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- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
them. In other words, Cuba was open for business. Cuba Educational Travel (CET) was perfectly positioned to take advantage of the opening. Founder Collin Laverty had first visited Cuba on a family trip as a teenager, later completing an educational View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
under the bridge — ancient history, like the history of imperial China. Markets have short memories. Many young traders today did not even experience the Asian crisis of 1997–1998. Those who went into finance after 2000 lived through seven heady years. View Details
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
LaneHarvard Business School Case 112-004 A Chinese company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange is accused of fraud by a hedge fund. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112004-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
Markets By: Baker, Malcolm Abstract—The link between measures of risk and return within the equity market has been very weak over the past 47 years: in the United States, returns on high-risk stocks have cumulatively fallen short of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
level. Inheriting Losers Authors:Li Jin and Anna Scherbina Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We show that new managers who take over mutual fund portfolios sell off inherited momentum losers at higher rates than View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We show that characteristics of stock issuers can be used to forecast important common factors in stocks' returns such as those associated with book-to-market, size, and industry.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
implications of these relationships for start-up innovation and performance. Value creation in such relationships occurs when assets are exchanged by the parties involved: collaboration allows for passive knowledge flows and active... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
compared to non-founder firms. Overall, the evidence suggests that boards with founder-directors provide more high powered incentives in the form of pay and retention policies than the average U.S. board. Stock returns around M&A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Protection Agency (US EPA) program that encourages companies to self-disclose violations of environmental laws and regulations in exchange for reduced sanctions. We find that facilities are more likely to self-disclose if they were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
ExtraCare, and pay-for-membership cards for stores including Costco. In a very basic form loyalty schemes have been around for as long as people have been exchanging goods—consider the farmer who threw in an extra ear of corn for his best... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
PublicationsGlobal, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment Authors:Malcolm Baker, Jeffrey Wurgler, and Yu Yuan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We construct investor sentiment indices for six major View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
forecasted GDP growth rates for Japan by 0.5% for the first quarter of this year, and by more than 1.5% for the second quarter. The financial consequences are equally alarming. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average plunged 6.2% at the market's... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
household products. Steinhoff was widely known as a South African company because it first listed on the South African Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and its global headquarters was in South Africa.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
the worst of the crisis was over. With the global financial system no longer spiraling into an abyss, government officials, business leaders, and American taxpayers could now take stock of where they had been and where they should be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
retailer, we found 65% to be inaccurate. That is, the recorded inventory quantity of an item fails to match the quantity found in the store. We identify factors associated with this inaccuracy that are stock keeping unit- (SKU) and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
stock repurchases. We investigate whether the informativeness of payout policy with respect to earnings quality changes over this period. We find that the reported earnings of dividend paying firms are more persistent than those of other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam?E=3985220&R=112702-MMC-ENG&conversationId=189822 China Magic Going Home Li Jin, Zhihong Yi, and Jun JiangHarvard Business School Case 211-036 The largest Chinese energy company is thinking about a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
people have all agreed that it has value. Dollars, or other established fiat currencies, are useful because lots of people are willing to exchange them for goods and services. Which means that if you’re holding a dollar, you’re pretty... View Details
- 07 Apr 2021
- News
Road Work
Friedman. He’d had a successful career in investment banking and venture capital, which included being the founder and former president of the investment banking operation of Houlihan Lokey at the age of 28. Houlihan Lokey would go on to become a New York View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
major investment bank to investigate factors associated with analysts' annual compensation. We find compensation to be positively related to "All-Star" recognition, investment-banking contributions, the size of analysts' portfolios, and whether an analyst is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel