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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
capital. Additionally, it makes the company highly vulnerable to technological changes and other types of shocks. In a distributed business ecosystem, a firm can scale more easily and respond to shocks by leveraging capabilities provided...
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by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
the supply of riskless short-term bills. Such reasoning seems to have been borne out in Treasury policy during the height of the financial crisis, when the U.S. Treasury issued $350 billion of short-term bills within a week of Lehman...
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- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
and Noble in books, Best Buy in electronics—offer similar rewards. Boots, the UK-based pharmacy and beauty supply retailer, offers a substantial reward of 4 percent, but that rate is more exception than rule. This type of reward is...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
something much more controlled, curated. They needed something where they wouldn't get slapped on the wrist by procurement or by their boss. You know they couldn't use something where they were describing a proprietary project launching into the ether paying in a View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51635 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital By: Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—We study how technological...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
with our research findings over the last decade. The employers in the U.S. consistently adopt a posture that the way the system is supposed to work, there should be a steady supply of people who are prepared to do the work that they are...
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- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Gap? Government Subsidized Lending and Access to Capital By: Lerner, Josh, and Kristle Romero-Cortes Abstract—The consequences of providing public funds to financial institutions remain controversial. We examine the Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
into poverty because of COVID-19. You had this great trend towards having supply chains distributed throughout the globe that has the potential of being reversed. Now, this is an area where I think there remains a lot of uncertainty...
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- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
comparative statics and time-series dynamics that are consistent with the empirical features of repo market data, including the credit crisis of 2007-2008. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-025.pdf Cases &...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
associated with high used ship prices and heightened industry investment in new ships, but we forecast low future returns. We propose and estimate a behavioral model of industry cycles that can account for the evidence. In our model, firms over-extrapolate exogenous...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers, and lower mortality rates. This is true compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither). We argue that supplying joint...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
bonds generates a crowding out of corporate lending. For a given domestic firm, new debt is less likely to be a loan—i.e., the loan supply contracts—when local banks have purchased more domestic sovereign debt and when that debt is risky...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
dissertation on the emerging banking system, I interviewed both bankers and managers, owners, entrepreneurs in the post-Soviet economy, in the Russian economy, to understand whether a market for credit was arising endogenously. Russia, at...
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- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
get significant tax breaks under a Trump administration, to give more of their supply chain contracts to U.S.-based small businesses. In addition, National Federation of Independent Business surveys show that access to affordable health...
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by Christina Pazzanese
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
in a way on behalf of the country, because this is a problem that the United States absolutely needs to solve if we are going to be able to effectively innovate, work at solving problems. You see now major public investments in, for example, reshoring semiconductors...
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