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  • February 2016
  • Article

Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?

By: Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander Ljungqvist
Financial constraints are fundamental to empirical research in finance and economics. We propose two tests to evaluate how well measures of financial constraints actually capture constraints. We find that firms typically classified as constrained do not in fact behave... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Finance
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Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?

Financial constraints are fundamental to empirical research in finance and economics. In joint work with Alexander Ljunqvist, we propose two novel tests to evaluate how well measures of financial constraints actually capture constraints. We find that firms... View Details

    Adi Sunderam

    Adi Sunderam is the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 2 in... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; federal government; financial services; investment banking industry
    • 27 Mar 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

    analysis of tort laws. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54284 forthcoming Management Science Market Reaction to Mandatory Nonfinancial Disclosure By: Grewal, Jody, Edward J. Riedl, and George Serafeim Abstract—We examine the View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 17 Jan 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

    being paid,” Rouen says. “If the person above me is making a lot more money than I am, but I feel like I could work harder and get promoted to get the same salary, I will be motivated to do that.” Other researchers backed the concept of... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 20 Jul 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

    law aims to encourage. In the process, these liquidations ultimately shortchange creditors by billions of dollars a year, according to new research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Samuel B. Antill, who studied three decades... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne

      Raffaella Sadun

      Raffaella Sadun is Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and is a Co-Chair of Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and co-PI of the Digital Reskilling Lab. Sadun received her PhD in Economics... View Details

      • 02 Jun 2021
      • News

      A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

      • 11 Mar 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: March 11, 2008

      behavior as less ethical when it led to undesirable consequences, even if they saw that behavior as acceptable before they knew its consequences. Implications for both research and practice are discussed. Download the paper:... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 20 Mar 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: March 20

      http://www.springer.com/economics/development/book/978-1-4614-1878-8?changeHeader Employee Selection as a Control System Authors:Dennis Campbell Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract Theories from the... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • May 2018
      • Article

      Linda Babcock: Go-getter and Do-gooder

      By: Max Bazerman, Iris Bohnet, Hannah Riley-Bowles and George Loewenstein
      In this tribute to the 2007 recipient of the Jeffrey Z. Rubin Theory‐To‐Practice Award from the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM), we celebrate Linda Babcock's contributions to diverse lines of research, her tireless and effective efforts to put... View Details
      Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Biography; Research; Negotiation; Leadership; Practice
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      • 25 May 2021
      • Research & Ideas

      White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

      lodging demand. "If other companies invest in building similar race-blind algorithms, that may even the playing field for users." The research results could also have broader implications for promoting racial View Details
      Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations
      • 27 Apr 2021
      • Research & Ideas

      IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

      Entrepreneurs rarely consider who will ultimately own their startups—and what that means for founders—when they court venture capitalists. New research suggests they should. A startup funded by VCs who tend to work with the same group of... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • 18 Mar 2014
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      First Look: March 18

        Publications August 2013 Social Science & Medicine Who Donates Their Bodies to Science? The Combined Role of Gender and Migration Status Among California Whole-body Donors By: Asad, Asad L., Michel Anteby, and Filiz Garip Abstract—The number of human cadavers... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • May 2013
      • Article

      The Stock Selection and Performance of Buy-Side Analysts

      By: Boris Groysberg, Paul Healy, George Serafeim and Devin Shanthikumar
      Prior research on equity analysts focuses almost exclusively on those employed by sell-side investment banks and brokerage houses. Yet investment firms undertake their own buy-side research and their analysts face different stock selection and recommendation incentives... View Details
      Keywords: Buy-side Analysts; Sell-side Analysts; Stock Recommendations; Recommendation Optimism; Recommendation Performance; Investment Recommendations; Conflicts Of Interest; Financial Markets; Financial Institutions; Financial Services Industry; United States
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      • January 2008
      • Background Note

      Valuing Risky Debt

      By: Joshua Coval and Erik Stafford
      This lesson develops the classical structural approach to pricing and hedging credit risk: Merton's (1974) contingent claims model of debt and equity claims. This model is used to make investment and risk management decisions in an over-the-counter (OTC) market for... View Details
      Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Investment; Price; Risk Management; Mathematical Methods; Valuation
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      • 08 Oct 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

      francescoch Learning that a co-worker earns more than you can decrease your job performance while increasing the likelihood of you searching for a new job, according to a new research study. On the other hand, learning what your manager... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • 19 May 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

      Social networks matter for more than just efficient Internet communication. They're also crucial for the strong performance of stock recommendations by analysts, according to researchers at Harvard Business School and the University of... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
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      Organizational Change: The Market for Corporate Control and the Third Industrial Revolution

      Michael C. Jensen is conducting research on organizational change and the corporate control market. Specifically, he is investigating the changing role of the corporation and competing organizational forms, such as leveraged buyout organizations, that are replacing... View Details
      • 29 Jul 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

      Pressure to increase gender diversity in C-suites is so intense that companies are trying to draw women candidates with higher salary offers, a phenomenon that is closing the gender pay gap among senior executives, research shows. Female... View Details
      Keywords: by Kristen Senz