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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
these issues. Firms devote more external capital to finance their share repurchases than to avoid regular dividend cuts. Debt is the main source of capital used to externally finance payouts, particularly when credit market conditions are... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Abstract—This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
Working PapersThe Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Corporate Tax Avoidance Authors:Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz, and Sonja Olhoft Rego Abstract This study investigates how private equity ownership... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
potential for improvement as a reason to avoid the action. In an experiment, making more salient how a donation could be improved significantly decreases giving. Self-serving motives dramatically magnify the effect, suggesting why information may be particularly... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
Business has long recognized the connection between an effective school system and a qualified workforce—by some estimates, the private sector invests $4 billion annually in efforts intended to improve public education. So why isn't that... View Details
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
conservatorship, experts from public, private, and academic worlds concurred: housing finance in the United States was mortally flawed. The private sector reaped the gains while the public sector absorbed the risk. In the aftermath of the... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
privately held) or for shareholders (if it's public). The interests of the customers, the firm, and the owners become aligned by the customer actually paying for the product. In the nonprofit sector you rarely have this kind of alignment... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
become major players in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. Collectively, these investment decisions could have a major long-run impact on South Africa's economic growth and political stability. South African policymakers needed to decide what they wanted from the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
Working PapersNone this week PublicationsFinancial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Author:Shawn Cole Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract In 1980, India nationalized its large View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation: Evidence from China By: Fang, Lily, Josh Lerner, and Chaopeng Wu Abstract—Using a difference-in-difference approach, we study how intellectual property right (IPR) protection affects innovation in China in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
Barton is a research associate. We talked with Rangan about the research and the courses he teaches on business and poverty. Sean Silverthorne: Traditionally, it was thought that the goal of the private sector—to maximize profit—was at... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Tales of the Newly-minted MBA
H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference to tell their stories—the ups, downs, and detours that brought them to where they are today. "I moved back home. That's where I started," said Joseph Williams (HBS MBA '99), cofounder of Wakefield James, a firm that purchases and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-040.pdf Financial Guarantors and the 2007-2009 Credit Crisis Authors:Daniel Bergstresser, Randolph Cohen, and Siddharth Shenai Abstract More than half of the municipal bonds issued between 1995 and 2009... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
company, was the target of a takeover battle between a financial sponsor and a strategic buyer. Thoma Bravo, the U.S.-based private equity firm, had to decide on its acquisition strategy in the face of competition from Schneider Electric,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
Sen, and Willy Shih Abstract—Scientific research and its translation into commercialized technology is a driver of wealth creation and economic growth. Partnerships to foster the translational processes from public research organizations, such as universities and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
While C.J. Cullinane recommends that government "at least monitor the situation," he offers little hope that government intervention can be any more effective than private sector responses. Richard Oxford agrees, noting that... View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
public research organizations, such as universities and hospitals, and private firms are an established policy tool around the world for the delivery of social or public services, and their use as a tool to foster the translation of basic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
Goldman Sachs & Co.—where one of the authors (Friedman) was Chairman—during the 1980s and early '90s: the firm's moves into junk bonds and private equity and its sustained efforts to become a truly global company. An effective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
private sources, and bank loans.9 Women have made extraordinary progress, but they still have much to learn. In spite of narrowing the debt-financing gap over the past decade, women continue to rely too heavily on personal View Details