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  • 14 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 14

make to a firm's return on equity (ROE). Using a sample of 51,866 firms from 69 countries, we find that financing activities contribute more to a firm's ROE in countries with higher domestic credit. The higher contribution of financing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

http://hbr.org/product/southwire-and-12-for-life-scaling-up-a/an/714434-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-053 Freemium Pricing at Dropbox Online storage company Dropbox provided remote storage over the Internet of any type of computer file, along with file... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

drive up the cost of capital and curb investment. This paper evaluates the effects of capital controls on firm-level stock returns and real investment using data from Brazil. On average, there is a statistically significant drop in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

develop an active customer base, focusing on two questions. First, how does the way that customers use the service postadoption to meet their own needs (personal usage) and to interact with one another... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

spending) are unleashed when givers are aware of their positive impact. In Study 1, an experiment using real charitable appeals, giving more money to charity led to higher levels of happiness only when participants gave to causes that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 21

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52435 CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Pratt, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in Brazil, France, Germany, India, UK, and U.S. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

By: Hałaburda, Hanna, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract—The value of many products and services rises or falls with the number of customers using them; the fewer fax machines in use, the less important it is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18

trend is the use of online tools to improve physical asset utilization in many traditional off-line businesses. This article discusses the water industry as an example, and the organizational changes and levers relevant to extracting... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Nikki Skovran

a professional interrogator, I wasn’t impressed with their skills,” says Nikki. “But HBS uses professionals for the interviews — I liked their ability to dig deeper, to get to know me as a person.” Visiting HBS confirmed her first... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Consulting; Entrepreneurship
  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment

By: Jason Acimovic, Chris Parker, David F. Drake and Karthik Balasubramanian
When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific knowledge complement each other. Oftentimes workers have the final decision-making power. Two key decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Decision Making; Training; Performance Improvement; Money; Mobile Technology; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Services Industry
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  • March 2023
  • Supplement

Allianz Türkiye (C): Managing the 2017 Hail Storm

By: John D. Macomber and Fares Khrais
Allianz Turkey is a property casualty insurance company operating in a region experiencing increasing losses from natural catastrophe events related to climate change, for example hail, wildfire, and flooding. There are also substantial other natural catastrophe... View Details
Keywords: Insurance And Reinsurance; Natural Disasters; Turkey; Insurance; Climate Change; Analytics and Data Science; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Turkey
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  • March 2023 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

Allianz Türkiye: Adapting to Climate Change

By: John D. Macomber and Fares Khrais
Allianz Turkey is a property casualty insurance company operating in a region experiencing increasing losses from natural catastrophe events related to climate change, for example hail, wildfire, and flooding. There are also substantial other natural catastrophe... View Details
Keywords: Insurance And Reinsurance; Natural Disasters; Turkey; Insurance; Climate Change; Analytics and Data Science; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Turkey
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  • 12 Oct 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Crashes and Collateralized Lending

Keywords: by Jakub W. Jurek & Erik Stafford; Financial Services; Financial Services
  • 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016

growing body of research yields ample evidence that individuals’ behavior often reflects an apparent concern for moral considerations. Using a broad definition of morality—to include varied non-egoistic motivations such as fairness,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Lindsay Steinmetz

Why was earning your MBA here important to you? After working for a small, entrepreneurial organization I wanted to build a stronger foundation in general management. HBS expanded my knowledge of industries, types of organizations, and how finance, operations and... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

team's knowledge-integration capability. We test our theoretical framework using data on knowledge workers in professional services and discuss implications for research and practice. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2004 (Revised May 2005)
  • Case

Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Indra Reinbergs
Shurgard, a U.S.-based firm that rents storage facilities to consumers and small businesses, is considering financing options for rapid expansion of its European operations. Five years after entering Europe, Shurgard Europe has opened 17 facilities in Belgium, France,... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Valuation; Business Model; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Service Industry; Belgium; France; Sweden; United States; Europe
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  • 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

factors influence individual creativity, as well as the contextual factors that impact creativity such as teams and leadership. The book takes research findings out of the lab and provides examples of these findings put to use in real... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

forces. We recognize the advantage of using fair values in circumstances where these are based on observable prices in liquid secondary markets, but caution against expanding fair values to financial reporting more generally. We conclude... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Profile

Scott Wu

is really the first time I can take my professional expertise in venture capital and finance and apply it in this fashion toward entrepreneurs and others working on solutions to major problems of a different type. “This isn’t a handout; it’s an investment,” Wu adds.... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services