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  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

in preferred equity from the United States government via the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Yet, the stock had continued to slide in early 2009. In late February, the company announced that it would convert as much as $50 billion... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Judging | New Venture Competition

address and can be sustained for a period of time consistent with achieving the desired social impact. (If growing the organization is not the preferred strategy, the program is transferable and replicable.) Concept (35% of score)... View Details
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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Impact Fellowship Fund grantee Financial need is not required for eligibility, but preference will be given to applicants who have had a demonstrated financial need while a student (as determined by HBS MBA Financial Aid), particularly if... View Details
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

(EH) in inflation-indexed (or real) bonds and in nominal bonds in the U.S. and in the U.K. We strongly reject the EH in inflation-indexed bonds and also confirm and update the existing evidence rejecting the EH in nominal bonds. This rejection implies that the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

at the individual level. We discuss the implications of our results for the study of learning as well as for providers and consumers of outsourced services. Preference Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation Authors:Golosov,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

I. Norton Abstract—While many experiments have explored risk preferences for money, few have systematically assessed risk preferences for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

in tastes. Our framework allows us to characterize matching equilibrium in a flexible way that includes as special cases the classic fully- and non-transferable utility models, collective models, and settings with taxes on transfers, deadweight losses, and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

Risk Officer By: Mikes, Anette Abstract—This paper tracks the evolution of the role of two chief risk officers (CROs) and the tools and processes they have implemented in their respective organizations.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

demand for auditing by the licensor. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We show when the owner prefers to license the property in exchange for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3

approaches. Here we speculate on one possible explanation for this organizational heterogeneity: it may reflect inherent heterogeneity of the software workforce, in terms of which kinds of organizations individual workers prefer to work... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

most productive sites prefer to pay CPC, while advertisers with lower quality sites prefer to pay CPA—a result that may be viewed as counterintuitive since low quality sites cannot proudly tout their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

New Releases

analysis by HBS professors David Bell and Arthur Schleifer have been released. The volumes - Decision Making Under Certainty; Decision Making Under Uncertainty; Data Analysis, Regression, and Forecasting; and Risk Management - are part of... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

habits as well, such as a growing preference for sharing items rather than owning them, and encouraging "showrooming" where shoppers visit stores only to test products—then buy them more cheaply online. The user benefits from lower cost,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 13 Jul 2016
  • Blog Post

How To Hire A Millennial

Connecticut is nothing less than a capitulation to an emerging business reality. For GE, leafy Stamford was simply too hard a sell to make to increasingly urban millennials, who not only prefer to live in cities like Boston, San... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Feb 1999
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Short Takes

No Mistake About It: Trust Is Key in Learning It's a real Catch-22: Learning is more critical than ever to firm success, yet the process often requires making mistakes. And many people believe mistakes lead to failure and thus avoid View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

M. Viceira Abstract—Our new model of consumption-based habit formation preferences generates loglinear, homoscedastic macroeconomic dynamics and time-varying risk premia on bonds and stocks. Consumers'... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation

Ideally, these companies can fund their projects with project finance since that has a lower cost of capital than venture dollars. However, infrastructure investors typically prefer established technologies that are derisked and have... View Details
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

identity-holders away from options they would have preferred in the absence of that appeal. Mitigating the Negative Effects of Customer Anxiety Through Access to Human Contact By: Shell, Michelle A., and Ryan W. Buell Abstract— It is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial... View Details
  • 26 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Market Research in a Recession

often be greater. Brand preferences and consumption levels in emerging markets such as China, India, and Brazil tend to be more fluid. Consumer research is therefore critical to aid marketers trying to cement brand View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch