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- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
target shareholders in the form of higher deal premiums or more competing bids. Completion rates and deal jumping rates also remained unchanged. We estimate that the incidence-rate ratio of UK deals to non-UK deals after the reform was... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
Abstract—We estimate the causal effect of sovereign default on the equity returns of Argentine firms. We identify this effect by exploiting changes in the probability of Argentine sovereign default induced by legal rulings in the case of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
decompose the productivity decrease that arises from taxation, we estimate that 40% is due to the lower net wage and the remaining 60% to tax aversion. This tax aversion affects labor supply more on the extensive margin (working less)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia
interest in global health to the realization that an estimated 13 million people die each year for lack of low-cost products that could save their lives. Over the past seven years, she has conducted research projects in Zambia aimed at... View Details
- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
Don’t give up on American manufacturing yet. There are signs of new life that give rise to optimism about a U.S. manufacturing renaissance. A new analysis by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) estimates that within the next five years the... View Details
- 28 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
3 Concerns I Had about HBS
would be critical, but worried that a random sampling (my section) wasn’t necessarily the ideal place for forming them. By the second half of my EC year, I’d estimate that 50% of my closest friends are from my section, and 50% are not.... View Details
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
there are no continent-wide studies of this, a report last year by Adcorp, a workforce management company, found that in South Africa there were an estimated 470,000 private-sector job openings remain unfilled because of a lack of... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
Africa, consumer spending is estimated to reach US$1.4 trillion by that date. Maybe that global big picture is another good reason why the irrepressible Mittal is smiling these days. View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
Yet Hudson couldn’t stop thinking about the opportunity. The problem of homelessness in Miami-Dade had improved over the previous two decades. In 1996, there were an estimated 8,000 people in the area without stable housing (a figure that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
with the division of British-ruled India into two independent countries: Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. It resulted in the displacement of an estimated 15 million people and the deaths of hundreds of thousands—some... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
market transformation in Sri Lanka. The YSP leadership team, comprising entirely of US-trained Sri Lankans, is united by a passion to support the country's post-conflict resurgence. While the investment banking market opportunity is View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Diversifying HBS's Case Collection
students, staff, and alumni are addressing racism. ADVANCING RACIAL EQUITY Because this information has not been collected over the years, there are no historical data points available to determine what percentage of HBS’s earlier cases feature underrepresented... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
emissions reductions immediately, Henderson and the other speakers were optimistic that it is completely plausible to change today’s practices and norms. Despite ongoing debate about the cost of decarbonizing the world’s economy, Henderson View Details
- Profile
Daniel Sheyner
destination," says Sheyner. And Sheyner estimates that the industry counts only about 20,000 strong nationwide and hires just a couple thousand annually from a pool of tens of thousands, meaning that firms don't need to do much... View Details
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
of people are affected by this topic." An estimated 50 percent of multinationals use English as their common company language, Neeley says. Countless more have the same policy on an unofficial basis, she adds. After the CEO of GlobalMoves... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
them "data whisperers") is so acute that it may be years before a sufficient supply can be trained. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that up to 190,000 are needed now in the US, along with 1.5 million managers capable of using... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
The health insurance system in the United States is broken, and business is paying the price. Employers' insurance premiums reached an estimated $450 billion in 2000, and then shot up again, at three times the rate of inflation, in 2001.... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
into the nonprofit sector, and estimates of how much will be transferred over the next twenty years range from $10 to $40 trillion -- a colossal sum that stems from our booming economy. The challenge then will become how to manage these... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
a “social investment bank” that would channel unclaimed assets in British banks and other financial institutions—an amount estimated to be about £500 million—into social enterprises. According to the groundbreaking report, “an effectively... View Details