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  • 15 Dec 2015
  • News

The Year in Ideas 2015

experiences over things. That appeal is broad-based.” Don’t break out the bubbly when a change in business policy results in an increase in your prestige. Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley and her colleague discovered that “unearned... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White
  • 15 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 15

and tight monetary policy. To illustrate our point, in the last half of 2007, 36% of all debt issues were bank loans. However, relative loan issuance fell to 8% by the first half of 2009, the lowest level in the period from 1990 to 2009.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

Silverthorne: You write that Indonesia's 1980 nationalization of ITT's thirteen-year-old Indostat telecom business "marked the end of an era." What changed? Louis Wells: In the 1980s, a new attitude toward foreign investment swept the developing world. Old View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1

look large and compelling. But it can have significant downsides. Leaders who prefer to zoom in tend to create policies and systems that depend too much on politics and favors. They can focus too closely on personal status and on turf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

Brazilian companies studied it seems like the concentration of control was significantly lower before 1910 than what it is today. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-053.pdf Unconventional Insights for Managing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a small monetary margin on each pack sold, a large margin, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Dec 2022
  • News

HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

Harvard Gazette How invasion may hit U.S., global economies [Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard] Kenneth Rogoff sees possible fallout in stock, energy markets, worsening of inflation, increase... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

categories were set by a strict rotation scheme, thereby mitigating the potentially confounding effect that they targeted only "hot" technology sectors. Prizes encouraged competition and medals were more important than monetary... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

complex. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/x/55314 August 2013 Journal of Monetary Economics Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

is essential to having a good social order. Should judges deserve an infinite amount, too? The notion that somehow the logic of a purely monetary conception of value could be transferred to business struck me as odd, especially in a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 14 Nov 2024
  • News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Institutions , Conference Series #21. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, October 1979. Merton, Robert C. "Capital Theory and the Pricing of Financial Securities." In Handbook of Monetary Economics , vol. 1, edited by Benjamin F. Friedman and... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

Science (forthcoming) Abstract While monitoring and regulation can be used to combat socially costly unethical conduct, their intended targets are often able to avoid regulation or hide their behavior. This surrenders at least part of the effectiveness of regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

option. The "unsorted" group had population-average preferences for working in the regime or the outside option. We find this sorting on this basis of institutional preferences doubled effort and the performance of solutions-controlling for skills, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310052-PDF-ENG China 'Unbalanced' Diego Comin and Richard H.K. VietorHarvard Business School Case 711-010 : In 2010, Wen Jiabao looked back at the financial crisis with some satisfaction. Using aggressive fiscal and View Details
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sovereign risk and the use of different currencies. International capital flows imply additional policy challenges for countries as policy-makers face a difficult trade-off among three objectives: monetary... View Details