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- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54634 forthcoming Journal of Finance Limited Investment Capital and Credit Spreads By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary credit default swap... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
The Indian economy has been teetering on the brink for the past few months. The most manifest of these problems has been the crash of the Indian rupee, which has shown a decline View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
default for those who don’t make an active choice: pharmacy pick-up without insurance subsidies. Under this program, 42% of eligible employees actively choose home delivery, 39% actively choose pharmacy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
deployment raised the likelihood of floor worker autonomy. But communication technologies served to lower autonomy, meaning more decisions happened at the corporate level. "I was reassured and surprised... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
breadth and diversity of Harvard representing the One Harvard, cross disciplinary approach to innovation that builds community and connection among the ventures. “We hope by building community we will accelerate their development and... View Details
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
prices of used ships to fall by as much as 80%. As ship prices (values?) fell, ship owners began to default on loans and new purchase contracts while banks holding loans secured by ships faced the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
illustration of that point; BP is very profitable, but there is official evidence that it continues to compromise safety.) Gerald Nanninga, on the other hand, argued that profit is a default measure,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
re-occurring phenomenon of sovereign default has prompted an enormous theoretical and empirical literature. Most of this research has focused on why countries ever chose to pay... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
4.2 percent less likely to land $10 million or more in investment capital within five years. This represents a significant reduction given that the average likelihood of raising this amount is 25 percent.... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607015 The Mozilla Foundation: Launching Firefox 1.0 (A) Harvard Business School Case 907-015 Explores the Mozilla Foundation's decisions leading up to the launch of Firefox... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
within targeted firms, the likelihood of adoption increases in the degree of voting support for the proposal; (iii) non-targeted firms were more likely to adopt ESO expensing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
a one-fifth reduction in the likelihood of losing their board seat and in the likelihood of losing other directorships. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
make it move the way you want," says Malloy. Team members Nami Singhal, Trish Higgins, and Yura Mikhalev (all MBA 2013) used a case that Singhal had studied about Argentina's volatile political system as background information to predict that the country would... View Details
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
their collective interest levels to implement a regression discontinuity approach. We confirm the positive effects for venture operations, with qualitative support for a higher likelihood of successful... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Leaving an Unhappy Job: How to Look Before You Leap
As a career coach at HBS, Matt Spielman (MBA 1999) has heard the groans of frustrated professionals who are unhappy in their current jobs and faced with an urgent question: should they leave immediately or wait until they've secured their... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
likelihood of turnover and promotion. Survival analyses reveal that higher proportions of same-sex and same-race superiors enhance junior professionals' career mobility. On the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Start-Up Contest for Alumni
Chicago, New York, Northern California, Southern California, London, Brazil, and India — will judge business plans in March with the winners advancing to a final round at HBS on April 26. Applicants will be judged on the likelihood View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
number of competitors increases. Greater rivalry reduces the incentives of all competitors in a contest to exert effort and make investments. At the same time, adding competitors increases the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
For commercial debt backed by real estate collateral, non-performing loans rise more than 81 percent once the crisis hits. “Once you have defaults in the commercial sector, the bank balance sheet is handicapped. And we show that, for... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
Summing Up Let's Pay for Performance But How? In spite of its naysayers, pay for performance still makes sense to most of us, according to those responding to this month's column. But there is a difference... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett