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- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
and produce an aggregate equity term structure that tracks economic conditions. The implied term structure is upward sloping during normal or expansion periods but flattens or inverts during economic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
Many companies can double or even triple their capacity to invest in strategic assets and competencies by properly managing their "risk balance sheet," argues Harvard Business School professor Robert C. Merton. In a provocative...
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- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
for the next round, assuming that the other players merely repeat their previous bids. We focus on a strategy we call Balanced Bidding (BB). If all players use the BB strategy, we show that bids converge to a bid vector that obtains in a...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
the preference list they will submit to the mechanism). We focus in this paper on better-reply dynamics. To this end, we first provide a characterization of better-replies and a comprehensive description of the dominance relation between strategies. Better-replies are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
month. So we've got a long way to go. And we need to get securitization going because that's what drives loan volume. Q: Why has loan securitization been slow to recover? A: We had a terrible system of securitization where everything was off View Details
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
environment in which employees are constantly motivated and can effectively balance their commitment to the firm and to the client, as well as to themselves. EE: What are the factors that make professional service firms successful?...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
those of Mandela and the African National Congress coincide," she notes, "but he has his own way of doing things. Reorganizing the structure of the presidency is just one example of that." Meyer credits her academic training with...
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Morgan Baker
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
buying-patterns should set off alarms. Why hasn't this issue received more attention? In this country, we've had an implicit cost-benefit analysis in the backs of our minds for many decades that the movement of other people's money, tax-evading money in particular, is...
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- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
development. First, structural conditions first postulated by Engerman and Sokoloff (2002) as generating long-term inequality are shown here empirically to be exogenous determinants of political instability. Second, that exogenously...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Year as Co-Presidents: Q+A with AASU's Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021) and Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)
thought could help achieve racial equity at HBS. While things have changed a lot from those early meetings, our work inspired and formed the initial structure of the Dean's Anti-Racism Taskforce (DART). It's been rewarding to see some of...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
by 300 percent in one year by altering the company's profit structure and leveraging its balance sheet. Among other reengineering moves, Robinson reduced fixed costs significantly by centralizing the firm's...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
auctions when separate. When there is an insufficient improvement, such mergers can harm advertisers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-055.pdf Agency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure Authors:Sergey...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
Journal of Econometrics Scenario Generation for Long Run Interest Rate Risk Assessment By: Engle, Robert F., Guillaume Roussellet, and Emil N. Siriwardane Abstract—We propose a statistical model of the term structure of U.S. treasury...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
levels and demand post-COVID has resulted in firms seeking a return to the meritocracy of old through significant layoffs, restructuring, and new promotion practices. Though effective in achieving balance in the short term, such actions...
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- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
future lock-in can arise without changing the structure of a should-choice, but by just changing people's temporal focus. Finally, we provide evidence that the should self operates at a higher construal level (abstract, superordinate)...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Alumni Forums - Alumni
structure of forum ensures you can address important issues in a way that informal conversations may not allow. It thus affords you with new and fresh perspectives from exceptionally qualified peers. The discipline of forum ensures that...
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- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
agreed: "The main reason for the rising inequality is that Free Trade has encouraged/required manufacturing to be offshored and outsourced If we replaced the Free Trade policies with a Balanced Trade policy, using (import licences)...
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by James Heskett
- Web
Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity
subscriptions/memberships? Have you only circulated the notice to acquaintances ones that statistically help form our homogenous social circles? Does your job/role description account for a balance of experience and degrees? Does the role...
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- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
They do not punish with sufficient speed and force to eliminate the incentive for misconduct. At a time when the temptation before some managers is orders of magnitude greater than twenty or thirty years ago, the concern is that the external checks and View Details
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by Harvard Management Update
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
not schedule meetings that last more than an hour, or 90 minutes at the most. There are tremendous diminishing returns in lengthier meetings. When you only have an hour, you don't waste time on nonproductive tangents. You also need to think about how you View Details
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Time management