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- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Medical Device Industry Council Harvard Business School Case 706-498 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706498 Patrimonio Hoy: A Financial Perspective Harvard Business School Case 207-059...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape
frictions throughout the value chain. With these structural impediments in mind, we visited WayCool Foods and Pixxel, two innovative companies that are attempting to improve economic conditions for farmers, while lowering the carbon...
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- 16 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Finding my Passion in the Startup Space
When I was 17, I moved to the US to study. Back home in Greece, the country was succumbing to a financial crisis. I questioned whether I would ever be able to move back to my country. Many years later, I find myself as Director of...
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- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
of U.S. representatives and senators in the early part of the 20th century. We also show under what conditions profit-maximizing media will cater to general (less affluent) voters in their coverage, providing a counterbalance to special...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
input more valuable. Distributed supermodular complementarity (DSMC) exists when two or more independent actors can create complementary value by pursuing their own interests and will not find it advantageous to combine in order to coordinate their actions. I derive...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
Paul M. Healy, and Yang Gui Periodical:Journal of Financial Transformation (forthcoming) Abstract Since 1949 Lehman Brothers has used an investment committee to select the top ten recommendations made by its analysts each year. We examine...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
hours reduce electricity bills? Perhaps for the first time, small-business owners accustomed to monthly accounting might need to track day-to-day spending so they can react quickly to changing economic conditions. Free and low-cost tools from banks and fintech firms...
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- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
Nobody questions that there's whopping gender imbalance in today's boardrooms, despite ample evidence that it makes financial sense to put women on the board. Companies with female board representation routinely outperform those with no...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
our son had autism spectrum disorder, a lifelong handicap with no cure or treatment, we knew that all our plans needed to change. We needed to accept that." "The business model is tricky for a CEO." ASD is not a single View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
enabling conditions required for each to work in practice. In the final section of the paper, we discuss how firms can "mix and match" multiple modes of collaboration into coherent "architectures" that lie at the heart...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
foreign bank capital flows; thus, U.S. monetary policy affects credit conditions for EME firms. We show that the spillover is stronger in higher-yielding and more financially open markets and for firms with...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
of Kansas City) The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet as a Financial-Stability Tool By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—We argue that the Federal Reserve should use its balance sheet to help reduce a key threat to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- February 1991
- Background Note
Note on Sealed Bid Auctions
By: David E. Bell
Describes a simple approach to determining an appropriate bid for a sealed bid auction.
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History;
Management Style;
Financial Management;
Consumer Behavior;
Accounting;
Bids and Bidding;
Decisions;
Market Transactions;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Competitive Strategy;
Negotiation Style;
Auctions
Bell, David E. "Note on Sealed Bid Auctions." Harvard Business School Background Note 191-140, February 1991.
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
launch a new blockchain currency to facilitate financial services for unbanked and underbanked customers in emerging markets via their smartphone. Santos had to decide whether to go forward with the new plan despite regulatory risk,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
identify the conditions under which the well-being benefits of prosociality are most likely to emerge. Finally, we briefly highlight several levers that can be used to increase prosocial behavior, thereby potentially increasing...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
effective nonprofits and away from underperforming ones. We illustrate how innovative information and financial intermediaries, using new measurement approaches tailored for the nonprofit sector, have recently arisen to help direct funds...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
additively separable in its state variables, leading to conquering the curse of dimensionality and the opportunity to manage the supply chain using independently acting managers. We develop conditions under which myopic policies are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
exposure to workplace attributes that contribute to poor health. We used General Social Survey data to estimate differential exposures to workplace conditions, results from a meta-analysis that estimated the effect of workplace conditions...
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Carmen Nobel
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering (IPO), I differentiate between those that have private equity sponsorship (PE-backed firms) and those that do...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
the paper: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042673 Mandatory IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability Authors: Francois Brochet, Alan Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Publication: Contemporary Accounting Research...
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Sean Silverthorne