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- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?
talented managers around the world will want to work for them. Fewer distributors will feel obliged to stock them. And new products that have been accustomed to gaining distribution on the back of their...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50187 Capital Requirements, Risk Choice, and Liquidity Provision in a Business Cycle Model By: Begenau, Juliane Abstract—This paper develops a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
changes in the maturity structure of government debt. We document that when the government funds itself with relatively more short-term debt, firms fill the resulting gap by issuing more long-term debt, and vice-versa. This type of...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
achieved is in question. Where, for example, should fiat or regulation ("push"), incentives or subsidies ("pull"), or the provision of new information, education, or even competitive...
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- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
home sharing and to simplify the payment of tourist tax for hosts in the city. It was the most comprehensive agreement that Airbnb had with any city in the world. Its final provision read, “The parties trust...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, such as ownership; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to incentives, dismissals, and promotions; and measurable outcomes, for the firm and View Details
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Anna Secino
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
strengthened his belief that those who prosper in business are obligated to serve the greater good. His decadelong presidency of the World Bank provided the ultimate opportunity to pursue that mission on a global scale. Wolfensohn’s...
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- 02 Sep 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Transparent Should Boards Be?
Gogula put it, "While protecting the short term interests of shareholders and avoiding a depression of stock prices may be a tempting recourse for a Board member to take, long-term shareholder interest...
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
effects, allows executives to benefit from short-term rises in stock price, and creates conflicts of interest for corporate insiders vis-à-vis ordinary shareholders. Pay-for-performance systems that lack View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2020
donors’ intentions and the terms of each gift. Harvard is obligated to preserve the purchasing power of the endowment by spending only a small fraction of its value each year. Spending more than that over time, View Details
- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
be to investors, but the long-term effect, it is assumed, would be to reverse the "doom loop" described above. For better or worse, it would be much more straightforward than the proposal on which more than...
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
and Gore heroes for solving a problem that, at the time, very few knew existed. Shouldn’t we be able to look to our political and business leaders to make decisions that are in our long-term best interest,...
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- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
profit by investing the pre-paid premiums. So they lose money on insurance but make up for it by investing premiums." By contrast, she said, Progressive Casualty Insurance Company makes money on insurance and spends more on service...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
"Goodbye tension, hello pension!" That used to be the triumphant cry of millions of new retirees. For decades, Americans assumed a good job came with a good pension, guaranteeing them regular monthly payments from their parent...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
commitments to diversity as seriously as our obligations to our customers and shareholders." In accepting Levi Strauss's award, Haas noted that the company "has always tried to be a source of positive change in the communities in which we...
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Garry Emmons
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
several of these relationships in depth. An electrical parts distributor for General Electric, they observed, initially adhered closely to its informal agreement with the company, but eventually provided additional service that surpassed...
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- 18 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5
couple reasons why you should join the fight for racial justice: You aren’t devoid of race. Addressing racial identity can sometimes feel like a choice for you and unfair View Details
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
of directors recently gave the department mixed reviews: some directors are dubious about the unit's long-term prospects and are open to acquisition offers; others, however, continue to believe in the unit's promise and want to give it a...
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by Paul Michelman
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2014
School’s year-end fiscal 2014 building debt-to-asset ratio decreased to 2.0 percent, from 2.5 percent in the prior year. Other University debt—mainly consisting of repayment obligations to the University for...
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- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
Increased financial disclosure standards on such issues as executive compensation should provide more useful information for investors, policy makers, and regulators. But do the companies themselves benefit? What researchers are now...
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