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- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
past decade, the world economy has been dominated by a unique geoeconomic constellation that the authors call "Chimerica": a world economic order that combined Chinese export-led development with U.S. overconsumption on the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
PERLOW: “With projects that require creativity, teamwork, and innovation, you come to a point where working more has diminishing returns.” A self-described former “quant jock,” Leslie Perlow majored in economics at Princeton. But after...
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- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
Michael Luca and Weijia (Daisy) Dai, an assistant professor of economics at Lehigh University, recently studied effectiveness of paid search ads for small businesses by designing a large-scale field experiment that involved nearly 20,000...
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- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
satisfy the growing American consumer demand for lighting, appliances, and consumer electronics in the 1910s to 1920s as well as in the 1950s and 1960s. GE's top executives have shown a clear understanding of the leadership and managerial...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
job." Jon and George Pellegrin were grappling with issues common to any company: managerial differences, power clashes, succession questions. But ratcheting up the intensity of their struggle was the fact that they were not just talking...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
rich-world domination over the poorer South or as a neutral mediator facilitating a tariff-free world of economic prosperity. This article instead analyses how the WTO has sought legitimacy for itself and for the underlying institution of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
with book goodwill and two successive years of book-to-market ratios above one). We find non-impairment of goodwill is increasing in firm characteristics predicted to be associated with greater managerial discretion. We also find evidence...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
commentaries on a wide range of economic, finance, and business-related topics. Prior to joining the HBS faculty in 1985, Jensen was a member of the faculty of the University of Rochester's Simon Graduate School of Business Administration. He also founded the View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
performance of hybrid organizations that pursue a social mission, and sustain their operations through commercial activities, by studying work integration social enterprises (WISEs). We argue that social imprinting and economic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
strategic naïveté. Economic Uncertainty and Earnings Management By: Stein, Luke C.D., and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—In the presence of managerial short-termism and asymmetric information about skill and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
that managerial fiduciary duties affect equity-bondholder conflicts in a way that is economically important, has impact on ex ante capital structure choices, and affects welfare. Download the paper:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
expanding involvement of households—both as savers and as borrowers—has had an enormous effect on the range of products and services offered. Important changes taking place at all of these levels—in household economic planning, in the...
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- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
disaggregated measures that are incrementally informative but costly to contract upon. In such a setting, when do firms contract on aggregated rather than disaggregated performance measures? We show that at intermediate levels of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Economic Sciences Chicago Board of Options Exchange Exhibit Home Prelude to the Option Pricing Model Bachelier, Louis. " Théorie de la Spéculation. " Annales Science de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure , No.1018. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1900....
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
hitting best-seller lists lately, and conferences on spirituality and business have been springing up all over the United States and Canada. Web sites dedicated to such topics now pepper the Internet. Even the World Economic Forum devoted...
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by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- October 2009 (Revised July 2014)
- Teaching Note
New Century Financial Corporation
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Krishna G. Palepu
Teaching Note for [109034] and [113-002].
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- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
to be treated as a religious question. I think it's better seen as a classic managerial question about decision-making under uncertainty” Let alone how to tackle the problem, it seems we can't even agree on whether climate change is a...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
in “water-stressed” countries, where either the quantity or the quality of water supplies will have sunk to levels ranging from inadequate to economically crippling. At the same time, another valuable water-infrastructure system, the...
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- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
forthcoming Annual Review of Economics History, Micro Data and Endogenous Growth By: Akcigit, Ufuk, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—Economic growth is concerned with long-run changes, and as a result historical data should be especially...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
preparing for the innovations that will define the future. This mental balancing act can be one of the toughest of all managerial challenges—it requires executives to explore new opportunities even as they work diligently to exploit...
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