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- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
resolution is a critical and underappreciated aspect of global capitalism today. CME viewed a local partner as a substitute for a local presence—I think this is a critical mistake. Finally, it's an enormously entertaining story filled... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
marketing and field service expenses. With low penetration and high capital and operating expenses, cable operators experienced significant losses in most urban systems. Hence, in 1975, the industry was not very profitable. Based on... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
evaluate policies that change incentives for entry into self-employment. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51676 Short-Termism and Capital Flows By: Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
reducing counter-party risk between financial institutions; and the strengthening of regulators' abilities to require more capital (and less overall leverage) at our financial institutions. They clearly will have this explicit power... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
competitive standing of their domestic pharmaceutical industries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-118.pdf Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan Authors:Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Japan's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
variability than was the case historically. Under the new policy, dividends would be tied to the company's underwriting results, its performance relative to predetermined goals, and a target payout ratio. Progressive's new policy was intended to help with overall View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity growth was low, and the stock market was in the tank. It is not at all surprising that the venture View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
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Africa - Global Activities 2021
Women in Investing Club. This past summer, Raji worked remotely for Austin-based Vista Equity Partners, which invests in enterprise software and data and technology companies. It was yet another step toward fine-tuning what aspect of... View Details
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
Telephone Company, formed by a consortium of private equity firms, has made a public tender offer for Denmark's leading telecommunications company, TDC. TDC's board of directors approved the take-private transaction, and 88% of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
it, "We cannot look at investor losses as the only benchmark to evaluate the costs of Sarbanes-Oxley. One must also consider the cost of capital if confidence in the markets does not return…Unfortunately, you cannot legislate... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
your classmates’ experiences. That’s part of the value of HBS. It’s huge.” At Morgan Stanley, which she joined right out of HBS, Harris leads the equity private placements effort in global capital markets... View Details
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4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA
entities include all for-profit and nonprofit businesses and social enterprises, as well as venture capital funds, private equity funds, hedge funds, search funds, and other investment vehicles. A faculty... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
more than three-dozen breakout sessions served to sharpen participants’ focus on the summit’s agenda: profound and fundamental questions regarding leadership, globalization, and market capitalism. The future of market capitalism was very... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
Depression? By: Nanda, Ramana, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We find a negative relationship between bank distress and the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation during the Great Depression, particularly for R&D firms operating in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
encourage participation, reduce gaming, and aggregate information in order to improve liquidity, efficiency, and equity in markets. We also discuss a number of fruitful applications of market design in other areas of economic and public... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
with the project at hand. Specifically, we study an academic researcher’s (1) personal background (gender and country of origin economic advancement), (2) professional development (time since PhD completion and editorial review board (ERB) membership), and (3) ad-hoc... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007
to their reliable software and responsive customer service. The company had achieved this growth without the help of any outside financing. The five co-founders of eCW, who treated each other like an extended family, invested years of sweat View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
increase and is greater for "creative" industries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-007.pdf Board Interlocks and the Propensity to be Targeted in Private Equity Transactions Authors:Toby Stuart and Soojin... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
increase in the cross-country correlations of stock and government bond returns since the late 1990s. We show that for global equities this increase has been driven primarily by increased cross-country correlations of discount rate... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
equity stakes to these corporate entrepreneurs. Even more troubling, all too frequently the management teams are pushed to accept sketchily defined "shadow equity" rather than a real claim on the new entity. Much of the... View Details