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  • 04 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 4

organs faces widespread disapproval. We survey a representative sample of Americans to assess disapproval for several forms of kidney markets and to understand why individuals disapprove by identifying factors that predict disapproval,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 10, 2015

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Under New Management: Equity Issues and the Attribution of Past Returns By: Baker, Malcolm, and Yuhai Xuan Abstract—There is a strong link between measures of stock market performance, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

filing for bankruptcy in the courts often results in a forced wind-down of the business. Management is replaced by a trustee or administrator (who is often an accountant or lawyer by training), the firm’s assets are sold off, and proceeds from asset sales are... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
  • Web

Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Polaroid sold more than 1.5 million stereo viewers for the film, which featured an automated assembly of a Plymouth car. The use of polarizing filters to reduce headlight glare had occupied Land's thinking since the 1920s. "I didn't set out to make View Details
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

Business School Prior to coming to HBS I created a company Pension Consulting Alliance, Inc. that advised some of the world’s largest institutional investors concerning their private market investments. I was asked to be their advocate... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

investment. Complex multinational business groups emerged controlling large investments in natural resources, processing, and services in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Breaking News

that is just market analysis: Where are the places that are growing or shrinking? What’s the business health of each community? What’s the social capital across different communities? Where is (and isn’t) there philanthropy? On top of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 12 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

emergence of political economy and the project of creating market societies. By reconstructing ideas in their historical contexts, I address motivations and contingencies at the very foundations of modernity. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

One Man Crime Wave

novel, The Brass Cupcake, he wrote, “Today as a writer, I am a small businessman in a highly competitive field, fabricating a product for sale in a buyers’ market, and required to establish my own merchandising and marketing procedures.”... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • December 2019
  • Case

Steemit: A New Social Media?

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Alexander White and Karen Elterman
This case discusses the alternative social media site Steemit, including the principles it was founded on in 2016 and the challenges it faced in 2019. Steemit was a blockchain-based platform that aimed to differentiate itself from other social media companies by... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Decisions; Voting; Economic Systems; Money; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Goals and Objectives; Digital Platforms; Product Design; Design; Problems and Challenges; Network Effects; Motivation and Incentives; Social and Collaborative Networks; Reputation; Business Strategy; Competition; Internet and the Web; Social Media; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; Virginia; New York (city, NY)
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  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

  PublicationsGlobal, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment Authors:Malcolm Baker, Jeffrey Wurgler, and Yu Yuan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We construct investor sentiment indices for six major stock View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Every Trick in the Book

rediscovered from the sector’s 18th-century roots. By embracing the three Cs as modern-day differentiators, Raffaelli found that independent bookstores have transformed buying a novel in your local bookstore from a simple exchange of View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

user-generated video featuring controversial artist Chris Brown's music was netting millions of views per week on YouTube. Sony held the copyright to the song and was entitled to issue a takedown notice to the party that uploaded the video. How should Sony act? This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

economic research has examined the influence of policy movements on bank lending behavior, capital flows, and market responses in the public sector, the private equity industry—despite its substantial size and pervasive presence—has not... View Details
  • 05 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

sales force on track to achieve their annual sales quotas. The paper also introduces two main methodological innovations to the marketing literature: first, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2011) to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

and the incredible team of students, faculty, and staff with whom we get to work every day. I feel incredibly lucky to have been a part of such a passionate, creative, and all-around fun team. Post-HBS Job: Wayfair Marketing team How do... View Details
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital market benefits through enhanced financial statement comparability. UK domestic standards are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et al., 2008), suggesting any... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 9

product and/or the by-product. The firm creates value through this process innovation and can capture this value by capturing newly created market opportunities, taking market share from competitors, or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla Abstract—This paper shows that the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

referring users to all manner of other sites, and in light of striking market concentration among search engines. Read the paper: http://www.nls.ac.in/ojs-2.2.3/index.php/IJLT/article/viewFile/92/72 Measuring the Prevalence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne