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  • October 2009
  • Article

Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship

By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
We examine entrepreneurship and creative destruction following US banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. US banking reforms brought about exceptional growth in both entrepreneurship and business closures. Most of the closures, however, were the new ventures... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Market Entry and Exit; Capital Markets; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development; Disruptive Innovation
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  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

Silverthorne: How does your work advance other research done on corporate social activities? Christopher Marquis: Most research on why companies are involved in social activities has looked at the financial impact of such behavior,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

Innovation: Evidence from China By: Fang, Lily, Josh Lerner, Chaopeng Wu, and Qi Zhang Abstract—: Governments are important financiers of private sector innovation. While these public funds can ease capital constraints and information... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • July 2011
  • Teaching Note

Miles Everson at PricewaterhouseCoopers (TN)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Penelope Rossano
Teaching Note for 410062. View Details
Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Employees; Financial Institutions; Opportunities; Networks; Managerial Roles; Experience and Expertise; Attitudes; Leadership; Service Industry; United States
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  • 14 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

Production and the Design of Supporting Institutions By: Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49361 May-June 2015 European Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation

jobs must include entrepreneurs." Mills is approaching her work at the Competitiveness Project through a framework she calls a job-creation playbook, which is broken down into three categories: institutions (accelerators, economic... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services; Financial Services
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 20

contributions to the literature that span institutional theory and strategic management and to the literature on information disclosure. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1836472 Henry A. Kissinger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

interested in doing research on this topic? Daniel Bergstresser: My interest in asset location is both scientific and personal, in the sense that the topic matters for my own behavior. Leaving aside my personal financial stake, the topic... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 07 Apr 2011
  • What Do You Think?

When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?

Summing Up The variety of responses stimulated by this month's column may help explain why our public institutions are so often perceived as responding slowly to natural or man-made "meltdowns." First, as Ravindra Edirisooriya... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities
  • October 2007 (Revised March 2008)
  • Case

First National Bank's Golden Opportunity

By: Shawn A. Cole, Peter Tufano, Daniel Schneider and Daryl Collins
Executives at First National Bank in South Africa are considering whether to launch a potentially exciting, but rather unorthodox, new savings product. Instead of paying interest, this product gives depositors the chance to win large cash prizes each month. Michael... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Banks and Banking; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Product Launch; Demand and Consumers; Banking Industry; South Africa
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  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

the potential for non-traditional gender role models to gradually erode gender inequality in homes and labor markets. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49311 Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

China's land institutions share "complementarities" with fiscal and financial institutions and benefit powerful political actors while imposing costs on marginal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

many patients as possible. Rewards for quality and value creation are rare, if at all present, in physician compensation plans. As time previously devoted to compiling EMR documentation becomes available, institutions may increase their... View Details
Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health
  • 30 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

payments affects criminal activity. Analysis of daily reported incidents of major crimes in twelve U.S. cities reveals an increase in crime over the course of monthly welfare payment cycles. This increase reflects an increase in crimes that are likely to have a direct... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

decisions that come before the board," Kaufman says. "One lesson from the recent global financial crisis was that some financial institution boards had few directors... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

"Work done in the spirit of service is the highest form of worship." —Abdu'l-Bahá The field of economics is rife with the concept of "capital." There's financial capital—cold hard cash or cashable assets. There's fixed capital—the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Article

Are Self-service Customers Satisfied or Stuck?

By: Ryan W. Buell, Dennis Campbell and Frances X. Frei
This paper investigates the impact of self-service technology (SST) usage on customer satisfaction and retention. Specifically, we disentangle the distinct effects of satisfaction and switching costs as drivers of retention among self-service customers. Our empirical... View Details
Keywords: Service Delivery; Information Technology; Customer Satisfaction; Competition; Cost; Banks and Banking; Behavior; Market Transactions; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
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  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

Wall Street Journal, the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune. Some forecasters packaged snippets of their forecasts to be sold through news syndicates and to appear in daily newspapers such as the Alton (Illinois)... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

sectors, divisions, and manufacturing plants to sales and services offices. Recently awarded the 1998 Organizational Development Institute Award for their pioneering work at Becton Dickinson, Beer and Eisenstat emphasize that... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 24 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

A recent study by HBS assistant professor Jordan Siegel tests whether foreign firms can leapfrog their countries' weak legal institutions by listing equities in New York and voluntarily abiding by U.S. securities law. The study, which... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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