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  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

through signature—e.g., at the end of tax returns or insurance policy forms. Yet even when people care about morality and want to be seen as ethical by others, they sometimes transgress when beneficial to their own self-interest, at great... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

findings can help explain a variety of behavioral phenomena including the structure of social insurance programs, patterns of public good provision, and why transactions that turn money into time are often deemed repugnant. Download... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

average, use unverifiable discretion to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, use unverifiable discretion opportunistically. We test these alternative hypotheses using a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

dollar lending more than euro lending in response to a shock to their credit quality. Because these banks rely on wholesale dollar funding, while raising more of their euro funding through insured retail deposits, the shock leads to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

The paper also leads to new perspectives on the firm as a legal entity and on the relationship between the Knightian and Coasian views of the firm.   Cases & Course MaterialsAppellation Shanxi: Grace Vineyard Harvard Business School Case 309-075 Grace Vineyard was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

including assessing charges for insuring against losses. Without such a comprehensive assessment and improvement plan, boards cannot do their jobs, and the system will remain as subject to calamitous events as it was before the crisis.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

which the ACA was passed and develops estimates of its likely impact on the biopharmaceutical industry. Universal insurance, either through a government-run system or by mandated purchase of private insurance, has been controversial in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14

and suggests that corporate diversification can serve an important insurance function for investors. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-101.pdf The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for Strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

students was given four assets to sell to classmates, and I constrained the deal process so that they would have to either auction or negotiate. But despite my efforts to keep the two mechanisms pure, auctions regularly devolved into View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 30 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

big bucks in the minds of most consumers. We see similar efforts by magazines that advertise their low per-issue prices or insurance companies that break the cost of their premiums down to a low, per-day cost. All these efforts are... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212031-PDF-ENG Social Finance, Inc Shawn Cole, Rawia Abdel Samad, Matt Berner, and Raluca DragusanuHarvard Business School Case 212-055 Social Finance attempts to design and launch a complex new financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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