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- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
implications of incorporating behavioral and cognitive factors into models of operations. Specifically, we address three questions: 1) What is a behavioral perspective on operations? 2) What might be the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
is happening that makes these tools less effective today? A: Companies have always spent a great deal of money on marketing, but data have not always been available to determine whether this View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
exploit a quasi-natural experiment that holds constant the information event across firms, but varies the availability of a major news outlet in local markets. We find that firms subject to the threat View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
Management (forthcoming) Abstract Broad waves of investor sentiment should have larger impacts on securities that are more difficult to value and to arbitrage. Consistent with this intuition, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
impact-weighted numbers would complete the picture of a company’s impacts alongside its financial value creation. To get there, the IWA Project has been building a large-scale data set to get a baseline for... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Money Creation and the Shadow Banking System By: Sunderam, Adi Abstract—Many explanations for the rapid growth of the shadow banking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
identified in the education and skill system, labor market incentives and flexibility, the ability to translate R&D outcomes into economic value creation, and in preparing the economy for the new realities View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
value loop. It also introduces business model representations and proposes four tests for evaluating business models in isolation. This is the first note in a series of three written for the HBS elective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
compete for fishing quotas. The value of the fishing quota is not only determined by the volume, but also by the price for fish. BW: I’d worked on auctions. I had some of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
pay the government up front for bailing them out. The old system didn’t work too well, and this one wouldn’t either. Wouldn’t the pool of reinsurance money paid by these private institutions shield the... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
majority of newsvendor settings. When demands are uncensored, subjects tend to order below the normative quantity when facing high margin and above the normative quantity when facing low margin, but in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
year. Despite the wealth of people like Wu Yajun and Yin Mingshan, the average Chinese lives on less than $2,000. Why would the latter want, in effect, to lend money to the former, who is twenty-two times... View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
to improve resource efficiency, creating and discovering new game-changing planet-friendly raw ingredients, reducing waste across the value chain, and designing compelling brands to educate consumers and shift consumption behaviors. Or... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
new water systems or repair deteriorating ones, there is money in water. Already a big business attracting major corporate players such as General Electric, Siemens, ITT, Suez, and Tyco, water is a $400 billion global industry. While just... View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
indifference-pricing framework to value the systematic crash risk exposure of the collateral. We then apply Modigliani and Miller's (1958) Proposition Two (MM) to split the cost View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
Still, women entrepreneurs—11 percent of the US working population in 2013, according to a report by Global Entrepreneurship Monitor—receive significantly less venture capital money than their male... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
measures would work. But the only fixed time frame we know for sure is death. Everything else is subject to moving targets. If you wish to live with a continually renewing sense of success that really seems... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
For-profit businesses have a common goal: create value for owners or shareholders by creating value for customers. It's a focus that must seem enviably straightforward from the perspective View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
families. By viewing this widespread activity through the lens and logic of markets — and daring to define it in terms of supply, demand, and property rights — Spar aims to bring realism and thoughtful... View Details