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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
records and community graveyards. Stanley Diamond (MBA 1958) traces his own interest in ancestry back to this era. In 1977, Diamond’s nephew Mark Diamond (MBA 1978) was diagnosed as a carrier of beta thalassemia, a genetic condition that... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
argue that competition can lead organizations to provide illicit quality that satisfies customer demand but violates laws and regulations and that this outcome is particularly likely when price competition is restricted. Using 28 million vehicle emissions View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
American Accounting Association and the Institute of Management Accountants. Kent Dauten (MBA 1979), Keystone Capital, Inc. Kent Dauten graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College in 1977 and... View Details
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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online
Show Hide Details Concepts Beta, Alpha, and the World of Hedge Funds Going to Extremes: Activist Investing at TCI Arbitrage and Global Macro Quantitative Hedge Fund Investing Putting It All Together - Constructing a Hedge Fund Portfolio Featured Exercises Calculate... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
other research here , Yueran’s other research here , and Andrei’s other research here . More Info Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Malcolm P. Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler AUG 2020 Baker, Hoeyer, and Wurgler propose a simple tradeoff theory to... View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
records on borrowers, and put the data through a random forest regression, a type of analysis known for producing good predictions that can be readily understood. When they tested the resulting model, the results were astounding. They... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
roadmap. Engineers and product managers love it when they’re “left alone.” Take the time to do deeper customer discovery and requirements gathering. Customers might be more open to participating in beta tests, new feature rollouts, focus... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
test it with some users. So I went and did that. I used the $30,000 to pay a developer to work with me for a few months to build the first prototype of the product and tested it in Apple's View Details
- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew
functionality and in a way that’s actually pleasant to use. It’s early, but our device hasn’t lost a taste test yet. This wasn’t exactly the summer we expected though. Entering our last semester at HBS, we were making awesome progress. We... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
diabetes by creating new beta cells in the pancreas. This is difficult work that is high risk but high reward. You have come to grips with the many ethical considerations in working with stem cells derived from embryos that were created... View Details
- Profile
Shana Hoffman
and through the Rock Accelerator Award, the company won a $5,000 grant to test its beta model with potential users. By being part of HBS, Shana has had access to Harvard Medical School, where gerontologists... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
Risher’s story of the abandoned library in Guayaquil and donated 20 Kindles for the launch of Worldreader. After a beta test at an international school in Barcelona, where Risher was living at the time, he... View Details
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo
at Care.com,“ she said. Even though she did not have a beta or even a full team, the partners at Matrix were impressed with Marcelo and her new concept and provided the first A round of financing of $5 million. “They wanted to... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
of Arts and Sciences, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.amacad.org/pdfs/challenges.pdf Information Risk and Fair Values: An Examination of Equity Betas Authors:Edward J. Riedl and George Serafeim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
process of drug development: With quantum’s ability to analyze multiple molecules, proteins, and chemicals at the same time, researchers could significantly speed the time to market with ultrafast and high-volume testing—and discover new compounds with computing... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
forthcoming Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, Mathias F. Hoeyer, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract— The well-known weak empirical relationship between View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
primarily on substitutes but copied from rivals. Next, they actively tested their assumptions and made major resource commitments to the business model they identified as the most lucrative. Finally, they deliberately maintained a loosely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
countries with higher nominal bond-stock betas have significantly larger nominal bond risk premia and borrow less in local currency. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51643 Android and Competition Law:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
feedback. Based on the success of the beta test program, she expects the program to run again. "Next time," she said, "it will not be in Boston but rather in alumnae hot spots such as New York... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
also assured O&M of a profit. The TSCC incented VM to streamline its distribution activities, since these would directly impact its fee. After beta testing the TSCC for one year, VM's Daniel Borunda and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace