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  • December 2000 (Revised February 2002)
  • Case

Pine Street Capital

A technology hedge fund is trying to decide whether and/or how to hedge equity market risk. Its hedging choices are short-selling and options. The fund has just gone through one of the most volatile periods in NASDAQ's history, it is trying to decide whether it should... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Investment Funds
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  • December 2001 (Revised June 2002)
  • Case

Compensation at Level 3 Communications

Level 3's unique compensation plan rewarded managers for the firm's performance only if the firm's stock price movement exceeded that of the market. This design was intended to maximize shareholder value by tying manager's performance more closely to that of the firm,... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 06 Jun 2017
  • News

Three Key Considerations for TSR Awards

  • March 2008
  • Article

Functional Imaging of Decision Conflict

By: J. B. Pochon, Jason Riis, A. Sanfey, L. Nystrom and J. D. Cohen
Decision conflict occurs when people feel uncertain as to which option to choose from a set of similarly attractive (or unattractive) options, with many studies demonstrating that this conflict can lead to suboptimal decision making. In this article, we investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Judgments; Risk and Uncertainty; Science; Conflict and Resolution; Perception
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  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

using money to buy time can protect people from the detrimental effects of time pressure on life satisfaction. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52953 Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

Executive Compensation

Professor Meulbroek is investigating the gap between what equity-linked compensation costs the firm and what it is worth to managers. This gap arises because such compensation prevents managers from fully diversifying their holdings, so managers must bear firm-specific... View Details
  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Boris Vallee
Professor Vallée focuses on financial innovation, investigating it from different angles. This research thread has led him to relate the methods and insights of corporate finance and banking with those of other subfields, including household finance, public finance,... View Details
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 24 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 24

S&P 500 index and are only marginally higher than the risk-free rate as of the end of 2008. The combined impression from these results is that the return experience of hedge fund investors is much worse than previously thought.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 03 Jun 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: June 3

    this proposal, and what other options may be available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/school-specialty-inc/an/214084-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-003 Cancer Treatment Centers of America (B) This case provides... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    Greenwood & Samuel G. Hanson Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson describe a methodology to measure sentiment in the market for US Corporate Credit More Info Equity Market Sentiment By: Malcolm P. Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler Malcolm P. Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler development... View Details
    • Web

    Finance - Faculty & Research

    Finance Finance May 2014 Article Dynamics of Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from a Long-Run Field Experiment By: Shawn A. Cole , Daniel Stein and Jeremy Tobacman This paper estimates how experimentally-manipulated experiences with a... View Details
    • 31 Jan 2023
    • Op-Ed

    Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?

    drumming up hundreds of dollars households may not be able to afford. How technology can help Innovations in insurance technology can address the problems of high fees by automating away many of the transaction costs, indexing the amount... View Details
    Keywords: by Ray Kluender; Insurance
    • 23 Mar 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules

    Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
    • Web

    Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

    Ankita Panda. The Predictive Index , Harvard Business School case, 2019. With James Weber. Endeavor in 2019: Leading Through Inflections , Harvard Business School case, 2019. The Grommet in 2018 , Harvard Business School case, 2018. With... View Details
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    Environmental Quality - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC Research Areas Research Areas Antitrust & Competition Policy CEO Leadership Environmental Quality Innovation & Innovative Capacity Philanthropy Social Progress Index Environmental Quality Environmental Quality In 1991, Michael... View Details
    • 18 May 2023
    • News

    India's New Money Managers

    Gupta, men and women think about money differently. Men, she observes, want to beat the index return or make more money than their neighbor or colleague. Women are more goal-oriented, say, toward making a purchase or saving for a child's... View Details
    Keywords: Maureen Harmon
    • 17 Jan 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: January 17

    section of stock returns, also predicts excess bond returns. These relationships remain in place even when bonds and stocks become "decoupled" at the index level. They are driven by a combination of effects including... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

    annual conservation needs. What role should investment capital play? What role should TNC play? Key Themes: Impact investing is option proposed a new “tool” for socially-motivated actors to achieve their mission. While this appears to be... View Details