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  • June 2010
  • Article

A Gap-Filling Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice

By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel G. Hanson and Jeremy C. Stein
We argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate debt issues arises because firms behave as macro liquidity providers, absorbing the large supply shocks associated with changes in the maturity structure of government debt. We document that... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Decision Choices and Conditions; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Liquidity; Investment Return; Government and Politics
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  • 27 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 27

economic climate of the time. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810054-PDF-ENG Citigroup's Exchange Offer (A) Robin Greenwood and James QuinnHarvard Business School Case 210-009... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

What’s Really Holding Women Back?

  • August 2018
  • Article

Extrapolation and Bubbles

By: Nicholas Barberis, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin and Andrei Shleifer
We present an extrapolative model of bubbles. In the model, many investors form their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price changes and the asset’s degree of overvaluation. The two signals are in conflict, and investors... View Details
Keywords: Bubble; Extrapolation; Volume; Price Bubble; Mathematical Methods
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  • 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

auctions when separate. When there is an insufficient improvement, such mergers can harm advertisers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-055.pdf Agency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure Authors:Sergey Chernenko, C. Fritz Foley, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 May 2010
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First Look: May 11

Author:Louis T. Wells Publication:AIB Insights 10, no. 1 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the Paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lwells/Insights.pdf   Working PapersAgency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure Authors:Sergey Chernenko, C.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Agency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure

By: Sergey Chernenko, C. Fritz Foley and Robin Greenwood
Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear all agency costs that they create and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We argue that if equity is... View Details
Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Ownership; Conflict of Interests; Investment; Valuation
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MBA Program at Harvard Business School - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Harvard Business School campus. Students reported that residing on campus provided far easier access to study groups, the library, classmates, and faculty. 123a, 123b Robin Wigger (MBA 1970), in her memo to "The Women of the Class of... View Details
  • August 2010 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

The UCLA Medical Center: Kidney Transplantation

By: Michael E. Porter, Jennifer F Baron, Jacob Mathew Chacko and Robin Jian Tang
In 2010, organ transplantation remained among the few sets of medical conditions in the U.S. for which bundled payments were a dominant reimbursement model, and for which patient health outcomes were universally measured and reported. In 1986, UCLA Medical Center was... View Details
Keywords: Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Competitive Strategy; Integration; Health Industry; California
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  • 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3

developed between analysts and managers by investigating analyst coverage decisions in the context of CEO and CFO moves between publicly listed firms. We find that top executive moves from an origin firm to a destination firm trigger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System

scholars from HBS, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Law School, and the Department of Economics, the BFFS Project is led by Robin Greenwood, the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at HBS. “There has... View Details
  • June 2005 (Revised May 2008)
  • Case

Yamanote Kaikan

By: Robin Greenwood, Arthur I Segel and Joshua Katzin
In 2001, James O'Connell, president of Holyoke Japan, an affiliate of Larson Capital, a distress debt private equity firm, wants to bid on a 90 billion yen loan currently in default by the borrower, Sanjo Enterprises, for a popular wedding and banquet facility with an... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Private Equity; Price; Bids and Bidding; Competition; Japan
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  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

and mobs of desperate people. IBM's actions, as well as many others reported on by Rosabeth Moss Kanter, capture the emerging zeitgeist of business: the vanguard company simultaneously pursuing-and creating synergy between-opportunity,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007

  Working PapersDesigning a Two-Sided Platform: When to Increase Search Costs? Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We propose a model for analyzing an intermediary's incentives to increase the search costs incurred by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2016
  • Article

The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet as a Financial-Stability Tool

By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel Gregory Hanson and Jeremy C. Stein
We argue that the Federal Reserve should use its balance sheet to help reduce a key threat to financial stability: the tendency for private-sector financial intermediaries to engage in excessive amounts of maturity transformation—i.e., to finance risky assets using... View Details
Keywords: Central Banking; Policy; Risk Management; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • September 2024 (Revised October 2024)
  • Case

River Remedy: Navigating Mississippi’s Medical Marijuana Market

By: Robin Greenwood, Richard S. Ruback and Robert Ialenti
MBA student William Chism, the founder of a fully integrated medical marijuana company based in Mississippi, must respond to a significant disruption in the fledgling industry. In late 2023, Rapid Analytics, one of two active licensed testing facilities, has its... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Growth and Maturation; Forecasting and Prediction; Microeconomics; Local Range; Government Legislation; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Competitive Strategy; Governance Controls; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Mississippi
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  • 21 May 2018
  • Blog Post

Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago

Editor’s Note: The below post is part of our Alumni for Impact series, which features alumni who are making a difference in the social sector, specifically in K-12 education, impact investing, nonprofit supportive services and social entrepreneurship. View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

productive. The authors have studied when 161 countries adopted 104 technologies over the past 200 years, and they conclude that profound economic advantages-as measured by per capita income-accrue to early adopters of technology. Read... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

and is well worth the effort. Slides Predicting Market Bubbles and Financial Crises Professor Robin Greenwood + More Info – Less Info Over the past decade, researchers at Harvard Business School, through the... View Details
  • December 2004 (Revised August 2005)
  • Exercise

Orientation to the Public Image Assessment Exercise

By: Robin J. Ely
The Public Image Assessment exercise acquaints students with the ideal images they hold of themselves, the actions they engage in to convey these images, and the benefits and costs of these behaviors to themselves and to others. Social psychologists call this process... View Details
Keywords: Reputation; Perception
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