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  • April 2015
  • Article

Money Creation and the Shadow Banking System

By: Adi Sunderam
Many explanations for the rapid growth of the shadow banking system in the mid-2000s focus on money demand. This paper asks whether the short-term liabilities of the shadow banking system behave like money. We first present a simple model where households demand money... View Details
Keywords: Financial Instruments; Banks and Banking
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  • January–February 2023
  • Article

The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Davide Sola and Martin Kupp
Many start-ups experience enormous popularity and runaway growth, but only a few go on to become stable giants. What separates them from the pack? They all go through a developmental stage called extrapolation, say three business school professors.
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Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Scalability; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship
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  • 20 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

background stories of organizations, Win-Win Corporations is an inspiring read into what makes companies great. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52757 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • HBS Seminar

Giorgos Zervas, Boston University

  • August 2021
  • Article

Rate-Amplifying Demand and the Excess Sensitivity of Long-Term Rates

By: Samuel G. Hanson, David O. Lucca and Jonathan H. Wright
Long-term nominal interest rates are surprisingly sensitive to high-frequency (daily or monthly) movements in short-term rates. Since 2000, this high-frequency sensitivity has grown even stronger in U.S. data. By contrast, the association between low-frequency changes... View Details
Keywords: Conundrum; Investor Demand; Monetary Policy Transmission; Interest Rates
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  • 05 Feb 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

says. “So, I don’t want extrapolate too far, but I wonder about the implications of this for inequality in some ways.” You Might Also Like: University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed The Best Person to Lead Your... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Warnings and Endorsements: Improving Human-AI Collaboration Under Covariate Shift

By: Matthew DosSantos DiSorbo and Kris Ferreira
Problem definition: While artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms may perform well on data that are representative of the training set (inliers), they may err when extrapolating on non-representative data (outliers). These outliers often originate from covariate shift,... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • 29 Apr 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Comparing the Cash Policies of Public and Private Firms

Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa
  • 31 Oct 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?

Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa & Alexander Ljungqvist
  • Web

Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Dimitri’s other research here . Related Themes: Monetary Policy & Money Markets, Stabilization Policy & Regulation More Info Extrapolation and Bubbles By: Nicholas Barberis , Robin Greenwood , Lawrence Jin & Andrei Shleifer SEP 2015 At... View Details
  • 12 Feb 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Adding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct Channels

Keywords: by Jill Avery, Mary Caravella, John Deighton & Thomas Steenburgh; Retail
  • 18 Jul 2023
  • Interview

Jeffrey Rayport on Product Market Fit, Profit Market Fit and Whiplash, and More

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Doug Levin
This episode of "Lessons from Startup Life" podcast features Jeffrey Rayport, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Jeffrey specializes in teaching and researching growth-stage technology ventures and their scalability. Prior to... View Details
Keywords: Scaling And Growth; Start-up; Diversity; Equity; Inclusion; Technology; Business Startups; Product Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation
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  • 04 Jan 2017
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Bureaucracy is a Good Thing in Government and Business?

Bureaucracy doesn’t seem to have many advocates. But if we can extrapolate from the work of Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman and others on individual human behavior, we may obtain insights into situations in which bureaucratic processes... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

the rewards were great. This initial success prompted Enron to extrapolate its business model to other markets. In 1994, Enron officials started trading wholesale electricity after Congress deregulated the industry; Enron analysts... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • Web

2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

But this overlooks a critical period in between. It’s what we call the Extrapolation Stage, where many growth-stage ventures lose momentum and even squander success. Understanding how to unlock and manage through such rapid growth is... View Details
  • 02 Apr 2020
  • What Do You Think?

What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

years The greatest COVID-19 failure was clearly the failure to adapt in time to an emerging threat.” Bill Wallace said, “I’m calling the COVID-19 pandemic a White Swan: inevitable through global mobility and the absence of safeguards, frighteningly predictable based on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

market conditions? Should the Federal Reserve use its balance sheet to pursue a financial stability objective? What role does policy have in curbing investor sentiment? Extrapolation and Neglected Risks What are the sources of beliefs and... View Details
  • Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

here , and Dimitri’s other research here . Related Themes: Monetary Policy & Money Markets, Stabilization Policy & Regulation More Info Extrapolation and Bubbles By: Nicholas Barberis , Robin Greenwood , Lawrence Jin & Andrei Shleifer SEP... View Details
  • 16 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision

advance of delivery an order is placed, the less a customer is likely to spend. Q: Could your findings be applied to in-person grocery shopping? A: If we were to extrapolate from our results, ignoring the major differences between... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Retail; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 10 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated

how effective these online interventions are at shaping public health outcomes. The research team found that the average campaign shifted self-reported outcomes close to 1 percent of baseline estimates, and it cost about $3.41 to influence each incremental person.... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Health; Technology