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- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
micro-interactions, the broad improvisations, and the resulting substantive and relational outcomes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-107.pdf Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and Their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
light of these trends, we revisit the question of the optimal exchange-rate regime when developing countries can borrow internationally with local-currency-denominated debt. We find, as local-currency-bond markets develop, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
forming a more fully dedicated team, developing facilities that allow for better optimization of specialized care, greater leverage in purchasing based on focus and volume, greater capacity for sub-specialization, and eventually, an... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
endeavors remain "unnatural acts": Far too many large businesses are better at stifling innovation than at capitalizing on it, better at optimizing local operations than at integrating them for the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Papers The Real Effects of Capital Controls: Financial Constraints, Exporters, and Firm Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, Anusha Chari, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—In the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, emerging-market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
pharmaceutical companies, government regulators—can play a role in righting the industry. The payoff? Valuable improvements in health care and a shinier future for human well-being. Pre-order this book:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
a host of issues related to how contracts between financial intermediaries and their customers are structured and how risks are shared between them, as well as the consequences of (unexpected) deviations from the ex-ante optimal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
concerns. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-047.pdf PublicationsOptimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
products for different business contexts requires that a firm deploy different new-product development processes. Products designed for stable and mature end-user markets require a process optimized for control and efficiency. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
G19 + 1. For business leaders, the early optimism following Trump’s election that corporate taxes would be reduced, America’s infrastructure would be improved, and an improved healthcare system would be created has faded away. Many... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
held by the mutual fund clients of the analyst's brokerage firm. The optimism in analyst recommendations increases with the weight of the stock in a mutual fund client's portfolio and the commission revenue generated from the mutual fund... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
received extraordinary support from its oversized Scientific Advisory Board; it had developed and secured a strong intellectual property portfolio that creates high barriers to entry for any new market entrants; and, it had $13 million of venture View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
time MBAs pile into a field, it's a good contrarian indicator. Gallows humor aside, market pros see parallels, but no repeat of the 1989 crash. That optimism rests on the knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the... View Details
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
errors and past demand realizations to predict future demand (extrapolating). So-called optimal inventory policies are categorized here by perceptions of demand that align with reality. Naturally then, deviations from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
comparison to their private counterparts. We do not argue that all SOEs are efficient or that it is optimal to have government ownership of banks and other companies. What we aim to show is that the return of state View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
Calibrating the model to data from the Financial Accounts of the U.S., the optimal capital requirement is around 20%. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51305 Bias in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
spontaneous portion of the calls (i.e., management discussion). The capital market responds positively to optimistic tone yet does not distinguish between the optimism in tone of managers from different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
empirical evidence is most persuasive in favor of agency considerations. Studies centered on the May 2003 dividend tax cut confirm that differences in the taxation of dividends and capital gains have only a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
chief Arne Duncan his secretary of education in 2008, there was great optimism in the charter school movement. Duncan, after all, had long welcomed charters—public schools operating outside the education bureaucracy—in Obama's hometown.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
Capital Partners, a firm he joined after what he calls his “two magical years” at HBS during which he transitioned from medical provider to physician leader. “My first year at HBS gave me the framework to think about different parts of a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young