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- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
Bill after World War II, which created a huge pool of potential new students. What were other crucial turning points? A: The Great Depression of the 1930s reinvigorated the discourse and questions about what a profession is and what end...
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- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
shipping industry, constructing patterns of return for investors. “We were shocked at how predictable the returns are in this industry.” The research results—that heavy investment in a boom depresses future earnings—were unexpected, says...
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- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
state policing powers rather than intrastate trade. Aided by the Great Depression The Fair Trade Act brought businesses to California and led to other states enacting similar legislation. The Great Depression, with its widespread price...
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- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
with a lot of turbulence: "a very dramatic run off" of activity in the 1980s, followed by a decline in activity that led to a depression for much of the early 1990s, followed by a gradual recovery during the mid-1990s. "The...
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- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
bottom lines, ultimately depressing stock prices. To circumvent this problem, some firms issue "tracking stock," hoping that capital markets will perceive them much like traditional start-up stocks. So when should a company...
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by Peter Jacobs
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
present a model in which fire sales propagate shocks across bank balance sheets. When a bank experiences a negative shock to its equity, a natural way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. If potential buyers are limited, then asset sales View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209144 U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Policy Reactions (B) Harvard Business School Case 709-045 In March 2009, the U.S. economy was in a severe recession not seen since the Great View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
layoffs project, Malden Mills, describes how a leader handled a disastrous event: Two weeks before Christmas 1995, a fire destroyed three factory buildings at a textile company, one of the largest employers in the already economically View Details
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
an interesting ripple effect for the rest of the management team. In many companies, when the founder-CEO's compensation is below market, it may also depress the compensation of the other team members. An investor who serves on the board...
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- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812111-PDF-ENG Georges Doriot and American Venture Capital Tom Nicholas and David ChenHarvard Business School Case 812-110 Following the lean years of the Great Depression when bankruptcies...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
down" response of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation of the Depression era rather than the "bottom up" strategy (involving the purchase of individual properties) of the Resolution Trust of the 1980s. The former returned 100 percent of...
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by Jim Heskett
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
for that very reason that she is cutting out intermediaries and may sacrifice some value (and possibly depress the value of other lesser Picassos) in the process: because she is intent on purging herself of painful emotional ties to that...
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- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
depressed " (Yaron Kaufman); "when motives switch from serving to grabbing" (Gerald Nanninga); "the amount that allows the stakeholders to know 'we're all in this together, and apart from our natural not manmade...
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by Jim Heskett
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
C. Stein Abstract—Small business lending by the four largest banks fell sharply relative to others in 2008 and remained depressed through 2014. We explore the dynamic adjustment process following this credit supply shock. In counties...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
declared bankruptcy, leaving the building 38% occupied and significantly overleveraged. In a depressed suburban Chicago office market, Marisa Sanchez, the leasing agent, has to negotiate lease proposals with three prospective tenants to...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
Police Powers, Federal Antitrust, and the Politics of 'Fairness', 1890–1938 By: Sawyer, Laura Phillips Abstract—Prior to the Great Depression and President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, considerable pressure for antitrust...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
hiring, and promoting minority workers, and he hopes the research will spur them to re-evaluate ways of reducing segregation. “These research findings are depressing because we value integration as a social goal,” Koning says. “Americans...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
level of economic inequality within Western societies is at its highest in almost a century; in the U.S., for example, inequality is at its highest peak since before the Great Depression (3–5). Furthermore, the incomes of the top 1% in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
percent French.” “We thought that perhaps a way to fix this [distrust] is to have politicians speak directly to voters” Hypothesizing that this lack of personal investment in the country depressed their tendency to vote on issues, the...
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- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
contemplates whether or not to get involved with other investors in trying to replace the board of directors at Take-Two Interactive. The company has been encountering a number of problems with its accounting methods and in the design of its products, etc. All of this...
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Martha Lagace