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  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

Office must decide whether to continue to allocate the bulk of the university's endowment to illiquid investments—hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and so forth. Considers the risks and benefits of a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2025
  • Teaching Note

Vytal: Packaging-as-a-Service

By: George Serafeim, Michael W. Toffel and Stacy Straaberg
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 124-007. The Germany-based startup Vytal operated the largest digital-native reusable packaging-as-a-service network globally, having raised nearly €15 million, established a large network of restaurant partners, and prevented the use of... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Invention; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Startups; Resource Allocation; Risk Management; Adoption; Strategy; Performance Productivity; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Supply Chain; Distribution; Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Business Model; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Profit; Financing and Loans; Expansion; Green Technology Industry; Service Industry; Retail Industry; Germany; Europe
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  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

when cities can tolerate risk and when there is enough labor with low opportunity costs. We also report on an inexpensive Boston-based restaurant tournament, which yielded algorithms that proved reasonably accurate when tested... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

the Euro. The First Ten Years, 149-178. Madrid, Spain: Banco de España, 2010 Abstract This article explores the demand for the euro for risk management purposes and the evidence of stock market integration in the euro area. We define a... View Details
  • 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

adapted the model pioneered by Teach For America to meet the needs of the educationally under-resourced of rural China. Led by an American, could Teach For China reshape its international identity and become an enduring Chinese institution? Could Teach For China manage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 19

Detainees are randomly assigned to judges, and ideological differences across judges translate into large differences in the allocation of electronic monitoring to an otherwise similar population. Using these peculiarities of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

partners through revenue and profit sharing, while hedging risk by asking them to absorb a portion of development costs. The final principle that emerged in our work is the need to invest in building collaborative capabilities. Many... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016

the sailing will be smooth. Several other important pitfalls can threaten marketplaces: growing too fast too early; failing to foster sufficient trust and safety; resorting to sticks, rather than carrots, to deter user disintermediation; and ignoring the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

base helps attract merchants, the platform’s bargaining power may motivate some merchants to work with its smaller competitors, over which they have more influence on price setting. Our counterfactual results show that the allocation of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

a movie's stock price—a measure of revenue expectations for the movie—prior to release is observed, one can sweep out any time-invariant unobserved factors that affect both advertising and expectations. Furthermore, certain institutional constraints in the advertising... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-123.pdf Organizational Toolmaking: Transformations in the Influence of Experts Authors:Matthew Hall, Anette Mikes, and Yuval Millo Abstract In this study, we examine transformations in the influence of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

of capital commitments) were in such alternative vehicles; the allocation increased by more than 10 percentage points over the last decade. Alternative vehicles were far more likely to be offered by larger and North America–based buyout... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

platforms to fight off rivals and grow profits? Their ability to manage five aspects of the networks they’re embedded in: network effects, in which users attract more users clustering, or fragmentation into many local markets the risk of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008

Abstract No abstract is available at this time.   Cases & Course MaterialsBayesian Estimation & Black-Litterman Harvard Business School Note 208-085 Describes a practical method for asset allocation that is more robust to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

of trade finance terms is shaped by the risk that an importer defaults on an exporter and by the possibility that an exporter does not deliver goods as specified in the contract. The empirical results indicate that cash in advance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

Frictions in Shadow Banking: Evidence from the Lending Behavior of Money Market Funds By: Chernenko, Sergey, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We document the consequences of money market fund risk taking during the European sovereign debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis, private equity firms have higher quality accruals and a lower propensity to manage income than public equity firms. We further find that public equity firms report more conservatively, in line with their greater... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

the appropriate resource allocation among various product and platform offerings, and the most beneficial business model for each of a few candidate multi-sided platform initiatives. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

allocations for general, substitutable, and strongly substitutable preferences. Apart from obtaining "set inclusion results" on all three domains, we introduce weak setwise stability as a new stability concept and prove that for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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