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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Full Substitutability

By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky and Alexander Westkamp
Various forms of substitutability are essential for establishing the existence of equilibria and other useful properties in diverse settings such as matching, auctions, and exchange economies with indivisible goods. We extend earlier models' canonical definitions of... View Details
Keywords: Market Design; Balance and Stability
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  • December 2015
  • Article

Introduction: New Perspectives on Corporate Capital Structure

By: Viral Acharya, Heitor Almeida and Malcolm Baker
The National Bureau of Economic Research held a symposium titled "New Perspectives on Corporate Capital Structures" on April 5–6, 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In its call for the submission of theoretical and empirical papers for the symposium, the NBER noted that... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Corporate Finance
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  • November 2009 (Revised January 2011)
  • Case

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

By: Allen S. Grossman and Cathy Ross
Dedicated to accelerating the development of a safe, effective, accessible, preventive HIV vaccine, the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) pioneered ways of addressing the inadequate incentive structures that prevented progress toward vaccines for AIDS and... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Globalized Firms and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Business and Government Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Social Enterprise; Health Industry
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  • 08 Apr 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Susan Athey, Stanford Graduate School of Business

  • 2020
  • Article

Research on Corporate Sustainability: Review and Directions for Future Research

By: Jody Grewal and George Serafeim
We review the literature on corporate sustainability and provide directions for future research. Our review focuses on three actions: measuring, managing and communicating corporate sustainability performance. Measurement is the least developed of the three and... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainability Management; Nonfinancial Disclosure; Nonfinancial Information; Nonfinancial Performance; Materiality; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Disclosure; ESG Disclosure Metrics; ESG Ratings; ESG Reporting; Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility; Accounting; Finance; Management; Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Diversity; Equality and Inequality; Corporate Disclosure; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • 01 Dec 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Financing Innovation

Keywords: by William R. Kerr & Ramana Nanda
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

New Product Diffusion Within Retailers: The Effect of Managerial Quality on Rollout

By: Tomomichi Amano and Jorge Tamayo
Retailers are key intermediaries through which consumers encounter innovation in the form of new products. How are these products rolled out within retailers? We observe significant variation in the availability of new products across stores in a large retail chain in... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Quality; Firm Performance; Diffusion Of Innovation; New Product Rollout; Retailing; Distribution Channels; Product Launch; Management Skills; Retail Industry; Colombia
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    Suraj Srinivasan

    Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; financial services
    • October 2012 (Revised August 2014)
    • Case

    The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board: October 2012

    By: Josh Lerner, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Nathaniel Burbank
    The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is one of the largest and fastest-growing pools of investment capital in the world and follows an unusually active program of investment management. In October of 2012, Mark Wiseman was just 12 weeks into his role as... View Details
    Keywords: Canada; CPPIB; Pensions; Private Equity; Financial Services Industry; Canada
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    • September 2008 (Revised February 2009)
    • Case

    Ocean Tomo: Building a Market for Intellectual Property

    By: Peter A. Coles, Andrei Hagiu and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
    Ocean Tomo's management team sought to turn the company into the leading intermediary for intellectual property. Despite its increasingly important role in the global marketplace, IP remained a notoriously illiquid asset—difficult to value, harder to trade, and often... View Details
    Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Intellectual Property; Resource Allocation; Auctions; Market Design; Service Operations
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    • 21 Jun 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Merchant or Two-Sided Platform?

    Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Technology
    • February 2021
    • Case

    Threadless: The Renewal of an Online Community

    By: Shane Greenstein, Karim Lakhani and Christian Godwin
    Threadless, an online apparel company and artist community which Jake Nickell founded in 2000, continued to maintain its status as a top company in the online apparel industry during its second decade. From 2010 to 2020, Threadless continued to operate its... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Leading Change; Management; Marketing; Product Launch; Operations; Supply Chain; Distribution; Networks; Sales; Strategy; Adaptation; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; North America
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    • March 2020 (Revised October 2020)
    • Module Note

    Sales Force Compensation

    By: Doug J. Chung
    The author developed this note for scholars, educators, and practitioners that are interested in sales force compensation. It is based on the author’s investigations across a variety of organizations in multiple industries and provides a conceptual framework for the... View Details
    Keywords: Sales Strategy; Sales Force Management; Sales Compensation; Salary; Commissions; Bonuses; Quota Setting/updating; Quota Frequency; Extrinsic Vs Intrinsic Motivation; Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits; Strategy
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    • May 2009
    • Article

    Asymmetric Information Effects on Loan Spreads

    By: Victoria Ivashina
    The paper estimates the cost arising from information asymmetry between the lead bank and members of the lending syndicate. In a lending syndicate, the lead bank retains only a fraction of the loan but acts as the intermediary between the borrower and the syndicate... View Details
    Keywords: Cost; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Capital; Investment Portfolio; Credit; Diversification; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • TeachingInterests

    Investing for Impact

    By: Archie L. Jones

    The Field Course: Investing for Impact was born out of the efforts of HBS students and faculty in the spring of 2020 and offered for the first time in fall semester of 2021.

    This course seeks to help students understand why certain... View Details

    • August 2018
    • Case

    BlackBuck (A)

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
    The case presents the challenges of scaling an asset-heavy company (that relies on its operations). It highlights how decisions on the early team impact a company’s ability to scale, linkage between growth and cash flows, as well the organizational impact of high... View Details
    Keywords: Founders; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Delivery; Cash Flow; Growth Management; Truck Transportation; Online Technology; India
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    • September 2015
    • Article

    Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors

    By: Samuel G. Hanson, Andrei Shleifer, Jeremy C. Stein and Robert W. Vishny
    We examine the business model of traditional commercial banks when they compete with shadow banks. While both types of intermediaries create safe "money-like" claims, they go about this in different ways. Traditional banks create money-like claims by holding illiquid... View Details
    Keywords: Shadow Banking; Safe Money-like Claims; Commercial Banking
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    • Research Summary

    Islamic Financing Practices

    By: Samuel L. Hayes
    Samuel L. Hayes III is examining (with faculty of Harvard University's Law School and Center for Middle Eastern Studies) Islamic banking and investment practices. Because the Koran prohibits the payment of fixed interest and guarantees on funds invested either with... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Dawn Matsumoto's research investigates managers' financial reporting decisions including the incentives driving these decisions and the impact of these decisions on capital market participants. She is interested in the role of financial intermediaries (such as... View Details
    • 22 May 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Speed of New Ideas: Trust, Institutions and the Diffusion of New Products

    Keywords: by Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Joel Waldfogel