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- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
channel offers potential benefits in selling to customer segments that value the convenience of online shopping, but it also raises new challenges. These include the higher likelihood of costly product returns when customers' ability to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
channel); and (iii) individuals who were out of the market when they were excessively angry in the unregulated market, decide to purchase once the firm is regulated, reducing the standard distortions described in the first channel (mixed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
etc.) to implement the new strategy. Purchase the case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=109015 BMW's Project Switch (B): Importers vs. National Sales Companies Harvard Business School Supplement 509-024 BMW is faced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
media” But TV is no longer the only game in town when it comes to watching sports. Yes, in 2013, 94 percent of fans watched games on TV, but 71 percent also viewed sports online, and 49 percent got their fix on mobile devices. "What constitutes a sports View Details
- 21 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish
are the greatest drivers of wealth creation, there needs to be a way to bring their capabilities and resources to those countries and regions where they are now absent. It is also essential to minimize the risk, make their investment profitable, View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
Shawn A., Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract—This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk assessment and lending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
58,294 face-to-face retail banking transactions, quantifying the relative importance of customer, employee, process, location, and market-level effects on customer satisfaction. In our models, which explain roughly a quarter of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
responsible for the majority of variation in bank value. We also find evidence consistent with synergies between deposit-taking and lending activities: banks with high deposit... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
different types of minority stakes, from partially privatized firms, to those with minority investments by state-holding companies, to those receiving favorable loans from state-owned banks What they found is that while the number of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
lending data from a financial services organization that implemented a highly decentralized business model. I exploit variation in this organization in whether or not employees are selected via channels that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
negative productivity effects of WFA, due to a lack of learning from co-located peers and increased coordination costs. We study the effects of WFA on productivity at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and exploit two features of the setting that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
education program has modest effects, increasing demand for bank accounts only for those with low levels of education or financial literacy. In contrast, small subsidies greatly increase demand. A follow-up survey confirms these findings,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
services where commonsense regulation is welcome and needed: online lending to businesses. Over the last few years online business lending has exploded. Dozens of “financial technology” (fintech) players... View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract It is well known that the divergence between control rights and cash-flow rights is associated with firm value. In this paper, we identify an important channel through which the divergence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
Twittersphere that they would investigate. Technology is undeniably transforming the financial services industry. Fintechs, Big Tech, and banks are using increasing volumes of data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to build... View Details
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
than households. Once banks are forced to cope with that load of unpaid debt, historically, the consequences amplify, says Ivashina, the Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration and Finance Unit Head at HBS. “It tells you that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
hypothesis that the happiness gains they have experienced from the past 45 years of growth have been the same as the gains that they experienced from growth prior to the 1960s. Central Banks Maximize Happiness? Happiness, Contentment and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
interaction between analysts and managers on conference calls. The evidence suggests that private interaction with management is an important communication channel for analysts for reasons other than firm-specific forecasting news. ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
the long-term lending most borrowers need—is now performed outside the channels most visible to the Federal Reserve or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. We should not blame anyone but ourselves for this.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
underlying framework that compels such partnerships as between a food bank in Mexico and a supermarket in the United States, providing insights into the DNA of a successful collaboration that are broadly applicable. Our excerpt from the... View Details