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  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

Management Journal Monitoring Global Supply Chains By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Firms reliant on supply chains to manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 15

inventory turns and can be uniformly utilized by all stakeholders to assess whether a retailer is carrying too much or too little inventory. We explain applications of the metric with examples and lay out prescriptions for retailers. August 2013 Review of Financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Rajiv Lal

    Rajiv Lal, is the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. He is currently teaching an elective MBA course on the Business of Smart Connected Products/IOT. He has been responsible for the retailing curriculum and has served as the course... View Details

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    By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

    Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

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    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    research here . More Info Large banks and small firm lending By: Victoria Ivashina & Vitaly Bord OCT 2021 The contraction in bank credit supply was a core propagation mechanism of the Great Financial Crisis... View Details
    • 29 Jun 2010
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    First Look: June 29

    considerable heterogeneity in the role of FDI. First, multinationals located in countries that experienced sharper declines in aggregate output, demand, and credit conditions displayed a greater advantage over local firms. Multinationals... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • August 2002 (Revised July 2003)
    • Case

    LAE Enterprises Corp.

    Jay Entrepreneur had to decide whether it was worth his time to plow through a 12-page term sheet for a Series A round of preferred stock prepared by HBS Investors, a well-established venture capital firm that did seed, early-round, and mezzanine financings. He could... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Contracts; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Startups; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • 01 Apr 2024
    • In Practice

    Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes

    businesses need to know in 2024. Alexander MacKay: Focus on finding balance Since 2021, as companies faced supply shocks and changes to demand in an inflationary period, executives have increasingly focused... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Consumer Products
    • 17 Jun 2008
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    First Look: June 17, 2008

    loans to small firms and those with more "soft information"—particularly in states with weak legal enforcement of financial contracts. However, decentralized banks are also more responsive to the competitive environment when setting loan terms. They are more... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 27 Apr 2010
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    First Look: April 27

    expenditures. In doing so, we show that fiscal spending shocks appear to significantly dampen corporate sector investment and employment activity. These corporate reactions follow both Senate and House committee chair changes, are present... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 22 Apr 2014
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    First Look: April 22

    more profitable lending, their power is muted by both deferred compensation and the limited liability typically enjoyed by credit officers. Second, we present direct evidence that incentive contracts distort judgment and beliefs, even... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

    Bertolotti, Kyle R. Myers and Wei Yang Tham We develop a method to estimate producers’ productivity beliefs in settings where output quantities and input prices are unobservable, and we use it to evaluate allocative efficiency in the market for science. Our model of... View Details
    • 31 Oct 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?

    Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa & Alexander Ljungqvist
    • November 2006
    • Case

    Organics: Coming Center Stage?

    By: James E. Austin and Reed Martin
    The organics movement has certainly come a long way. From hippie farming communes and a scattering of natural food stores in the 1960s, organics outgrew its origins as a counterculture curiosity of the 1970s to become the fastest growing segment of the food industry in... View Details
    Keywords: Food; Supply and Industry; Consumer Behavior; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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      W. Earl Sasser

      Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details

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      • 17 Aug 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      ‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto

      wild ride. That is, until now. A new study by Harvard Business School professor Marco Di Maggio shows that on average, cryptocurrency investors have higher household incomes, live in wealthier and more educated ZIP codes, like to gamble, frequently use View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand
      • 2011
      • Article

      Too Big to Live: Why We Must Stamp Out State Monopoly Capitalism

      The problems of excessive economic concentration, so lucidly and incisively analysed here, are not limited to the financial services industry. For the problem is now widespread: while five firms control 80% of the banking industry, a similar or greater concentration is... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Systems; Monopoly
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      • 22 May 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

      largest consumer debt in the US, trailing only mortgage loans—and surpassing car loans, credit card debt, and home equity lines of credit. Source: New York Fed Consumer Credit Panel/Equifax Many people who... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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      Podcast - Business & Environment

      circular economy through capital management, innovation initiatives, and operating companies like Circular Services. She shares how their private equity, venture capital, and catalytic credit strategies are helping scale recycling, reuse,... View Details
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      Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

      Skip to Main Content Lehman Brothers Collection Resources Baker Library Collections Corporate Reports Collection R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports HBS Cases Baker Old Class Collection Related Archival Collections Bibliography Site View Details