but only if the reoffending rate is reduced by at least 7.5 percent. Even at the highest rate, the government is forecast to pay out only about a third of its cost savings. Fifteen months into the... View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
retweets they got on Twitter would translate into sales or lower costs (which they rarely did). Second, with this approach, eBay is not trying to become friends with its customers with the intent of broadcasting messages to them. Instead,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Setting the Legislative Agenda
assume trillions of dollars in liabilities spent to try to repair a broken system. The costs of regulatory failure and the urgency of regulatory reform could not be clearer.” Related Links Too Big To Fail View Details
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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade
was transacted, but in many respects it signaled the beginning of the end for Augustine Heard & Co. The new invention reduced the time between orders and transactions, provided more up-to-date information on fluctuations in costs and... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
Kinney expressed the view that the Government’s recent success in employing hackers to break the phone’s code “relieves Apple of a somewhat alienating position. The time that it took to do it (and one might add the cost of more than $1.3... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
The key to managing innovation starts, and probably ends, with incentives. In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations, Harvard Business School Professor Josh Lerner puts it this way:... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
workforce is not a quick fix to control costs or improve the quality of care. A poorly planned redesign can even result in increased costs and decreased quality. Changes in skill mix and role definitions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
fluctuations. We first exposit that in the presence of Cobb-Douglas production functions and consumer preferences, there is a specific pattern of economic transmission whereby demand-side shocks propagate upstream (to input-supplying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
the brand through other channels. But now he wonders whether to break it off. Sticking with Amazon means a simplified supply chain. The Fulfillment by Amazon program handles fast fulfillment and, with free shipping, the economics are... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
hypothesis that perceived network benefits from the extant worldwide adoption of IFRS can explain part of countries' shift away from local accounting standards. That is, as more jurisdictions with economic ties to a given country adopt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog
of class session): We cover the under revolutionary promise of blockchain technologies to lower the cost of transactions and create new markets and new communities. Companies are issuing their own... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
stop to unemployment benefits slashed the incomes of the vast majority of those who were cut off and crimped overall spending in local economies, says Raymond Kluender, an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. “The View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne