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  • 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008

education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are connected to through their network, and perform significantly better on these holdings relative to their non-connected holdings. A View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jul 2008
  • Op-Ed

Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI

States outperformed the rest of the world in the majority of years. As such, there is something particularly bad about the return experience of foreign investors taking a controlling position in American companies. In short, America is a beautiful country for stock... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
  • 05 Nov 2024
  • Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

to replicate the unique characteristics of a specific person’s writing style, says Prithwiraj Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “We trained an algorithm to write using... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

portfolio managers and we're going to have to leverage our local knowledge with our partners." Cash Not On Hand But financial partners are becoming increasingly difficult to find, particularly after the devaluations of the last... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

moderation-of-process approach (Spencer, Zanna, & Fong, 2005) to constructively replicate and extend our findings. The paper demonstrates how multiple identities within people can have consequences for performance in tasks that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

are treated as free agents who can take their top performance to work for the highest bidder. Our study debunks that myth. Star analysts rely a lot on the quality of the colleagues that their organization provides to sustain top performance. They cannot simply View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

production of low-income rental housing. While it has grown into the largest source of new affordable housing in the U.S. and its structure is now being replicated in other programs, the LIHTC has also drawn skepticism and calls for its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

round. This impact largely persisted in later elections, suggesting that even brief one-on-one discussions can have a large and lasting persuasion effect. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50425 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

oncologists. Among the study’s conclusions, “A combined crowd innovation and AI approach rapidly produced automated algorithms that replicated the skills of a highly trained physician for a critical task in radiation therapy.” In an email... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice By: Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract— Using a novel database that tracks web traffic on the SEC’s EDGAR servers between 2004 and 2015,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5

bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance companies, the largest institutional holders of corporate bonds. Insurance companies have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their investments. Conditional on ratings,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

motivation (Study 3) and greater ability to justify their dishonest behavior (Study 4). Finally, a field study constructively replicates these effects and demonstrates that individuals who work in more creative positions are also more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25

held by the mutual fund clients of the analyst's brokerage firm. The optimism in analyst recommendations increases with the weight of the stock in a mutual fund client's portfolio and the commission revenue generated from the mutual fund... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

methods. Myth Number 1: Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs reduce returns on capital and long-run shareholder value. Reality: Companies committed to ESG are finding competitive advantages in product, labor, and capital markets, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26

also be detrimental to some. Specifically, we examine in detail the relation between religious involvement and subjective well-being. We first replicate prior findings showing a positive relation between religiosity and subjective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

benefit from revealing unit cost information to consumers. A natural field experiment conducted with an online retailer suggests that cost transparency boosts sales. Six subsequent controlled lab experiments replicate this basic effect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

Roots Back to the Roots is a startup with a social mission to “undo food”—to reconnect people to where their food comes from. In late 2017, they are contemplating their next move. Back to the Roots has an eclectic portfolio of products,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

aggressively managing their own tax liabilities and those of their portfolio firms. We investigate the latter assertion based on a sample of private firms for which there is financial statement data available. We first document that firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

1926–2014 and international sector returns 1985–2014, we present four findings: (1) Fama is correct in that a sharp price increase of an industry portfolio does not, on average, predict unusually low returns going forward; (2) such sharp... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

traditional approach, which focused primarily on skills training. To confirm causation and explore the mechanisms underlying the effects, we replicated the results in a laboratory experiment. We found that individuals working temporarily... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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