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- 14 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
The 2+2 Program: Finding the Freedom to Take Risks
brilliant classmates, join clubs, and explore questions around business, capitalism (and how to reimagine it!), life, and everything in between. For anybody who is considering applying to the 2+2 Program, my... View Details
- 16 Sep 2016
- News
The Morning Risk Report: Better Performance Follows ESG Proposals
- 2023
- Working Paper
Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation
By: Dae Woong Ham, Michael Lindon, Martin Tingley and Iavor Bojinov
Randomized experiments have become the standard method for companies to evaluate the performance of new products or services. In addition to augmenting managers’ decision-making, experimentation mitigates risk by limiting the proportion of customers exposed to... View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Research and Development; Analytics and Data Science; Consumer Behavior
Ham, Dae Woong, Michael Lindon, Martin Tingley, and Iavor Bojinov. "Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-070, May 2023.
- October 2022
- Article
When Does Moral Engagement Risk Triggering a Hypocrite Penalty?
By: Jillian J. Jordan and Roseanna Sommers
Society suffers when people stay silent on moral issues. Yet people who engage morally may appear hypocritical if they behave imperfectly themselves. Research reveals that hypocrites can—but do not always—trigger a “hypocrisy penalty,” whereby they are evaluated... View Details
Jordan, Jillian J., and Roseanna Sommers. "When Does Moral Engagement Risk Triggering a Hypocrite Penalty?" Art. 101404. Special Issue on Honesty and Deception edited by Maurice E. Schweitzer, Emma Levine. Current Opinion in Psychology 47 (October 2022).
- 16 Sep 2014
- News
Harvard Study Warns Business Community Of Economic Inequality Risks
- 2018
- Book
A Crisis of Beliefs: Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility
By: Nicola Gennaioli and Andrei Shleifer
The collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 caught markets and regulators by surprise. Although the government rushed to rescue other financial institutions from a similar fate after Lehman, it could not prevent the deepest recession in postwar history. A... View Details
Keywords: Financial Fragility; Economic Risk; Investor Behavior; Behavioral Economics; Financial Crisis; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Investment; Values and Beliefs; United States
Gennaioli, Nicola, and Andrei Shleifer. A Crisis of Beliefs: Investor Psychology and Financial Fragility. Princeton University Press, 2018.
Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation.
Randomized experiments have become the standard method for companies to evaluate the performance of new products or services. In addition to augmenting managers' decision-making, experimentation mitigates risk by limiting the proportion of customers exposed to... View Details
- Article
Forward Discount Bias: Is It an Exchange Risk Premium?
By: K. A. Froot and J. Frankel
Keywords: Currencies; Exchange Rates; International Macroeconomics; Monetary Policy; Currency Controls; Fixed Exchange Rates; Floating Exchange Rates; Currency Bands; Currency Zones; Currency Areas; Rational Expectations; Asset Pricing
Froot, K. A., and J. Frankel. "Forward Discount Bias: Is It an Exchange Risk Premium?" Quarterly Journal of Economics 104, no. 1 (February 1989): 139–161. (Revision of "Findings of Forward Discount Bias Interpreted in Light of Exchange Rate Survey Data," NBER Working Paper No. 1963 and Sloan Working Paper No. 1906-87, August 1987. Reprinted in Advances in Behavioral Finance, edited by Richard Thaler. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1993: 359-382 and in Speculation and Financial Markets, edited by M. Taylor and L. Gallagher. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2001.)
- October 2015
- Case
DPDHL Group: Employee Safety and Wellbeing
By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Management at Deutsche Post DHL Group is designing a three-country test of investment in a new health and wellbeing strategy. View Details
Keywords: Health; Wellbeing; Wellness; Safety; Risk; Employees; Human Resources; Risk Management; Service Industry; China; Mexico; Middle East
Quelch, John A., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "DPDHL Group: Employee Safety and Wellbeing." Harvard Business School Case 516-049, October 2015.
- April 2011 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
BANEX and the No Pago Movement (A)
By: Shawn Cole and Baily Blair Kempner
This case examines Grassroots Capital's decision of whether or not to continue investing in a Bolivian microfinance bank that is suffering financial distress. View Details
Keywords: Base Of The Pyramid; Political Risk; Microfinance; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Government and Politics; Investment; Risk Management; Financial Services Industry; Bolivia
Cole, Shawn, and Baily Blair Kempner. "BANEX and the No Pago Movement (A)." Harvard Business School Case 211-092, April 2011. (Revised March 2021.)
- February 1998
- Article
The Impact of Contingent Liability on Commercial Bank Risk Taking
By: B. C. Esty
Esty, B. C. "The Impact of Contingent Liability on Commercial Bank Risk Taking." Journal of Financial Economics 47, no. 2 (February 1998): 189–218.
- 24 Feb 2016
- News
How the Apple/FBI Fight Risks the U.S. Tech Industry
- May 2021
- Article
Risk-Mitigating Technologies: The Case of Radiation Diagnostic Devices
By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
We study the impact of consumers’ risk perception on firm innovation. Our analysis exploits a major surge in the perceived risk of radiation diagnostic devices following extensive media coverage of a set of over-radiation accidents involving CT scanners in late 2009.... View Details
Keywords: Risk Perception; Innovation; Medical Devices; Liability Risk; Risk and Uncertainty; Perception; Technological Innovation
Galasso, Alberto, and Hong Luo. "Risk-Mitigating Technologies: The Case of Radiation Diagnostic Devices." Management Science 67, no. 5 (May 2021): 3022–3040.
- Web
Career Risks and Professional Growth: Finding a Fulfilling Career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) - Recruiting
Insights & Advice 22 Jan 2025 Career Risks and Professional Growth: Finding a Fulfilling Career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) Paige Arnof-Fenn Author Alumni tag All Industries All Locations Alumni Student... View Details
- 1987
- Chapter
Pension Plan Integration as Insurance against Social Security Risk
By: Robert C. Merton, Zvi Bodie and Alan J. Marcus
- September 1984
- Article
The Evolution of Market Risk in the U.S. Steel Industry and Implications for Required Rates of Return
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, J. J. Tribendis and J. P. Clark
Baldwin, Carliss Y., J. J. Tribendis, and J. P. Clark. "The Evolution of Market Risk in the U.S. Steel Industry and Implications for Required Rates of Return." Journal of Industrial Economics 32, no. 5 (September 1984).
- 2014
- Other Unpublished Work
Enter the Dragon: Risks from China to Latin America
By: Laura Alfaro, Guillermo Calvo, Alberto Carrasquilla, Pedro Carvalho de Mello, Pedro De Gregorio, Roque Benjamin Fernandez, Pablo Guidotti, Guillermo Perry, Carmen Reinhart, Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Ernesto Talvi
Alfaro, Laura, Guillermo Calvo, Alberto Carrasquilla, Pedro Carvalho de Mello, Pedro De Gregorio, Roque Benjamin Fernandez, Pablo Guidotti, Guillermo Perry, Carmen Reinhart, Liliana Rojas-Suarez, and Ernesto Talvi. "Enter the Dragon: Risks from China to Latin America." Comité Latinoamericano de Asuntos Financieros (CLAAF) Statement, no. 31, June 2014. (See CLAAF 's website for previous statements.)
- 1998
- Chapter
God and Fair Competition: Does the Foreign Direct Investor Face Still Other Risks in Emerging Markets
By: L. T. Wells Jr. and T. Moran