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- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
massive growth in world FDI in mining. As petroleum consumption grew with new uses, the search for oil became worldwide. Oil was the only fuel that could drive the new motor car, while the demand for rubber tyres for cars created an... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
evidence. In our model, firms over-extrapolate exogenous demand shocks and partially neglect the endogenous investment responses of their competitors. Formal estimation of the model confirms that both types of expectational errors are... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
deficit spending send the signal that demand will increase, and thus both aim to break the cycle of negative expectations about the economy. Q: What's a good way to think about foreign direct investment in the United States? Are we... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
pandemic is likely to change how companies do business. Here’s what they said: Michael Beer: Organizations will develop trust-based cultures with employees The coronavirus challenge demands an organization-wide, honest conversation that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
services. Institutional investors, such as endowments and pension funds, often have “vice clauses” prohibiting investments in Schedule I industries. Even private investors are dissuaded by the industry’s lack of access to bankruptcy... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
a large stake in Dell, Inc., accused Dell of trying to steal the company, and urged shareholders to rebel and demand a "leveraged recapitalization" instead. This case presents the information the Dell board worked with as it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
our moment. A second force affecting the speed and direction of global capitalism comes from the demand side. There are millions-soon to be billions-of consumers, voters, and other actors, most obviously "millennials," who want... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
Then there's the recent debacle involving a big beverage company. The vice president of sales for one of the company's largest regions dramatically underpredicted demand for an upcoming major holiday. His motivation was simple—he wanted... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
change the dynamics because they can be written off as exceptions, Kanter says. That is one reason Hatcher’s BlackTech Week has been so key to spurring change, since it annually brings together Black speakers, founders of promising ventures, and View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
capital to the best ideas, weeding out the bad ones. Investors have the challenge of sorting through the overwhelming number of ideas to discern the good ones, a process compared to finding a needle in a haystack. They often lack the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
equity firms have billions of dollars of investible cash—although whether any of these investors have the appetite to risk their capital in the present environment is yet to be determined. And of course, an effective cure or vaccine for... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
the Internet," he concluded. "This will favor the cheapest suppliers and keenest buyers and thus hold down prices and inflation while raising productivity." Ever-changing Demands In his remarks, the NYSE's Cochrane... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
obligations (CDOs) and private-label mortgage-backed securities (MBS) backed by nonprime loans played a central role in the recent financial crisis. Little is known, however, about the underlying forces that drove investor View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
demands of being a public firm: for instance, financial reporting, investor relations, and strategic planning." Private equity groups, meanwhile, demand that their... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
with the model's predictions, we find that whether a firm integrates upstream or downstream suppliers depends crucially on the elasticity of demand for its final product. Moreover, a firm's propensity to integrate a given stage of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
their firms as small firms when investors favor small firms. Local Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovic, and Scott Weisbenner Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We exploit demographic variation to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
investment team, and the rewards can be scaled down accordingly. "One frequent manifestation of these confused objectives is a difficulty in killing projects” But in most programs, the demands on the corporate venturing team are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: What's the best way to report nonfinancial metrics? How can nonprofit leaders balance View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
industry to measure to what extent waiting-time performance impacts different firms' market shares and price decisions. We report on a large-scale empirical industrial organization study in which the demand equations for fast-food... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
investors succeed in volatile, cyclical markets as far ranging as real estate, high technology, and truck transport. In Waves in Ship Prices and Investment, a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, Professor Robin Greenwood... View Details