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  • 15 May 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

I’ll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders

Keywords: by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman & Max H. Bazerman; Food & Beverage

    The Stock Market and Bank Risk-Taking

    We argue that stock market pressure to generate earnings encourages banks to increase risk. We measure risk using confidential supervisory ratings as well as financial information released in regulatory filings. We document that there is an increase in the risk-taking... View Details
    • 10 Jul 2023
    • In Practice

    The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

    What books are HBS faculty members reading this summer—and are certain publications especially meaningful to them? Turns out, faculty are interested in a variety of topics, everything from exploring spirituality and confronting climate... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 26 Apr 2016
    • First Look

    April 26

    workers without an agency affiliation. This advantage declines after high-quality non-affiliated workers receive good public feedback scores. The results indicate that intermediaries have arisen endogenously... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 25 Jul 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

    Editor's note: It has been more than a decade since the publication of The Innovator's Dilemma, in which Clayton M. Christensen introduced the idea of disruptive technologies—those unexpected products and services that shake up the market... View Details
    Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education
    • 16 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

    Complementary goods have more value when used together than separately. Complementarity may be strong or weak. Strong complements are specific and unique goods that have no value (or greatly diminished... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 19 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    $15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy

    giving, Scott’s approach suggested an impatience to give away her wealth, a belief in giving as a way to empower the good works of others, and an unusual willingness to cede control. “Scott has not finished her giving, but with more than... View Details
    Keywords: by Matthew Lee, Brian Trelstad, and Ethan Tran
    • 2019
    • Chapter

    A Claim to Own Productive Property

    By: Nien-hê Hsieh
    BOOK ABSTRACT: The status of economic liberties remains a serious lacuna in the theory and practice of human rights. Should a minimally just society protect the freedoms to sell, save, profit, and invest? Is being prohibited to run a business a human rights violation?... View Details
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    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    The Stock Market and Bank Risk-Taking

    By: David S. Scharfstein and Antonio Falato
    We argue that stock market pressure to generate earnings encourages banks to increase risk. We measure risk using confidential supervisory ratings as well as financial information released in regulatory filings. We document that there is an increase in the risk-taking... View Details
    Keywords: Stock Market; Financial Markets; Business Earnings; Banks and Banking; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • 12 Sep 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

    in the ways they do business. Moreover, hub firms themselves must do a better job leading responsibly for the good of all, not just creating and capturing value but doing more to sustain other players in the ecosystem. Publisher's link:... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 01 Jul 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    File-Sharing and Copyright

    Keywords: by Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Koleman Strumpf; Technology; Entertainment & Recreation
    • 19 May 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

    social networks in the form of school ties—bonds formed based on attendance at a common educational institution—helped equity analysts outperform on stock recommendations when the analysts enjoyed an educational link with a company's View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
    • Web

    Browse All Articles, Research, & Case Studies - HBS Working Knowledge

    2024 The Parlor Room Anthony Mayo on What Makes an Effective Leader Chris Linnane Harvard Business School Professor Anthony Mayo joins host Chris Linnane to explore what distinguishes good leaders from great ones, emphasizing how... View Details
    • Web

    Resumes & Cover Letters - Alumni

    and skills. Key skills - Listing your skills is a great way for the reader to quickly evaluate your skill set. List skills that are relevant to your next position. For each skill, you will need a proof statement in the form of an accomplishment stated in the... View Details
    • 31 Mar 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: March 31, 2009

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-101.pdf Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality? Authors:Dan Givoly, Carla Hayn, and Sharon P. Katz Abstract We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    crucial distinctions that separate good failure from bad, resulting in difficulties for best practices to take hold in most organizations. Despite happy talk, most people would rather do anything but fail. Failure, it seems, is fine in... View Details
    • 01 May 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Revisiting the Classical View of Benefit-Based Taxation

    Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
    • March 2018
    • Supplement

    The Rise and Rise (?) of Walmart (B): Kmart Declares Bankruptcy

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
    This case follows up on the competition between Kmart and Walmart as discussed in the A case. It summarizes the companies' positions in the early 2000s, and discusses events between 1990 and Kmart's declaration of bankruptcy in 2002. Walmart grew significantly,... View Details
    Keywords: Bankruptcy; Walmart; Kmart; Controversy; Strategy; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Competition; Public Opinion; Retail Industry; United States
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    • June 7, 2016
    • Comment

    Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?

    By: John A. Quelch
    In the marketplace, Brand Trump is authentic. It stands for aspiration and success, but more the ostentatious and flashy success that appeals to the newly wealthy, the entrepreneur, the outsider. For these consumers, brand Trump clearly delivers; Trump hotels, and... View Details
    Keywords: Brand; Umbrella Brands; Political Brands; Political Campaigns; Successful Brands; Personal Brand; Demographics; History; Information; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Management; Marketing; Outcome or Result; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Value; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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    • 04 Sep 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

    in talent clusters—a tactic Vodafone uses effectively. These three options aren’t mutually exclusive. Given the need to stay in touch with multiple clusters, companies may want to try them all. Each one involves substantial risks that executives must manage. But... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman