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  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Excess Comovement of Stock Returns

Keywords: by Robin Greenwood; Financial Services
  • 24 Apr 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Dimitris Papanikolaou, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

  • June 2010 (Revised January 2011)
  • Case

Scientific Glass Incorporated: Inventory Management

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and William Schmidt
Scientific Glassware is a fast-growing, privately held company that provides specialized glassware for laboratory and research facilities. Excess inventory is tying up extra capital needed to fund the company's expansion plans. The newly hired Manager of Inventory... View Details
Keywords: Inventory Control; Inventory Management; Materials Management; Order Processing; Warehousing; Salesforce Management; Logistics; Operations; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Finance; Consumer Products Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 10 Nov 2008
  • Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

sticking point currently for businesses is spanning the gap between the physical and the digital world, he continued. "Right now there are significant problems understanding how to take what we are getting at point View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2014
  • Other Unpublished Work

Evolution of Land Distribution in West Bengal 1967-2004: Role of Land Reform and Demographic Changes

By: Pranab Bardhan, Michael Luca, Dilip Mookherjee and Francisco Pino
This paper examines the indirect effect of land reform and demographic changes on land inequality operating through induced household divisions and land market transactions. We develop an intra-household model of joint production where divisions, out-migration or land... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Land Reform; Household Division; Land Markets; Equality and Inequality; Property; Household; Change; West Bengal
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  • December 1989
  • Article

On the Consistency of Short-Run and Long-Run Exchange Rate Expectations

By: K. A. Froot and T. Ito
This paper examines whether short-term exchange rate expectations 'overreact' by comparing them with long-term expectations. We develop a set of nonlinear restrictions linking expectations at different forecast horizons. The restrictions impose consistency, a property... View Details
Keywords: Currencies; Exchange Rates; International Macroeconomics; Monetary Policy; Currency Controls; Fixed Exchange Rates; Floating Exchange Rates; Currency Bands; Currency Zones; Currency Areas; Rational Expectations; Asset Pricing
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  • Article

Evolution of Land Distribution in West Bengal 1967–2004: Role of Land Reform and Demographic Changes

By: Pranab Bardhan, Michael Luca, Dilip Mookherjee and Francisco Pino
This paper studies how land reform and population growth affect land inequality and landlessness, focusing particularly on indirect effects owing to their influence on household divisions and land market transactions. Theoretical predictions of a model of household... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Land Reform; Household Division; Land Markets; Equality and Inequality; Residency; Property; Household; West Bengal
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  • April 2011
  • Article

Ownership Structure and the Cost of Corporate Borrowing

By: Chen Lin, Yue Ma, Paul Malatesta and Yuhai Xuan
This article identifies an important channel through which excess control rights affect firm value. Using a new, hand-collected data set on corporate ownership and control of 3,468 firms in 22 countries during the 1996-2008 period, we find that the cost of debt... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Cash Flow; Cost; Financing and Loans; Governance Controls; Ownership Stake; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    The Power of Experiments

    Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments—also known as randomized controlled trials—designed to test the impact of... View Details

    • April 2012 (Revised June 2014)
    • Case

    Capitalizing for the Future: HSBC in 2010

    By: Anette Mikes and Dominique Hamel
    Following the financial crisis of 2007/2008, HSBC CEO Michael Geoghegan saw a fundamental change in global opportunities and risks. With increasing regulation and fierce competition between banks, the Western hemisphere was going to be a tougher place to do business.... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Competitive Strategy; Control Systems; Finance; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Emerging Markets; Risk Management; Business Strategy; Banking Industry
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    • May 2016
    • Article

    Transformation of Health Care—Perspectives of Opinion Leaders

    By: Joanne Disch, Thomas W. Feeley, Diana J. Mason, Richard L. Schilsky, Ellen L. Stovall and Shelley Fuld Nasso
    "What Health System Transformations Do You Believe Are Necessary for the Future of Health Care?" We need to transform to a true value-based health care delivery system. That means organizing care around medical conditions, not simply around hospitals and doctors. We... View Details
    Keywords: Perspective; Health Disorders; Performance Improvement; Health Care and Treatment; Transformation; Health Industry
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    • 16 Dec 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

    other economists offers a new way of thinking about this puzzle. Published in September by the National Bureau of Economic Research, On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • September 1994 (Revised June 2017)
    • Case

    Chemalite, Inc. (B): Cash Flow Analysis

    By: Robert Simons and Antonio Davila
    Students are asked to use actual and pro forma financial statements to prepare a statement of cash flows under both the direct and indirect method. View Details
    Keywords: Cash Flow Analysis; Strategy Execution; Management Control Systems; Analysis; Cash Flow; Financial Statements
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Evolution of Land Distribution in West Bengal 1967-2004: Role of Land Reform and Demographic Changes

    By: Pranab Bardhan, Michael Luca, Dilip Mookherjee and Francisco Pino
    This paper studies how land reform and population growth affect land inequality and landlessness, focusing particularly on indirect effects owing to their influence on household divisions and land market transactions. Theoretical predictions of a model of household... View Details
    Keywords: Inequality; Land Reform; Household Division; Land Markets; Equality and Inequality; Property; West Bengal
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    • October 2017
    • Supplement

    Maggie Wilderotter: The Evolution of an Executive: Video Supplement

    By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Robin Abrahams
    In a career that spanned over 30 years, Maggie Wilderotter served as CEO of two publicly traded companies and served on 32 corporate and nine association and non-profit boards of directors. The case looks at the progression of Wilderotter’s career; the decisions she... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Managing People; Networks; Strategy And Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Social and Collaborative Networks; Gender; Power and Influence; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Should Human Capital Development Programs Be Voluntary or Mandatory? Evidence from a Field Experiment

    By: Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert and Christopher Stanton
    In a field experiment, we find large differences in productivity treatment effects between voluntary and mandatory workplace mentorship programs. A significant portion of this difference is due to the best employees opting into the program when it is voluntary and... View Details
    Keywords: Mentoring; Mentorship Programs; Randomized Controlled Trial; Employees; Relationships; Programs; Performance
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    • 23 Sep 2014
    • HBS Seminar

    Mariano Tappata, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

    • December 2014
    • Article

    The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization

    By: Nicholas Bloom, Luis Garicano, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
    Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the "information" and "communication" components together. We show theoretically and empirically that this is problematic. Information and communication technologies have very... View Details
    Keywords: Communication Technology; Information Technology; Organizational Structure
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    • 27 Jul 2021
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Mixing Sports and Money: Adidas and the Commercialization of the Olympics

    Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones; Sports; Apparel & Accessories
    • Article

    The (Perceived) Meaning of Spontaneous Thoughts

    By: Carey K. Morewedge, Colleen Giblin and Michael I. Norton
    Spontaneous thoughts, the output of a broad category of uncontrolled and inaccessible higher-order mental processes, arise frequently in everyday life. The seeming randomness by which spontaneous thoughts arise might give people good reason to dismiss them as... View Details
    Keywords: Spontaneous Thoughts; Self-Insight; Meaning; Attribution; Judgment And Decision Making; Decision Making; Cognition and Thinking
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