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- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
School finance professor Luis Viceira, an expert on investment management and capital markets, offered his views on how this happened, what it means, and how high the Dow may go in the future. Jim Aisner: Last week the Dow closed above...
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by Jim Aisner
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
says, “We’re doing the finance closing. We’re going to be in the office for a week or two, and we get it done.” Same thing if you’re working on a campaign on the marketing team, similar thing. So, the...
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- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
much more radical change (sacking of Troy / innovation). Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship Authors: William Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We study how US branch banking deregulations...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
These new establishments were concentrated in industries where women entrepreneurs have been traditionally active and the entry was mainly found among household-based establishments. We measure and discuss the extent to which this heightened entrepreneurship is due to...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
representatives in support of the successful campaign for marriage equality in New York State. Our social media campaigns have reached 14 million people, and we've won awards for the innovative advocacy...
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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
remedies, and between discrete campaigns and continuous processes for managing retention. We identify several areas of research where further investigation will significantly enhance retention management. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
’91), an expert in project finance, studies how firms structure, value, and finance very large capital investments such as oil fields, mines, and power plants. His research covers both developed and developing countries, including View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
School Case 514-079 Dumb Ways to Die: Advertising Train Safety (A) The case series focuses on Melbourne Trains' viral advertising campaign to improve safe behaviors around trains among young people. This iconic, low budget View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
behavior through reputational or status incentives. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55333 forthcoming Review of Corporate Finance Studies Short-Termism and Capital Flows By: Fried, Jesse M., and Charles...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
demand and the profitability to engage in exports and R&D, thereby relaxing borrowing constraints and enabling more firms to overcome the fixed-cost hurdle for financing R&D. We decompose the effects of RER changes on productivity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25
entrepreneurs from the investor can create frictions that might inhibit the funding of good projects. It has largely abstracted away from the fact that a startup typically does not have just one investor but rather several VCs that come together in a syndicate to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
health care, higher education, and housing — climbed steeply. To finance what they needed and wanted, growing numbers of households turned to various forms of credit. By 2001, almost three-quarters of all American families owned at least...
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- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
three adaptive functions: deceiving others, social status, and psychological benefits. We suggest potential directions for future research. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50431 forthcoming Journal of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- October 2016
- Supplement
24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2016, 24 Hour Fitness was the number-two fitness chain in the United States, generating revenues of $1.4 billion from 441 clubs serving 3.8 million members. Based in San Ramon, California, 24 Hour Fitness operated clubs in 13 states. Having grown rapidly to become...
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Advertising;
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Buildings and Facilities;
Acquisition;
Business Growth and Maturation;
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Customers;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Satisfaction;
Age;
Training;
Private Equity;
Financing and Loans;
Price;
Profit;
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Nutrition;
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Human Resources;
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Journals and Magazines;
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Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Teams;
Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Channels;
Marketing Communications;
Marketing Strategy;
Social Marketing;
Demand and Consumers;
Market Entry and Exit;
Media;
Organizational Design;
Private Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Groups and Teams;
Sales;
Salesforce Management;
Situation or Environment;
Welfare or Wellbeing;
Sports;
Strategy;
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Competition;
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Competitive Advantage;
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Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-423, October 2016.
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
other thing we can do is pass democracy reform legislation. If we actually ended gerrymandering, if we got more disclosure and small-donor matching on campaign finance as well as automatic voter...
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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
requirement when it came to recruiting: find the best person for the job. So when he needed to staff the Special Funds Branch, which would finance the organization’s clandestine activities, Donovan turned to Wall Street and the country’s...
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- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
payoffs differently than private households do. This gives the government a "social risk management" motive: projects that ameliorate market failures when household marginal utility is high are appealing. The second friction is that government View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
debut at a prominent industry conference, coverage on the front page of the New York Times' Business section, and the raising of a large round of financing from a top-tier venture capital firm. His attempts to find an acquirer have...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
professor in the Finance Unit: As an academic, my main reaction to the executive order is that this decision is absolutely not grounded in the facts. I spend a lot of energy teaching my students to look at the facts to educate their...
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