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  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

the network of relationships between brokers and institutional investors shapes the information diffusion in the stock market. We exploit trade-level data to show that central brokers gather information by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52435 CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Pratt, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in Brazil, France, Germany,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Aug 2014
  • Blog Post

Working in Tech 4Dev

enterprise-focused and still in beta mode, but Ushahidi’s greater mission of technology for development—“tech4dev”—is worth writing more about. The company uses cloud-based technologies—your smartphone, your computer, and even SMS, to... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • September 1992 (Revised March 1997)
  • Case

Summit Distributors (A)

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Amy P. Hutton
Summit Distributors was in danger of violating loan covenants because of slow economic activity and forecasted losses and was faced with a choice. Changing the inventory valuation method from LIFO to FIFO would avoid default but would require higher future income... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Cost Accounting; Cash Flow; Interest Rates; Economic Systems; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Statements; Valuation; Accounting Audits; Financing and Loans; Accounting Industry; Legal Services Industry
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  • 06 Mar 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?

women CEOs, too. The growth rate of women-owned businesses is three times the amount for all businesses. But that's not enough. It still feels that compensation, influence, and opportunity flow more freely... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Jan 2012
  • Survey

Prosperity at Risk

As part of the U.S. Competitiveness Project, Harvard Business School asked its alumni to complete an in-depth survey on U.S. competitiveness. Nearly 10,000 business leaders responded worldwide, resulting in a first-of-its-kind analysis... View Details
  • October 2019 (Revised January 2020)
  • Supplement

Dulcie Madden (C)—A Final Chance?

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
This is part of a three-case series that follows Dulcie Madden's journey as a founder over five years. Case (A) is about managing growth and cash flow; Case (B) is about the exit decision and conditions on a sale; Case (C) shows Madden dealing with adversity and the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Cash Flow; Success; Failure; Acquisition; Business Model; Technology
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  • 19 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles

interpretation, the trend-chasing behavior of young managers reflects their attempts to learn and extrapolate from the little data they have experienced in their career." Did the young fund managers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

is found when the regression is run on data generated by a calibrated version of our theoretical model. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-080.pdf Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 1

Exploiting novel data on the educational backgrounds of sell side equity analysts and senior officers of firms, we test the hypothesis that analysts' school ties to senior... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • December 2010
  • Background Note

Risk and Reward in Venture Capital

By: William A. Sahlman
This note describes the payoff structure of investment in individual venture capital–backed companies and in venture capital portfolios. Venture Capital investments are characterized by high failure rate (0ver 50%) and a small number of given successes (greater than... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Analytics and Data Science; Failure; Performance; Information Technology
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  • February 2007 (Revised May 2008)
  • Supplement

Bancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (B)

In 1996, CEO Fernando Garcia Checa wanted to make customer analytics a part of Bancaja's new strategy. Bancaja, a savings bank based in Valencia, Spain, was expanding and wanted to exploit customer information to increase commercial effectiveness. At the same time, it... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Credit Cards; Analytics and Data Science; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Marketing Strategy; Banking Industry; Spain
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  • 17 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

and Bart Hobijn Abstract This note accompanies the Cross‐country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an unbalanced panel dataset with information on the adoption of over 100... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 1998 (Revised February 1998)
  • Case

Timberjack Parts: Packaged Software Selection Project

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil and Darryl S. Romanow
This case provides a realistic, current, and detailed view of software procurement in an international business environment where the competition in enterprise-wide software solutions is growing. Focuses on the selection of packaged software to serve multiple sites... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Information Technology; Analytics and Data Science; Multinational Firms and Management; Operations; Management Practices and Processes; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • 06 Dec 2018
  • News

Source Code

data to find patterns and build an algorithm based on that data. But even with the seeming data dominance, the toddler who’s seen a few dogs has an advantage over the algorithm that has seen millions, says... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

school by the early 20th century. We present new, comparable data on school inputs and outputs for BRIC drawn from contemporary surveys and government documents. Recent studies emphasize the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

and, ultimately, the long-term performance of firms. We examine the history of the Brazilian bioethanol industry, focusing on the industrial policy program implemented by the Brazilian government in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

intend to navigate the regulatory environment? In particular, how could they educate governments and ease concerns about the various types of risk pertaining to payments and currency? —Caleb Reeves (GMP 16, 2014) Even though there are... View Details
Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?

rise to 2.75 percent. It may not sound like much, but a 37.5 percent increase in benefits to the average recipient of social security could look very attractive. Further, it would address a potential shortfall View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
  • 02 Mar 2016
  • What Do You Think?

Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?

application for commercial credit and other data points (is) right there on the first page of the Apple user contract--there for all to see. It would seem that this privacy gate is down for the FBI alone.”... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology