Filter Results:
(677)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,158)
- People (3)
- News (277)
- Research (677)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (247)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,158)
- People (3)
- News (277)
- Research (677)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (247)
Sort by
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
Consistent with theories of optimal liquidation, investors largely traded in more liquid securities, such as government-guaranteed MBS, to meet their liquidity needs during the crisis. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
Eurasia In the fall of 2013, the people of Ukraine disagreed passionately whether their country should intensify ties with the European Union or Russia. After President Yanukovych rejected the free trade agreement with the EU in November,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Hold-to-Maturity Accounting By: Stafford, Erik Abstract—Private equity funds tend to select relatively small firms with low EBITDA multiples. Publicly traded equities with these characteristics have high... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
better information exchange and creative performance. In a first study, we found that teams in which members affirmed their best selves prior to team formation (i.e., by soliciting and receiving narratives that highlight one's positive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
shortages of cadavers (Agthong and Wiwanitkit 2002; Assemblée Nationale du Québec 2004; U.K. Department of Health 2005). However, trying to address the question of a shortage of cadavers often means facing the taboo on trading human... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
you see as some of key factors that led to this? Luis Viceira:The Dow is an index that has traditionally included the largest companies traded in the US stock market. Its growth since its inception reflects the growth and profitability of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 21 Aug 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study
pretty well accepted," said Forjaz. "Then we had an intense exchange of e-mails, and we reached the final document by consensus." When the researchers left, Forjaz told the conference audience, serious dialogue among... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
& Co., covering a large fraction of the catastrophe risks exchanged during 1970-94. Our results suggest that the price of reinsurance generally exceeds "fair" values, particularly in the aftermath of large events, that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Fund Relationships Bias Analyst Recommendations? Authors: Michael Firth, Chen Lin, Ping Liu, and Yuhai Xuan Publication: Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract This article investigates whether the business relations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
reality technology to treat amblyopia (more commonly called “lazy eye”), the single biggest cause of visual disorders among children. By February 2017, the three founders had raised $950,000 in angel funding and developed a prototype of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Attractive to Fair Trade and Eco-labeling Organizations By: Sippl, Kristin Abstract—This paper probes extant theory on product diversification in the empirical realm of fair trade and eco-labeling... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
at varying horizons, and that the short-term nominal interest rate forecasts positively stock return volatility and exchange rate volatility. This paper presents evidence that movements in both the short-term nominal interest rate and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
"hot money" moving quickly in and out of the Fund. This short-term trading is an attempt to take advantage of the difference between the closing times of the Tokyo and New York Stock Exchanges. The CFO of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
students, and achieve top-quality research. Publisher Link: http://www.amazon.com/Building-World-Class-Universities-Asia/dp/1453707778 The Fund Industry: How Your Money Is Managed Authors:Robert Pozen and Theresa Hamacher Publication:John... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
generational difference in the amount of time we spend staring at little screens, exchanging both essential and inane information, and transacting business at a never-before achievable clip. The Gen Z’ers who have lived their entire lives... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent
own. Africa has still not played the role we'd expect it to play in this messy phenomenon of globalization.— Debora Spar "I think the perception is that globalization is creating more losers than winners," he said. But Papa Madiaw Ndiaye, director of the... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
traditional Afghani designs and using only locally grown cotton. Sherjan wants to grow Boumi so that it can be a substantial, if not major, funding source for Aid Afghanistan for Education. In order to grow Boumi, Sherjan must confront a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
without funding the enforcement of existing laws is pointless.” Greg chose to explore the affect of networks on organization design and function. He challenged us with a comment that networks are a threat to hierarchies and by extension... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
of countries with deteriorated corporate financial fragility indicators (Altman’s Z-score). Firm size plays a critical role in the relationship between leverage, firm fragility, and exchange rate movements in emerging markets. While the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
Widely deemed the most important piece of security legislation since formation of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was born into a climate still reeling from the burst of the... View Details