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  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

PE-backed firms generally have higher earnings quality than those that do not have PE sponsorship, engage less in earnings management, and report more conservatively both before and after the IPO. Further, PE-backed firms that are majority-owned by PE sponsors exhibit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present an extrapolative model of bubbles. In the model, many investors form their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2024
  • In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

rerouting through intermediary countries, pointing to an increase in imports from China and a corresponding rise in exports to the United States since 2018 in countries like Vietnam and Mexico as evidence. Due to these concerns, some... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications
  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

premia, real interest rates and inflation. The variation in investment opportunities is captured by a flexible vector autoregressive parameterization, which readily accommodates a large number of assets and state variables. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

the investor's and the investee's countries, affects the asset allocation decisions of global mutual funds. We find that investors tend to underweight investees with greater accounting distance. Using the mandatory adoption of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

Greenwich, Connecticut, that is considering offering a wholly new line of product to retail investors, namely the ability to invest in the price phenomenon known as momentum. There is a large body of empirical evidence supporting momentum... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

in preferred equity from the United States government via the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Yet, the stock had continued to slide in early 2009. In late February, the company announced that it would convert as much as $50 billion... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607014 Asset Allocation I Harvard Business School Note 208-086 The goal of these simulations is to understand the mathematics of mean-variance optimization and the equilibrium... View Details
Keywords: 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. View Details
Keywords: Projects; For-Profit Firms; Networks; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Evaluation; Investment Portfolio; Asset Pricing; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Poverty; Financial Services Industry; Kenya
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  • 13 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

more similar with time. So, while industries within a country might move separately, all that variability comes out in the wash when you average across a broad array of industries on a countrywide scale. “You don’t see the stock price of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

a valuation objective, are critical features of an economic GAAP. We recognize the advantage of using fair values in circumstances where these are based on observable prices in liquid secondary markets, but caution against expanding fair... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

garment factory owners engaged in cutthroat price competition to secure orders from Western manufacturer and retailer brands. These brands conveniently sourced their requirements at arm’s length through third-party View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 04 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

Lerner, and Jean Tirole Abstract The sub-prime crisis has shown a harsh spotlight on the practices of securities underwriters, which provided too many complex securities that proved to ultimately have little value. This uproar calls attention to the fact that the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

implications of these relationships for start-up innovation and performance. Value creation in such relationships occurs when assets are exchanged by the parties involved: collaboration allows for passive knowledge flows and active... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

History Review (forthcoming) Abstract This article uses the records of nineteenth-century Scottish banks in an attempt to understand investor behaviour in the early British capital market. It presents four main findings, some of which do not conform to the basic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2018
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

operations. We finance these industries with private capital, set national and local regulations, encourage competition and discourage cartels in order to lower prices and increase quality (i.e., driving safety up and environmental impact... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

various midcourse corrections. Ultimately, you need both evaluative and learning-based methods. Finally, there have been some efforts to get intermediary funders to agree on a set of metrics for the performance of their grantees that are... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 01 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

when making pricing decisions in the US syndicated loans market and mutual fund managers when making asset allocations near the time of an election. 3. Entrepreneurs and inventors influenced by politics Yet... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald