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- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606090 Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Harvard Business School Note 106-068 Introduces the role for time-driven activity-based costing. Identifies the value from an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... 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
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
global capitalism are also shown to have been complex. The book demonstrates the unique ability of capitalism to create wealth for societies through innovation, yet also cautions that the history of global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
find the evidence to be most consistent with a model of endogenous technology adoption where the cost of adopting new technologies declines sufficiently with the current level of adoption. The evidence is less consistent with a dominant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25
disproportionately affect the debt financing costs faced by low credit quality firms. As a result, time-series variation in the average quality of debt issuers may be useful for forecasting excess corporate bond returns. We show that when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
hypothesis that perceived network benefits from the extant worldwide adoption of IFRS influences a country's shift away from local accounting standards. That is, as more jurisdictions with economic ties to a given country adopt IFRS, perceived benefits from lowering... 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
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
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... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
of lawyers in a large North American law firm provide support for our predictions. We call for a new direction in network research that investigates how network-related behaviors associated with building social capital influence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
dean. Then, in 1991, a chance encounter with Morgan Stanley’s John Mack led to a position on Wall Street as the firm’s chief development officer, responsible for human capital and issues of organizational strategy and change. “Like the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
works. The book is available at no cost to climate outreach and education organizations. Unfettered Journey By Gary F. Bengier (MBA 1981) Chiliagon Press Unfettered Journey is the story of Joe Denkensmith, an AI scientist who seeks to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1984) and Dan Olmsted Skyhorse Publishing Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic. The authors believe autism is new,... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
Choices The importance of thoughtful deliberation—and its implications for the future of capitalism Lesson Plan After serving alongside senior US Treasury officials during the financial crisis and advising clients at Goldman Sachs, Paige... View Details
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Caroline Elkins Fall 2025 Q2 1.5 ^ back to top C Area Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Capitalism and the State (CATS) Business, Government & the International Economy, General Management Debora L. Spar Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Capitalism:... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
ventures during the venture capital boom of the late 1990s was selecting areas that had no staying power, such as Web calendars or Web-dispatched limousine services. Over time, it was inevitable that these new niches would merge with... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
business leaders have a nearly $370 billion opportunity to advance decarbonization. Lynn Schenk, director of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative, asked some of our alumni how they view this moment and how they are looking to View Details