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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
of uncertainty and where assets are often difficult to value. Second, because the various stages of the venture capital process are related, the entire function is best viewed as a cycle. Finally, unlike most financial markets, the... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
integration. The reason is that at low prices, increases in revenue resulting from enhanced productivity are too small to justify the cost, whereas at high prices, the revenue benefit exceeds the cost. Trade policy provides a source of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1976) Independently published This book is for anyone earning a living, or students preparing to do so, in an increasingly chaotic world of work. It’s a world in which, for many, the uncertainty regarding a financially comfortable... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
income. While individuals do not have this opportunity, corporations do. Historically, accounting treatments deviated to allow for differential accounting of expenses. In the process, policymakers get a policy tool without distorting the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
attract FDI, I believe two of them were the primary determinants: Political uncertainty. Lacking strategy and vision the country has floated with no sense of direction. Policies change constantly. To make things worse, the polyphony... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
by examining the association between top executive turnovers and guidance. Although firm and industry characteristics are important determinants of guidance, we conclude that CEOs participate in firm-level policy decisions, whereas CFOs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
value, and lost another 10.6% on Tuesday. These are no mere "paper" losses. The drop represents a significant loss of wealth which could unleash further deflationary pressures--a phenomenon Japan's on-again, off-again economy has been fighting for almost two... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
approaches. This can explain why the Fed stopped basing monetary policy on the quality of new bank loans, why it stopped being willing to cause recessions to deal with inflation, and why it was temporarily unwilling to maintain stable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
acquisition payment. Targets that are concerned that the acquirer is potentially overvalued may be less willing to accept stock in an acquisition. A common investor can reduce this uncertainty about overvaluation. Hence, our evidence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Christopher T. Stanton Abstract—Small business owners and others in self-employment have the option to transition to paid work. If there is initial uncertainty about earnings in entrepreneurship, this option increases the expected... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
average under FFS. Conclusion: Prospective bundled payments were successfully implemented in this pilot. Additional pilots should study this payment method in higher-volume cancers. Robust systems are needed to automate patient identification, enrollment, billing, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
injects uncertainty into the consumer's relative product valuations since she is unable to observe the entire catalog of products that the retailer will sell that season. Rationally acting consumers may respond to this additional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to be economically substantial and the optimal rule to not entail a countercyclical fiscal policy. A simple debt... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Selection and Market Reallocation: Productivity Gains from Multinational Production By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie X. Chen Abstract—Assessing the productivity gains from multinational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
resonated with several segments of the population. While many experts predicted a Clinton victory, Trump was ultimately elected president in November 2016. During his first 100 days in office, Trump tested the boundaries of the U.S. government, and observers looked on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
and Yaron Yehezkel Abstract In the context of platform competition in a two-sided market, we study how ex-ante uncertainty and ex-post asymmetric information concerning the value of a new technology affects the strategies of the platforms... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
relatively weak central government. Over time, one hopes that these regions will flow together rather than flow apart, because if they are fragments, no country in the world is going to recognize the resul-tant components. You write that President Bush’s MBA ’75 Iraq... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
illustrates what a Strategic Deal Profile is, why it is important, and the issues involved in making such a Profile part of actual selling behaviors and performance management practices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50540 February... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
contract from a fixed menu. Then, agents "choose to work" for a principal by selecting one of the available contracts. We find that i) (heterogeneous) social preferences are significant determinants of choices, ii) for both principals and agents, strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne