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Levels of Meaning
business? What were the institutional foundations in the United States that allowed for economic growth? What makes the entrepreneurial spirit and history of entrepreneurship in this country unique? These...
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- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
going to get cheaper, and storage is going to get cheaper. “Coal is not going to get developed, because it will be more costly than the alternatives. Greenhouse gases are going to be an issue, but economics will be the primary factor...
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- 01 May 2013
- News
Dhruv Agarwala, MBA 2002
Dhruv Agarwala, who grew up in Calcutta, credits HBS for being instrumental in shaping his career. From his first job in the United States—as a business development associate at General Electric—to his latest entrepreneurial endeavor in...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
entrepreneurial management and strategy. Anette Mikes came to HBS in 2007 as a postdoctoral fellow after earning her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. She’s now an assistant professor in the Accounting & Management unit with a...
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Margie Kelley
- 2011
- Other Unpublished Work
What Do Private Firms Look Like?
By: John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander Ljungqvist
Private firms in the U.S. are not subject to public reporting requirements, so relatively little is known about their characteristics and behavior—until now. This Data Appendix describes a new database on private U.S. firms, created by Sageworks Inc. in cooperation...
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Data and Data Sets;
Behavior;
Public Sector;
Corporate Disclosure;
Private Sector;
Financial Statements;
United States
Asker, John, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist. "What Do Private Firms Look Like?" 2011.
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
in the United States, in the 1980s. They started exerting direct pressure on the boards to remove the management of under-performing companies. By the early 1990s, we saw a further rise in institutional investor power and their...
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by Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing...
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- March 2010 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
Dubai in Crisis
By: Noel Maurer
On November 25, 2009, the small city-state of Dubai shook financial markets across the world when the Dubai World holding companies announced that it would ask its creditors to standstill its debts. After three decades of phenomenal growth, something had gone off the...
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Business Model;
Development Economics;
Financial Crisis;
Borrowing and Debt;
Business History;
Business and Government Relations;
Dubai
Maurer, Noel. "Dubai in Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 710-061, March 2010. (Revised May 2011.)
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis
boundaries, a six-member faculty working group, established in November, invited the entire faculty to a half-day discussion of the crisis. Afterward, the group launched a Friday series of in-depth presentations on topics related to global View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
threats to the global economic system. It survived two world wars and the Great Depression. It won the Cold War. Doesn’t capitalism reign supreme in the 21st century? Looking forward, we certainly can see challenges that will have to be...
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- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
people into a more communal relationship, they have a higher willingness to pay” According to Shelle M. Santana, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School, I may have been influenced by communal norms....
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- 2018
- Book
American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition,' 1890–1940
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal meanings of the term fair trade from the late nineteenth century through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with regulators to...
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Economic Systems;
Competition;
Policy;
Fairness;
History;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
United States
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition,' 1890–1940. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Providing lessons in financial literacy
Sally Wood (MBA 1983) is COO of the Council for Economic Education (CEE), a nonprofit dedicated to teaching economics and personal finance to students from kindergarten through high school. Based in New York...
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- 24 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on the Public Sector
why? Under a U.S. government-funded project focused on increasing entrepreneurship in Uganda’s agriculture sector, I supported the creation of economic opportunities for over 350,000 youth and leveraged $13 million in private sector...
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- Fast Answer
Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship
Services (GIS). SimplyAnalytics generates tables and maps for the United States including population, age, race, income, employment, and education. Our subscription also allows access to Experian...
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- 14 May 2024
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series – How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship Today, the concept of “sustainable innovation” seems commonplace and is generally accepted as a viable path balancing business growth with responsibility towards the...
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- June 2010 (Revised July 2012)
- Supplement
Dubai: Debt, Development, and Crisis (C)
By: Aldo Musacchio, Andrew Christopher Goodman and Claire K. Qureshi
On November 25, 2009, the city state of Dubai stunned markets by announcing that Dubai World, its flagship state holding company, would seek a six month "standstill" on at least $4 billion U.S. dollars of its $26 billion in debt obligations. This case describes Dubai's...
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Finance;
Investment;
Emerging Markets;
Trade;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Development Economics;
Financial Crisis;
State Ownership;
Sovereign Finance;
Business Strategy;
Dubai
Musacchio, Aldo, Andrew Christopher Goodman, and Claire K. Qureshi. "Dubai: Debt, Development, and Crisis (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 710-071, June 2010. (Revised July 2012.)
- 2022
- Chapter
The Servicification of the U.S. Economy: The Role of Startups versus Incumbent Firms
By: Mercedes Delgado, J. Daniel Kim and Karen G. Mills
Over the last few decades, the U.S. economy has exhibited a significant shift from manufacturing towards services. This transition has been particularly prominent in an important subcategory of services industries that drives innovation and employs many high-wage...
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Servicification;
Supply Chain Industries;
STEM Labor;
Innovation;
Growth;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Economic Growth;
Policy;
Service Industry;
United States
Delgado, Mercedes, J. Daniel Kim, and Karen G. Mills. "The Servicification of the U.S. Economy: The Role of Startups versus Incumbent Firms." In The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth, edited by Michael J. Andrews, Aaron Chatterji, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
Publications January 2015 Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics Agglomeration and Innovation By: Carlino, Gerald, and William R. Kerr Abstract—This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Article
Debt Maturity: Is Long-Term Debt Optimal?
By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
We model and calibrate the arguments in favor and against short-term and long-term debt. These arguments broadly include: maturity premium, sustainability, and service smoothing. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortions and government...
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Borrowing and Debt;
Investment Return;
Development Economics;
Taxation;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Cost;
Interest Rates;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Welfare;
United States;
Brazil
Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Debt Maturity: Is Long-Term Debt Optimal?" Review of International Economics 17, no. 5 (November 2009): 890–905. (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 06-005 and NBER Working Paper No. 13119.)