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- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
was founded to serve a vital but narrow function in maintaining the global foreign exchange system and thus enabling international trade. This note gives an overview of the IMF's evolution by describing key phases in its history,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
Working PapersContracting in the Self-reporting Economy (revised) Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Richard Sansing Abstract This paper examines the effect of accounting on the use of intellectual property. We analyze the licensing of intellectual property in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
associated with the passage of a directive in the European Union (EU) mandating increased nonfinancial disclosure. These disclosures relate to firms’ environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and would be applicable to firms listed on EU View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
themselves. Now more than ever, American society needs this kind of exchange of ideas.” Bill added, “All it takes for evil to flourish is for good people to remain silent.” Jesteeleconsult commented, “Looking the other way in times of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
As a professor of decision making and negotiation, I often receive unsolicited phone calls from relatives, friends, and acquaintances seeking my advice on consumer matters such as negotiating for a house, bidding on eBay, and investing in the View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
were given a majority of the company's stock in exchange for almost $5 billion in wage and benefit concessions. The two cases are fascinating contrasts. Scott Paper's restructuring involved large-scale job... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
probability of default causes a 6% decline in the value of Argentine equities and a 1% depreciation of a measure of the exchange rate. We examine the channels through which a sovereign default may affect the economy. Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
Working PapersContracting in the Self-reporting Economy (revised) Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Richard Sansing Abstract This paper examines the effect of accounting on the use of intellectual property. We analyze the licensing of intellectual property in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
GMBuyPower.com, which enables customers to order cars online. The second is the development of its OnStar technology, which, according to the company's 1999 annual report, will enable the first "Web car." 72 The third change is the development of a B2B auto... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/612048-PDF-ENG Aviva Investors George Serafeim, Robert G. Eccles, and Kyle ArmbresterHarvard Business School Case 112-047 The case describes Aviva Investors' engagement strategy with companies and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
stylized fact in empirical finance is that the spread between the yield on long-term bonds and short-term bonds forecasts positively future excess returns on bonds at varying horizons, and that the short-term nominal interest rate forecasts positively View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
tend to rebalance more actively. We find some evidence that households rebalance towards a higher risky share as they become richer. We also study the decisions to trade individual assets. Households are more likely to fully sell directly held View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
findings imply that firm oversight is important during market booms, just when stock prices suggest all is well. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mrhodeskropf/GovMisFirms_v39.pdf Visualizing and Measuring Software... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
the current Boston Stock Exchange building, a structure that was considered something of a white elephant after Fleet Bank moved out. After buying the building for $10 million, Intercontinental invested $6.5... View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53507 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Bubbles for Fama By: Greenwood, Robin, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You Abstract—We evaluate Eugene Fama's claim that stock... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
resulting from the liberalization of the Turkish economy. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811081-PDF-ENG Oriental Fortune Capital: Building a Better Stock Exchange Josh Lerner and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
IASB is working closely with the FASB to converge the U.S. and IAS standards. The Securities and Exchange Commission has even considered letting foreign companies list on U.S. exchanges using IAS. Q: What... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
level. Inheriting Losers Authors:Li Jin and Anna Scherbina Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We show that new managers who take over mutual fund portfolios sell off inherited momentum losers at higher rates than View Details
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
“Leaving Intuit Discussion.” That ended the uncertainty of who was and was not being laid off. Financial support was fair, with layoffs timed to enable employee vesting schedules for company stock and annual bonuses. 3. What message are... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
Back then, Argentina tried to fend off creditors by adopting a hard-line attitude about reducing its debt obligations. When it initiated a bond exchange offer in 2005 and told its creditors to "take it or leave it," the republic... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro