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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
pay back ill-gotten gains from option exercises that preceded accounting restatements — and longer vesting would be great. Another significant step would be to expense stock options, which would make their costs more evident and more... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
governments rely on honest reporting. Proof of honest intent is typically provided through signature at the end of the document, e.g., tax returns or insurance policy forms. Still, people sometimes cheat to advance their financial self-interests-at great View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
devastating it was when lending froze, and how much of a lifeline it was when we could revitalize the lending marketplace. When I came to Harvard and began to study small-business lending, it was clear there were structural issues. It was not View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
acquisitions. We find that the use of stock and related transaction predicts better long-run performance. Our results suggest that the acquirers of private venture capital-backed companies do not suffer any adverse selection problem and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
transaction structuring and exits, as well as equity selection and portfolio construction. The course also explores incentives, decision-making, and the crucial problems and opportunities within the industry itself. This course is geared... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
interest rates and all the transactional features of a checking account, in addition to a compelling impact story. “The opportunity for you is to put your money where it’s being utilized in a really productive way from an ecological,... View Details
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
Loyalty In Retail Self-service retail, which started with customers selecting their own merchandise in the 1930s and evolved to modern conveniences including self-checkout lanes, has saved businesses labor costs and customers time. But... View Details
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
during peaks of the private equity market, when the parent banks arrange more debt financing for in-house transactions yet have the lowest exposure to debt. Using financing terms and ex-post performance, we show that overall banks do not... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
than smaller menus, as measured by the maximum Sharpe ratio achievable. We propose a model in which menu setters differ in their ability to pre-select the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the menu size is sufficiently small,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51460 Concentrated Capital Losses and the Pricing of Corporate Credit Risk By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary data on all credit default swap (CDS) transactions in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
business models used by patent intermediaries. A key conclusion is that platform-type intermediaries (that facilitate transactions without taking possession of assets) have struggled, whereas merchant-type intermediaries (that acquire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
long-term relationships, not transactional relationships where immediate price (for employees, salary) and cost are the only factors in decisions. Q: You and your coauthors spoke with 36 CEOs based on three... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
a missed opportunity. “Blockchain platforms are mini-economies written in code,” she explains. These digital systems are intended to help people carry out transactions and create value. And who better to help guide the implementation of a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Case Study: Tip the Scale
over speed in the fulfillment process. Walden aims to build a community of home cooks who are connected to local farms in a meaningful way, not simply a transactional purchase. The Question: With year-over-year growth at 75 to 100... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
hypothesis that perceived network benefits from the extant worldwide adoption of IFRS influences a country's shift away from local accounting standards. That is, as more jurisdictions with economic ties to a given country adopt IFRS, perceived benefits from lowering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
companies that have tried to improve their go-to-market strategies, we have learned that almost everyone agrees it is difficult to effect significant change in distribution channels. Even though technology has made access to customers easier, View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
illustrative example, we show that production subsidies of higher investment and production cost technologies (such as carbon capture and storage technologies) have no effect on the firm's optimal total capacity when firms own a portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
monitor my investments as often as I like, and that I can perform all kinds of financial transactions from my home computer at a fraction of the cost I would have had to pay twenty years ago. In this sense,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel