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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog
and help firms and households save and manage risk. These financial services are provided in an array of organizations View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
that when you are the first to enter a market, it's important to build continually on that first-mover advantage. In my field, investment banking, you can't coast, not even for a minute. You constantly have to come up with the next idea."... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 04 Feb 2014
- Blog Post
VCPE Club prepares for their annual conference…20 years and running!
Carlyle Group; Joe Baratta, Global Head of Private Equity for Blackstone; and Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder of Social Capital and Former Vice President of Facebook. This year introduces several new exciting... View Details
- 2022
- Working Paper
Retail Investors’ Contrarian Behavior Around News, Attention, and the Momentum Effect
By: Cheng (Patrick) Luo, Enrichetta Ravina, Marco Sammon and Luis M. Viceira
Using a large panel of U.S. brokerage accounts trades and positions, we show that a large fraction of retail investors trade as contrarians after large earnings surprises, especially for loser stocks, and that such contrarian trading contributes to post earnings... View Details
Keywords: Retail Investors; Post Earnings Announcement Drift; Price Momentum; Behavioral Finance; Investment; Demographics
Luo, Cheng (Patrick), Enrichetta Ravina, Marco Sammon, and Luis M. Viceira. "Retail Investors’ Contrarian Behavior Around News, Attention, and the Momentum Effect." Working Paper, June 2022.
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
incentives make a difference in whether global warming and its fallout are contained. A growing number of climate solution startups count on government spending to give their customers purchasing power and a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
prevents executives from investing in management capabilities, arguing that such investments are a powerful way to become more competitive. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Feb 2019
- News
Impact investing: a new way to fund cures for cancer
- Article
Does Front-Loading Taxation Increase Savings?: Evidence from Roth 401(k) Introductions
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
Can governments increase private savings by taxing savings up front instead of in retirement? Roth 401(k) contributions are not tax-deductible in the contribution year, but withdrawals in retirement are untaxed. The more common before-tax 401(k) contribution is... View Details
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Does Front-Loading Taxation Increase Savings? Evidence from Roth 401(k) Introductions." Journal of Public Economics 151 (July 2017): 84–95.
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Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Corporate Governance and Boards of Directors Course Number 2010 Baker Foundation Professor Lynn Paine Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Exam Click here for a sample syllabus for this course Who should take the... View Details
- March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry
By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio
In Maseru, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, the stirrings of industrialization and modernization were promising, and more than 50,000 workers, mostly women, were employed in the textile sector; the figure reflected more than a threefold increase in just a few... View Details
Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Trade; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Financial Crisis; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Lesotho
Abdelal, Rawi E., Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer, and Aldo Musacchio. "The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry." Harvard Business School Case 706-043, March 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
- August 2013
- Article
The Price of Diversifiable Risk in Venture Capital and Private Equity
By: Michael Ewens, Charles Jones and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
This paper explores the private equity and venture capital (VC) markets and extends the standard principal-agent problem between the investors and venture capitalist to show how it alters the interaction between the venture capitalist and the entrepreneur. Since the... View Details
Keywords: Price; Risk and Uncertainty; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Contracts; Investment; Competition; Agency Theory; Investment Return; Forecasting and Prediction; Theory; Diversification
Ewens, Michael, Charles Jones, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "The Price of Diversifiable Risk in Venture Capital and Private Equity." Review of Financial Studies 26, no. 8 (August 2013): 1854–1889.
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
deftly: “How to most effectively communicate with all employees remotely and show empathy, while running around with [my] hair on fire trying to save the current business while at the same time trying to... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 2002
- Other Unpublished Work
The Maturity of Debt Issues and Predictable Variation in Bond Returns
By: Malcolm Baker, Robin Greenwood and Jeffrey Wurgler
The maturity of new debt issues predicts excess bond returns. When the share of long term debt issues in total debt issues is high, future excess bond returns are low. This predictive power comes in two parts. First, inflation, the real short-term rate, and the term... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Bonds; Investment Return; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction
Baker, Malcolm, Robin Greenwood, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "The Maturity of Debt Issues and Predictable Variation in Bond Returns." 2002. (First draft in 2001.)
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Providing jobs and alleviating poverty by building new businesses
Otso Fristrom (MBA 2008) is investing in businesses with a goal of providing jobs and alleviating poverty. (Published April 2014) View Details
- December 2020
- Article
Sovereign Debt Portfolios, Bond Risks, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy
By: Wenxin Du, Carolin Pflueger and Jesse Schreger
We document that governments whose local currency debt provides them with greater hedging benefits actually borrow more in foreign currency. We introduce two features into a government's debt portfolio choice problem to explain this finding: risk-averse lenders and... View Details
Du, Wenxin, Carolin Pflueger, and Jesse Schreger. "Sovereign Debt Portfolios, Bond Risks, and the Credibility of Monetary Policy." Journal of Finance 75, no. 6 (December 2020): 3097–3138.
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
firms and shareholders. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51128 Harvard Business School Case 418-019 Sensing (and Monetizing) Happiness at Hitachi Inspired by research linking happiness View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2008
- Article
The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns
By: Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini and Christopher J. Malloy
This paper uses social networks to identify information transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are... View Details
Keywords: Financial Markets; Information Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Announcements; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Asset Pricing; Governing and Advisory Boards
Cohen, Lauren, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy. "The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns." Journal of Political Economy 116, no. 5 (October 2008): 951–979. (Winner of the Barclays Global Investors Award, Best Paper in Asset Pricing, European Finance Association 2007.)
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
loan. Further, they suggest in a recent Financial Times op-ed that "government and the market should try to deal with temptation" (our limited self-control) by, for example, requiring that families accumulate some View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
had from such a historical understanding of political economy and of power in an economic age. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53309 forthcoming Encyclopedia of International Economics View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
that would otherwise be considered overly risky and likely to lead to failure. In the theoretical model I present, I delineate how investors are guided by a predisposed stance on risk and uncertainty, which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne