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  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

Authors:Zvi Bodie, Robert Merton, and David Cleeton Publication:N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2009 Abstract This book seeks to explain finance through its functions rather than its institutions, concentrating on the three pillars of finance: optimization over time, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

importance. Instead, the best predictors of success in the U.S. fund business are the focus and organization of the fund sponsor. We believe that the most successful managers over the next decade will be organizations with two characteristics: dedication primarily to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009

Consistent with predictions, results reveal that portfolios of level 3 financial assets have higher implied betas and lead to larger bid-ask spreads relative to those designated as level 1 or level 2 assets. Both results are consistent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

visually depict outcome and cost data simultaneously. It provides clinicians, managers, patients, regulators, and policy makers with a readily understandable snapshot of the value being delivered for a specific medical condition and allows them to compare that value... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

http://www.people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/bcfsurvey2v20.pdf Comovement and Predictability Relationships Between Bonds and the Cross-Section of Stocks Authors:Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication:Review of Asset Pricing Studies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

  Working PapersEconomic Catastrophe Bonds Authors:Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

base of PC operating systems, it had captured 20% of the server market by the end of 2005 and was quickly becoming a formidable alternative for productivity programs with OpenOffice. Linux's "business model" to compete against... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2023
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Fail Better

and forced a major reexamination of how investment decisions are made at Blackstone, resulting in changes with a significant positive impact on the firm's success. Today, Blackstone is the world's largest alternative View Details
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

re-conceptualize its strategy to focus on system-level change. While there were numerous risks to pursuing the alternative strategy for Schramm and Segal, the possibility of helping redefine the purpose of secondary education might be too... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Why You Might Want to Say Goodbye to the Annual Performance Review | Working Knowledge

Business School Professor Katherine Coffman explores a software company’s more agile alternative to the yearly gauntlet, aimed at providing frequent direction to employees to support their career growth while also helping businesses... View Details
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

$2.8 trillion via dividends—$7 trillion in total. These shareholder payouts amounted to over 96% of the firms' net income. Academics, corporate lawyers, asset managers, and politicians point to such shareholder-payout figures as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

index-based benchmarks do not adequately achieve this objective. Further, the index-benchmark selection is associated with governance-related frictions and is not driven by plausible alternative theories. Both structural calibration and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

turmoil. The case explores the risks and benefits of a different asset allocation strategy and also considers how to classify some of the different assets. It highlights the issues around allocations across different subclasses, e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

July–August 2017 Harvard Business Review Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Navy By: Reinhardt, Forest, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—The U.S. Navy operates on the front lines of climate change. It manages tens of billions of dollars in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

Group, Inc. in 2015: Celebrating 40. Co-written with HBS finance professor Adi Sunderam along with Allison M. Ciechanover (HBS MBA 2002), director of the HBS California Research Center, the case looks at the current state of Vanguard, which has a 78 percent share of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

Department, must decide if this approach is still the best way to fulfill his organization's goal of protecting and increasing the pension assets of 17 million Canadians. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

creating social value. Three years later, Harold Rosen, its creator, wished to explore an alternative funding model to provide it with scale and sustainability. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

intensity, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider four alternative business models—two pure models (subscription-based and ad-sponsored) and two mixed models that are hybrids of the two pure models.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

shareholders more than $3.95 trillion via stock buybacks and $2.45 trillion via dividends—$6.4 trillion in total. These shareholder payouts amounted to over 93% of the firms' net income. Academics, corporate lawyers, asset managers, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

Brightwork Brand Holdings Corp. acquired it as an asset purchase in 2011. Ghurka, under CEO John Reuter, worked to re-launch the brand with a ten-year, three-phase growth plan. The company aimed to be profitable by 2016. Management worked... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne