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- 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
to shareholders $7 trillion via buybacks and dividends, over 96% of their aggregate net income, prompting claims that "short-termism" is impairing firms' ability to invest and innovate. We show that, when taking into account both direct... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
typically build up around a geographic location where natural resources, an appropriately educated labor force, and a university or other research institution co-mingle. In recent years, some economists have argued that manufacturing... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and capabilities influence billions of dollars of "socially responsible" investments as well as some consumers, activists, and potential... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
margins, want reform to be instituted through the familiar public-school structure. For their part, HBS graduates have long been involved in various education initiatives and reform efforts. Alumni have created and funded national... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
of firms just above and just below the investment-grade cutoff. These firms have similar observables, including average investment rates. However, flows into high-yield mutual funds have an economically significant effect on the issuance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
or entirely missing.— Tarun Khanna Regarding his work on entrepreneurship with Professor Palepu, Khanna notes that "it is important to recognize that emerging economies, unlike those of developed nations, typically lack many of the essential supporting View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
prompted a new research paper that starts to investigate ways to make these patents less volatile and more efficient—and makes the case for increased government involvement. "Standards are ubiquitous and necessary," says Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
geared to inner-city Boston youth. In his current role as executive director of The Trustees of Reservations, he oversees a revered, 109-year-old Massachusetts institution dedicated to protecting properties of exceptional ecological,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
as a Nonprofit Management Fellow at a UN economic institute in Belgrade in 1990. “And with so many international students at the School, one truly becomes a world citizen through one's HBS friends.” Meanwhile, at the Kennedy School,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
organizations pursuing these strategies and identify four institutional logic shifts associated with these strategic transitions: (1) increasing external focus, (2) moving to greater openness, (3) focusing on enabling interactions, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the CFO
difference in the world. As an institution built on participant-centered learning, we believe that our investment in people will continue to differentiate—and elevate—an HBS education. I want to thank the... View Details
- 03 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Introducing the Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series
Tarun Khanna and I coordinate the project, and we are approaching 170 interviews conducted by Harvard faculty. The collection fills a major gap in knowledge regarding businesses operating and thriving in many countries that do not necessarily have the View Details
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
growth in the future? What aspects of the system at the level of firms, industries, nations, or multilateral institutions might cause serious difficulties?" The principal response is summed in the book: "Market capitalism has proven to be... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- Web
Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
any initiative to empower the poor and the equally critical importance of available credit to allow poorer families to invest in their future. Despite the plethora of education-related activities and the rapidly growing success stories in... View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
mortgages, accumulating twice the holdings of more seasoned managers. Moreover, inexperienced managers who personally experienced severe or recent adverse investment outcomes behaved more like seasoned managers. Training and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
Have Persistent Effects Over Time? A Look at Law and Finance around the World c. 1900 Author:Aldo Musacchio Abstract How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant past? A substantial literature... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save and invest and have been a great source of wealth accumulation for individuals.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
like a venture philanthropy investor group, where members invest time and money to support organizations and candidates that align with its principles. Those include protecting and renewing democracy, promoting fact- and evidence-based... View Details
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
the rating system. He said that federal financial aid should go to those schools that perform the best. The President eventually abandoned the idea after hearing from many college presidents that there is simply no way to reliably rate and rank View Details