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- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying and building technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
allows bank depositors to remain "sleepy": they do not have to pay attention to transient fluctuations in the market value of bank assets. In contrast, shadow banks create money-like claims by giving their investors an early... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
cater to these preferences and beliefs by engineering securities perceived to be safe but exposed to neglected risks. Because the risks are neglected, security issuance is excessive. As investors eventually recognize these risks, they fly back to the safety of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
executives assumed that their private email would not be made public. There is another angle to the incident, however. It can be viewed as an extreme example of corporate transparency, however unintended it may have been. Personal... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Flying J. Flying J owned and operated hundreds of truck stops—which it called Travel Plazas—nationwide and was a growing multi-billion dollar business, but broader problems in the oil and credit markets in late 2008 forced it to declare... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
Lakhani said the question comes down to this: Do we have the right labor force? His research team recently held a three-weeklong contest that looked to improve the accuracy and processing speed of an algorithm designed to analyze genomic... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
find that paying above-market wages, per se, does not have an effect on effort relative to paying market wages. However, structuring a portion of the wage as a clear and unexpected gift (by hiring at a given wage, and then offering a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
Activism in Sovereign Debt: "Vulture" Tactics or Market Backbone Harvard Business School Case 706-057 The role of distressed debt funds, also known as "vulture funds," in sovereign debt restructuring was a hotly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
common theme and we were able to detect some patterns. There basically is an infinite combination of five core strategies being used across a spectrum of impact to make positive change. The strategies include finance for social purpose, capacity building, product and... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
moral leadership, it needs to carefully examine and discuss issues that cross the line from legal to immoral. Microsoft needs to show its employees that it takes the issue of separation ( of families by ICE) seriously. How it does that requires discussion at the View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
gives firms discretion to manage impairments. We test this argument in a sample of firms with market indications of impairment (firms with book goodwill and market-to-book ratio below one). We find that the frequency of non-impairment in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
the content industry. Advertisers, for their part, continue to feel comfortable placing ads on TV, gauging that their dollars will not be wasted. Emerging markets further propel the growth potential for innovations combining the Internet... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
to write about globalization, accounting standards and, in particular, Indian accounting standards? Gregory Miller: Globalization is the major issue in determining the future of financial reporting. As financial and product markets become... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
issued an executive order on April 13, clarifying the state law and asking the legislature to revisit some of its provisions. The actions of PayPal’s Schulman and other CEOs is an example of a phenomenon that Harvard Business School... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
enlightening guide, they show how Gates, Grove, and Jobs approached strategy and execution in remarkably similar ways-yet markedly differently from their erstwhile competitors-keeping their focus on five strategic rules. Strategy Rules... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
negotiation. Yet unlike professionals such as litigators, journalists, and doctors, who are taught how to ask questions as an essential part of their training, few executives think of questioning as a skill that can be honed—or consider... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
it, "We cannot look at investor losses as the only benchmark to evaluate the costs of Sarbanes-Oxley. One must also consider the cost of capital if confidence in the markets does not return…Unfortunately, you cannot legislate... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
explanations of our findings. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1572699 August 2013 Journal of Finance Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Bo Becker Abstract—Reaching for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
Programs By: Hanson, Samuel G., David S. Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop a model of government portfolio choice in which a benevolent government chooses the scale of risky projects in the presence of market failures and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
But it also details VC's shortcomings: a narrow focus on certain industries and geographies, volatile feast-or-famine funding cycles, the expectation of quick returns, and a dependence on public markets for funds. “While the venture model... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel