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- 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
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
venture investors are not needed. For most of its history, Intel's fund has emphasized making passive investments in a wide variety of companies in selected categories, analogous to a mutual fund following an index fund approach. Such a... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
measures of national political instability—Alesina and Perotti's (1996) well-known index of instability, a subsequent index derived from Banks' (2005) work, and two indices of managerial perceptions of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
entrepreneurs developed index numbers, leading indicators, and new economic charts, and even founded important institutions like the National Bureau of Economic Research. The economist Wesley Mitchell, who was deeply engaged with... 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
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
companies might benefit from picking other forms of incentive compensation that arguably do a better job of aligning executive and shareholder interests than conventional stock options do. Indexed or performance options, for example,... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
top executives "to get rich no matter what happens to the shareholders." Options should be indexed options. These options pay for performance, not for volatility in the markets. Pervasive conflicts of interest are other key... View Details
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
activity the CEOs undertake during one workweek and (ii) a machine learning algorithm that projects these data onto scalar CEO behavior indices. Low values of the index are associated with plant visits and one-on-one meetings with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
respected VC firms would be less likely to redirect information between competing startups. They found just the opposite. Companies tied to VCs in the top 25 percent of reputation indexes were significantly less likely to introduce new... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007
the impact of inventory on sales and the interrelationship between gross margin and inventory. We also estimate the effects of exogenous explanatory variables such as store growth, proportion of new inventory, capital investment per store, selling expenditure, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
office, senior leadership's actions are consistent with what they say 46% 54% 67% I know what is expected of me at work 91% 76% 94% In my office, management is trusted 46% 30% 69% Employee engagement index (five is highest) 3.93 3.53 4.17... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29
boundaries. We then examine the evidence, using a unique dataset to construct firm-level indexes of vertical integration for a large set of countries. In line with the predictions of our model, we obtain three main results. First, higher... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008
Management (forthcoming) Abstract Broad waves of investor sentiment should have larger impacts on securities that are more difficult to value and to arbitrage. Consistent with this intuition, we find that when an index of investor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
diversification and lower costs. So-called index funds became so popular that just before his death Bogle warned that their ubiquity could have a problematic effect on stock markets. Nevertheless, they were a primary factor leading to... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
for its carbon performance. Such ratings and rankings are largely based on companies' direct carbon footprint. For example, the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJIS), which evaluates the economic, environmental, and social performances of... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
turnover among the largest business firms, characterized in the United States by the fact that only one company, General Electric, has survived in the Dow Jones Industrials index since its beginning. We are reminded of the matter as... View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009
which can be indexed by the number of varieties consumers purchase in equilibrium. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-095.pdf Smith and Rawls Share a Room: Stability and Medians Authors: Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
similar to long-maturity fixed-rate debt. If the pension fund enters into an equity asset swap in which it pays the total return on a standard index of the stock market (e.g., S&P 500) and receives in return a fixed rate of interest,... View Details
- 11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11
reached their limits; third, some products affecting the health and rights of the people as well as the related entities' behavior are challenging the legal and moral bottom line. These three aspects are required to establish a new evaluation system including the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
After more than a decade of nearly can’t-miss growth, China’s stock market began a precipitous summer slide that has spooked investors worldwide. In July, the Shanghai composite index dropped 15 percent from June, prompting the People’s... View Details