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- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
Professor Jonas Heese. When local newspapers shutter, some businesses evidently treat the lack of press coverage as permission to act badly and end up committing more illegal violations, including pollution, workplace safety infractions, and View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/13-039%20Nov%202012_612ce7e2-7f81-4eea-9126-3c0964f2be2f.pdf August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Search-Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
biased forecasts for potential future employers are more likely to face favorable career outcomes and bank executives appear to profit from the analysts' bias since the bias is associated with higher levels of insider trading. Our results... View Details
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
long way to go to knock off the established credit card system, Shih says. "Ecosystems are very delicately balanced, and the current payment system represents a balance that has resulted from 40 years of evolution. There's a lot of... View Details
- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
studies drivers of regulatory behavior as well as the resulting decision-making process of managers within regulated organizations. In the paper The Effects of Media Slant on Firm Behavior, forthcoming in the Journal of View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14360 Stable Many-to-Many Matchings with Contracts Authors:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Markus Walzl Abstract We consider several notions of setwise stability for many-to-many matching markets with contracts and provide an analysis of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
On August 15th, Aetna announced that it would reduce by 80 percent its participation in the Obama administration’s public exchanges for health insurance policies in 2017, citing significant financial losses. The move came just a few weeks... View Details
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Building the Future: An HBS Alumna’s Journey in Sustainable Infrastructure Investment - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
we be good? How can we understand financial managers' ethical failings, which destroyed lives and brought nations and the global economy close to collapse? Das seeks answers to these questions in the Mahabharata, the 2,000-year-old... View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
responsible for the accuracy of financial reports. Others might include directors among those held responsible, with at least the confiscation of all incentive pay gained as a result of deliberate... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
Sean (left) and Kenny Salas Photo courtesy of Camino Financial Sean (left) and Kenny Salas Photo courtesy of Camino Financial Twin brothers Kenny and Sean Salas (both MBA 2015) grew up with firsthand... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
increased correlations of discount rate shocks resulting from financial globalization as the main driver of the upward shift in stock return correlations. We also identify increased correlations of inflation... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
Beijing is America’s largest foreign creditor. But how long will the Chinese continue to finance U.S. deficit spending? Illustration by Stuart Bradford In his new book, The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, HBS professor... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
likely would be difficult to finance externally. We argue that a developed financial system can facilitate exports, and we test three implications. First, a more developed financial system is associated with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
determined that between 22 and 29 percent (25.2 to 31.8 million) of all U.S. jobs are potentially offshorable. Those cited included high-paying, high-skill jobs such as financial analyst and microbiologist. Rivkin and former research... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
telecom business. The panelists responded that there is not much distinction between the types of value VCs add. They are, in general, quite cautious as a result of an obvious shakeout in service and the inevitable shakeout in equipment.... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
of employee retention and willingness to log onto the training platform, each additional minute of average platform engagement per employee resulted in 0.78 fewer new clients per month. Taken together, these View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
financially benefit most from home delivery are more likely to choose it. Those who benefit least from insurance subsidies are more likely to make no active choice and lose those subsidies. The implicit default incentivizes people to make... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
2016 Boston: Self-published An Easy Introduction to Financial Accounting: A Self-Study Guide By: Narayanan, V.G. Abstract—This book is a self-study guide written for someone who wishes to teach themselves basic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
between executives and workers; the dangers in the unsustainable and still growing levels of domestic and international debt; the dangers of securitization of mortgages; and the potential problems that could result from a View Details