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- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
component of bid-ask spreads. We empirically examine these predictions for a sample of large U.S. banks, exploiting recent mandatory disclosures of financial instruments designated as fair value levels 1, 2, and 3, which indicate...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
Systems with multiple components that are tightly linked to one another are prone to such events. Increasingly, our industrial, commercial, and social systems are coming to have the characteristics that predict system-level accidents—in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
managers who trade in foreign debt as well as for emerging market countries. "The cost of funds will go up," naysayers may cry. "We won't get any money; no one will invest in us." “If you lend to Argentina, you are dealing with Argentina” But I...
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by Laura Alfaro
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
made on the right side or the left side of the brain. But this will never lead to deciding by a mechanical means, nor in predicting a decision outcome." There was even concern expressed about the efficacy of MRI-based research on...
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by Jim Heskett
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
convergence was really happening," Yoffie says. Long predicted but never realized, convergence is the idea that as the worlds of entertainment, computing, and communication go digital, they can be combined to create exciting new...
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- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
counter would result in a hefty fee. My research predicts that this system is likely to be seen as fair. First, there are no negative externalities; other passengers don't have to wait longer because someone else arrives late. Second, the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Turning Point: Change, Stat
Central Park. Patient-centered innovation is finally happening, and it’s up to all of us to make sure it continues. On a more personal note, I’ve learned two big things from working in the ER. I’m humbler in terms of what science knows and how View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
predict their future purchasing activities in ways never before possible. The information is then sold to corporate marketers. Combining that capability with input from social media, such as a partnership with Facebook that Acxiom...
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- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
the predictably reckless choices made by some of its most powerful players—has brought our economy to the brink of collapse. To scold business may feel good and may even help move legislation along. But we need much more than a good...
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by Roger Thompson
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Monetary Economics Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm-Level Evidence By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Bo Becker Abstract—Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
bonds varies predictably over time. We also find strong evidence that the spread between the nominal and the real bond risk premium, or the breakeven inflation risk premium, also varies over time. We argue that the time variation in real...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
principles within each course module, and a synopsis of each case, along with the lessons the case is meant to convey. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911069-PDF-ENG Predictive Biosciences Thomas Eisenmann,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
strategies. “No one could have predicted how long this would go on.” Mills recommends that the US government replenish and restart the Paycheck Protection Program, but find additional ways to support the smallest, most vulnerable...
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- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
Amazon. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/718481-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-010 Lending Club: Predicting Default No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518010-PDF-ENG...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products? How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good The Persistent Effect of Initial Success: Evidence from Venture Capital
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- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
behavior assume that unethical behavior triggers negative affect. In this paper, we challenge this assumption and demonstrate that unethical behavior can trigger positive affect, which we term a "cheater's high." Across six studies, we find that even though...
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Anna Secino
- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
radical restructuring of the environment, as you suggest is necessary? A: It is starting to happen. I can't say who will win and who will lose. Firms that have some existing scale are better positioned to do the kind of integration I talk about, but no one can View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
failure, he said, leaders on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could hardly have predicted the gravity of the situation in which they would find themselves in March 2002. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was swept into...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
danger zone for the foreseeable future. How would a U.S. invasion of Iraq influence your investment advice? Every decision we make for clients today takes that into account as a what-if scenario, but there's no formula that can predict...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
and the other focused on cardiac surgery teams. She found that differences in psychological safety indeed predicted a team's ability to learn and cope with change effectively — a consistent result across very different organizational...
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