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- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
a unique aspect of our research setting allows us to test who is responsible for the earnings management. While firms appear unable to increase the frequency of display promotions in the short run, they can reallocate these promotions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online
and curation in service design. Evaluate sustainable pricing strategies and discover how operational transparency builds customer trust. Highlights Cost, Market, Value Lens Adapting to External Changes Getaway’s First Cabin Show Hide Details Concepts Minimum Viable... View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
Your patient health care data is most likely scattered throughout the medical universe, in everything from notes scribbled by various doctors to test results resting in far-flung computer systems. So when medical professionals need to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
Student Outcomes in U.S. Public Education Harvard Business School Note 307-068 Surveys educational outcomes among public school students in the United States. Educational outcomes are categorized as achievement outcomes (measured primarily by students' performance on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
electronic commerce than in the B2B segment, since industry standards for characterizing color and fabric are more familiar forms of communication for business partners than for individual consumers. Compounding the difficulty in... View Details
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
creative destruction following U.S. banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. U.S. banking reforms brought about exceptional growth in both entrepreneurship and business closures. The vast majority of closures, however, were the new ventures themselves. Although... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
and repay CPP funds early. Collectively, the results provide new evidence on the realized consequences of the CPP for bank SEOs. The tests suggest the CPP's indirect costs of restrictions on corporate policies and actions as the most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
Haris Tabakovic, and Jean Tirole Abstract—A key role of standard setting organizations (SSOs) is to aggregate information on relevant intellectual property (IP) claims before deciding on a standard. This article explores the firms’... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
work, we look at the gold standard era (1880-1914) as a "natural experiment" to test whether adoption of a rule-based monetary framework such as the gold standard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
recommendations for stocks with larger market capitalizations and lower return volatility than their sell-side peers, consistent with their facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for liquid stocks. Tests with no... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
standard deviation increase in the divergence increases the average loan spread by approximately 18%, or 35 basis points. The effect of the excess control rights on the cost of bank debt is more pronounced when the borrowing firm is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Working PapersHiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, Christopher Malloy Abstract We test the hypothesis that firms appoint independent directors who are overly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
mission interrupts his search. Fighting unjust forces, Joe is swept into an evil plot that neither can elude. Their struggles against machines, men, and nature test the resilience of the human spirit. Set in a richly imagined near future,... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
educate people about the Coronavirus and offer advice on testing and treatment. He’s now involved in “supporting the scaling [of] a COVID-19 testing prototype for faster/quicker View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53888 Trade Secrets Protection and Antitakeover Provisions By: Dey, Aiyesha, and Joshua White Abstract—We examine whether and why managers strengthen antitakeover provisions when facing an increased threat of being... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
technology, but these results are driven almost entirely by heterogeneous effects by those with and without computer science and engineering (CS&E) backgrounds. Specifically, tests of underlying mechanisms reveal that unlocking... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
standardized solutions address key challenges that are faced by the 4,300 postsecondary education institutions tasked with serving over 40 million alumni nationwide. Extend Fertility, INC. Christina Jones, MBA 2004 Nadia Campbell, MBA... View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated. Drawing on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs, we develop a set of hypotheses about differences in the expected depth of internalization across industries. We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
merchants? What should they know before signing a contract? A: The main insight in my paper is that default contract terms—obvious contract terms—are not the only possible terms. It may be that you pay most of your suppliers on standard... View Details