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  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

income. Finally, a unique aspect of the research setting allows tests of who is responsible for the earnings management. While firms appear unable to increase the frequency of aisle display promotions in the short run, they can reallocate these promotions within their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Nov 2024
  • Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

the machine wins. The three researchers worked with an unnamed, 800-employee technology company to construct a new game that imitated a specific human: the company’s CEO. They designed a field experiment to assess the potential for AI to... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology
  • 22 Apr 2020
  • Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

Change,” explored climate change’s profound early effects on portfolio returns and highlighted the growing need for investors to understand how to measure and price climate risk. “We have seen a real shift, with so much more recognition... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

societies—what might be termed leadership with a big "L?" Or does it mean something fine grained and local—leadership with a small "l"? Taxes, Dividends and International Portfolio Choice Authors:Mihir Desai and D.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

Authors:Richard M.J. Bohmer and Thomas H. Lee Publication:New England Journal of Medicine 361, no. 6 (August 5, 2009) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://healthcarereform.nejm.org/?p=1347 Dividend Taxes and International View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-128.pdf   PublicationsExtreme Governance: An Analysis of Dual-Class Firms in the United States Authors:Paul A. Gompers, Joy Ishii, and Andrew Metrick Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

Because of the variability of individual IC member investment expertise, it was difficult to judge the performance of the set of companies solely on the experience of the members. In an effort to evaluate the companies in aggregate, the team created a View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

the comparability of such studies has been hampered by the lack of a precise definition of the community construct. In this paper we review prior definitions (implicit and explicit) of the community construct and other suggestions for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

useful for discussing the process of developing buyer personas, the uses and limitations of these constructs in allocating resources in a venture, and the relevance of different marketing methods to different customer segments. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

moderation-of-process approach (Spencer, Zanna, & Fong, 2005) to constructively replicate and extend our findings. The paper demonstrates how multiple identities within people can have consequences for performance in tasks that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

incentives to engage with shareholders. Misaki Capital was founded in 2013 with a strategy of constructively engaging with portfolio firms, providing operational and financial advice to management in order... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

behavior and preferences into service cost and productivity standard metrics. Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios Authors:W. Jakub Jurkek and Luis M. Viceira Publication:Review of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

Negotiation Strategy: Pattern Recognition Game Harvard Business School Note 908-015 In negotiation, correctly identifying your counterpart's strategy is vital. Only then can you constructively influence their behavior—or adapt... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

most recently reported. Using the complete history of regular quarterly and annual filings by U.S. corporations from 1995 to 2014, we show that when firms make an active change in their reporting practices, this conveys an important signal about the firm. Changes to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 20 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business with Structured Finance

and senior tranches. The junior tranche absorbs losses from the pool until the portfolio loss exceeds 6 percent, at which point it becomes worthless. The mezzanine tranche begins to absorb losses at that point, continuing to do so until... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios By: Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Terry Burnham Abstract—We examine the optimal weighting of four tilts in U.S. equity markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

would certainly be helpful. However, my preference would be for a carbon tax or some kind of cap-and-trade regime. We do have the beginnings of that in the renewable portfolio standard approach. With that said, one of the things that I... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 14 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

organizational context. Q: Why did you construct your study as you did? A: Our study focuses on the performance of Wall Street analysts because this is a population that is commonly believed to "own" their performance.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

sustainability issues, institutional and socially responsible investment fund ownership, and coverage from analysts with less firm-specific experience and lower portfolio complexity. Moreover, we find intra-industry information transfers... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 May 2014
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First Look: May 27

drove the rise in importance and prestige of American beauty brands. In the more recent past, L'Oréal has fostered a new pluralism in beauty by acquiring American and other international brands and offering global consumers a portfolio of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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