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- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
infrastructure and ready talent, and an underdeveloped consumer market. Some innovators, however, have succeeded by building franchises to serve poorer consumer segments; tapping the vast opportunity represented by nonconsumption; internalizing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
experiment finds that self-help peer groups are a powerful tool to increase savings (number of deposits grows 3.5-fold and average savings balance almost doubles). Conversely, a substantially higher interest View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
We obtain that the reserve accumulation does not play a quantitatively important role in this model. In fact, we find the optimal policy is not to hold reserves at all. This finding is robust too considering interest View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
“Delivering patient care is one of those situations where timely speaking up can be a matter of life and death, or frequently a matter of high- or low-quality care.” “Psychological safety describes a belief that the work environment is safe for interpersonal View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
associated moral hazard often goes unnoticed. Such a risk can prove even greater when the various elements of the "delegation chain" obey different standards. What does this have to do with the ongoing Rupert Murdoch case?... View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
effectively within the newly merged entities. No PDF is available at this time. Reputation and Competition: Evidence from the Credit Rating Industry Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract Fair and accurate credit View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
Ostrovsky, and Schwarz. We prove that convergence occurs with probability 1, and we compute the expected time until convergence. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-056.pdf Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Review 90, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2012) Abstract The article argues that U.S. taxation reform should reduce corporate taxes, incorporate an awareness of the global marketplace, and generate revenue-neutral incentives for innovation. According to the article, a reduction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
receiving only a dispenser, (2) these effects persist after monitoring or incentives are removed, and (3) the anticipation of monitoring increases handwashing rates significantly, implying that individuals internalize the habitual nature... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
engineer this real-time environment, and that takes a lot of depth, so we have some real geeks. It's just they're not in my chair. Sahlman: An interesting thing we have observed is that some very successful... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
show that overall creditor recovery rates are higher, and unsecured creditor recoveries and post-bankruptcy survival rates are not different when bankrupt firms sell businesses as going concerns. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
1,582 loans financing private equity-sponsored leveraged buyouts between 1993 and 2005, we find that bank relationships explain cross-sectional variation in the loan interest rate and covenant structure. Our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
rate of 37% is fairly close to the model's estimated welfare-maximizing taxation rate of 42%. Reducing corruption provides the largest potential impact for welfare gain through its impact on the uses of tax... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
carried interest and a 7% preferred rate of return; second, a 1% management fee with 30% carried interest and a 7% preferred rate of return; or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
compensation. We would note similar problems if we were to look at auditors, at investment analysts, at rating agencies, at virtually every aspect of the governance system in our economy. It's not true of every one of every kind of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
industrial washer in the spin cycle, putting entire industries (arts and entertainment, tourism, food and hospitality) at risk even as others (real estate, construction, and home services) experienced record demand. In the United States,... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
simply, channel stewardship is the ability of a given participant in a distribution channel—a steward—to craft a go-to-market strategy that simultaneously addresses customers' best interests and drives profits for all channel partners. A... View Details
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
in India. During the 1990s, she recalled, "we had coalition governments, no stability in politics, high inflation and a high interest rate environment." In 2001, she added, "the entire banking system... View Details
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
the importance of delivering a consistent message to different stakeholders, and the risks and rewards of introducing external financial information into a firm's planning and operations activities. Martha Lagace: What important themes do... View Details