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  • 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006

received extraordinary support from its oversized Scientific Advisory Board; it had developed and secured a strong intellectual property portfolio that creates high barriers to entry for any new market entrants; and, it had $13 million of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

time MBAs pile into a field, it's a good contrarian indicator. Gallows humor aside, market pros see parallels, but no repeat of the 1989 crash. That optimism rests on the knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate
  • 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

was established in 2005 to invest primarily in middle market, particularly family-run, businesses in India. Blue River caters to this niche as an active investor, providing capital and working with portfolio companies to improve their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

empirical investigation of the risk of globally diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds and of optimal intertemporal global portfolio choice for long horizon investors in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

a host of issues related to how contracts between financial intermediaries and their customers are structured and how risks are shared between them, as well as the consequences of (unexpected) deviations from the ex-ante optimal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

are discussed. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-080.pdf Turning Waste into By-Product (revised) Author:Deishin Lee Abstract We determine, in a competitive setting, the optimal operating regimes for a firm that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

mechanism, which we refer to as the "clamped second price auction mechanism," into the laboratory to determine whether it helps human subjects learn to play their optimal strategy faster than the standard second price auction... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

reviews, discusses, and expands the “core guidance” definition of strategy as “the smallest set of choices to optimally guide (or force) other choices.” It first discusses what this definition contributes to the existing proposed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

company. A simple portfolio strategy of going long the buy recommendations with school ties and going short buy recommendations without ties earns returns of 5.40% per year. We test whether Regulation FD, targeted at impeding selective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

repurchasers to forecast characteristic-related factor returns. For example, we show that large firms underperform following years when issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms. While our strongest results are for portfolios... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

different types of physicians. By understanding the dynamic effect of sales calls across heterogeneous physicians, we provide guidance on the design of optimal call patterns for route sales. The findings reveal that the long-term... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

following questions: Was Centerbridge valuing Great Wolf correctly? Would CMBS be the optimal financing structure, and why had no other firm contemplated this type of financing? Would the company, in partnership with Centerbridge, be able... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

potential adverse event once the test-statistic crosses a stopping boundary. We employ asymptotic analysis that assumes a large number of observations in a given window of time to show how to compute the stopping boundary by solving a convex View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

research to understand when and for whom cash and non-cash rewards increase intrinsic motivation, organizational commitment, and optimal functioning in order to improve the design and implementation of existing reward programs.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

a firm practicing by-product synergy is that quantities of the primary product and by-product are linked, with production of the primary product defining the upper bound of the quantity of the by-product. Optimization of a by-product... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19

the acquisition of U.S. Oncology, an integrated cancer care company, whose expertise it could leverage in offerings catered to other physician specialties. With a vast portfolio of products and services serving a wide spectrum of health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

calling on bullish analysts tend to underperform in the future. Firms that call on more favorable analysts experience more negative future earnings surprises and more future earnings restatements. A long-short portfolio that exploits this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

response to rivals’ anticipated and actual behavior in game scenarios. Furthermore, coaches are subject to constraints on the number of players allowed on their rosters and on the budget available to spread across their rosters. In other words, View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

growth of a company. Not surprisingly, firms spend billions of dollars on marketing. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate these resources and demonstrate that these investments... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9

Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-016_c6e7c9cc-70a3-4119-bd7b-8e4b25a26312.pdf Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios Under Emissions Regulation By: Drake, David, Paul R. Kleindorfer, and Luk N.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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