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- 15 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 15
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/13-039%20Nov%202012_612ce7e2-7f81-4eea-9126-3c0964f2be2f.pdf August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Search-Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
rates. Supply and demand, of course, always have an impact, with an additional element in select markets such as Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Southern California, where prices fell by half or more after the downturn and where financial firms... View Details
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
Care Units. I came to school passionate about access and equity in health care, and curious about systemic barriers to resources that allow communities to live healthy lives. As soon as I got to campus though, I realized I had no idea how... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 08 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Koppert Cress: Macro Greenhouses, Microgreens
circular system to capture and store heat in the summer in water 150 meters below ground, which can then be used to heat the greenhouses in the winter. Heat is captured from the sun on the “energy roof,” from external water sources, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
Creating a Venture Ecosystem in Brazil: FINEP's INOVAR Project Authors:Ann Leamon and Josh Lerner Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-099.pdf Mexico's Financial Crisis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
University President A. Lawrence Lowell, who steered Doriot to HBS, a more suitable place for a young man who aspired to run a factory. Even though he had no friends or family in the United States, little money (the war left his father View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
investment in improving everyday life in Detroit by a national retailer—that people didn’t believe could happen in the city. “Uncertainty is a horrible constraint for investment,” Cummings says of Detroit’s financial chaos prior to the... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
correct the underlying weaknesses. When it comes to corporate governance, for too long we have relied on the first approach. It's time to take a deeper look, see where the stressors in the system lie, and commit to structural reforms. In... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
in my spare time, and we were trying to find our way. Right from the beginning, the question was: What is the role of business in the broader systemic conversation? My own work has always been focused on climate change, and if I have to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
trillion mandate and no assurance of reversing the inexorable rise in health care costs. Paradoxically, although America has the most technologically advanced and expensive health care system in the world, its citizens continue to get... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
the impact of multinationals, the growth of business groups, and the conflicted relations between business and government. The book represents a unique comparative study of the complex and non-linear impact of globalization and the evolution of business View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
state after an outbreak of illness. Approved the first generic versions of Coreg, a widely used medication for high blood pressure and chronic heart failure. Proposed new standards for formulating, testing, and labeling sunscreen drug products and established a UVA... View Details
- 13 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course
a general management skillset that transcended sectors – private, non-profit, and public. Our most urgent social issues require a multi-faceted approach that spans these sectors because those with the financial and other resources to... View Details
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Departments | Employment
control structure, risk management and compliance, policy development and enforcement and financial systems administration, implementation and training. More about working in the View Details
- September 1992 (Revised March 1997)
- Case
Summit Distributors (A)
By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Amy P. Hutton
Summit Distributors was in danger of violating loan covenants because of slow economic activity and forecasted losses and was faced with a choice. Changing the inventory valuation method from LIFO to FIFO would avoid default but would require higher future income... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Cost Accounting; Cash Flow; Interest Rates; Economic Systems; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Statements; Valuation; Accounting Audits; Financing and Loans; Accounting Industry; Legal Services Industry
Bruns, William J., Jr., and Amy P. Hutton. "Summit Distributors (A)." Harvard Business School Case 193-053, September 1992. (Revised March 1997.)
- March 2005
- Article
Sovereign Debt As a Contingent Claim: A Quantitative Approach
By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
We construct a dynamic equilibrium model with contingent service and adverse selection to quantitatively study sovereign debt. In the model, benefits of defaulting are tempered by higher future interest rates. For a wide set of parameters, the only equilibrium is one... View Details
Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Interest Rates; Balance and Stability; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Mathematical Methods; Management Style; Segmentation; Debt Securities; Banking Industry
Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Sovereign Debt As a Contingent Claim: A Quantitative Approach." Journal of International Economics 65, no. 2 (March 2005).
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Strategy Execution - Course Catalog
systems and structures, we will teach you how to make the tough choices needed to ensure successful strategy execution. The course is divided into seven modules: Allocating resources to customers: You will learn how to choose a primary... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
Harvard Business Review Managing Political Misfits By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, and Rory McDonald Abstract—Not all employees agree with your politics. That's OK. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54406 forthcoming Management Science The ABCs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
financial vulnerability for large firms during a crisis. Consistent with Gabaix (2011) the paper finds a granularity effect in that large firms are systemically important—idiosyncratic shocks to the sales... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel