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- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
Working PapersEconomic Catastrophe Bonds Authors:Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic states and state prices. In fixed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
classes. While most investors specialize in a single asset class, a handful of generalists can gradually reallocate capital across markets. Upon the arrival of a large supply shock, prices of risk in the directly impacted asset class... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
experiences and internships around the world. While in Boston, Shibayama became close with some Boston University students and was surprised by the prominence of the liberal arts at American universities, which was not the case in Japan.... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
leaders focus on the few things that produce results and experiences for the right customers; (3) the best service operating strategies don't require tradeoffs, so leaders foster "both/and" thinking in designing winning... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
financing a risky venture. Structured experimentation, popularized by Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup, has been widely embraced as the gold standard for how to approach the commercialization of radical new ideas. From Boston to Beijing to Bangalore, entrepreneurs and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
otherwise be shut out of opportunities - I'm a poster child for those” she said. Through her experiences engaging with professional development programs, the stage was set for Ramirez to become a leader who would advance opportunities for... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
having the most material ESG issues, as well as investors anticipating proprietary and political costs as a result of the mandated disclosures. Overall, the results are consistent with the equity market perceiving that this disclosure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
investors should consider in the short term and long term as they think about the future of the space economy. This conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Baskin: What are the highest-growth areas in the space... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
banker knew she was eminently qualified, yet such opportunities seemed to evade her. “Everybody wants somebody with previous public board experience or who has been a CEO or CFO at a publicly traded company,” she says. In Dozie’s view,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
service technologies from a provider, customer, and investor perspective. Customers are concerned with integration and driving down costs, said Steven Lewis, Microsoft's general manager of .net market development. "There is a lot of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Saigal knew her... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
cost-effective to experiment and incorporate the results of the experimentation into the system. KB: So a modular design with, say, ten modules might justify ten or more trial designs per module. The module designers can View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
companies expand significantly, particularly those that had avoided upfront venture capital funding. The risk, however, paid off thanks to Stamps’s ability to both attract investors and guide entrepreneurs in growing their companies. In a... View Details
- Profile
Prita Kumar
said to myself, `You’re not going to have an income during this time anyway, so why don’t you go ahead and try to make the most of the experience and try out an idea and move it along?’” From her first semester in the fall of 2012,... View Details
- 02 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Finding My Focus in Health care Amidst a Global Pandemic
enough to find myself at Flatiron Health, a health-tech company focused on oncology. For the next three years, I worked on building strategic partnerships between Flatiron and biopharma companies developing the next generation of cancer drugs. This View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
been rising for everyone, we might feel differently about executive compensation, but in fact the gap between top and bottom has grown dramatically. Paul Healy: Short-Term Pressures The freedoms that we’ ve been given as investors in the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
lead investor in their $2.1 million seed round last year. “You really never know how those doors can open for you. It’s so important as an entrepreneur to be able to put yourself out there and pitch in any forum you can find. Winning... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
the argument that counterfeit competence is driven by self-protection, we find individuals do not predict they would experience such a boost (Study 5) and that cheating after threat offers benefits similar to those provided by other... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
and two laboratory experiments in food service settings suggest that transparency that 1) allows customers to observe operational processes (process transparency) and 2) allows employees to observe customers (customer transparency) not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online
factor into firing decisions Identify three types of fairness in employee-employer relationships 7-9 hrs Module 3 - 1 Week Investor Responsibilities and Fiduciary Duties Explore due diligence and how fiduciary duties influence leadership... View Details