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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2017
financial performance at a strategic level. It concludes with our financial forecast for fiscal 2018 and some thoughts on the longer-term outlook. Fiscal 2017 in Review The HBS economic model is unique among the Harvard University schools...
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
capacity to drive strong participant demand. HBX made solid progress in its efforts to strengthen and stabilize its platform and increase its portfolio of offerings. In parallel with these operating revenue initiatives, The Harvard...
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- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
affects emotions. Finally, work in economics on the design of monetary policy makes several assumptions (e.g., a representative agent, a summary measure of emotions akin to utility exists and that individuals only care about income and...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
undervaluing its currency. The Chinese government has pegged the yuan at 8.3 to the dollar since 1996, which undervalues it by 15 to 25 percent, according to Morris Goldstein of the Institute for International Economics in Washington,...
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- 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016
behavior. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51072 forthcoming Games and Economic Behavior Contract Design and Stability in Many-to-Many Matching By: Hatfield, John William, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
anti-Communist.” When his parents' marriage ended, his university-educated mother was forced to become a seamstress, and Djelic experienced economic deprivation firsthand. But his obvious talents won him admission to elite schools. With...
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Garry Emmons
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
US courts due to its status as a territory. In 2016, the US Congress had intervened, passing the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (Promesa), which established an eight-member...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
going to get cheaper, and storage is going to get cheaper. “Coal is not going to get developed, because it will be more costly than the alternatives. Greenhouse gases are going to be an issue, but economics will be the primary factor...
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Annual Report 2019 - Annual Report 2019
Director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers—examined the decisions they made and steps they took to try to stabilize the financial system. Professors Robin Greenwood and David Scharfstein...
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- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
lecturer of business administration. What should nonprofit leaders do as they face an economic recession? Lynda Applegate: Think like an entrepreneur I have been interviewing non-profit and for-profit leaders to identify how they are...
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by Danielle Kost
- 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15
hiring and socialization policies. Institutional Demand Pressure and the Cost of Corporate Loans Authors:Victoria Ivashina and Zheng Sun Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Between 2001 and 2007, annual...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006
managing the political conflict and the informational and procedural shortcomings that accrue to organizational differentiation. Finally, we show that the creation of an independent group responsible for managing not forecasts directly, but rather the forecasting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
planning, caution, and preparedness; and order, focused on respect, structure, and shared norms. These styles fit into an "integrated culture framework" according to the degree to which they reflect independence or interdependence (people interactions) and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
the liquidity of institutions. That in fact is where we are today," Light said. Just as a hospital treats patients by focusing on three tasks, so too should we remedy financial turmoil, he said. First, stabilize the patient, in this...
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- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
more: http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9780631215066_chunk_g978063121506624 Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane Publication:Journal of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
is crucial to online success. A recent research paper offers insights that carry unexpected implications for advertisers or anyone else trying to capture that attention. The Empirical Economics of Online Attention was written by Andre...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
Europe. Initially, Kennecott's BATNA was akin to a divorce negotiation that risked the loss of its Chilean holdings. But the company gained leverage by transforming a dicey two-party political situation into a multilateral business deal involving a number of players...
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by Anita M. Harris
- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
economies. What is the last country you visited, and what did you do there? I travel a lot, so this answer will be outdated. I recently gave a talk at the University of Ghana on the need for African countries to develop a unified economic...
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- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
in the paper Are Bankers Worth Their Pay? Evidence from a Talent Measure by Boris Vallée, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and Claire Célérier, an assistant professor at the University of Zurich. “What we are saying is that yes, they are worth their...
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- 26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008
topic for future research. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-016.pdf Stability and Nash Implementation in Matching Markets with Couples Authors:Claus-Jochen Haake, Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus Abstract We consider...
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Sean Silverthorne