Comparability - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

paperwork, borrowers complete applications in minutes, with approval times cut to days, or even just a few minutes. And, in instances where borrowers want to shop and compare myriad options in one place, they can turn to marketplaces like... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services

17 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos

them to share it is about the sender's personality," Teixeira says. After comparing the sharing behavior with the emotional responses and personality tests, Teixeira found that the main motivation for viral sharing was egocentricity—the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

10 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

regarding the valuation of the firm. This exercise also highlights the challenges of valuing a small firm, where information and viable comparables are often limited or non-existent. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

competition to play going forward? A: What is a better rating? To an issuer, it's a AAA rating. To an investor who holds a bond, it's a rating that is never reduced. To potential buyers of the bond, it's a rating that accurately reflects default probabilities and that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

01 Nov 2024
In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

disadvantage compared to firms started during more stable times. Take action: Leverage co-working and social spillovers If you do decide to start your company after a layoff, it’s important to be near other entrepreneurs, research... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

15 Dec 2015
First Look

December 15, 2015

visually depict outcome and cost data simultaneously. It provides clinicians, managers, patients, regulators, and policy makers with a readily understandable snapshot of the value being delivered for a specific medical condition and allows them to View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

under severe economic conditions. We show that many structured finance instruments can be characterized as economic catastrophe bonds, but offer far less compensation than alternatives with comparable payoff profiles. We argue that this... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

crisis and then interest dropped off. It’s also been true there’s been a change in attitudes. If you compare 2015 to 1995, there’s much greater interest on the part of the students in shaping one’s own destiny. Rather than going to work... View Details

Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking

09 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

had very different perceptions of the effectiveness of K-12 education, however: Business leaders characterized the system as "poor and deteriorating" compared to other advanced nations' while superintendents saw it as... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

26 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy

more jobs than the consumer support services layer—365,000 compared to 245,000—but it grew at a slower pace (70 percent) than the support services layer (229 percent). "The consumer support layer is thus the unsung hero of the last... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Publishing

11 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

compared to other IPOs and the market at large. The analysis found flips underperformed the S&P 500 by 5 percent in the following three years. Lerner believes that problems with quick flips occur because of the short period that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

11 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

the remainder of the money back to the experimenters. In that experiment, the results were even starker—15 percent who took the pledge cheated, compared to 43 percent who didn’t. It appeared that Hildreth was right. Loyalty prompted... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

life so that they could print expiration dates on the packages. It turned out the greens lasted only a few days in fiber-based packaging as compared with two weeks or longer in plastic. The fiber acted as a desiccant, drying out the... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

30 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

often without the human element. My point is not that they don’t make ‘em like these two anymore. Their equals (not many) are in action among us now. But in reading the glowing obituaries for Bogle and Kelleher, both as leaders and as people, I asked myself: Who among... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation; Financial Services

22 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

determinants underlying the global economic geography of multinational firms. In particular, we run a horserace between two distinct economic forces: location fundamentals and agglomeration economies. We find that location fundamentals, including market access and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

recovered in key areas of economic activity. Consider patents as a proxy for resources devoted to innovation. In 1923 and 1924, patents registered in Japan fell by around one-third compared to 1922, the year before the Grand Kanto... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

promotions of minority managers like James offered little real expansion of responsibilities, as compared with the promotions of minority executives like Williams. Minority executives attributed much of their later success to their... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

must distinguish these two very different agendas, which present different organizational challenges. As I will develop more fully in my next book, best practice improvement is organizationally much easier to deal with than developing and adhering to a strategy. It is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

Economic links with the west were few. All three were relatively advanced economically compared to other nations in the former Soviet Union, so they seemed best prepared to make an economic transition to independent statehood. None of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: December 21

observation to be compared and combined with substantial "prior" knowledge and reliable bodies of research. Vietnam Competitiveness Report 2010 Authors:Christian Ketels, Nguyen Dinh Cung, Nguyen Thi Tue Anh, and Do Hong Hanh... View Details

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