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  • 22 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

tested if incumbent players decide to target the market gaps and new approaches themselves. Traditional large banks and credit card companies have access to three types of assets that could make them important players. First they have millions of small business... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • 23 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 23, 2016

Hong Luo Abstract— In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure through patent publication on the market for ideas. We do so by analyzing the effects of the American Inventor's Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA)—which required... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

or so-called “tabletop” exercises. Technology: Equip your organization with capabilities to trace and provide necessary information during investigations, facilitating quick and accurate error correction. Who is accountable, and what... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
  • 23 Mar 2021
  • Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

disclosure is one-sided or an exchange Truthfulness: how “authentic” the information appears Attribution: if the information is uniquely intended for the recipient Descriptive... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni

with HBS. CHANGES IN EMPLOYMENT Funding is provided to the recipient for a specific opportunity and may not be transferred to a new opportunity without review and approval of the Review Committee. You must inform HBS if, during the time... View Details
  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

rating agencies. We use the rise of a third ratings agency to examine competition and reputation. Consistent with Klein and Leffler (1981), competition leads to lower quality in the ratings market: the incumbent agencies produce more issuer friendly and less View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

effectiveness of groups, how perceivers use group properties to inform their judgment, and the contextual and individual differences that allow some perceivers to be more accurate. Across seven studies, we present consistent evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

when official production demands it. A homer lamp made by a blacksmith © Michel Anteby For those readers familiar with the HBS teaching case called "Slade," homer making functions a lot like the informal punching-out system... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
  • Web

1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA

1.11 Leaves of Absence 1.0 Academic Information & Policies Whether voluntary or involuntary (as described below), students may be on one or more leaves of absence for no longer than five years in the aggregate, without the possibility of... View Details
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

exhibit a decline in information asymmetry, with the decline increasing as EV reporting evolves to address methodological deficiencies and to permit more comparability across firms. The decrease in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

agencies overseeing banks and lending, yet issues relevant to small-business lending—such as disclosure rules—have often fallen through the cracks. For example, if you are a consumer and you buy a truck, all costs and financing fees must... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large cross-section of firms, we find that firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber? By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Damien Geradin Abstract—New software platforms use modern information technology, including full-featured web sites and mobile apps, to allow service providers and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Too Big To Fail

mortgage disclosure documents, consolidating the federal government’s highly fractured financial services regulatory agencies, and requiring that financial institutions increase their capital during sound economic times to provide a... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 4

changing circumstances, both within and outside of the gaming context. Market Interest in Nonfinancial Information Authors:R. G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus, and George Serafeim Publication:Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 23, no. 4... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

  Working PapersHow Firms Respond to Being Rated (revised) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making purchasing decisions, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 3, 2015

long-term nonfinancial performance. We use a novel dataset compiled by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and find that firms setting more difficult targets complete a higher percentage of such targets. We also find that this effect is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

underlying the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk. We find that the ratings are related to enforcement and monitoring, country and industry... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

illustrates how the disclosure and wide dispersion of scientific problem information allows R&D organizations to access a broader range of scientific knowledge, and can help accelerate internal and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

physical assets (such as health records); combining data within and across industries (to, say, coordinate supply chains); trading data (as mobile providers do with information on users' whereabouts); and codifying best-in-class... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne