Interest Rate Risk - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

receiving only a dispenser, (2) these effects persist after monitoring or incentives are removed, and (3) the anticipation of monitoring increases handwashing rates significantly, implying that individuals internalize the habitual nature... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

profitable investment decisions. During the last ten years, Wall Street research has been battered by a series of shocks. As concerns over conflicts of interest mounted, the integrity of research output was questioned, leading to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

investments in the portfolios of venture capital firms to study persistence in their performance. Each additional IPO among a VC's first five investments predicted a 13% higher IPO rate for its subsequent 50 investments. Roughly half of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016

coming from an increase in new hires and the balance from an increase in earnings. Importantly, however, we document substantial crowding out of non-treated firms employment, particularly in counties with low rates of unemployment. Our... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2022
News

Blissful Thinking

make better leaders, and the practical steps to kicking an addiction to success. There’s been increasing academic interest in the topic of happiness in recent years. We’ve seen it at HBS with the work of Ashley Whillans, Leslie Perlow,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

08 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

"Someone asked me why I'm interested in labor in the supply chain. The answer from my head is that we have evidence of how important people are to the total equation. So my future research will definitely focus on identifying better... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online

toolkit and apply the paid, owned, and earned media (POEM) framework. Identify a brand’s four components and the potential benefits and risks of marketing channels and platforms. Highlights The Importance of Brand Aubrie Pagano, Founder... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

things don't go as planned, remember to look in the mirror, and don't lose the learning. Leave everything better than you found it. Leslie Hale (MBA 2001), CFO and sVP, RLJ Lodging Trust, Bethesda, Maryland Take advantage of the fact that your MBA affords you the... View Details

01 Aug 1998
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Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

interest lies in the boundaries between religion and the wider world," says the newly ordained Messenger. "To my mind, finding meaning in everyday activities is what religion is all about." Messenger says he often felt out of place during... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

02 Aug 2004
What Do You Think?

For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?

that Section 404 may actually have far less value than its cost. In Stephen Thomas's opinion, "... the new, exaggerated internal controls can make a company ... more risk-averse... And in aggregate it creates new risk to the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 May 2021
Blog Post

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

worked closely together tend to hold on to startups longer—four and a half years, on average—before moving toward a high-profile exit. While becoming a public company can bring a startup more attention and retain the original management team, the View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

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Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog

footprint. Finally, for those interested in evaluating economic and business environments generally, EOV provides a robust macro setting in which to understand how various levers aid or hinder economic development by examining one of the... View Details

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Commencement 2015 Address | About

temperatures of 110 degrees in the summer. As an adult, he ran a company that electrified India, and while he certainly took a keen interest in profits and losses and creating jobs, he was driven by the sense that his company was making... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

History’s Lessons

skills to attract funders for his ships, lifeboats, supplies, and food. He also recognized the importance of assembling a team that could work together and embrace high levels of risk and uncertainty—qualities that proved particularly... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

01 Sep 2006
News

Light Years Ahead

coursework similar to what I had been doing at JPL.” As his doctoral work progressed, Light became “more and more interested in the Business School side of the joint program.” He found mentors in Raiffa and Finance Professor Eli Shapiro,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

04 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids

parents. The increased difficulty and risks of traveling separated some CEOs from family. One had to make the difficult decision to “move to a different city to be closer to the employees, [leaving] the family behind.” None in our sample... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

10 Aug 2017
News

Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation

longest longitudinal study on happiness ever done. And although our wealth has tripled, although our safety has increased, murder rates at an all-time low, people can go further and faster, more educated, happiness has been flat. It's... View Details

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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

Year in Review Degree Programs Nearly 8,150 applicants sought a place in the MBA Program and approximately 890 applicants in the Doctoral Programs; the acceptance rate for both was highly competitive, at 14 percent and 4 percent,... View Details

29 Jun 2007
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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 difference arises from the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2021
Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

Business Administration, Emeritus. He's the author of Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations about Your Company’s Capabilities Are the Key to a Winning Strategy. Arthur C. Brooks: Weigh the risks of loneliness I’m an optimist, so one of... View Details

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