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- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
certain types of transactions. Bitcoin is of interest to economists in part for its potential to disrupt existing payment systems and perhaps monetary systems, and also for the wealth of data it provides about agents' behavior and about... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
didn't leave the house for 322 days. But I have a big yard. So, I can walk around a lot. So. And during that time I was looking for ways to inspire and fortify myself. And I started reading The Atlantic. And The Atlantic got me through... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 07 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Financial vs. Strategic Buyers
- 17 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
Partners and Families Are an Integral Part of the MBA Experience
what they will gain from their time in business school and the experience they will walk away with. One group of people who attend school in a distinctively unique position are those who come to HBS with partners and families. The Harbus... View Details
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
find that central bank QE1 MBS purchases substantially increased refinancing activity, reduced interest payments for refinancing households, led to a boom in equity extraction, and increased aggregate consumption. Also, the transmission... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
exposure is not much of an issue. A convertible bond can be viewed as a simple coupon paying corporate bond plus a conversion option. A bond pricing model discounts the promised payments at a rate that compensates for time, risk, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Sam Walton: Great From the Start
learn that the store was a real dog." The rent for this "dog" was 5 percent of sales. This sounded fine to Walton; but after signing the lease, he discovered that this "was the highest rent anybody'd ever heard of in... View Details
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Podcast - Business & Environment
Correspondent, CNN Drawdown Fund: Scaling the Impact of Climate Technology 14 AUG 2024 | Climate Rising Erik Snyder, Founder and CEO of Drawdown Fund discusses financing climate tech startups through growth equity. He describes how he started the Drawdown Fund with... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
unaffected countries finds a substantial portfolio reallocation towards the former. This effect cannot be explained by several potential alternative hypotheses, including differential changes to the preferences of American investors, differential changes in investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
December 19, 2018 NEJM Catalyst It's Time to Reform the Orphan Drug Act By: Bagley, Nicholas, Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite, and Ariel Dora Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Competitiveness & Economic Development - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
businesses to innovate and grow? Traditional economic theories fail to capture many of the underlying forces at work in today’s global economy. Competitiveness is the only way to achieve sustainable job growth, improve wages, and raise the standard of living—yet the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
By: Kaplan, Robert S., Derek A. Haas, and Jonathan Warsh Abstract—The prevailing fee-for-service payment model has led health care administrators and physician practices to impose severe constraints on the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2024
- HBS Case
How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones
Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
impressions of the expresser. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51400 Can Paying Firms Quicker Affect Aggregate Employment? By: Barrot, Jean-Noel, and Ramana Nanda Abstract—In 2011, the federal government accelerated View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
Michael E., and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Improving provider incentives and reimbursement must become a central component in health care reform. Reimbursement through bundled payments-a single payment that covers all the procedures,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Customers at the Back of the Line Are Anxious—Can You Keep Them from Leaving?
were no more likely to leave when they were last in line. When the payments were far apart—meaning it was more valuable to wait in line—people were four times more likely to leave when they were last in... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Year as Co-Presidents: Q+A with AASU's Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021) and Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)
or normal term for African American Student Union (AASU) Co-Presidents Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021) and Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021). We talked to the two second-year students about how 2020 affected their term, highlights from their time as... View Details
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
their idea, but a little humility and a lot of discovery work can determine whether there’s a winning solution and save a lot of wasted time and money building the wrong thing. If fundraising is also a consideration, being able to have... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
behavior. We examine the role of experience over time in the emergence of the Gambler's Fallacy in binary prediction tasks. Theories of the Gambler's Fallacy and models of binary prediction suggest that recency bias, elicited by... View Details
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
made appliances and furniture. Now that only stellar borrowers with large down payments and hefty incomes get mortgages, we have seen the homebuilding and home-buying industry, and with it the economy, retrench. As for retail, now that... View Details