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  • 01 Sep 2005
  • News

Making History, Starting Over

economic reforms. Guided by Cohen, the firm has emerged over the past three decades as one of the world’s dominant private-equity investment groups, raising or advising funds totaling more than $20 billion. At the peak of his game, Cohen... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

that, although misaligned economic incentives can play a role in explaining misalignment of planning behaviors, there is another important issue to consider: in our setting, the key factor that determines whether two functions or firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

from 3% to 15% as a fraction of government budget without negatively affecting publication quality and quantity. This follows incentive policy change and leadership change at labs, an event whose timing is plausibly exogenous being... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 14

an asymmetric market structure, with a few large P firms and many small OS firms. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-149.pdf Anticommons and Optimal Patent Policy in a Model of Sequential Innovation Authors:Gastón... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance

insurance coverage going forward,” the authors write. Small businesses, which account for more than 40 percent of economic activity in the United States, prioritized employee health insurance premiums as the COVID-19 pandemic hit,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • 15 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

innovative design in the built environment. To create an environmentally sustainable built environment, design that focuses on maximizing natural resource efficiency, planning that fosters public health, business models that attract the capital to fund it, and public... View Details
Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

quickly as it began. "The offshoring of activities is predicated on a huge number of non-obvious, sensitive policy choices," Rivkin says, citing India's economic liberalization efforts of the early 1990s and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

economically self-sufficient and prosperous through entrepreneurship, the event was the seventh in a nationwide series. I think we need people with that kind of courage and vision, and they need those of you who have capital to invest.—... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable

carry them out. You need an informant - and that probably means you have to know a terrorist. I've been involved in foreign policy for more than 35 years. There is no field more dependent on good intelligence than counterterrorism, and... View Details
Keywords: counterterrorism; terrorism; National Security and International Affairs; Government
  • 07 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

question that firms and policy makers need to be thinking about is just what type of good is software? The answer to this question may be shifting just as economic and social life becomes dependent upon a... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 17 Feb 2015
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

Allison Ciechanover (Harvard MBA 2002) and Kunal Modi (Harvard MBA/MPP 2013), a manager at McKinsey & Co. in San Francisco. The influx of wealthy tech workers into San Francisco'sneighborhoods is the subject of a case study.©iStock.com/franckreporter At a time when... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • November 1990 (Revised August 1992)
  • Case

Corning, Inc.: A Network of Alliances

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Ashish Nanda
Describes James Houghton's actions in assuming the role of CEO at Corning in the midst of a recession. Not only must he turn around operating performance, he must also revitalize a demoralized organization and set a new, clear strategic direction. In doing so, the case... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Policy; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Expectations; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy
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  • 22 Jan 2013
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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
  • 27 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 27

  Publications January 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Bank Regulation, Capital Structure, and the Low Risk Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

  Working PapersSpanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram Abstract Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Economic Sciences Chicago Board of Options Exchange Exhibit Home Prelude to the Option Pricing Model Bachelier, Louis. " Théorie de la Spéculation. " Annales Science de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure , No.1018. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1900.... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

New Releases

"green," as though there were a categorical answer. "Of course, the answer is, 'It depends.' The appropriate environmental policies for a firm depend on the firm's circumstances: the basic economics of its... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Alumni Books

how it works); illuminates the challenges of bringing billions of dollars in private capital to bear on social problems; identifies smart public policies that promote social innovation; and recommends specific investment opportunities.... View Details
  • Profile

Mariama Keita

to bring to market, what prices to set." The Business, Government and International Economy (BGIE) course has been "life changing," says Mariama. "There can be a pessimistic attitude in Africa. But learning about fiscal View Details
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

  Working PapersWhen Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth? Authors:Philippe Aghion, Diego Comin, Peter Howitt, and Isabel Tecu Abstract Can a country grow faster by saving more? We address this question both theoretically and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace