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  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

engagement. In offices with high levels of employee engagement—with above-median rates of employee retention and willingness to log onto the training platform—each additional minute of average platform engagement per employee led to an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-096.pdf Shamed and Able: How Firms Respond to Being Rated (Revised May 2008) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract We examine how firms respond to third-party View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

investments. Using both calendar-time portfolio stock return regressions and firm-level panel regressions we find that firms with good ratings on material sustainability issues significantly outperform firms with poor View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog

The cases cover policies regarding the management of trade using trade agreements and capital inflows using capital controls, the choice of exchange rate regimes, and policies associated with the management... View Details
  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

would continue hedging primarily with forward contracts, but in much higher volumes and at increasingly unfavorable rates, or to break with past practice and begin using foreign exchange option contracts. The decision would have... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 05 Sep 2000
  • What Do You Think?

Whither the Information Economy?

replace food, shelter, clothing, etc.," Gary Myers raises an issue that might warrant further discussion. While he points out that information leads to improvements in the efficiency with which goods are produced, he then goes on to say, "At some point, the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

during the AFC. Regression estimates suggest that the relationship between leverage, exchange rate depreciations, and corporate financial distress is time varying. Also, a central finding is that firm size... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

crises, and exchange rate crises in Argentina; and Uganda and the Washington Consensus. The second module ("Competing Institutional Models") studies how the U.S. and other rich countries have developed... View Details
  • 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

between tax brackets within a state-year cell and which absorb heterogeneity and contemporaneous changes in economic conditions; ii) an instrumental variable approach, which predicts changes in an individual or firm's total tax rate with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1

  PublicationsThe New M&A Playbook Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising, and Andrew Waldeck Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Companies spend more than $2 trillion on acquisitions every year, yet the M&A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006

206-046 Using a comprehensive and simple example of a firm exposed to foreign exchange risk, interest rate risk, and commodity price risk, shows how to use corporate-value-at-risk to measure and manage a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-082.pdf Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchange Authors:Itai Ashlagi and Alvin E. Roth Abstract As multi-hospital kidney View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211090-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement (B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211096-PDF-ENG Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (E) David F. HawkinsHarvard Business School Supplement 111-119 Spanish parent company must decide on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

Japan consented. We conclude that Chimerica cannot persist for much longer in its present form. As in the 1970s, sizeable changes in exchange rates are needed to rebalance the world economy. A continuation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5

For most, these are just cases. For us, they are frequent reminders of the systems that were built and persist to the detriment of Black people. I hate the exchange that Black students have before each of these classes: “Who’s gonna do it... View Details
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

consistent with boardroom connections mattering most for firms that stand to benefit most from the information communicated and resources exchanged through the network of board members. Overall, our results suggest that board of director... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

Yanping Liu Abstract—We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

positions. To enable such assessments, firms must become as transparent about their corporate political responsibility (CPR) as their corporate social responsibility (CSR). For their part, rating systems must demand such information from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

principal and investment earnings are taxed upon withdrawal. Using administrative data from 11 companies that added a Roth contribution option to their existing 401(k) plan between 2006 and 2010, we find no evidence that total 401(k) contribution View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3

goal of residency training. The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani Publication:In The View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel