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  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

trading has been beneficial. Derivatives serve as a form of sophisticated "adapters," he said, linking economic systems together and helping to bring about a unified world economy. They have also brought about vast reductions in View Details
  • 08 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

out for more, sitting out preseason games and the first game of the regular season; the Patriots fined him $600,000. Later that year the Patriots traded Branch to the Seattle Seahawks; he signed a six-year $39 million contract extension... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • Web

IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog

Italy in the birth of modern capitalism, including the history of double accounting, banking and its impact on trade and the arts. While on campus, we will visit Baker Library’s Medici Collection, comprising more than 150 ledgers and... View Details
  • 15 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 15

the market by setting the welfare-maximizing level of trade when the difference in the degree of asymmetric information between buyers and sellers is significant. However, if this difference is below a certain threshold, then even the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jun 2020
  • News

Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

organized and hosted by Heather Stark (MBA 1999) and Suzanne Kwok (MBA 2015). Philippines Alumni Take Swift Action to Serve Community During COVID-19 The World Trade Center Manila was converted to a COVID-19 treatment facility. The... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

Foley, and Kristin J. Forbes Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper analyzes the impact of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings and thereby reduced the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size (a very persistent characteristic) at one end of the spectrum and high frequency reversal at the other. Unlike low-turnover tilts, a full history... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

Alumni Books

economic shocks, corporate scandals, international competition, or technological disruptions. Zero-Sum Game: The Rise of the World’s Largest Derivatives Exchange by Erika S. Olson (MBA ’03) (Wiley) Olson, a former managing director at the Chicago Board of View Details
Keywords: Finance; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; National Security and International Affairs; Government
  • 30 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

trust was no doubt engendered in an earlier day when defined benefit (DB) pension plans were offered by lifelong employers like IBM and General Motors. Today, that system is all but extinct. Merton explains that employers underestimated the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Think Locally, Act Globally

As for the cultural issue, Mittal notes that India and Africa have a shared past—in trade relations and, in the diplomatic realm, cooperation during the heyday of the Non-Aligned Movement—that has helped build trust and familiarity. And... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Telecommunications; Information
  • 22 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

up to the point where the benefit of the marginal project is just equal to the cost. Because labor is a key input to innovation when the opportunity cost of time is lower, such as during school breaks or time off from work, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 15

Publications August 2013 Economic Development and Cultural Change The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?" By: Dreher, Axel, Stephan Klasen, James Raymond Vreeland, and Eric Werker Abstract—As is now well... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

On August 31, 2016, many investors celebrated the 40th birthday of one of the world’s most successful financial instruments: the mutual index fund, created by Vanguard founder John C. Bogle. Index funds, which automatically track an index of stocks such as the S&P... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27

is, as more jurisdictions with economic ties to a given country adopt IFRS, perceived benefits from lowering transactions costs to foreign financial-statement users come to outweigh institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2005
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

will emerge new kinds of collective actions that will address the contemporary issues of multinational workforces and globalized networks of trade and commerce." These comments raise several questions: Just what new kinds of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2015
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First Look -- September 1, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49520 2015 Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research Comparative Costs of Advanced Proton and Photon Radiation Therapies: Lessons from Time-driven Activity-based View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51481 The Value of Trading Relationships in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25

are not compartmentalized; rather a loss in one currency may impact trading in another. We also show that while the impact of a loss on subsequent trading decisions does linger, the affect declines sharply... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407049 Analyzing Relative Costs Harvard Business School Note 708-462 Introduces students to the technique of relative cost analysis, a core... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace