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06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

Vallée Abstract—Using a large administrative panel of Swedish households, we document the fast and broad adoption of retail structured products, an innovative class of contracts offering non-linear exposures to equity markets. Households... View Details

30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

uncertainty, and macroeconomic shocks affect the risk properties of U.S. Treasury bonds? The exposure of U.S. Treasury bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average over the period... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Aug 2009
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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

11 Jul 2012
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The Future of Boards

“When it comes to compensation, we can't see the forest for the trees” Bill George's chapter ["Board Governance Depends on Where You Sit"] offers the perspectives of different board positions on the work of corporate governance. Bill is... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

As a professor of decision making and negotiation, I often receive unsolicited phone calls from relatives, friends, and acquaintances seeking my advice on consumer matters such as negotiating for a house, bidding on eBay, and investing in the View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

16 Nov 2009
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The Times Captures History of American Business

marketing of pottery, I could go back to the few 18th-century newspapers in Britain; when I am chasing Abraham Lincoln down for the book I am currently writing, I can gather rich information from newspapers of his era. So the Times project View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

traces the strategic, organizational, and cultural challenges JMB faced in building an organization that eventually offered mentoring partnerships to 8,000 Indigenous students in 350 high schools throughout Australia. Furthermore, the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

examples such as TripAdvisor, Wikipedia, and the New York Times, the authors offer strategies for competing in markets with network effects. New entrants should focus on customer groups that they are uniquely positioned to serve or appeal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Dec 2002
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Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

identified several important customers, however, who actually preferred suppliers capable of establishing a long-term relationship based on value added, rather than offering the lowest price on individual projects. Rockwater decided to... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

response to policies that maintain low interest rates, money funds change their product offerings by investing in riskier asset classes, are more likely to exit the market, and reduce the fees they charge their investors. The consequence... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

rationalized step processes vs. open platform systems. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52466 Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings By: Begenau, Juliane, and Berardino Palazzo Abstract—Among View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

low return. He also offered strategic pointers for companies immersed in the field. Suddenly, with the ability to monetize IP, there was a new freedom.— Gary P. Pisano At moments during Pisano's talk, titled "The Biomedical... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54553 May 2018 Harvard Business Manager Was kostet die Zeit? By: Thomke, Stefan H., Daniela Beyersdorfer, and Christina Kestel Abstract—A German luxury watch manufacturer wants to View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

demand. Furthermore, downstream and upstream product was coming online from other parts of the world, including Russia. As a result, Alcoa had lost its historical market dominance and stock premium. Belda was convinced that for Alcoa to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

Applying the "keep it simple, stupid" principle offers the key guidance for solving this problem. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity growth was low, and the stock market was in the tank. It is not at all... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

edX, a new non-profit joint venture that would provide a platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs). edX did not produce original courses or instructional content—it made a web platform through which Harvard and MIT, and subsequently dozens more "partner"... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

of Employee Stock Options Expensing Authors:Fabrizio Ferri and Tatiana Sandino Publication:The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper we examine the economic consequences of over 150 shareholder proposals to expense... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Sep 2017
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Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

finds, is that it offers the key actors no incentive to change their behavior. After all, why would they when it’s working great for their interests? Worst of all, the authors said, there’s no accountability. Unlike other industries,... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

February 2006 (Revised August 2006)
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Auctioning Morningstar

By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn

Morningstar, a publisher of data and ratings for mutual fund investors, is considering an auction-based approach to the company's upcoming IPO, with management weighing the risks and benefits of the auction approach vs. a traditional underwritten offering. View Details

Keywords: Financial Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Stock Shares; Cost vs Benefits; Strategy; Auctions; Business or Company Management; Conflict of Interests; Publishing Industry

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