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  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

Publishing) With Murder You Get Sushi: A Miss Information Technology Mystery by Diane Davidson (MBA 1980) and Mary Ann Davidson, collaborating as Maddi Davidson (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Destiny’s Child: Memoirs View Details
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

  Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Dec 2024
  • News

Solving the Underemployment Crisis

post-secondary education, economic mobility, and labor market demand. You can find Managing the Future of Work on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get podcasts. Enjoy. READ MORE Bill Kerr: As job... View Details
  • March 2012
  • Article

The Incentive Bubble

By: Mihir Desai
The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea—that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock instruments for managers, high-powered incentive contracts for... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Financial Markets; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Governance; Equality and Inequality; Human Capital; United States
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  • 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007

affects emotions. Finally, work in economics on the design of monetary policy makes several assumptions (e.g., a representative agent, a summary measure of emotions akin to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 1998
  • Book

The Multinational Traders

By: Geoffrey Jones
This book examines the history and theory of multinational trading companies. The essays in this volume demonstrate the importance of trading companies in trade and investment flows in the world economy from the nineteenth century to the present day. The empirical... View Details
Keywords: Company History; Trade; Globalization; Books; Organizational Structure; Perspective; Diversification; Theory; Asia; Europe; United States
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  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?

threats to the global economic system. It survived two world wars and the Great Depression. It won the Cold War. Doesn’t capitalism reign supreme in the 21st century? Looking forward, we certainly can see challenges that will have to be... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 2014
  • Book

Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

By: Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini
In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which governments owned and ran corporations and broadly controlled the allocation of financial resources into two new varieties of state capitalism: Leviathan as a majority and as a... View Details
Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Industrial Policy; Development Banks; Capitalism; Financial Markets; Corporate Governance Theory; CEO Effects; Public Sector; Economic Systems; Financial Institutions; Corporate Governance; Business and Government Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; State Ownership; Privatization; Public Ownership; Emerging Markets; Banking Industry; Mining Industry; Energy Industry
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  • 27 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

full lockdown has significant economic consequences, as most commercial activity comes to a halt. Also, in democratic societies, a complete lockdown is difficult and likely impossible to enforce. This is why the use View Details
Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

models, not just incremental adjustments or extensions. Institutional economics can help prospective and established managers recognize the role of formal and informal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

blame game engulfed politicians and S&P itself. In the midst of all this angst, four Harvard Business School faculty members offer their views on what went wrong and what needs to be done to right the US ship View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

relational contracts (i.e., informal agreements sustained by the shadow of the future). We argue that one of the reasons these practices may be difficult to copy is that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

lose weight; lottery incentive systems enable participants to win money if they attain weight loss goals. In this paper, we pool data from two prior studies to examine a variety of issues that unpublished... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

certain fairness constraints can be as high as 30%) and also pursue the design of policies targeted specifically at remedying criticisms leveled at the recent point system proposed by U.S. policymakers. On... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business

far. The American capital markets are a key element of the economic system, and "when they function well, they are a wonder of the world," he said. But the American... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50576 Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity, Engagement, and Performance By: Li, Shelley Xin, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom By: Chernenko, Sergey, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—Many have argued that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Real Exchange Rate Behavior: New Evidence from Matched Retail Goods

By: Alberto Cavallo, Brent Neiman and Roberto Rigobon
We use a dataset containing daily prices for thousands of matched retail products in nine countries to study tradable-goods real exchange rates. Prices were collected from the websites of large multi-channel retailers and then carefully matched into narrowly-defined... View Details
Keywords: Purchasing Power Parity; Online Prices; Real Exchange Rate; Macroeconomics; Currency Exchange Rate; Price; Internet and the Web
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  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

  Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne