Geography Of Flows - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

Periodical:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate whether the geographic dispersion of a firm affects corporate decision-making. Our findings suggest that social factors work... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

flow to reforming countries as a consequence of reforms and may give policy makers working at agencies like the U.S. Trade Representative's Office some helpful facts to bring to the negotiating table.... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

08 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

For companies to redeem credibility with investors, argue Harvard Business School professors Paul Healy and Krishna Palepu, "fundamental and even radical reforms must be made to the way America's markets process the flows View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

There were a whole lot of risk factors in the Great Recession that contributed to the collapse: It was availability of credit to subprime borrowers, the syndication of these... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

hours of hard work flow into a piece that none of them has ever heard before and will never hear again. Like jazz, communication is improvisational. Each time you communicate... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

with the lessons taught in BSSE. "I tell my students that they'll get a better framework in this 14-week course than I got in 14 years at the school of hard knocks," Huber says. "General Motors spent a billion dollars on my... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

more than sufficient gains in sales to satisfy investors. The delivery routes proved a blessing in disguise, given still-tight real estate and labor markets, and more of the growth planned for 2001 focused on adding routes than on opening... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

08 May 2020
In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

The coronavirus crisis is hobbling social enterprises around the world, leaving many fighting for survival at a time of profound need. Since the pandemic hit, donations have fallen for more than two-thirds View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

to be more responsive to markets? The risk exposure calculator helps answer these questions. Another powerful tool we describe in detail is the "profit wheel," a model of the flow View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Chattanooga, Tennessee, the fourth-largest mall REIT in North America with a market cap of $8 billion. "REITs at the time were paying dividends in the high single digits, so money started flowing... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

observation: In 1969, there was information technology that put people on the moon. But we didn't have computers in the intensive care unit until 1982 or 1983. We had a computer that calculated cardiac flow rates out View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

22 Dec 2016
Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

A recent Washington Post editorial suggested that the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) is, in many ways, a remnant of days gone by. The arguments implied that small businesses that make up our nation’s “Main Street”... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

When you think about which countries have produced the greatest management innovations, the United States and Japan are likely to top your list. But it was Germany in the late 1800s and early 1900s that was a cauldron of innovative and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

tool? Paul Healy: The tool was first developed to show students who were taking BAV how discounted cash flow (DCF) and earnings-based valuations work and can be reconciled. Over time, based on feedback from students about the value View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

solving in a multicultural context because it promotes a flow of novel ideas and concepts from cultures other than one's own. New ideas from other cultures can serve as raw materials for recombination or... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

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

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

iPhoto This weekend the NFL is concluding its annual draft. Up to 255 college football players will be distributed over three days across the 32 NFL teams. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

stream from the sale of nongasoline products and services, convenience store, and auxiliary car services, a portion of which would also flow back to Mobil. In summary, the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

18 Apr 2005
Lessons from the Classroom

NFL Players Touch Down at HBS

is much needed, said the players. At best they have only a few years of earning power in professional football. And they don't work under guaranteed contracts—they are one nasty hit away from forced retirement. "Our window View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

make companies more efficient when public markets are largely flat, they said. According to Nikos Stathopoulos (HBS MBA '95), a partner in Apax Partners, which was founded thirty years ago, "If you look at what drives the sources of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

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