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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
instability surrounding world oil supplies, the uncertainty about the reserve base and the depletion rate of U.S. oil and gas reserves, the immobilization of nuclear energy in the United States, the challenge of building up an expanded...
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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...
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- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Approach." MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper No. LFE-1027-97 (June 1997). Black, Fischer. "How We Came Up with the Option Formula." Journal of Portfolio Management 15, no. 2 (winter 1989): 4-8. Black, Fischer. "Interest Rates...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Iannuccillo) continued the campaign, and the contest was off and running. “We had some reluctance in the beginning, partly because we were concerned that it might become more about writing the best plan and making the best presentation — not who can find the View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
Chinese imports kept down U.S. inflation. Chinese savings kept down U.S. interest rates. Chinese labor kept down U.S. wage costs. As a result, it was remarkably cheap to borrow money and remarkably profitable to run a corporation. Thanks to Chimerica, global View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
very large organizations. Several respondents commented on dangers to the Walmart business model. Benn Manning commented that "The real dangers for Walmart aren't competitors or new business models but are instead itself and how it...
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- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
hospital bed for immobile patients and a rubber heel for walking casts.) But retail billionaires such as Walmart's Walton family generally make their money by figuring out the most effective ways to manage goods and services, even if the goods they offered were not...
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- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
countries, but by firms realizing a higher spread (i.e., a greater difference in operating performance and borrowing cost) when more domestic credit is available. Also, we find that firms partially substitute trade credit for financial credit, with large firms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
financial development, lending rates, and the quality of intermediation, as well as employment and investment. Credit markets with nationalized banks experienced faster credit growth during a period of financial repression. Nationalization led to lower-interest View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
forced business closings due to contentious negotiations between the unions and the state and other employers. A real black swan. This has worsened an economy already weakened by the global financial crisis. Such conditions test the...
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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
making something from nothing had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today's startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 14 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team
interested in why some star analysts were able to maintain their star rating over this period while others had a harder time doing so. We found that having high-performing colleagues in different locations in the firm—at the team level,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/609016-PDF-ENG Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum Harvard Business School Case 710-004 Maharashtra state is accepting bids to redevelop Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia. A real estate developer...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
section of stock returns, also predicts excess bond returns. These relationships remain in place even when bonds and stocks become "decoupled" at the index level. They are driven by a combination of effects including correlations between View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Art Nature Business
lines of climate change. Glaciers are melting and permafrost is thawing at an alarming rate there, and the town is seen by many as forewarning of what will eventually happen around the planet. Since 1970, average annual temperatures have...
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- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
U.S. performance as a publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT). As an alternative, to finance this expansion, Shurgard received a proposed deal from a consortium of banks and other investors where they would provide private...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
brings real value to our customers. “Innovation isn’t just about engineering discoveries,” Timken adds. “It also means getting close to customers, understanding their needs, and finding ways to address them.” Doing so was part of the...
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- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
rates of public sector employment, the crown jewel of the Jordanian regime’s patronage. Interviews with over 60 of the surveyed firm owners across four strategically paired districts illustrate that business owners covet forbearance and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
legalization of non-competes had a definite brain drain effect. Indeed, after the passage of MARA, more inventors left Michigan for states that did not enforce non-competes than for states that did. The paper explains that from 1975 to 1996—the period surrounding the...
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