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- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
When Product Variety Backfires
to individuals. This is the wonder of something like the Vanguard Index 500. It reduces the potential for regret and it reduces the complexity of the choice. In general, however, I think that "overchoice" is more the norm than...
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- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
respected VC firms would be less likely to redirect information between competing startups. They found just the opposite. Companies tied to VCs in the top 25 percent of reputation indexes were significantly less likely to introduce new...
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- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
the impact of inventory on sales and the interrelationship between gross margin and inventory. We also estimate the effects of exogenous explanatory variables such as store growth, proportion of new inventory, capital investment per store, selling expenditure, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
investment. Complex multinational business groups emerged controlling large investments in natural resources, processing, and services in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
and pointed to the future. These had various names, such as Babson's Composite Plot and the Harvard Economic Service's Index of General Business Conditions. Forecasters also devoted time to sales and marketing. Successful forecasting...
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by Walter A. Friedman
- 23 May 2011
- Op-Ed
Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society
analysts, who evaluated whether key performance indicators and narrative information regarding environmental and social performance were integrated with the presentation of financial information. We then created an index ranking each...
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by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
boundaries. We then examine the evidence, using a unique dataset to construct firm-level indexes of vertical integration for a large set of countries. In line with the predictions of our model, we obtain three main results. First, higher...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
found in the existing literature. The data available permitted concentration levels to be tracked for the period 1977-2007 in the case of advertising agencies and for 1997, 2002, and 2007 for the other industry sectors. Firm level concentration, as measured by the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
diversification and lower costs. So-called index funds became so popular that just before his death Bogle warned that their ubiquity could have a problematic effect on stock markets. Nevertheless, they were a primary factor leading to...
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- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
consumption, fewer paved roads, and fewer Internet users," he writes. That wasn't all. "Almost all broad measures of governance were also weaker for the double-digit growers. Indexes measuring the quality of business regulation,...
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by Kim Girard
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
1999 to be UPromise's president and chief operating officer. Last March, almost precisely when the NASDAQ Composite Index peaked above 5,000, the company—a few months old, with a business plan and a few employees as its only...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule, the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant headlines ("Move Over,...
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- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
which can be indexed by the number of varieties consumers purchase in equilibrium. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-095.pdf Smith and Rawls Share a Room: Stability and Medians Authors: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
similar to long-maturity fixed-rate debt. If the pension fund enters into an equity asset swap in which it pays the total return on a standard index of the stock market (e.g., S&P 500) and receives in return a fixed rate of interest,...
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- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
the Domini Index (investments in socially responsible mutual funds) realized a 13 percent return, and the S&P 500 returned 11 percent. The average returns of traditional angel investing are hard to determine given the fragmented...
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by Manda Salls
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
even distributing condoms. It maintained a high standard of corporate ethics. It was effective at building contacts with local business and government elites, primarily through localization of management. Fundamentally Flawed Indexing...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
four categories: An offshorability index of 100 to 76 was ranked as "highly offshorable," or Category I; 75-51 (Category II) was "offshorable"; 50-26 (Category III) was "non-offshorable"; and 25-0 (Category IV) was "highly...
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by Julia Hanna
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
After more than a decade of nearly can’t-miss growth, China’s stock market began a precipitous summer slide that has spooked investors worldwide. In July, the Shanghai composite index dropped 15 percent from June, prompting the People’s...
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- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
diversity (can people communicate or not?) and caste diversity (how much do some people want to keep away from other people?). About 90 percent of the population in Nepal is Hindu, but within Hindu society there are many castes and a lot of discrimination against the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index of pairwise-industry agglomeration and investigate the patterns and determinants underlying the global economic geography of multinational firms. Our...
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Sean Silverthorne