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  • 18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18

March 27, 2017 Harvard Business Review How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg Abstract—Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

classical economic model and discussing extensions of the classical model and explanations grounded in behavioral economics that can account for the observed patterns. This part covers five topics: consumption and savings, borrowing, payments, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

institutions instead, which the industry churned out en masse. One result: many financial institutions placed not only themselves, but the broader financial system, at risk. When a financial institution can no longer repay its debts, it may have to sell View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services
  • 14 Jun 2004
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The Big Money for Big Projects

it creates a legally independent project company and finances that company with nonrecourse debt (i.e., the debt must be repaid by cash flows from the project company only.) The relevant question is: Why would a firm choose to finance its View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

the issue of top-management compensation? Brian Hall: As you all know, stock options were intended to give executives incentives to get share prices to rise, which in theory would create value for shareholders and society alike. That... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 11 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

Pflueger, Carolin E., Emil Siriwardane, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We propose a new measure of the economy’s risk appetite based on the valuation of volatile stocks. Unlike proxies for risk appetite derived from aggregates, our measure is strongly correlated with safe... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Mar 2007
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The New Real Estate

2001, real estate has become a legitimate asset class and a good diversifier from stocks and bonds. Second, with graying populations in the West and Japan, real estate is particularly appreciated because it is a strong generator of... View Details
Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate
  • 29 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 29

http://www.francescagino.com/uploads/4/7/4/7/4747506/gino_shea_deception_chapter_2012.pdf Stock Price Fragility Authors:Robin Greenwood and David Thesmar Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

debt issuers deteriorates during credit booms, and that this deterioration forecasts low excess returns to corporate bondholders. The key insight is that changes in the pricing of credit risk disproportionately affect the financing costs... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

pricing mechanism, capitalism must have the administrative capability to regulate the behavior of economic actors within those markets and the political capability to redesign their institutions; regulation and the design of market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

downside on toxic assets that are actually purchased. Moreover, the partnerships are likely not to set a market price on many toxic assets, because the government will not provide generous subsidies to buy... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 07 May 2008
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The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School

signature insight which established his reputation permanently. To be brief: John Lintner—the capital asset pricing model. Howard Raiffa—Bayesian decision theory. Georges Doriot—venture capital. Theodore... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Education
  • 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008

a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

deposits from one intermediary to another. Regulatory policies, including deposit insurance, minimum capital requirements, and restrictions on the assets held by depository institutions can increase the ex ante welfare of depositors.  ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10

In the midst of this crisis, VHSS, the German Shipbroker's Association, introduced a proposal to value ships using discounted cash flow analysis (to determine a long-term asset value, LTAV) rather than market View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

the scientists themselves. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52220 January 2017 American Economic Review Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel Retailers By: Cavallo,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review The High Price of Customer Satisfaction By: Keiningham, Timothy, Sunil Gupta, Lerzan Aksoy, and Alexander Buoye Abstract—Managers often assume that improving customer satisfaction and financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

which are bonds whose proceeds are used for environmentally sensitive purposes. After an overview of the U.S. corporate and municipal green bonds markets, we study pricing and ownership patterns using a simple framework that incorporates... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

http://www.people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/bcfsurvey2v20.pdf Comovement and Predictability Relationships Between Bonds and the Cross-Section of Stocks Authors:Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication:Review of Asset View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2004
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A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

predecessors of ABB, the global engineering giant. In a 1991 interview in Harvard Business Review, he noted that: We had no choice but to do it secretly and to do it quickly.… There were no lawyers, no auditors, no environmental investigations, and no due... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

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