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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
differential access to care and socioeconomic disadvantage that has led to a greater burden of chronic diseases. It is an uprising against a racialized, predatory capitalism that through neoliberal and neoconservative agendas has gutted... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
the right over some of the world's great capitals to host the Games' one-hundredth anniversary. From his sixth floor office, Frazier overlooks the Georgia Dome, an important Games venue, and Ted Turner's Cable News Network headquarters.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
government and investor capital in just the last few years. MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast But the scope of the problem is massive and growing, which... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
the strategic significance of adjustment costs in technology adoption, both within and beyond the firm boundary. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1618840 Managing Risks: Towards a Contingency Theory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
KindredHarvard Business School Case 511-015 For Asian Agri and other Indonesian palm oil producers, the future promised rising demand from fast-growing Asian populations, but also intensifying criticism from environmental groups. With the highest yield and lowest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
and overly restricting access to credit and consumer choice. Nicolas Retsinas, Eric Belsky, and their colleagues aim to stimulate debate based on analysis of the opportunities and challenges presented by the various components of global View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
factors such as "firm culture" and "employee engagement" in driving firm performance? Increasing evidence from a wide range of fields suggests that productivity differs widely across firms, even after the inclusion of careful controls for factors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
high levels of entrepreneurial activity, which in turn gave me a large enough sample to work with. Second, it is not an industry where venture capital activity is very high, making it a good setting to study growth in the absence of... View Details
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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
and three previous recipients had their funding extended. Moni Alli (MBA 2021) , founder of Front Edge, a lending platform in Lagos, Nigeria, that provides access to affordable working capital solutions. Nelly-Ange Kontchou (MD/MBA 2018)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
with the country’s young and growing middle class. With funding from angel investors, the company launched in Mexico City in October 2014 with 3 employees; now it has more than 50 employees, 35 percent growth month over month, and an additional $2.5 million in venture... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
strategies: matching, within-firm variation, and instrumental variable. Public firms' greater access to capital accounts for about one-quarter of the difference. The remainder can be explained by differences in the extent to which public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
“particularly on high cost of failure situations where good information on potential service providers is correspondingly of high value.” Angie's List had a paid subscription model as it charged “members” for access to the information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
share, customer satisfaction, and return on capital employed, which allow them greater freedom. The span of control and the span of accountability are not independent. They must be considered together. The first defines the resources... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
topsoil are free or cheap. A few years ago, a manager at a large IT company said something to me that I've never forgotten."For many years we've optimized our business as if capital and labor are what is expensive and we've gotten... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
labor materially alters pre-retirement portfolio choice by significantly raising optimal equity holdings. Using this model, we also investigate the welfare costs of constraining portfolio allocations over the life-cycle to mimic popular... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
credit analysts exhibit a sizable partisan gap in their economic outlook, with roughly two-thirds the size of the gap observed among households. This bias affects analysts’ decision to upgrade or downgrade corporate credit ratings, directly affecting the View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
or competitive strategic analysis could measure. I learned that, as with so many things in Africa, the context was everything. It is hard to put a number on the “value” of reconciliation, but it is here where measures like social return on View Details
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
Consistent with predictions, results reveal that portfolios of level 3 financial assets have higher implied betas and lead to larger bid-ask spreads relative to those designated as level 1 or level 2 assets. Both results are consistent with a higher View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace