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  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

practices creating a learning and innovative organization; and tracking results in terms of the "four Rs" of retention, referrals, returns to labor, and relationships with customers. It shows "the culture cycle" at work in practice based on data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change

raised from private sources of equity and debt financing. According to Mark Carney, United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero has resources to support more than $100 trillion... View Details
  • 19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016

and limiting production volumes; illegal poultry imports threaten food safety while undercutting prices of domestic product; corruption is rampant; debt is exorbitantly expensive; commercial real estate is sparse; and electricity is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 15

Returns By: Greenwood, Robin, and Dimitri Vayanos Abstract—We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework predicts, we find that leverage is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Mar 2013
  • News

The Accidental Innovator

mention for 30 seconds that Greece might have to do an austerity program, and they’ll repeat it 100 times over the next week. Unfortunately, 99 percent of the viewers don’t know what an austerity program is, and 99 percent don’t understand what sovereign View Details
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We examine the golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking U.S. patents... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

disproportionately affected by international financial integration. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-012.pdf Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract The main arguments in favor of and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://hbr.org/2010/03/bold-retreat/ar/1 Lawsuits and Empire: On the Enforcement of Sovereign Debt in Latin America Authors:Laura Alfaro, Noel Maurer, and Faisal Ahmed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

The Accidental Innovator

Unfortunately, 99 percent of the viewers don’t know what an austerity program is, and 99 percent don’t understand what sovereign debt is or what it means to default on sovereign debt. I think Khan Academy can fill the gap between an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

Rather than flouting the new ideas of institutional economics, which favored federal regulators overseeing data collection and dissemination among businesses so as to stabilize prices and facilitate interfirm cooperation instead of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25

distance and involvement; the two dimensions should not be conceptualized as opposite ends of a continuum. Moreover, I suggest that the taboo has become too extreme and stifles our collective capacity to generate new insights. To make... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

every major Wall Street firm has become active in real estate private equity. "Morgan Stanley alone has gone from zero dollars under management to almost $40 billion over the past fifteen years," says Slaughter. Securitized debt... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate
  • 25 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

programs as a "house of cards"? A: Predictable surprises loom in most organizations. Frequent-flyer programs are simply one example that affects a lot of people. Most of us collect our miles and even think of them as an asset... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

reasoning. But, argues the wise chorus, "from death alone he still cannot escape . . . Limitation is built in to the human condition. You need to bend to higher laws." Limits? Tell that to today's college graduates, more in debt... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
  • 10 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

A New Case at Harvard Business School Highlights the Real-World Issues for Latinx Considering an MBA

Latinx culture, and is the result of years of collective effort to bolster the number of Latinx applying to business schools and thereby in leadership roles worldwide. In 2015, a culmination of efforts headed by HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and... View Details
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

link: http://dx.doi.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1016/j.jebo.2014.10.004 January 2015 Economic Journal Does Management Matter in Schools? By: Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We collect data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2015
  • News

Walter Salmon Remembered

campus even after his retirement, Salmon was highly regarded for his tough but humorous approach in the classroom and an unfailing generosity in advising and supporting students. A collection of remembrances follows; add your own in the... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

short-term volatility of inflation-indexed bond returns do not invalidate the basic case for these bonds, that they provide a safe asset for long-term investors. Governments should expect inflation-indexed bonds to be a relatively cheap form of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

international franchising opportunities and a debt recapitalization. By early 2016, Sun was looking to the company’s next phase of growth while handing management of her executive team to BrightStar’s President and COO. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne