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  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

demand is relatively unimportant in explaining variation in spending after accounting for physician beliefs. Physician organizational factors matter, but the single most important factor is physician beliefs about treatment: 35% of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

  Working PapersCatering to Characteristics (revised) Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel Hanson Abstract When investors overvalue a particular firm characteristic, corporations endowed with that characteristic can absorb some of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

MaterialsChina in Africa: The Case of Sudan Harvard Business School Case 308-060 This case examines the relation between China's demand for resources and political risk. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2008
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Kash Rangan

estimated $6 trillion will flow directly to social enterprise organizations. Concurrently, a new generation of business leaders and philanthropists is experimenting with hybrid forms of social enterprises while demanding more transparency... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

capacity to pay. We use a newly created database with state-level fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show that in Brazilian states that exported commodities that were in high in demand (e.g., rubber... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

drop is caused by a liquidity event, the situation may represent a profitable investment opportunity. Investors must assess the likely cause of the recent price drops in the leveraged loan market and determine an appropriate investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride

entrepreneurship as a trip on a roller coaster, not a rocket ship,” says HBS professor and entrepreneurship expert Bill Sahlman, an early investor in E Ink and longtime adviser to Wilcox. “Very few companies go straight up, and E Ink is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

entering this market would present unique challenges for Vanguard. Vanguard had a philosophy espousing low-turnover investing, while ETFs enabled short-term trading. The company would also need to develop a distribution network for ETFs. Finally, since Vanguard's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2025
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Heartland

Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

faced little consumer demand for natural products, and little consumer knowledge of what they entailed. The creation of new categories involved three overlapping waves of entrepreneurship. The first involved making the ideological case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom By: Chernenko, Sergey, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—Many have argued that overoptimistic thinking on the part of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting

(at $1.6 million) and highest fuel efficiency of any of the VLJs. Building a jet is a complex business, but Raburn attracted substantial backing, including investors such as Bill Gates. Herp notes that the Eclipse’s wings are produced in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 01 Mar 2006
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The Producers

article see a project through from start to finish. They find a story and package it with any combination of a writer, director, or star before pitching it to investors or one of the big studios. If they’re successful in assembling... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information
  • 30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30

http://hbr.org/search/613083-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-027 Société Internationale de Plantations et de Finance (SIPEF) Management of a company with extensive palm oil tree plantations questions the usefulness to management and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

patients. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W18202 Dividends as Reference Points: A Behavioral Signaling Approach Authors:Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract We outline a dividend signaling approach in which rational managers signal firm strength... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016

income. By the end of the revolution in 2014, Hassab Labs was among the top five chains in the country. In October 2014, Seha partially exited Hassab Labs in a sale to an African conglomerate, SAHAM Group. At the same time, Azab learned that foreign View Details
  • 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

government and investor capital in just the last few years. MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast But the scope of the problem is massive and growing, which... View Details
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

activities of firms operating in more than 100 countries with input-output tables. In line with the model's predictions, we find that whether a firm integrates upstream or downstream suppliers depends crucially on the elasticity of demand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

self-report of the licensee. The self-reporting aspect of the environment gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

the capital markets and potential investors understand that the company was a true, modern corporation, even with the state as a majority owner. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308027... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace