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- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
and Harold Zhang, set out to derive rules for optimal asset location behavior for investors with these individually managed retirement accounts. Two results came out of this work: First, the View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 5 Feb 2013
- Conference Presentation
Financing Entrepreneurial Growth
By: Tom Alberg, Andrew A. Bogan, Harold Bradley, Robert D. Cooter, Monika Gruter Cheney, Oliver R. Goodenough, William R. Hambrecht, Frank Hatheway, Thomas F. Hellmann, Marianne Hudson, Jared Konczal, Josh Lerner, Robert E. Litan, Diane Mulcahy, Ramana Nanda, Frank Partnoy, Joe Ratterman, Nava Ravikant, Jay R. Ritter, Alicia Robb, David T. Robinson, Allison Schrager, Barry Silbert, E. R. Sirri, Daniel Stangler and Sharon Vosmek
Despite recent innovations in entrepreneurial finance, particularly at the early stage of business creation, many new and young companies continue to face hurdles to acquire capital.
The Kauffman Foundation addressed current challenges and opportunities in... View Details
Alberg, Tom, Andrew A. Bogan, Harold Bradley, Robert D. Cooter, Monika Gruter Cheney, Oliver R. Goodenough, William R. Hambrecht, Frank Hatheway, Thomas F. Hellmann, Marianne Hudson, Jared Konczal, Josh Lerner, Robert E. Litan, Diane Mulcahy, Ramana Nanda, Frank Partnoy, Joe Ratterman, Nava Ravikant, Jay R. Ritter, Alicia Robb, David T. Robinson, Allison Schrager, Barry Silbert, E. R. Sirri, Daniel Stangler, and Sharon Vosmek. "Financing Entrepreneurial Growth." Paper presented at the State of Entrepreneurship Address, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Washington, DC, USA, February 5, 2013.
- 2021
- Article
To Thine Own Self Be True? Incentive Problems in Personalized Law
By: Jordan M. Barry, John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
Recent years have seen an explosion of scholarship on “personalized law.” Commentators foresee a world in which regulators armed with big data and machine learning techniques determine the optimal legal rule for every regulated party, then instantaneously disseminate... View Details
Keywords: Personalized Law; Regulation; Regulatory Avoidance; Regulatory Arbitrage; Law And Economics; Law And Technology; Law And Artificial Intelligence; Futurism; Moral Hazard; Elicitation; Signaling; Privacy; Law; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Technology; AI and Machine Learning
Barry, Jordan M., John William Hatfield, and Scott Duke Kominers. "To Thine Own Self Be True? Incentive Problems in Personalized Law." Art. 2. William & Mary Law Review 62, no. 3 (2021).
- Article
Beyond Individualized Recourse: Interpretable and Interactive Summaries of Actionable Recourses
By: Kaivalya Rawal and Himabindu Lakkaraju
As predictive models are increasingly being deployed in high-stakes decision-making, there has been a lot of interest in developing algorithms which can provide recourses to affected individuals. While developing such tools is important, it is even more critical to... View Details
Rawal, Kaivalya, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "Beyond Individualized Recourse: Interpretable and Interactive Summaries of Actionable Recourses." Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 33 (2020).
- Research Summary
Experiments in Financial Democracy: Corporate Governance and Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950 (BOOK)
In my first book manuscript, Experiments in Financial Democracy, I challenge the idea that it was colonial institutions that sent Brazil, a civil law country, down a particular path of corporate governance and finance. Detailed archival research reveals... View Details
- May–June 2020
- Article
The New-Market Conundrum
By: Rory McDonald and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
Brand-new markets are like the wormholes of science fiction, where the usual rules of time and space do not apply. When a market has just been born, the forces of competition there are constantly in flux, it’s unclear who your customers really are, and conventional... View Details
Keywords: New Markets; Markets; Business Model; Strategy; Framework; Innovation and Invention; Value Creation
McDonald, Rory, and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt. "The New-Market Conundrum." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 3 (May–June 2020): 75–83.
- 23 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
firm performance. Photo: iStockPhoto In place of those markers, Ma and Khanna used a different proxy of looking at which chair appoints a director, assuming that a social tie must exist between the two. Then they measured how the voting... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
beneficial sometimes in separating the wheat from the chaff. In this context, delaying payment distinguishes the rule-breaking affiliates from the good ones who are actually helpful. Rule breakers know that the longer they have to wait,... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 21 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Going Negative in Political Advertising
their strong suit. Negative ads ask us to vote against someone rather than for someone. This lesser-of-two-evils approach to political marketing inevitably breeds cynicism and sometimes backfires, but it often works against new candidates... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 16 Feb 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
quality. We develop a structural model of product entry that illustrates how the regulator's standard setting rule affects a firm's product quality decision. Counterfactual simulations illustrate that ratcheting down was prevalent in this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=56032 in press Cognition I Know Why You Voted for Trump: (Over)inferring Motives Based on Choice By: Barasz, Kate, Tami Kim, and Ioannis Evangelidis Abstract—People often speculate about why... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
Corporations could do a good job of running corrupt Third World governments. Corruption rules in too many of the world's democratically elected governments. From Achocalla, Bolivia, to Mayuge, Uganda, voters pick their leaders through the... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
position is strong enough. To curb this possibility, the principal-owner optimally reduces the degree of autonomy granted to the manager. Hence higher levels of managerial autonomy are more likely for intermediate levels of competition.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
benefits to many, and if we don't look out, we may kill it." From Prediction To Fruition Problems that forum participants cited included environmental degradation, trade breakdowns, and failure of the rule of law. Concerns over the lack... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- Research Summary
Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs ( Princeton University Press, October 2002)
By: Rakesh Khurana
In this book, I argue that the external CEO labor market was born in a burst of rhetoric about wresting control of corporations away from a group of self-interested insiders, as senior managers in the era of managerial capitalism had come to be portrayed. The rationale... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
grounded in peak-load power generation. We show that production subsidies of higher investment and production cost technologies (such as carbon capture and storage technologies) have no effect on the firm's optimal total capacity but that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
history. Sensitivity to ambiguity was lower in individuals who met diagnostic criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder. Lower ambiguity sensitivity was also associated with higher externalizing (but not psychopathy) scores and with higher levels of aggression (but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
units up to the contract quantity selected in the previous period. We prove that in each period and at each such stage, there are three base-stock levels that characterize an optimal policy, two for the inventory policy and one for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne