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- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,...
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by Rachel Layne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
management of Vale, a Brazilian diversified mining company and the largest iron ore producer in the world, was under pressure from at least two fronts. First, the emergence of China as the most important consumer of iron ore in the last few years had changed the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
to be innovative, really providing service to customers and attracting top talent. They are now becoming utilities, facing an incredible amount of regulation largely because of their own conduct failures. Third, they could reduce risk from exposure to major scandals....
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- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
has researched stock price manipulation in Japan and looked specifically at firms like Livedoor. He says the Livedoor episode may, in the end, do some good by paving the road for reform of Japan's "abysmal" corporate governance....
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- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
tied to their competitors via shared intermediary organizations. To test our theory, we examine every relationship between entrepreneurial firms and their venture capital investors in the minimally invasive surgical segment of the medical...
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Alexander, Tatyana Deryugina, and Julian Reif Abstract—Economic theory suggests that demand is more elastic in the long run relative to the short run, but evidence on the empirical relevance of this phenomenon is scarce. We study the dynamics of residential electricity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
the Internet," he concluded. "This will favor the cheapest suppliers and keenest buyers and thus hold down prices and inflation while raising productivity." Ever-changing Demands In his remarks, the NYSE's Cochrane...
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by James E. Aisner
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208108 Radiohead: Music at Your Own Price (A) Harvard Business School Case 508-110 In October 2007, the British band Radiohead caused a stir when it announced it would allow...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
came up with surprising results: Between 2002 and 2007 (the years covered by the database), public firms increased their gross fixed assets (as a percentage of total assets) by 4.0 percent a year on average versus 9.7 percent at similar...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
Reinhardt writes that for a company to be sustainable, it must have a strategy or development path that maintains an undiminished level of net assets. He argues that if the prices in the firm's accounting systems are the correct ones, the...
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Judith A. Ross
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
shipping prices—and subsequent collapse—in the late 2000s," Greenwood recalls. "As researchers in asset pricing and behavioral finance, and interested in bubbles more broadly, we simply wanted to understand...
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- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns Authors:Christopher J. Malloy, Tobias J. Moskowitz, and Annette Vissing-Jørgensen Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We provide new evidence on the success of long-run...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
work in exploring the forces that govern the process of CEO change. I have conducted research in four interrelated areas: factors that lead to vacancies in the CEO position; factors that affect the choice of successors; the role of market View Details
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by 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
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
formation in which investors learn about the fundamental value of an asset and trade it. We study the interaction of diagnostic expectations with two well-known mechanisms: learning from prices and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
Liquidity Transformation in Asset Management: Evidence from the Cash Holdings of Mutual Funds By: Chernenko, Sergey, and Aditya Vikram Sunderam Abstract—We study liquidity transformation in mutual funds using a novel dataset on their cash...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
time. Yes, that’s right — we have to sell a huge number of items to generate that figure. Our average price works out to be about 80 cents because we also price many items at well under a buck, so we sell...
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- 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
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
Book Review: Mix Master by Sean Silverthorne In contemporary culture, a remix is the bringing together of assets in new ways—a song that combines recording samples from Otis Redding or Brenda Lee, say, placed in a new Kanye West wrapper....
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
appeal of anonymity seems inherently flawed for storing large values in an age when the threat of identity theft through electronic eavesdropping and in-person, gun-to-the-head demands for access and asset transfers are a growing menace....
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