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- 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
- 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
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
domestic civil society and when their buyers are more sensitive to such exposure. At the program design level, we find that suppliers improve more when the monitoring regime signals a cooperative approach and when auditors are highly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
eye to threats or wrongdoing that ultimately imperil his or her business. Yet it happens all the time. We fall prey to obstacles that obscure or drown out important signals that things are amiss. Becoming a "first-class... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Course MaterialsAirbus A380—Turbulence Ahead Harvard Business School Case 609-041 Multiple delays of the Airbus A380 have shocked analysts and investors alike. What are the causes of these delays and how should investors respond to the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
You’re the founder of a growing startup and it seems like just yesterday that you were a team of five, sharing a co-working space with one table and five chairs. There was an open flow of communication in the room and unless someone’s headphones were on to View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
males previously assumed to be most likely to donate. More broadly, our results suggest how the intersectional nature of donors' demographics, in particular, gender and migration status, shapes the configuration of the donor pool, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
on the Uber app, signaling availability, but have yet to be matched with a passenger. And drivers’ ordinary personal insurance usually considers that to be commercial activity, denying coverage for any losses in this circumstance. Edelman... View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
to by assigning overly optimistic ratings to highly complex and opaque mortgage- and asset-backed securities. The high ratings signaled to investors that the financial instruments had little chance of default, but the burst of the... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
why leaders are inherently important to the improvement-oriented voice process—because leaders are the targets of voice. If they send signals that they are open, interested, and willing to act on subordinate voice, it is logical to expect... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
victory. "It can also lock a company into a community—a double-edged sword," Sull writes. You name monuments after your success. Renaming football stadiums, ice hockey rinks, and the like "is another red flag that sometimes View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
through bankruptcy could have sent a signal to Apollo's limited partners—and to its competitors—that the firm wasn't "willing to support its less successful investments, undermining future fund-raising efforts or its ability to... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
patterns of their male colleagues," says coauthor Kolb. And without women in high places, younger women lack the role models and mentors to help them succeed. It seems the organization is signaling that being female is a liability,... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
thresholds for perceiving minds behind out-group faces (Experiment 3). These experiments suggest that mind perception is a dynamic process in which relevant contextual information such as social identity and out-group threat change the interpretation of physical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
the Public Corporation, and Greater Commitments to Sustainability: Signals from the Corporate Board By: Eccles, Robert G., J. Herron, and George Serafeim Abstract—This book is a comprehensive reference work exploring recent changes and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
program management is critical is related to decisions that maximize the performance of the system as a whole, but involve trade-offs at the individual project level. For example, it is far more effective for an orbiter to relay signals... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
she arrived to find that the pup’s kennel card had been turned sideways, a signal that often indicated which dogs were about to be killed if they did not find homes. “I was 17,” Exley says. “Seventeen-year-olds weren’t allowed to adopt... View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
likelihood of detecting and reporting existing accounting irregularities. This suggests that for U.S. listed foreign firms, less frequent restatements can be a signal of opportunistic reporting rather than a lack of accounting errors and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne