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  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

the Domini Index (investments in socially responsible mutual funds) realized a 13 percent return, and the S&P 500 returned 11 percent. The average returns of traditional angel investing are hard to determine given the fragmented... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

Abstract This paper constructs an index of financial sophistication that, in comprehensive data on Swedish households, best explains a set of three investment mistakes: underdiversification, risky share inertia, and the tendency to sell... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

pertinent to each step in the industry analysis process. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708481 Index Options Harvard Business School Note 208-119 The goal of this simulation is to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

comovement of stock returns. In April 2000, 30 stocks were replaced in the Nikkei 225 index in Japan. We document a large increase in the correlation of trading volume of stocks added to the index with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey

Administration, analyzed millions of products from more than 90 big retailers in 10 countries, including detailed price data for products within the same categories, something that’s been difficult to study. After creating indexes tied to... View Details
Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55030 Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—After decades of both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54565 Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—After decades of both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

Authors:Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford Abstract This paper studies the cost of capital for alternative investments. We document that the risk profile of the aggregate hedge fund universe can be accurately matched by a simple index put... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

increased their communication if teammates were also actively participating. Additionally, team performance is uniquely driven by the level of emergent interdependence, as indexed by the diversity of topics discussed and the temporal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54598 Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—After decades of both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

States. Design: We examined the correlation between the coincident index (a proxy for overall economic conditions) and IVF use at the national level from 2000 to 2011. We then analyzed the relationship at the state level through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

500 index in the same year. We investigate the underlying drivers of these high returns and show that performance is related to the size of endowment, the quality of the student body, and the use of alternative investments. We caution... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The New Real Estate

relative to all asset classes have been enormous. Let's take a moment on this last point, high returns relative to other investments. The public real estate markets as recorded by the Dow Jones Wilshire Real Estate Securities index for... View Details
Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/cps-smart%20money%202013%20august_d4fb3555-e078-415a-8b20-aa50dc878205.pdf August 2013 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Dynamics of Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

options to their employees, ranging from indexed bond funds to microcap equity funds. Second, sources providing advice and information about mutual-fund investment results proliferated, with companies like Morningstar supplying individual... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
  • 19 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?

background research. The old, inefficient search method, which relied on index cards and inevitably entailed flipping through pages of not necessarily relevant journals, had the benefit of exposing scientists to a wider range of ideas,... View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
  • 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308033 Transparent Value LLC Harvard Business School Case 108-069 Leading index company Dow Jones recently signed a license and joint marketing agreement with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

economic, amoral basis. Domini said that of the $7 trillion or so now invested in mutual funds, some $200 billion are in socially responsible funds. But she also said this segment is among the fastest growing in the mutual fund sector, and is especially popular in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

preferences of their peers—and assessed subsequent brain activity during an incidental processing task in which participants viewed popular, unpopular, and novel symbols. The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) differentiated between symbols that were and were not socially... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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