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  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

a founder of neoclassical thought, Irving Fisher was also an active participant in the field of economic forecasting. Fisher made theoretical contributions to the understanding of economic fluctuations, popularized the use of index... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

U.S. Census Bureau's quinquennial Economic Census and the Service Annual Survey. These data, heretofore largely ignored, allow us to redress some of the measurement problems surrounding estimates found in the existing literature. Firm level concentration, as measured... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

construct a spatially continuous index of pairwise-industry agglomeration and investigate the patterns and determinants underlying the global economic geography of multinational firms. In particular, we run a horserace between two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

a (generated) index of "market" beliefs is 20 percent higher for titled squatters than for untitled squatters, in spite of leading otherwise similar lives. Moreover, the effect is sufficiently large so as to make the beliefs of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

Venture Capital’s Comeback

indexes between 1980 and 2002, according to industry research. Firms with median returns lagged indexes by several percentage points, and those in the bottom quarter actually lost money. While demand for top... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 23 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 23

relevant for industries characterized by product proliferation and horizontal differentiation. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/banand/matchmaker2011published.pdf Accelerating the Adoption of Integrated Reporting Authors:Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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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

  • 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

but is unlikely to be able to substitute weak business environment conditions. The second section then deploys a wide range of regional performance data collected for the European Competitiveness Index and the European Cluster... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

people from higher social class countries (as indexed by GDP per capita) had lower levels of internationalism—that is, they made more friendships domestically than abroad. Publisher's link:... View Details
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

HBS Quick Links HBS Home MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton View... View Details
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

cent in Argentina. Chile retains the highest credit rating in Latin America, based on the low 20 per cent ratio of public debt to GDP. In Argentina that ratio is 45 per cent. There remains also a solid institutional foundation for business in Chile. The 2015... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006

after fees has long been in plain view. And the economic advantages of passive index funds have been touted for over a decade, this being especially true in strong markets. The thesis of this article is quite simple: Responsible pensions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

record labels are increasingly experimenting with DRM-less music sales, p2p is superior in this respect. In contrast, metadata (data about data—the indexing data contained in media files such as artist or album name) is superior on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 17 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

Twitter posts between 2016 and 2022 that shared the same headlines that were presented in the surveys. The team used the ratio of likes-to-retweets a post received as an index of the approval it garnered. The more a post was retweeted,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

(NBS) institutional framework (Whitley 1997, 1999), we theorize about and empirically investigate the impact of nation-level institutions on firms' corporate social performance (CSP). Using a sample of firms from 42 countries spanning seven years, we construct an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Aug 2010
  • News

Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

magic-marker-striped index cards and toothpicks) to each sectionmate covertly before class, with instructions. When our French sectionmate was inevitably called upon, the tape recorder button was pushed and everyone waved the "flags" as... View Details
Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 04 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

they buy? There were a lot of stinky products around. He created Vanguard and he created terrific products, these indexed mutual funds. Lots of employers picked up Vanguard, or Fidelity, or T. Rowe Price, and they said, "We're not... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

their experiences, a primer on ETFs, and Jack Brennan’s Leadership Principles. From the emergence of index funds to the success of exchange-traded funds, Inside Vanguard is a near-Shakespearian drama of individual human struggle and... View Details
  • 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

disproportionately affected by international financial integration. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-012.pdf Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Photography Collections Introduction Large Collections Automobile Industry Caterpillar... View Details