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- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
Up: Is Voluntary Self-Reporting a Signal of Effective Self-Policing? Authors: Michael W. Toffel and Jodi L. Short Abstract Administrative agencies are increasingly establishing voluntary self-reporting programs both as an investigative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
findings are consistent with capital markets interpreting the choice of purchase accounting as a signal of management's confidence in the likelihood of a successful merger. This signal is particularly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to be Extremely Productive
the meeting starts, it's a signal that the person in charge hasn't laid the groundwork for a productive use of time. There should be adequate time in advance for everyone to prepare for a thoughtful discussion. All meetings should have an... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
auditing, and private credit- and quality-rating agencies in financial markets. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1640638 Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
owners and actively engage with boards. To start, in the nomination and election process, shareholders could signal their support (endorsement, neutrality, or nonendorsement) for candidates the board puts forth and vote accordingly. If... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
that have not been shipped. This process of reading and reacting to market signals has improved CompUSA's ability to match supply with demand. Finally, book and music retailer Borders Group uses historical sales data to customize the... View Details
- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
census data on retail stores located in England, Sadun found that stricter planning restrictions against big-box stores actually coincided with independent retailers closing down or hiring fewer workers, a signal their business was... View Details
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
propositions represents a market test and signal of what consumers want. Q: Consumer marketing appears to be drifting away from mass market advertising to more targeted approaches made possible by the digital world. Is political marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
Venture investing has picked up from the post-dot-bomb era of a few years ago—but does the comeback signal good times ahead or a mini bubble of misguided exuberance? To provoke discussion, HBS professor Bill Sahlman threw down the... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
strategy, find ways to overcome it, because employees cannot live in the dark.” Choose people to serve as “information brokers.” They can share updates and provide a sense of stability during the transition. “You cannot rely on just your top people because they are... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
policymakers avoid a repeat of that painful episode. Greenwood, Hanson, and colleagues have identified the signs that potentially signal trouble. Three years of rapid growth in credit and asset prices increased the odds of a crisis to 40... View Details
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
focused on housing and household debt for good reason: In the United States, a residential housing loan collapse touched off the deep financial crisis of 2008. But in the decade-plus since, the focus on household debt may mean policymakers are overlooking an even more... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
identically distributed signals of true quality," he says. "Essentially, they treat a restaurant that gets three five-star reviews followed by three one-star reviews the same way that they treat a restaurant that gets three one-star... View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
the housing sector to just cool off for a little bit." Gerardo Lietz: The Fed is signaling there may be as many as four rate hikes. When the cost of borrowing goes up, it does tend to put a damper on buyers. Quite honestly, it would be a... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
safety net for emergencies, but also would reduce financial stress and improve their quality of life. "In the private sector, a lot of startups fail, and the market provides a signal about whether the product is viable," says... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
debt for new securities worth 35 cents on the dollar, with no recognition of all past-due interest. Many holdouts, however, remain outside the deal. Some experts believe that Argentina's stance will have negative consequences for the country's private sector and gives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
PublicationsPreference Signaling in Matching Markets Authors:Peter A. Coles, Alexey Kushnir, and Muriel Niederle Publication:American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (forthcoming) Abstract Many labor markets share three stylized facts:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
consists of (1) two firms competing in a vertically differentiated market in which product quality is a mix of public and private components and (2) a market for developers that firms hire after observing signals of their contributions to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
they are also signaling to people that it might be safer to go out now,” says Michael Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Policymakers trying to avoid draconian... View Details