Filter Results:
(67)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (67)
- Faculty Publications (8)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (67)
- Faculty Publications (8)
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
rationalized step processes vs. open platform systems. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52466 Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings By: Begenau, Juliane, and Berardino Palazzo Abstract—Among... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
repurchasers to forecast characteristic-related factor returns. For example, we show that large firms underperform following years when issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms. While our strongest results are for portfolios... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
outperform others stands in contrast to theory and evidence supporting a broader scope for organizations. The literature on related diversification at the level of the firm provides some reconciliation of these conflicting observations by suggesting that multi-unit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
its main dimensions and classify European regions by their performance patterns. This provides critical insights into the compatibility of the different economic, social, and ecological objectives pursued. We then relate these outcomes to the presence of strong cluster... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
realm. The idea is this: There is a market logic, which has rational economic calculations, and an artistic logic where one is doing something for self-expression. So how do you blend those two worlds? Noma does it by charging a high... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
patients. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W18202 Dividends as Reference Points: A Behavioral Signaling Approach Authors:Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract We outline a dividend signaling approach in which View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
tripwire that is often triggered before a person crosses the line and violates the law. A manager who becomes accustomed to disregarding his or her inner voice in the name of shareholders is more likely to rationalize other actions to the... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
pricing theories. First, in an era when efficient portfolio diversification was not possible, the intrinsic risk of an equity security was an important input into investor decision making. Second, our evidence suggests that businesspeople... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
increases. Lastly, it is argued that the common practice of announcing price increases in advance is much easier to rationalize with regret concerns by consumers than with more standard approaches to price rigidity. Download the paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Person Page
Media
Media
This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
transcend rational thinking." The course, which debuted in 1995, is designed to optimize the marketing efforts of entrepreneurs, who typically lack the time and resources for conventional marketing activity. The course is organized around... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
philanthropic foundation, it struck me how much we could benefit from importing in that community, the management skills, and rational decision making, and the logic that I had been trained in, in the business world for the first 18 years... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-114.pdf Platforms and Limits to Network Effects (revised) Authors:Hanna Halaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets would rationally... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
assortments rotated throughout the season—as opposed to selling all products in a single, fixed assortment—the retailer effectively conceals a portion of its full product catalog from consumers, injecting uncertainty into the consumer's relative product valuations.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
compensated for bearing non-diversifiable risk—in other words, what’s left over after you take all of these disparate projects and throw them in a single portfolio of every risky project in the world. And yet, everywhere I went, venture... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
market where demand outgrew supply? How could Hengdeli balance the needs of these competing suppliers without being overreliant on one or two suppliers? How could it continue to expand its retail network to enhance its value and position? How could Hengdeli View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
"treated" with electronic monitoring is 13% (40% lower). We convince ourselves that the estimates are causal using peculiarities of the Argentine setting. For example, we have almost as much information as the judges have when deciding on the allocation of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
strategy as demonstrated in Funds I ($70 million) and II ($250 million) emphasized careful targeting of sectors and in-depth work to develop the portfolio companies post-acquisition. With the industry's greater velocity and deal size, can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
investor expectations are strongly negatively correlated with model-based expected returns. The evidence is not consistent with rational expectations representative investor models of returns. September 2013 Management Science The Stock... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne