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14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

October 2017 Negotiation Journal Prescriptions Based on a Realistic View of Human Behavior By: Bazerman, Max Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53096 November–December 2017... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 1997
News

Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

trade war develop between China and the United States, the territory's two largest trading partners, Fung said, "Hong Kong will be affected." One fear: the possible cancellation of China's most-favored-nation trading status by Washington.... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Jun 2017
News

Supercharged

are fighting congestion, and are concerned with air quality and noise pollution. Electric plugs right into that.” Indeed, GM plans to introduce an on-demand ridesharing service here in the United States based View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

01 Apr 1997
News

Facing the Music

record industry, 1996 was a bluesy kind of year. As revenues increased less than 1 percent and consumers bought 8 percent fewer CDs and cassettes compared to the previous year, the pause button, it seems, was hit on a decade of... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

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18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

the level of optimism embedded in their published research. This is exactly what we found. Even more interesting is that the optimism embedded in analysts' forecasts differs depending on whether the firm is issuing debt or equity... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

19 Aug 2024
News

Quantum Leap

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details

22 Dec 2022
News

LGBTQ+ Alumni Forums Expand; 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition Is Underway

two forums—one for West Coast alumni and one for East Coast alumni—with nine members in each. "It really took off after that," says Donaher. "From the beginning, people got into the spirit and openness of forum." According to association... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 2000
News

Getting the Message

In 1994, the World Wide Web was not yet a household name. A new company called Yahoo! had just developed a way to look for sites on the Internet -- the search engine. HotWired debuted as the first online magazine to carry advertisements.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

of Weak Interests By Gunnar Trumbull Empirical studies have consistently shown a capacity to coordinate when the collective interest is both material and evident. One of the early studies to assess the impact of group size View Details

Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull

10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

PublicationsGlobal, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment Authors:Malcolm Baker, Jeffrey Wurgler, and Yu Yuan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We construct investor sentiment indices for six major stock markets and decompose them... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

(2011), idiosyncratic shocks to the sales growth of large firms are positively and significantly correlated with GDP growth in our emerging markets sample. Relatedly, the negative impact of exchange rate shocks has a more acute impact on... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Trust

It's called TrapGuard—a special kind of floor drain developed by a Georgia company that prevents sewer gases from entering homes. On the great spectrum of innovative products, it's probably not keeping company with the iPod or Segway... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Service

01 Mar 2018
News

‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

Lewis Jr. (MBA 1969), George R. “Bob” Price (MBA 1970), and A. Leroy “Roy” Willis (MBA 1969). In commemoration of this milestone, four of AASU’s founders (Price died in 2012) reflect on their time at the School, the creation of the... View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Keepers of the Flame

It's an international celebration of sport and goodwill whose humble beginnings date back two millennia. Today, with the vastly expanded modern Games, putting on the Olympics has become as much of a test of management skill as athletic... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

10 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

with Michael Ewens of the California Institute of Technology and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf of MIT Sloan School of Management. The researchers focus on one of the most important technological shifts in recent... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services; Information Technology

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

shrunk. Chinese consumers are being encouraged to spend more of it. And the leadership of the Chinese government appears to be adopting a new stance concerning free trade, one that appears to be at odds with... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2006
News

The Baby Business

there is a fear that if you start putting those kinds of regulations on the fertility market, all kinds of parents will be deemed unfit. Yet I do think there needs to be some sort of scrutiny as to who is allowed to become a parent. In... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Health, Social Assistance

01 Feb 1997
News

Doing It Your Way

In the beginning there was the microprocessor. The mass market availability in the early 1980s of this revolutionary piece of technology — which shrank the computer from an unwieldy Goliath of a machine to a compact unit that could fit on... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)

17 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun was on a fast track until the EC's antitrust concerns about open-source MySQL ignited a transatlantic war of words delaying the deal. Sun's performance suffered and its... View Details