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  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

decision-making is limited. Exploiting exogenous variation in state compulsory schooling laws in both standard and two-sample instrumental variable strategies, we show education increases financial market participation, measured by investment View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2019
  • News

The Merchant of Osaka

country where women hold only 5 percent of senior leadership roles. Her strategy is radically simple: fix the system by designing for the patient. She’s leading a quiet shift, not a noisy revolution, but in Japan and particularly for... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

purchases the same customers make when shopping without a coupon. The standard permanent income or lifecycle theory of consumption predicts that grocery spending will be unaffected by the use of a $10-off coupon, while a simple mental... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Dec 2021
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December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now By John Doerr (MBA 1976) Portfolio In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: “Dad, your generation created this problem. You better fix... View Details
  • 10 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

standards were met. In 1972, the FCC also limited the franchise fees that municipalities could charge cable operators to three percent of revenue, and fixed the length of franchise agreements at fifteen years, reducing uncertainty for... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About

counts, testing, Crimson Clear, and ever-evolving guidance. Flexibility will help you adapt to changing conditions and break fixed ways of thinking. You were resourceful. You maneuvered through hybrid classes and made the most of your... View Details
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

America's greatest economic asset. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/03/reviving-entrepreneurship/ar/1 Fixing What's Wrong with U.S. Politics Author:David A. Moss Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

invest in fixed income securities, public equities, and alternative assets such as hedge funds, real estate, or private equity. What are the costs and benefits of each asset class? Should the funding status... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

types of earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the cost in the following... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

data sources and illustrate how they can be used to improve the study and function of cities. We first show how Google Street View images can be used to predict income in New York City, suggesting that similar image data can be used to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

the Market Harvard Business School Note 707-469 Strategists are not alone in finding failing markets irresistible. Governments and social groups ranging from unions to the World Wildlife Fund also respond to market failures. Governments typically seek to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

engage (or not engage) in our workplaces, homes, and communities. A Boyhood in Wartime Britain by Michael H. Coles (MBA 1961) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Collecting shrapnel from his front yard; identifying incoming... View Details
  • 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

everyone everywhere in the world in unprecedented ways and the consequences are real,” says incoming HBS MBA student Isha Khambra, a member of the Students Fight COVID initiative. “Despite these challenges we—now and in the past—have seen... View Details
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

income remained relatively stable, about 3 to 1. Over the last 20 years, however, the financial markets that financed the housing system in the United States changed remarkably. Local markets once dominated by tightly regulated savings... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Futures and Call Spreads: An Arbitrage Approach." Journal of Fixed Income 4, no. 4 (March 1995): 46-57. Dixit, Avinash K., and Robert S. Pindyck. Investment Under Uncertainty . Princeton, N.J.: Princeton... View Details
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

intermediary to charge consumers fixed fees, to offer them screening contracts, and to subsidize search allowing stores' strategic decisions to be contractible or controlled by the intermediary. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace