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- 12 Mar 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Inflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds
- 23 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Taking the Risk to Start a Company at Business School
“For me, attending HBS was about choosing a time to take a risk on myself. It sets you up to take a chance and start a company,” says Julie Johnson, Co-Founder and CEO Armored Things, HBS 2017. When Julie Johnson applied to Harvard... View Details
- Research Summary
Self-environment relationship and its effect on decisions under risk and uncertainty
My research seek to better understand the main cognitive and social abilities that guide our judgments, and the ways they interact with aspects of the situation to shape humans' decisions. It is currently comprised of three related... View Details
- 27 Nov 2013
- Conference Presentation
Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management
By: Anette Mikes
- December 2002 (Revised October 2006)
- Teaching Note
Genzyme's Gaucher Initiative: Global Risk and Responsibility (TN)
Teaching Note for (9-303-048). View Details
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
High Stakes: A Framework for Geopolitical Risk Management
- 04 Apr 2023
- News
Why Cheaper Insulin Today Risks Higher Costs Later
- 04 Jun 2020
- News
ESG investors get their heads around social risks
Understanding Why Low Risk Stocks Can Be Undervalued
Contrary to basic finance principles, high-beta and high-volatility stocks have long underperformed low-beta and low-volatility stocks. This anomaly may be partly explained by the fact that the typical institutional investor's mandate to beat a fixed benchmark... View Details
- 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
- 2010
- Working Paper
On the Descriptive Value of Loss Aversion in Decisions under Risk
By: Eyal Ert and Ido Erev
Five studies are presented that explore the assertion that losses loom larger than gains. The first two studies reveal equal sensitivity to gains and losses. For example, half of the participants preferred the gamble "1000 with probability 0.5; -1000 otherwise"... View Details
Ert, Eyal, and Ido Erev. "On the Descriptive Value of Loss Aversion in Decisions under Risk." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-056, January 2010.
- 2011
- Working Paper
Risky Trust: How Multi-entity Teams Develop Trust in a High Risk Endeavor
By: Faaiza Rashid and Amy C. Edmondson
This paper explicates the challenge of risky trust, which we define as trust that exists between parties vulnerable to high economic, legal, or reputational risks at individual or organizational levels. Drawing from analyses of data collected in a grounded case study... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Leadership; Business Processes; Groups and Teams; Risk and Uncertainty; Trust; Construction Industry; United States
Rashid, Faaiza, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Risky Trust: How Multi-entity Teams Develop Trust in a High Risk Endeavor." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-089, February 2011.
- 1998
- Book
Islamic Law and Finance: Religion, Risk and Return
By: Frank Vogel and Samuel Hayes
Vogel, Frank, and Samuel Hayes. Islamic Law and Finance: Religion, Risk and Return. Kluwer Law International, 1998.
- 27 Sep 2013
- Conference Presentation
Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management.
By: Anette Mikes
- August 1988
- Background Note
Note on Inventory Risk and Soft Goods Merchandising
By: John A. Quelch
Quelch, John A. "Note on Inventory Risk and Soft Goods Merchandising." Harvard Business School Background Note 589-022, August 1988.
- 22 Dec 2013
- News
In entertainment offerings, risk is here to stay
- 2018
- Working Paper
Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970
By: Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale
This working paper provides a new perspective on how businesses have responded to political risk in South Asia and Latin America over the last half century. The existing business history literature on political risk is focused on the experiences of Western... View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Risk Management; Government and Politics; Business History; South Asia; Latin America
Jones, Geoffrey, and Rachael Comunale. "Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-102, May 2018.
- 1987
- Working Paper
Tests of Excess Forecast Volatility in the Foreign Exchange and Stock Markets
By: K. A. Froot
Simple regression tests that have power against the alternatives that asset prices and expected future asset returns are excessively volatile are developed and performed for the foreign exchange and stock markets. These tests have a number of advantages over... View Details
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