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- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
factors causing the crisis but also evaluating the government responses to date and suggesting practical reforms for the future. Catering Through Nominal Share Prices Authors:Malcolm Baker, Robin Greenwood, and Jeffrey Wurgler...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
rock the boat when they are leaving," speculates Ma. By contrast, when Ma and Khanna measured the effects of firm performance on likelihood of dissent, they found a much lower correlation. A one unit increase in the ratio of a firm's market value to View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
experiments to test theoretical predictions of why adoption may be low. Insurance purchase is sensitive to price, with an estimated extensive price elasticity of demand between -0.66 and -0.88. Credit constraints, identified through the...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
rebalancing in the financial portfolio of participants. These patterns conceal strong household-level evidence of active rebalancing, which on average offsets about one half of idiosyncratic passive variations in the risky asset share....
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Martha Lagace
- September 2010
- Teaching Note
Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Teaching Note for 310011 and 310017.
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
term familiar to every good HBS student. With its relatively low price tag (about $2.8 million) and low operating costs (40 percent less than existing small jets), the twin-engine Mustang and other “very light jets” (VLJs) represent a...
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- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
headquarters reminds us that a brand is a precious asset. The value of any brand asset depends upon whether it has delivered on its past promises and is believed likely to do so in the future. It takes years of effort to build brand trust...
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- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
importance. The paper explores how this heuristic can produce erroneous inferences and influence broader beliefs about decision-makers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54771 forthcoming RAND Journal of Economics The View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=6747 Working Papers Price Coherence and Excessive Intermediation By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Julian Wright Abstract—Suppose an intermediary provides a benefit...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
But they are riskier than the stock market, so cryptocurrency markets are dominated by speculators or traders. Another constituent is the long-term investors, who take a long-horizon macro view on these assets being a less-dumb form of...
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- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
improvements in performance.3 We created the Balanced Scorecard because financial measurements had become insufficient for contemporary organizations. Strategies for creating value had shifted from managing tangible assets to...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
research in the natural sciences on the measurement of biodiversity, we introduce-and demonstrate the benefits of-emodiversity: the variety and relative abundance of the emotions that humans experience. Two cross-sectional studies across...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
featuring less product-centered and more information-centered economic activity.” It highlighted opinions at the time that “Growing ratios of market-to-book value that resulting stock prices produce can be justified as the monetization of...
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by James Heskett
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
difficulty to their struggle to grow and succeed. 3. The impact of intangible assets on economic transactions: I plan to study commercial transactions in which finances are not the sole currency of exchange, and intangibles like status...
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- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
that their ex post performance is lower. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50032 Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Authors:Eric J. Van den Steen Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a theory of the firm in which a firm's centralized asset ownership and low-powered incentives give the manager, as an...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
emissions price than domestic producers, with the number of foreign entrants increasing in emissions price only over intervals where foreign firms hold this technology advantage. Further, domestic firms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
inflows predict no change in the discount, but forecast positive changes in both net asset values and closed-end fund prices. This fact also contradicts the price pressure story, which predicts the...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
traditional banks have a stable source of funding, while shadow banks are subject to runs and fire-sale losses. In equilibrium, traditional banks have a comparative advantage at holding fixed-income assets that have only modest...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
valuation of the startup by 17.1%-22.0%. April 2015 Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing By: Weinzierl, Matthew Abstract—The price indexation of Social Security benefit payments has emerged...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne