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- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
we find that countries with well-developed financial markets gain significantly from FDI via TFP improvements. These results are consistent with the recent findings in the growth literature that shows the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
is the result of banks being less likely to make the smaller dollar loans—those less than $250,000—that small firms (more than 70%) seek. A rapidly growing financial technology (fintech) sector has quickly... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
company whose management engaged in a massive accounting fraud. ChuoAoyama was PwC's Japanese affiliate and one of Japan's largest audit firms. In May 2006, the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA) suspended ChuoAoyama for two months... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
How Does the HBS Endowment Work?
established in 1966 with a gift of $100,000. Since then, it has supported more than 100 MBA students and—as a result of appreciation over time—provided $49,000 in need-based financial aid awards in academic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rolling Thunder
1901 — two years before Harley-Davidson — Indian held nearly half of U.S. market share for the next fifty years before falling on hard times and filing for bankruptcy. The brand retains a cultlike following of enthusiasts even after a second attempt to restart the... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
financial markets to get through the initial period of discovery or diffusion. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49551 September 2015 Harvard Business Review The Organizational Apology: A Step-by-Step Guide... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Historical Roots of Globalization
this breakout session, panelists shared insights, informed by history, of the convergence that globalization promotes. Each focused on convergence from a different reference point: institutional convergence (in financial systems), policy... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53507 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Bubbles for Fama By: Greenwood, Robin, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You Abstract—We evaluate Eugene Fama's claim that stock... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 2006
- Working Paper
Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship
By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
We examine entrepreneurship and creative destruction following US banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. US banking reforms brought about exceptional growth in both entrepreneurship and business closures. The vast majority of closures, however, were the new... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Market Entry and Exit; Capital Markets; Entrepreneurship; Outcome or Result; Business Startups; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; United States
Kerr, William R., and Ramana Nanda. "Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-033, December 2006. (Revised July 2007, December 2007, October 2008, December 2008.)
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
day. If participants reached their weight loss goal by the end of the trial, they got to keep the money, thus doubling their deposits. But if they failed to reach the goal, they lost all the cash. Meanwhile, a control group of participants entered a weight loss program... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
results are consistent with an experimentation hypothesis in which tight monitoring of decisions leads to more control but less learning. An Evolutionary Approach to Financial History Author: Niall Ferguson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
extensive strategic and financial experience included consulting at McKinsey, investment banking at Salomon Brothers, and leading business development at several Internet and media companies. The pair started investigating and found a lot... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
couldn't get out. "Without access to stock exchanges at that time, we had to hold on to these enterprises for nine or ten years," Cohen recalled. The result was a drag on Apax's rate of return. To compensate for that, he said,... View Details
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Jolie Chow
financial hub, inspired another perspective as well. "I wondered what business might mean to governance, to sovereignty, to ordinary lives." That curiosity led to an undergraduate education in the United States. "In Hong... View Details
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
ask them whether a drug will “work in people like me.” Beyond the health and financial ramifications of overlooking large population segments, the research offers a call to action for drugmakers at a time when companies face pressure to... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- News
China Boot Camp
Accounting and Management Unit, Srinivasan says that his research received an immediate boost from the trip. “I have a couple of projects on securities markets and financial reporting in China that have come into sharper focus since the... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
upfront capital investments. The more developed the local financial markets, the easier it is for credit constrained entrepreneurs to start their own firms. The increase in the number of varieties of intermediate goods leads to positive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup
sector, taking what we had learned about name selection and availability and making it accessible inexpensively to everyone, everywhere,” says Master. Say you have a name in mind for a financial planning service firm. Type in your name... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
(Study 2). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49533 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action
the strategic goals that organizations set for themselves and the results they achieve. An office of strategy management is intended to close that gap. At the corporate level of an organization, it oversees all strategy-related... View Details