Publications

2000
Working Paper

Contractibility and Asset Ownership: On-Board Computers and Governance in US Trucking

By: George P. Baker and Thomas Hubbard

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January 2021 (Revised May 2021)
Teaching Note

Love It or List It: An Aging Asset on Sixth Ave

By: Charles F. Wu and Sean Bracken

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 221-004. View Details

September 2023
Case

Super Quantum: Using Artificial Intelligence to Transform Asset Management (A)

By: Feng Zhu and Kerry Herman

Dr. Zhang, CEO of Super Quantum, an AI-driven hedge fund, is considering an investor’s request to withdraw their funds as the markets experience volatility. Should he pull the investor’s funds? View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Volatility; Financial Markets; Investment Funds; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Services Industry

1979
Chapter

Identifiability of the von Neumann-Morgenstern Utility Function from Asset Demands

By: Jerry R. Green, Lawrence J. Lau and Heraklis Polemarchakis

June 2012
Teaching Note

Deferred Tax Assets in Basel III: Lessons from Japan (TN)

By: David F. Hawkins and Karthik Ramanna

28 Jan 2025
News

Rethinking Risk: Why Pension Funds Are Betting on Alternative Assets

28 Jan 2022
News

The Coinbase Model: Profit from the Crypto Assets It Lists

11 Nov 2019
News

"How Bridgewater Tackled One of Asset Management’s Toughest Hiring Problems"

April 2019 (Revised April 2021)
Case

Wayfair

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Susie L. Ma and Matthew G. Preble

In 2016 Niraj Shah and Steve Conine, founders of online home goods retailer Wayfair, are faced with a decision about how to improve user experience on their e-commerce sites. A key driver of consumer interest and conversion to purchase in the home category is visual... View Details

Keywords: Visual Assets; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Business or Company Management; Growth Management; Innovation and Invention; Operations; Strategy; Technology; Retail Industry; Service Industry; United States; Massachusetts

August 1996
Case

Howard, Shea & Chan Asset Management (B); The Partnership Meeting

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Continues the plot about growth and sales strategies, and adds interesting pricing and sales compensation elements. The partners' meeting sharpens the disagreements among the five partners, and forces Anne Howard, the managing partner, to develop a clear action plan. View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Price; Sales; Strategy; Asset Management; Partners and Partnerships; Service Industry

August 2013 (Revised November 2013)
Case

Gordon Brothers: Collateralizing Corporate Loans by Brands

By: Paul Healy and Maria Loumioti

The case explores the collateralization of intellectual property in a loan agreement between a highly leveraged apparel company and a large US bank. Leveraging intangibles in the credit market is a new practice that has significantly grown over the past few years.... View Details

Keywords: Intangible Assets; Accounting; Valuation; Finance; Restructuring; United States

2009
Working Paper

Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of Output and Asset Price Fluctuations

By: Diego A. Comin, Mark Gertler and Ana Maria Santacreu

We develop a model in which innovations in an economy's growth potential are an important driving force of the business cycle. The framework shares the emphasis of the recent "new shock" literature on revisions of beliefs about the future as a source of fluctuations,... View Details

Keywords: Business Cycles; Economic Growth; Asset Pricing; Technological Innovation; Mathematical Methods; System Shocks; Technology Adoption