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- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
Abstract—Under fairly general assumptions, expected stock returns are a linear combination of two firm fundamentals-book-to-market ratio and return on equity. This parsimonious relation is pervasive, producing expected return proxies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
novel convertible bond dataset, I find that consumers often purchase dominated bonds—cheap and expensive versions of otherwise identical bonds coexist in the market. The empirical evidence suggests that broker incentives are responsible... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Under New Management: Equity Issues and the Attribution of Past Returns By: Baker, Malcolm, and Yuhai Xuan Abstract—There is a strong link between measures of stock market performance, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
young consumers. I believe that will be true in our case. How would you describe the Starbucks company culture? It is highly aspirational and very people-oriented. Starbucks gives stock options to all... View Details
- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
Ask any small business owner and they will tell you that cash flow is on their mind pretty much all the time. This isn’t surprising, given that they are continuously managing dollars coming in from customers and going out to pay for View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
wrongdoers is consistent with their judgments, and we offer preliminary evidence on how to reduce these biases. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-020.pdf Stock Price Fragility Authors:Robin Greenwood and David Thesmar... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
Business School. “They need to cut expenses to the bone to ride out this crisis.” Stanton worked with HBS colleagues Michael Luca and Zoe Cullen; Harvard University economics professor Ed Glaeser; and Alex Bartik of the University of... View Details
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
as much as refugees. That approach might be less expensive than funding refugee camps indefinitely. The United Nations said in February that it needed $920 million to support the 900,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and the 330,000... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life
talk about the ways in which transgender employees may face different barriers than other parts of the LGBTQ community. Create intentional space to talk about that.” Inclusive language and safe spaces also include increasing gender View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
In the early 1990s, both Teradyne and Hewlett-Packard identified new technologies that had enormous potential to cause new-market disruptions. As with most disruptive innovations, these technologies offered to provide smaller and less View Details
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
rupees from his tenants, but that money just became 20 percent more expensive in the global currency market. So what is she to do? The options aren't appealing: Default on the loan or change the business... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
allows bank depositors to remain "sleepy": they do not have to pay attention to transient fluctuations in the market value of bank assets. In contrast, shadow banks create money-like claims by giving their investors an early exit View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
PublicationsMisvaluing Innovation Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We demonstrate that a firm's ability to innovate is predictable, persistent, and relatively simple to compute,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
and contested antitrust law, ultimately tailoring federal policy to accommodate state regulations. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50101 Harvard Business School Case 715-449 TAV Airports Holding (A) This case explores the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
area and $11 elsewhere in the state. Because these facilities don't have the option of competing for business on the basis of price, they compete solely on the basis of quality. "With vehicle emissions testing, high-quality service... View Details
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that adopt GPs experience negative abnormal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
they have much more rarely considered the false negatives. This is because the damage created by false positives is much easier to recognize, and to quantify. It can be both expensive and embarrassing when a project goes through the... View Details
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
4). Further, although givers believe that recipients do not appreciate receiving money as much as receiving a solicited gift, recipients feel the opposite about these two gift options (Study 5). Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Matthew R. Lyle, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—Under fairly general assumptions, expected stock returns are a linear combination of two accounting-based characteristics—book to market and ROE. Empirical estimates based on this relation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Malloy, and Felicia Marston Abstract Comparing two snapshots of the historical I/B/E/S database of research analyst stock recommendations, taken in 2002 and 2004 but each covering the same time period 1993-2002, we identify 54,729 ex-post... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace