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- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
fraud than other kinds of advertising. An advertiser might think: "Faking that a person paid money is very hard. You need a credit card, and if I'm getting the order, how bad can it be?" In fact, fraud is not impossible. Maybe...
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- 03 Jan 2017
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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...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
Valentine's Day. For the first time, FedEx closed due to the storm and would not be able to deliver our flowers. In the flower business, you are given credit for making a marriage work, and you're also blamed for destroying a...
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by Susan Young
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
or those of other states. The national government, which had borrowed huge sums from foreign creditors to fight the long War of Independence, lacked the power to tax its citizens and repay its debts. “It was something of a miracle that...
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- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
Photo credits: Aaron Sabin; Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. This is the first episode of "Clearing the Air", a three-part series focused on the business of carbon...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Podcast Podcast Harvard Business School Professors Bill Kerr and Joe Fuller talk to leaders grappling with the forces reshaping the nature of work. Apple Podcasts Spotify Amazon More Ways to Listen iHeartRadioPlayer.fmAudacyCastboxPocket Casts 29 Jan 2020 Managing the...
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- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
experiments to test theoretical predictions of why adoption may be low. Insurance purchase is sensitive to price, with an estimated extensive price elasticity of demand between -0.66 and -0.88. Credit constraints, identified through the...
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Martha Lagace
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
failure not as something that weighs them down, but as something that teaches them valuable lessons. Third, they think of their organization ahead of themselves. It is never about them. They are willing to take the blame when things don’t work out—and give View Details
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-101.pdf Corporate Governance and Internal Capital Markets Authors:Zacharias Sautner and Belén Villalonga Abstract We exploit an exogenous shock to corporate ownership structures created by a recent tax...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Unlike the industry-standard AC power grid — the “local” — Clean Line’s system uses direct-current technology, which transports energy long distances with less energy loss. Wind power is cheap to produce — as low as 5 cents per kilowatt-hour with View Details
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- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
pivotal role in the industry during the 1970s by selling Iranian oil to Israel and South Africa. The case provides a means to explore the rationale and advantages of giant commodity traders, as well as enabling students to debate corporate use of View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
management; knowledge of the appropriate skills and tools, such as opportunity analysis, deal-structuring, organization design, and innovation supports; command of relevant specific knowledge, including tax law, corporate governance...
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- 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015
Regulation By: Drake, David, Paul R. Kleindorfer, and Luk N. Van Wassenhove Abstract—We study the impact of emissions tax and emissions cap-and-trade regulation on a firm's technology choice and capacity decisions. We show that emissions...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
up there. Any one of them alone is taxing enough, but Monica Dodi has experienced all three in the past two years. Yet the unstoppable entertainment executive, now a single mom, is still smiling and upbeat. "I'm happy and where I want to...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
I invest in a worker and she moves up and she’s earning more, I earn a tax credit proportionate to how much more she’s earning, whether that’s happening at my company or whether she’s moving up beyond my...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
to be examined and debated. Having international students in class helps to keep these issues front and center. This is why, to varying degrees, HBS has sought an internationally diverse student body for decades." Professor Henry B. Reiling teaches finance courses,...
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Eileen K. McCluskey