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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
allocation to this new asset class of social investment, the same way that venture capital and private equity benefit today from such allocations.” The idea is taking off in the United States. President Obama proposed $100 million in his... View Details
- 25 Mar 2018
- News
Modernizing Infrastructure Management
help communities be both resilient and vibrant so that they can be sustained in the future. “And that's everything from physical asset management to financial accounting to building licensing tools, for economic development—really the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
he explains. In a record six weeks, Robinson was promoted to controller for Citicorp's Global Consumer Businesses, becoming responsible for seven hundred employees worldwide. In 1994 he joined ADVO, Inc., the largest direct-marketing company in the United States, where... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
observation that sparked discussions about financial literacy and empowerment among female leaders. Mary Erdoes (MBA 1993), CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management, brought stark statistics to the conversation, noting that while 85... View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
industry factors. The evidence on these interrelationships and the importance of multinationals to local economies suggests that global firms may be an important channel for transmitting economic shocks. This evidence also sheds light on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
traditional banks have a comparative advantage at holding fixed-income assets that have only modest fundamental risk but are relatively illiquid and have substantial transitory price volatility. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
rock the boat when they are leaving," speculates Ma. By contrast, when Ma and Khanna measured the effects of firm performance on likelihood of dissent, they found a much lower correlation. A one unit increase in the ratio of a firm's market value to View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
the aftermath of the 2008 recession, the asset management firm BlackRock was busy charting a course for growth. Its revenues, profits, and stock price all performed consistently through this tumultuous... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53507 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Bubbles for Fama By: Greenwood, Robin, Andrei Shleifer, and Yang You Abstract—We evaluate Eugene Fama's claim that stock... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
South Africa, for example, the government's support for the transfer of assets to the historically disenfranchised native African community—a laudable social objective—has affected the development of the capital market. Such transfers... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
Publication:Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (spring 2011) Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model in which View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54634 forthcoming Journal of Finance Limited Investment Capital and Credit Spreads By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary credit default swap (CDS) data, I investigate how capital shocks at protection sellers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
Chris Lederer, argues that marketers and CEOs urgently need tools to manage vast groups of brands — not as individual elements or collections under one corporate roof but as complex systems that transcend corporate boundaries. The Infinite View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
that have led to asset impairments. More recently, the Bulgarian energy regulator announced its intentions to seek a 30% price reduction on a power purchase agreement signed over ten years ago with AES.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
delivery business in a number of countries, including the UK, France, Italy, Brazil, and Canada. It went public in 2014, became a FTSE-100 company in 2017, and is currently worth $5 billion. That’s the price of an incorrect answer to... View Details
- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
selling the client firm's stock. This overweighting is not explained by superior information. We quantify a potentially large benefit to the 401(k) sponsor firm of having its price propped up by its trustee fund's more severe... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
2000s, a period during which Treasury bonds enabled investors to hedge macroeconomic risks. This paper develops a New Keynesian macroeconomic model with habit formation preferences that prices both bonds and stocks. The model attributes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
AMC stock at its opening price of $18 a share. (The company's employees were given the same deal.) The articles that reported this news also wondered if AMC was a good investment, given the rise of online movie viewing and home... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
described in terms meaningful to this market through the company's first direct-to-the-consumer advertising. Production runs were lengthened and inventory simplified. Glass decoration was all but eliminated and, like Ford's Model-T, color was, too. Most important, with... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has... View Details