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- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
Private Equity By: Ewens, Michael, Charles M. Jones, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—This paper explores the private equity and venture capital (VC) markets and extends the standard principal-agent problem... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Business History - Faculty & Research
interdisciplinary and global approach to understanding business history. Today business historians at the School investigate a broad range of themes, including entrepreneurship, innovation, globalization, and environmental sustainability.... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
ability to benefit from private information. Consistent with these expectations, we find that abnormal returns to insider purchases-used to proxy for private information-are reduced following IFRS adoption.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
those facts and find a solution, a team of Boston researchers reports. "When it comes to solving problems, connectedness is a double-edged sword," says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein, co-author of Facts and Figuring: An... View Details
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
Family Relationships ; Family Ownership ; Acquisition ; Governance ; Resignation and Termination ; Leadership Style ; Management Succession ; Size ; Negotiation Offer ; Private Ownership ; Business and Shareholder Relations ; Trust ;... View Details
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
technology. Private capital flows—debt finance, equity capital, and foreign direct investment (FDI)—became larger than current and past official capital flows. This new era of foreign capital mobility has also been characterized by low... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
Bandiera and B. Kelsey Jack A substantial body of research investigates the effect of pay for performance in firms, yet less is known about the effect of non-financial rewards, especially in organizations that hire individuals to perform... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle? By: Asker, John, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—We investigate whether short-termism distorts the investment decisions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim In this paper, we investigate whether superior performance on corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies leads to better access to finance. We hypothesize that better access to... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50897 forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Repairing the Damage: The Effect of Gender and Price Knowledge on Auto-Repair Price Quotes By: Busse, Meghan, Ayelet Israeli, and Florian Zettelmeyer Abstract—In this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do
initiative. In the “seed” group, recipients were also told that a private donor had already seeded the new initiative with a $10,000 donation. In the “match” group, recipients were told that a donor had offered to match every dollar given... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Research Design - Impact Investments
ever-more complete picture of the impact investing landscape. Focus Area 2 The second focus area of the project takes an in-depth look at a group of 200 portfolio companies, which are sampled to reflect some of the main trends in the U.S. impact investing market. The... View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
employment history includes experience in investment banking, auditing, or private equity/venture capital. On average, we find that former auditors are significantly more likely to impair goodwill. However, further View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
self-control. We focus on children aged between 5 and 15 as the literature suggests that self-control develops within such age range. We ask each child to toss a fair coin in private and to record the outcome (white or black) on a paper... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
industry, had begun to operate in an increasingly privatized environment.) At the center of the new model was a series of "vision workshops"-structured conversations in which employees at all levels of the company took part in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
U.S. private equity industry over 10 years, we investigate the consequences of the ideological misfit that arises when individuals’ political ideologies diverge substantially from the prevailing ideology of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Current Research
Information Dissemination in Capital Markets
Seeking to bridge economic theory and the role of individuals, Professor Brochet researches the transmission of information in capital markets. He has investigated the effects of information... View Details
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
of Central America does more than just advance our understanding of the national and global consequences of the Panama Canal and the imperialist motives and influences of the United States. In an age where everyone is looking for new models to capture the benefits of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
infrastructure for transactional activity, new scholarship asks what forces shape modern patterns of economic activity and how those patterns sort people and resources. Instead of reproducing conventional dichotomies, current historians of American capitalism contest... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship
program at HBS. I was particularly drawn to HBS after hearing about the experience of my friends who had not only found a supportive entrepreneurial community at HBS, but co-founders as well. I spoke with alumni who were part of the Venture Capital and View Details