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- January 2011 (Revised June 2011)
- Supplement
Fixed Income Arbitrage in a Financial Crisis (C): TED Spread and Swap Spread in November 2008
Investment manager Albert Mills confronts an apparent arbitrage opportunity during the global financial crisis of 2008 when he notices an unusually low-- and briefly negative-- thirty-year U.S. dollar fixed-floating swap spread. Mills must decide if there is an... View Details
Keywords: Bonds; Financial Management; Investment Return; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry; United States
Taliaferro, Ryan D., and Stephen Blyth. "Fixed Income Arbitrage in a Financial Crisis (C): TED Spread and Swap Spread in November 2008." Harvard Business School Supplement 211-051, January 2011. (Revised June 2011.)
- March 2002
- Article
The Potential Role of Economic Cost Models in the Regulation of Telecommunications in Developing Countries
What is the efficient cost of providing telecommunications services to a certain area or type of customer? As developing countries build up their capacity to regulate infrastructure monopolies, cost models are likely to prove increasingly important in answering... View Details
Keywords: Information; Cost; Mathematical Methods; Developing Countries and Economies; Telecommunications Industry
Ruzzier, Christian Alejandro, D. Benitez, A. Estache, and D. M. Kennet. "The Potential Role of Economic Cost Models in the Regulation of Telecommunications in Developing Countries." Information Economics and Policy 14, no. 1 (March 2002): 21–38.
- December 2005 (Revised December 2008)
- Case
SchoolNet: Pursuing Opportunity beyond Federal Mandates
Settling into his seat on the train bound for New York, CEO Jonathan Harber reflected on the evolution of SchoolNet's position in the educational technology market and its important relationship with Philadelphia. Specifically, how could it transition from a project to... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Education; Performance Improvement; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Technology Adoption; Philadelphia
Childress, Stacey M., and Kristin Campbell. "SchoolNet: Pursuing Opportunity beyond Federal Mandates." Harvard Business School Case 806-050, December 2005. (Revised December 2008.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns
By: Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini and Christopher J. Malloy
This paper uses social networks to identify information transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are... View Details
Keywords: Asset Pricing; Investment Portfolio; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Social and Collaborative Networks; Financial Services Industry
Cohen, Lauren, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy. "The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-055, January 2008. (Winner of the Barclays Global Investors Award, Best Paper in Asset Pricing, European Finance Association 2007.)
- July 2003
- Article
Probabilistic Representation of Complexity
By: Nabil I Al-Najjar, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Emre Ozdenoren
We study individuals' behavior in an environment that is deterministic, but too complex to permit tractable deterministic representation. Under mild conditions, behavior is represented by a unique probabilistic model in which the agent's inability to think through all... View Details
Al-Najjar, Nabil I., Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Emre Ozdenoren. "Probabilistic Representation of Complexity." Journal of Economic Theory 111, no. 1 (July 2003): 49–87.
- 12 Oct 2022
- Video
Brandeis Marshall: The Potential for Data Equity
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
- Web
Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
100 artists and designers to present 87 art exhibitions and 1,826 public programs to over 1.8 million visitors, including many important leaders from all over the world. Given the context of the economic and political environment in the... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Should Leave
want to acknowledge the value you have added to the organization and publicly wish you success in your endeavors. It’s important that you ask your boss if you can see and contribute to the announcement before it’s released. Often, the... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 21 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year
is evidence that increased competition from Chinese imports contributed to the rise of far right parties in Western Europe. Some of my research explores similar dynamics in Brazil. I have found that decreased international demand for... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 22 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted
staggering scope of the findings could help put a value on the work, so senior leaders and non-tech managers at firms understand just how important hiring open source expertise is to success. The results mark among the first comprehensive... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations
going to open it up to questions from the audience. We've talked here today about metrics and data and the importance of technology, but I do want to paraphrase Billy Beane because I think it's important... View Details
- 29 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Local Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India
- 18 Oct 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy
- 24 Feb 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Accelerating Innovation In Energy: Insights from Multiple Sectors
- 31 Jan 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Behavioral Decision Research, Legislation, and Society: Three Cases
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 2021
- Working Paper
Does Who Helps You Impact Your Behavior? Examining the Effects of Social Interactions on Knowledge Sharing in Online Communities
By: Eunkwang Seo, Frank Nagle and Sonali K. Shah
Online communities provide vibrant forums for knowledge sharing and are increasingly being used by individual users and firms to source knowledge and create and capture value. Yet, there is much to learn about how the actions of community members affect other members,... View Details
Keywords: Online Communities; Knowledge Development; Innovation; Reciprocity; Knowledge Sharing; Networks; Innovation and Invention; Interpersonal Communication
Seo, Eunkwang, Frank Nagle, and Sonali K. Shah. "Does Who Helps You Impact Your Behavior? Examining the Effects of Social Interactions on Knowledge Sharing in Online Communities." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-026, August 2020. (Revised July 2021.)
- 2017
- Working Paper
A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies
By: Valeria Giacomin
Clusters are defined as geographically concentrated agglomerations of specialized firms in a particular domain. The cluster concept in its broader meaning of industrial agglomeration has been the focus of longstanding debates in the social sciences. This working paper... View Details
Keywords: Industry Clusters; Research; Theory; Developing Countries and Economies; History; Analysis; Globalization
Giacomin, Valeria. "A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-018, August 2017.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Online Word of Mouth and Product Review Disagreement
By: Frank Nagle and Christoph Riedl
Studies of online word of mouth have frequently posited―but never systematically conceptualized and explored―that the level of disagreement between existing product reviews can impact the volume and the valence of future reviews. In this study we develop a theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Online Word Of Mouth; Online Communities; Viral Marketing; Online Product Reviews; Quality; Internet and the Web; Consumer Behavior; Marketing Reference Programs; Social and Collaborative Networks; Digital Marketing; Analytics and Data Science
Nagle, Frank, and Christoph Riedl. "Online Word of Mouth and Product Review Disagreement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-091, May 2013. (Revised May 2015, selected for AOM Best Paper Proceedings.)