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- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
level. Inheriting Losers Authors:Li Jin and Anna Scherbina Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We show that new managers who take over mutual fund portfolios sell off inherited momentum losers at higher rates... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
with a minimal level of altruism can be a source of dampened wage responses. The paper also considers a setting where this minimal level of altruism is subject to fluctuations and shows that, for certain parameters, the model can explain... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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often use. The key modules include: Measuring and Driving Performance Forecasting Managing Cash and Source of Funding Managing Risk Managing Investment, Divestitures, and Portfolios of Businesses Nearly all... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
forecasted probability of future funding by funding more innovative ideas. We propose that extremely novel technologies may need 'hot' financial markets to get through the initial period of discovery or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
early pioneer of this proactive approach, also undertaken by Kathy Giusti’s MBA 1985 Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and John Crowley’s MBA 1997 Amicus Therapeutics.) The MJFF demands accountability and results, brings together academics and pharma/biotech... View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
net importer of capital during the period 1870 to 1915, and firms were competing to attract shareholders or bondholders. After 1915, things changed rather rapidly. In a couple of decades the main source of capital was no longer the stock... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
of an estimated secular increase in the cross-country correlations of both stock and bond returns since the late 1990s. Increased correlations of inflation shocks are also an important source of the shift in bond correlations. By... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
can see through the case the hurdles faced in transitioning a company from pursuing mostly social objectives to mostly profit making. Finally, the case is a useful vehicle for discussing the question of whether and how China can feed itself. Efficient and reliable... View Details
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
be in a position to do that." Mills is looking at models for delivering capital to these companies, including the SBA's Small Business Investment Company program (SBIC). This program, which in most cases allows private investment View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
shareholder funds or as trying to subvert democratic institutions, she said. She suggested, however that there are three reasons to at least explore the topic including: Growing global corruption, particularly when business gets close to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
statement users for these provisions is amplified in states with poorly funded plans and large budget deficits, suggesting government lobbying is misaligned with a public interest perspective. We also find evidence that user support... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
countries, and that smaller countries have a differentially higher response to these benefits. Further, economic ties with the European Union are a particularly important source of network effects. The results, robust to numerous... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Annual Report 2017 - Annual Report 2017
and cold call. 21 Participants Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative Funded by a gift from Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966), the Harvard Business School–Harvard Kennedy School collaboration aims to equip city leaders with the tools,... View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
competitiveness, because innovation and entrepreneurship are the source of our strength, not low-cost labor. And innovation and entrepreneurship require open minds. They require challenging the paradigm and doing something new. We started... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
44 43 40 37 36 Investment in Research IN MILLIONS FY 15 FY 14 FY 13 FY 12 FY 11 $ 123 117 110 109 97 Unrestricted current use giving is particularly crucial because it functions as a flexible source of seed money to launch the kinds of... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
on digital photography would inevitably distract the mainstream managers. Fund in stages. Establishing a freestanding venture is a good first step, but it's no guarantee that the people in charge will manage the business as an independent... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
share price, (2) where announced earnings are particularly likely to be an important source of information about managerial ability and effort, and (3) before the implementation of Sarbanes-Oxley made opportunistic earnings management... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
a primary source of inspiration. Curiel, 18, walked away from that same deadly crash with minor injuries. He sees some symbolism in the fact that his father was making the trip from Oregon to California to take him to freshman orientation... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
combined with a rich empirical illustration, of the C-suite’s transformation to enhance our understanding of these elites’ new command posts, sources of expertise and identity, competition and collaboration, and ways of getting things... View Details
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
is eliminating a key source of capital for small firms. Community banks are being consolidated by big banks, with the number of community banks falling to less than 7,000 today, down from over 14,000 in the mid-1980s, while average bank... View Details