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- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
explicitly considering counterfactual histories had the innovations never been invented or adopted. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16780 An Empirical Decomposition of Risk and Liquidity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
fashion. That’s Rich. He’s very disciplined and just a consummate mariner. He has an almost religious fixation about doing things right and in exactly the same way. You don’t just put the winch handle down in the same place, you have it facing the same way. His style... View Details
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
that were not litigated offer empirical evidence supporting the hypotheses. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407001 Cradle-to-Cradle Design at Herman Miller: Moving Toward Environmental... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
government has outsourced these inspections to the private sector. Analyzing millions of emissions tests, we find empirical support for our hypotheses that particular product portfolios and forms of governance can mitigate moral hazard.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
HBS Reverses Policy On Grade Disclosure
overall student experience at HBS.” The students maintained that grade disclosure would lead to decreased cooperation and collaboration and less willingness to take risks in second-year course selection. In his letter to students, Light... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
paper we draw on the recent literature to highlight areas in which history has played a particularly prominent role in improving our understanding of growth dynamics. Research at the intersection of historical data, theory, and empirics... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
increases one’s bargaining power. A minimally necessary condition for an agreement to be mutually acceptable is that each side prefers the deal to its BATNA. Thus, how well each party’s BATNA serves its interests determines whether a zone... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
structuring and M&A transactions, it was obvious that the focus was not on building shareholder value but on reporting predictable, double-digit earnings growth to achieve temporarily high stock market valuations. The truth has been stretched to exaggerate smooth... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
economic future, and in essence moderate the risk of investing in capitalistic ventures. “Forecasters found a ready audience during a time of social and economic turbulence” In his book Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
the same way at every school—single tie breaking—in a student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism. Any inefficiency associated with a realized tie breaking cannot be removed without harming student incentives. Finally, we empirically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 16, 2007
Working Papers"Don'ts" And "Do's": Insights from Experience In Mitigating Risks Of Western Investors In Post-Communist Countries Authors:Charalambos A. Vlachoutsicos and Paul R. Lawrence Abstract No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Abstract—Antisocial behavior is often assumed to reflect aberrant risk processing. However, many of the most significant forms of antisocial behavior, including crime, reflect the outcomes of decisions made under conditions of ambiguity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
control rights and cash-flow rights in the borrowing firms exacerbates potential tunneling and other moral hazard activities by large shareholders, thereby increasing credit risk and monitoring needs. Consequently, lenders form syndicates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: You Can't Enlarge the Pie
taught to analyze the likelihood of various consequences, these students learn that the best decisions are those that minimize expected costs and maximize expected benefits," the authors write. The best decisions typically are those that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
the distractions of email and a Bloomberg terminal are difficult to access, but a nap area is always ready. Portraits of mentors help Spier model his decision-making on their behavior. To keep focus and minimize false assumptions, Spier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
Roundtable. These findings are consistent with the view that financial markets placed a positive value on shareholder access, as implemented in the SEC's 2010 Rule. The Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational Companies: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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IFC India 2025: From Gray to Green: A Glimpse of the Future of Green Hydrogen in India - Blog - Business & Environment
with 80% of these sourced from within India. This local sourcing approach is aligned to the government’s direction to achieve energy independence and minimizes the risk of supply chain for Ohmium. At the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
tradeoff between bold commitments rarely leading to success and timid strategies ensuring mere survival. Raynor explains how leaders can resolve the tradeoff and achieve results usually reserved for the few as they reduce the risks they... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
sector mortgage market without any government backing. Why don’t you favor that approach? The vast majority of mortgage credit can be provided by the private sector without government guarantees. But given the systemic risk associated... View Details