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- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
compensation is more effective for salespeople with high base performance, whereas conditional compensation is equally effective across all types of salespeople. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51539 forthcoming Management Science... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two hypotheses. The "demand" hypothesis holds that earnings of public equity firms are of higher quality than earnings of private equity firms due to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
investments are once again declining. Reasoning that today’s tech entrepreneurs and investors might value a history lesson, I’ve published Speed Trap as an ebook, which is downloadable for free in PDF format, and available in the iBooks... View Details
- 13 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?
the industry, and what lessons managers might learn from an industry in structural disharmony. Sean Silverthorne: Biotech has not lived up to its expectations, either in providing outstanding returns for investors or improving R&D... View Details
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to investment performance is the most frequent motivation for use of ESG data followed by client View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
areas of our lives, we expect and demand incredible personalization," Kim said. "But right now, there's more personalization in the music you listen to through applications like Pandora and Spotify than the average school system... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Deregulation does not necessarily lead to lower prices to consumers.” Judging Foreign Startups Nataliya Langburd Wright, Rembrand Koning, and Tarun Khanna “Can accelerators and investors pick the most promising startup ideas no matter... View Details
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1320187 Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation Authors:Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and M. Utku Ünver Abstract Markets sometimes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
replace poor performers in the "producer" sales force, and cut wages and expenses. During a post-closing audit, Thomson discovers a $600k problem that wipes out his contingency funds. He is concerned about having to go back to his View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
model of financial innovation, in which intermediaries engineer securities with cash flows that investors seek, but modify two assumptions. First, investors (and possibly intermediaries) neglect certain... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
Working PapersEconomic Catastrophe Bonds Authors:Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic states and state prices. In fixed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
Investors diligently manage financial portfolios to maximize returns on their assets; yet corporate managers who invariably proclaim their business customers to be "valuable assets" rarely manage their relationships with them... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
finding is that societies that depend heavily on oil, and perhaps natural resources more generally, will experience a heavier demand for government intervention. We argue that this is one aspect that the good design of policies on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
investors compete for profits—and the competition isn’t fair. In particular, using profits to buy back stock provides immediate (although not as much as many assume) benefits to shareholders. Investments in labor provide much longer-term,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
and liabilities are combined through a merger or acquisition (the opposite is true when a financial firm makes these deals). According to the co-insurance theory, combined debt is safer and should reduce the yield investors View Details
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707445 Marketing Chateau Margaux Harvard Business School Case 507-033 Chateau Margaux, luxury brand or connoisseur brand? Although France is awash with unsold wine, demand has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 2, 2010
quarterly bonuses tied to high demand end-of-quarter months serve as pacers to keep the sales force on track to achieve their annual sales quotas. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-041.pdf Cases & Course... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
demand for auditing by the licensor. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We show when the owner prefers to license the property in exchange for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace