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- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
an important factor in explaining cross-sectional variation in the loan interest rate and covenant structure. Our results indicate that two channels allow leveraged buyouts sponsored by private equity firms to receive favorable loan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
mid-'80s to assist European high-tech firms that wanted to enter the U.S. market," Gerard Montanus observed. "And since most VCs in the States weren't thinking about Europe at that time, we could also help American companies View Details
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
much-needed cash but also expertise and advice. In a perfect world, everyone benefits. The VC firm takes an equity stake and makes money when the company succeeds, rewarding limited partners who have invested in the VC firm. But what happens when the View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
expertise, and spreading out risk. On the other hand, forming alliances also requires coordinating tasks and merging cultures, which can often be difficult and costly to achieve. Business theorists have long pursued this question in an... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
quarters of operation, Google's internally developed prediction market has delivered accurate and decisive predictions about future events of interest to the company. Google must now determine how to increase participation in the market,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
energy came in the factor markets (for land, labor capital, and knowledge), and it required the abandonment of feudalism. Unlike trade, capitalism spreads by political decisions and by political units such as states. As a consequence,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
European market with the introduction of the Euro.— Vincent Dessain With the support of the ERC, the geographic distribution of European cases is shifting to the continent with a wide spread of countries represented including France,... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
public's interest and reminded people of the multiple platforms available to see the competition," says Greyser. The biggest boon to NBC, however, was the Games themselves. Winning performances by American athletes such as swimmer Michael... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic, and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal over the period 1996-2006. This within-country analysis complements existing cross-country studies on the same... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Trained as an industrial engineer, Tucker is interested in the perspective of frontline workers in productivity and process improvement, including how internal supply chains and other... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
industry and gradually spreading elsewhere. Small, state-owned enterprises were slimmed down under Premier Zhu Rongji--basically cut loose and left to go bankrupt and be restructured--while the government focused on larger enterprises.... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
possibilities and for spreading the risk on those selected. Does this not furnish a sound business basis for trying new methods of applying development capital? We cannot depend safely for an indefinite time on the expansion of our old... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
As interest in the flat tax grows, the world seems transfixed on an unlikely country, Slovakia, whose 3-year-old tax reform program is paying early dividends. Essentially applying a uniform tax rate on citizens (and sometimes companies)... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
When the COVID-19 virus spread worldwide and normal life ground to a halt last year, we thought voluntary employee turnover would drop as well. But the opposite happened in one area: Lift outs—a group of workers who defect... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
interests of growers, millers, and customers; and the impact of changes in global supply (e.g., the rise of Brazil as a major sugarcane and sugar producer) and demand (e.g., the increased use of sugarcane for ethanol production). Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
corporate executives, government officials, and journalists, for allegedly spreading false rumors online about the market’s stability. And in a turnabout, authorities also announced they will not institute more interventions to rescue the... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
to the special role reinsurers have played in the capitalist system. As the industry developed, it had a vested interest in preventing excessive risks, while also providing complex societies with a mechanism to limit the damage that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
sleep, all participants were presented with a problem that required a creative solution. In the two-odor conditions, a hidden scent diffuser spread an odor while the problem was presented. In the sleep-with-conditioned-odor condition,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
it wants to spread the burden of taxes among its citizens in the least painful way, Weinzierl says. In other words, the government wants those for whom it is relatively easy to earn money to pay more in taxes than those for whom it is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace