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- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
oversight over managers, ways in which compensation is pegged to performance, and ways in which value is increased in either the short or the long term. Many maintain that the accumulation of huge pools of money in private equity funds will bring a more View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
sophisticated techniques developed first on southern and West Indian slave plantations, disseminating among planters many decades before they were adopted in northern factories. I draw on extensive new archival research to show that these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Abstract—We analyze time-series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from six data sources between 1963 and 2011. The six measures of expectations are highly positively correlated with each other, as well as with past... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
conditions in the world today: the declining capabilities of government, the massive size and increasing sophistication of the global financial markets, and the impacts of new technologies that leapfrog large centralized projects and put... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
have to pay attention to the fact that there are real differences in the ecosystems of each sector. Ebrahim: Mario raises a crucial distinction. In the for-profit world, we tend to see individual firms as the central unit of analysis. Firms make profit, and View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
out-of-sample generalizability of predicting decisions from brain activity. Third, sophisticated meta-analyses will help consumer neuroscientists to synthesize the growing body of knowledge, providing evidence for consistency and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
emerging economies? What are the best ways to leverage local resources? How Do I Identify Opportunities In Emerging Markets? Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets How can multinationals, entrepreneurs, and investors identify and... View Details
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
users-sophisticated and unsophisticated. Only sophisticated users adjust their expectations in response to platforms' price changes. We study the effect of the fraction of sophisticated users on platform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
sustainability. “Private investors will need to fund not only real estate development, but also the supporting urban infrastructure systems” In his multiple roles as a member of the HBS faculty teaching courses in Real Estate Development... View Details
- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
a joint appointment at the Harvard Business School in the General Management and Strategy units. Joseph B. Lassiter: Companies will realize their vulnerability COVID-19 points out that even the most sophisticated companies and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 19 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Digital Technology’s Profound Game Change for Marketers
software eating the world. Software is disrupting industry after industry and transforming large swathes of the economy. When I was an entrepreneur in the 1990s, I would debate with my investors what sliver of the $70 billion US software... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
Value Lab at the Digital Data and Design Institute at Harvard. The researchers found that PE investors often turn to digital transformation strategies and technology to help revamp portfolio firms, and this investment often accelerates... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
Long-term growth and profitability are elusive targets for many organizations. The former often is more difficult to achieve than the latter, especially for companies competing in "mature" markets. This presents a problem for today's manager to the degree... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
of the picture, a young company must clear many hurdles before convincing potential investors that its future prosperity is a good bet. New research by HBS associate professor Monica Higgins and Associate Professor Ranjay Gulati of the... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
that crowdfunding will enjoy long-term success given the lack of sophistication of the average investor in picking winners. "The information problem is so great," says Lerner. "I am not wildly... View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Finally, the long-run risks model implies extremely low yields and negative-term premia on inflation-indexed bonds. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/W14788 Measuring the Financial Sophistication of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
broad-based government guarantees to one with market discipline exerted by sophisticated and at-risk investors in bank debt. The federal government should not be encouraging mergers among large institutions... View Details
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
for Commitment Devices By: Exley, Christine L., and Jeffrey K. Naecker Abstract—Previous research often interprets the choice to restrict one’s future opportunity set as evidence for sophisticated time inconsistency. We propose an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
expectations can be formed, which correspond to two different types of users-sophisticated and unsophisticated. Only sophisticated users adjust their expectations in response to platforms' price changes. We study the effect of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
the board of directors to help improve the management of the business. When these negotiations failed, Biglari launched a proxy fight against Friendly in 2007. While these two activist investors shared similar objectives, they worked... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace