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- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
Abstract—Endoscopic/Colonoscopic procedures are done either with gastroenterologist-administered conscious sedation or with anesthesia-administered sedation with propofol. Anesthesia-administered sedation has medical and patient benefits but is more expensive to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
alternative investment firm peers in assets under management, new business launches, profitability, and market capitalization. Under the leadership of Stephen A. Schwarzman, chairman and CEO, and president and COO Hamilton ("Tony") James, Blackstone's growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
analyst recommendations. Using a unique data set that discloses brokerage firms' commission income derived from each mutual fund client as well as the share holdings of these mutual funds, we find that an analyst's recommendation on a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
Business derives its legitimacy from ideology—the ideas of property rights and marketplace competition, for example. In the 1980s, Professor Ezra Vogel of Harvard and I compared the ideologies of nine countries, noting how the sources of... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
distant markets, by being able as outsiders to see the major social schisms common in host labor markets and potentially exploit the social divide for their own competitive advantage. Using two unique data sets from South Korea, we show that multinationals in the 2000s... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
citizen in 1980.) Established at the Bretton Woods conference of world leaders in 1944 and today consisting of 180 member countries, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development makes low-cost, long-term loans (with funds View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
Design Rules: The Power of Modularity (Volume 1) by Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark (The MIT Press) Today's fast-paced global economy often seems to operate as an independent force, but its products, firms, and markets are all derived... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Abstract Using a sample of U.S. financial institutions, we exploit recent mandatory disclosures of financial instruments designated as fair value level 1, 2, and 3 to test whether greater information risk in financial instrument fair values leads to higher cost of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Business School, olvwork88210 Founded in 1881 by two non-Native white men, John Healy and Charles Bigelow, the Kickapoo Indian Medicine Company sold “healing” salves and cures, including a concoction they called “Sagwa.” Allegedly derived... View Details
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
vision is that it will be an independent, nonprofit organization deriving its funding either from foundation or government grants, or from the sale of its information. Q: The typical U.S. investor is more informed about financial markets... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Jorge Tamayo Abstract—Canonical models of criminal behavior highlight the importance of economic incentives and employment opportunities in determining participation in crime (Becker, 1968). Yet, deriving causal corroborating evidence... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
commitment and derive an exclusion restriction that is useful to identify the relevant commitment scenario. The empirical analysis takes advantage of a data set on Spanish soccer player contracts. Our test rejects the commitment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
expressed in its earlier statement. The new statement includes the following: In the Business Roundtable’s view, the paramount duty of management and of boards of directors is to the corporation’s stockholders; the interests of other stakeholders are relevant as a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
together and derive comprehensive solutions. This really clicked when we had a case on child labor. This, to me, was a clearly abhorrent situation. Why would it be OK to have 10-year-old children chained while stitching soccer balls?... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
very good at predicting either supply or demand in the oil industry," Stobaugh observes. "A little less than two years ago the price of oil was $10 or $11 a barrel. Now it's up around $30. Very few people predicted that, and those who did were not believed. "The demand... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
opportunity in reverse. I know that now. Philip Ebeling (AMP 185, 2013) SVP, R-&-D, St. Jude Medical A foundation and a catalyst In September 2001, I quit my job as VP for derivatives training at an investment bank to start my own View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
examine a prominent justification for capital income taxation: goods preferred by those with high ability ought to be taxed. In an environment where commodity taxes are allowed to be nonlinear functions of income and consumption, we View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
complete, and advertisers can extend this delay both to improve detection of improper partner practices and to punish partners who turn out to be rule-breakers. I capture these relationships in a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
ill-defined. Instead, these measures reflect the arbitrary labeling of underlying fiscal conditions. Analyses based on these and derivative measures, such as disposable income, private assets, and personal saving, represent exercises in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
What are the benefits of this integration? A: One benefit derives from the literature itself. Through the novels, plays, short stories, and historical accounts students are brought much closer to life as it is really lived, certainly... View Details