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  • 27 May 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

An Empirical Decomposition of Risk and Liquidity in Nominal and Inflation-Indexed Government Bonds

Keywords: by Carolin E. Pflueger & Luis M. Viceira

    Better, Not Perfect

    Every day, you make hundreds of decisions. They’re largely personal, but these choices have an ethical twinge as well; they value certain principles and ends over others. Max H. Bazerman argues that we can better balance both dimensions—and we needn’t seek... View Details

    • 05 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)

    correct answer more confident than those with incorrect answers, equally confident, or even less confident? When the right people are confident, they dominate the outcomes of markets or organizations, which is beneficial overall. But when... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • 28 Oct 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Fairness, Efficiency, and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation

    Keywords: by Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias & Nikolaos Trichakis; Health
    • Web

    Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

    Equal Rights Amendment Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion Social discord continues over Vietnam War and civil rights Watergate scandal undermines faith in authority Influence: Medium-Low 80 1980 19 Moral Majority "Me" generation Focus on... View Details
    • 2023
    • Article

    A Review of Commercialisation Mechanisms for Carbon Dioxide Removal

    By: Conor Hickey, Sam Fankhauser, Stephen Smith and Myles Allen
    The deployment of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) needs to be scaled up to achieve net zero emission pledges. In this paper we survey the policy mechanisms currently in place globally to incentivise CDR, together with an estimate of what different mechanisms are paying... View Details
    Keywords: Carbon Dioxide Removal; Climate Change; Markets; Cost; Policy; Environmental Regulation
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    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Slowly Varying Regression under Sparsity

    By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Michael Lingzhi Li and Omar Skali Lami
    We consider the problem of parameter estimation in slowly varying regression models with sparsity constraints. We formulate the problem as a mixed integer optimization problem and demonstrate that it can be reformulated exactly as a binary convex optimization problem... View Details
    Keywords: Mathematical Methods
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    The Need for Speed: Effects of Uncertainty Reduction in Patenting

    By: Mike Horia Teodorescu
    Patents are essential in commerce to establish property rights for ideas and to give equal protection to firms that develop new technologies. Young firms especially depend on the protection of intellectual property to bring a product from concept to market. However,... View Details
    Keywords: Startups; Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning; Patents; Business Startups; Risk and Uncertainty; Outcome or Result; Green Technology Industry
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    • 11 Feb 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Architecture of Complex Systems: Do Core-periphery Structures Dominate?

    Keywords: by Alan MacCormack, Carliss Y. Baldwin & John Rusnak; Video Game; Web Services
    • 04 Jun 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Accountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China

    Keywords: by Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky & Yu Zheng
    • Research Summary

    The Business of Stem Cells

    By: Debora L. Spar
    In 2004, the topic of stem cell research made both medical and moral headlines. Buoyed by a series of technological breakthroughs, stem cell scientists grew increasingly convinced that they would eventually be able to use embryonic stem cells -- the pluripotent cells... View Details
    • Article

    Currency Unions, Product Introductions, and the Real Exchange Rate

    By: Alberto Cavallo, Brent Neiman and Roberto Rigobon
    We use a novel dataset of online prices of identical goods sold by four large global retailers in dozens of countries to study good-level real exchange rates and their aggregated behavior. First, in contrast to the prior literature, we demonstrate that the law of one... View Details
    Keywords: Currency Union; Law Of One Price; International Prices; Global Firm; Currency Exchange Rate; Price; International Finance
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    • 31 Oct 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Why the Largest Minority Group Faces the Most Hate—and How to Push Back

    American cities have experienced an alarming double-digit rise in hate crimes in recent years, due in part to factors like anti-Asian sentiment in the wake of the pandemic and racial strife following the murder of George Floyd. Now, new research suggests yet another... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • 02 Apr 2024
    • What Do You Think?

    What's Enough to Make Us Happy?

    enough. It depended on how their colleagues were behaving, probably with equally little thought about “enough.” HBS colleague and happiness expert Arthur Brooks refers to this as “the striver’s curse” and notes that “there is no... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 16 May 2023
    • HBS Case

    How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

    One thing that stuck with Pete Stavros from the dinner-table conversations of his youth was that capitalism seemed fundamentally broken for his father, who earned an hourly wage working construction. The incentive was not there for Stavros’ dad and his peers to try to... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 2007
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Round Numbers and Security Returns

    By: Edward Johnson, Nicole Bastian Johnson and Devin M. Shanthikumar
    We document consistent differences in daily stock returns related to round numbers. In particular, we examine returns following previous day closing prices that are just above or just below round number benchmarks. We find, for both one-digit, two-digit and three-digit... View Details
    Keywords: Stocks; Investment Return; Price; Market Transactions
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    • 11 Sep 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Employers Favor Men

    professor Muriel Niederle. “We find ample evidence of discrimination against women, as employers are significantly less likely to hire a woman compared to an equally able man,” the paper says. “This discrimination, however, does not... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Teaching

    Overview

    By: Nancy F. Koehn
    My teaching and research focus on crisis leadership and how men and women use crises to make themselves better leaders. I currently teach a module in the Advanced Management Program and an HBS Online LIVE course on Courageous Leadership. The purpose of each course is... View Details
    • 21 Nov 2023
    • Op-Ed

    The Beauty Industry: Products for a Healthy Glow or a Compact for Harm?

    In my recently published book Deeply Responsible Business, I write about business leaders since the 19th century who have acted responsibly, often by putting the welfare of their communities above the idea of maximizing profits. I make a sharp distinction between... View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Beauty & Cosmetics
    • 26 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out

    For mid-career STEM professionals looking to advance their skills and careers, certificate programs at elite universities can offer a fast track. And for universities, such programs are an important and growing revenue stream—and a recruitment tool for women and... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne