Filter Results:
(213)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(306)
- News (37)
- Research (213)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (5)
- Faculty Publications (62)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(306)
- News (37)
- Research (213)
- Events (2)
- Multimedia (5)
- Faculty Publications (62)
Sort by
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
transmitting information from equity to debt holders. This provides a novel argument as to why information contained in stock prices affects the real value of a corporation. It also allows us to make empirical predictions regarding the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
results illustrate how firms redesign their organizational structure through a set of complementary choices in response to changes in their environment. We discuss several possible interpretations of these changes. Managing Risk in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers over a period of four months.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
than shepherding an innovation through the entire commercialization process. We argue that this binary outcome—i.e., success via acquisition—creates different opportunities and threats for new entrants and has important and novel... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54177 Countering Political Risk in Colonial India: German Multinationals and the Challenge of Internment (1914–1947) By: Lubinski, Christina, Valeria Giacomin, and Klara Schnitzer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
goal is not to identify the "best" program, but rather to lay out the range of innovations to meet the needs of heterogeneous potential savers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-075.pdf Cases & Course Materials2006 Hurricane View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011) Abstract The financial meltdown made clear that the executives of many major financial institutions were operating with inadequate or distorted information about the values and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
two-week online contest broadcast to participants outside academia and biomedical disciplines. Participants in our contest produced over 600 submissions containing 89 novel computational approaches to the problem. Thirty submissions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
whether review times or product novelty predicted adverse event reporting. Longer review times were associated with a lower probability of any subsequent reports and a lower probability of reports involving injury/death. Controlling for review time, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
Centralization is predicted when the value of firm-wide coordination dominates these adaptation and information-processing concerns. Based on a novel data set containing information on establishment-level decision rights over information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
of trade finance terms is shaped by the risk that an importer defaults on an exporter and by the possibility that an exporter does not deliver goods as specified in the contract. The empirical results indicate that cash in advance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
http://www.foreurope.eu/index.php?id=766&tx_sevenpack_pi1%5bsearch%5d%5brule%5d=AND&tx_sevenpack_pi1%5bsearch%5d%5bsep%5d=space&tx_sevenpack_pi1%5bshow_abstracts%5d=0&tx_sevenpack_pi1%5bshow_keywords%5d=0&tx_sevenpack_pi1%5byear%5d=2013&tx_sevenp... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
transform their organizational culture. The case studies in this book show that the companies which have succeeded in low-income markets were ones that strengthened their bottom-up market intelligence—finding novel ways to integrate the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
AFC. However, a broader set of emerging market countries show weaker liquidity, solvency, and profitability indicators. More countries are also in the Altman Z-score's “grey zone,” that is, at risk for corporate distress. Regression... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
preferences of their peers—and assessed subsequent brain activity during an incidental processing task in which participants viewed popular, unpopular, and novel symbols. The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) differentiated between symbols... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
why consumers desire unusual and novel consumption experiences and voluntarily choose leisure activities, vacations, and celebrations that are predicted to be less pleasurable. For example, consumers sometimes choose to stay at freezing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Harvard Business School Case 109-017 This case examines the strategy implementation and risk management decisions at Sydney IVF, a research-based in vitro fertilization and stem cell company based in Australia. Drs. Robert Jansen and Jock... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
demonstrating systematic differences between the preferences people anticipate they will have over a series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
including a monopolist, two competing multichannel retailers, as well as a mixed duopoly. Though self-matching can negatively impact a retailer when consumers pay the lower price, we uncover two novel mechanisms that can make... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash buffers and use these buffers more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman