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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
What prevented the crisis that the data in the spring and summer of 2020 predicted? There are three possible explanations. First, the crisis was much shorter and milder than we originally anticipated because the vaccines came out. Second,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
pricing. Hedge fund firms often hired the duo for speaking engagements, which led to informal post-speech chats with various fund managers, many of whom also sported PhDs. Cohen and Malloy found that these social exchanges went especially... View Details
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
Freddie Mac, with about 50 percent of all mortgage credit going through these firms. They were able to take extraordinary risks with their implicit government backing and failed spectacularly in September 2008 just before Lehman went down. We need a system without this... View Details
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
directly as players, for example, as customers in value-net games or as initiators of policy changes in public interest games. 4. Multilevel games. Many influence games involve multiple interacting levels of government—local, state,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Illustrations by Andrea Manzati Prescription: Free the Data! On a bright September morning, on the expansive lawn outside the Watertown, Massachusetts, headquarters of the e-health firm athenahealth, city and state officials, company... View Details
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
trade war continues (TonyO), leadership or lack thereof (Harry White), actions by the current US administration to encourage firms to bring jobs home and promulgate “America first” policies (Todd Z.), reduced dependency on foreign oil,... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas where seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to pay dividends, initiate dividends, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
corporations face when rewarding innovators within their labs. For instance, when Lilly Ventures was hit by its initial wave of defections, it benchmarked its compensation levels against those of independent firms. The conclusion was that... View Details
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Real Property - Course Catalog
property types—office, hotel, industrial, retail, and multifamily—with an emphasis on their defining characteristics, market dynamics, operating models, and performance metrics. The module also examines newer and rapidly evolving sectors such as senior living,... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the Rubble
Pundits and investors spoke giddily of the end of national borders, of markets that spanned the globe and replaced the hefty weight of machines and plants with ephemeral bits of information. This may be true. We do have global markets and View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
initiatives are fulfilling their desired objectives. By being able to more rigorously evaluate compliance programs with data and empirical analysis, prosecutors and courts will be able to more readily discern “window-dressing,” and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
information within the code of conduct efficiently and quickly. The code has served another, perhaps even more important purpose by allowing firm leaders to anonymously capture data across its workforce in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
technologies and partners. Focuses on the partnership tensions between global firms and local family-dominated conglomerates. Addresses new venture financing in an asset-intensive business through the assembly of strategic contracts. More... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
Business School Case 618-021 Great Lakes Banking Group: Data Management In May 2016, Michael Rechtin, an expert in international data center law, advised global financial services View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Curriculum | MBA
with new content. The goal is to give students a firm grasp of broad-based fundamentals. The School’s inductive learning model goes beyond facts and theories—a process that teaches individuals not only how to manage organizations, but... View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
months some compelling data have been released that give us more insight into cash flow dynamics of America’s small businesses. This month’s JPMorgan Chase Institute’s Cash is King: Flows, Balances and Buffer Days report showed that on... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
(Thinkstock/Getty Images) Robo-advisors, like Betterment and Wealthfront, are built for millennials-automated asset management for those with lower account balances or an aversion to traditional financial advisors. Silicon Valley has taken notice, aggressively funding... View Details
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Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog
take the perspective of a large-cap mining firm in Mongolia, a domestic conglomerate in the Philippines, a muckraking foreign-run hedge fund in Russia, or the Prime Minister of Bhutan considering the development of a new hydropower... View Details
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
search firm Egon Zehnder, Mueller-Maerki continued acquiring clocks, although at a certain point his focus shifted from collecting the objects themselves (of which he now owns about 80) to amassing books and other publications that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna