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- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
Working PapersTraveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani Abstract We develop a framework to examine how politicians with short-term electoral pressures control bureaucrats... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
Jeremy C. Stein Abstract—We study optimal government debt maturity in a model where investors derive monetary services from holding riskless short-term securities. In a setting where the government is the only issuer of such riskless... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
and well-being of others.” He thinks these virtues are not often reflected in what actually happens in real organizational life. Instead, the leaders he sees commonly exhibit immodest, inauthentic, dishonest, untrustworthy, and self-serving behaviors. They are rewarded... View Details
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
"Divergences between ethics and financial self-interest that appear acute in the short-term can narrow or disappear if a longer-term perspective is taken." True, Paine's big-picture purview may be a bit hard to swallow when the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
strategic naïveté. Economic Uncertainty and Earnings Management By: Stein, Luke C.D., and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—In the presence of managerial short-termism and asymmetric information about skill and effort provision, firms may... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
entering this market would present unique challenges for Vanguard. Vanguard had a philosophy espousing low-turnover investing, while ETFs enabled short-term trading. The company would also need to develop a distribution network for ETFs.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
for the upcoming board meeting. The recent financial crisis had vividly highlighted several key issues including the adequacy of short-term liquidity, the effectiveness of portfolio risk management, and the balance of internal and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
relatively more short-term debt, firms fill the resulting gap by issuing more long-term debt, and vice-versa. This type of liquidity provision is undertaken more aggressively: i) in periods when the ratio of government debt to total debt... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
very low, mortgage rates are trending up in 2022, with rates jumping this week. The Federal Reserve Board is set to raise short-term interest rates this month and is expected to raise rates again before the year’s end. What effect will... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
radical business process innovation versus incremental change. It's widely understood that when it comes to product innovation, market-leading firms are often more likely than laggards to pursue product improvements in a very incremental way—a practice that protects... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
They are also focused on short-term performance of the stock market, both in good and bad times, and therefore, perhaps over-reacting to the current events. We need to rebuild trust in management and the institutions that help to make the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
One of them, "Managing Our Way to Economic Decline," a 1980 piece coauthored with the late William Abernathy, became a classic for its warnings about the dangers of sacrificing long-term technological competitiveness in favor of View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
issues surrounding short-term versus long-term investment payoffs, the proportion of the portfolio that should be allocated to venture capital, and the most appropriate investment form-direct investing in entrepreneurial startups, later... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
behave and operate in a more sustainable way? It allows you to envision new markets, new opportunities, and new needs. Very few companies have reached this stage." Boosting Commitment Many companies don't make it to the innovation stage because they focus only on... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
that prioritize shareholder value maximization and short-term financial gains, largely at the expense of employee, climate, and societal welfare, have contributed to this crisis of power concentration. Power sharing entails giving workers... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
you to be flexible and to recognize where the opportunities are; HBS is a long-term school, not a short-term school. The skills we’ve learned here will be valuable for the rest of our lives, not just in our next job. Tyler Koop: I agree.... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Lerner, Morten Sorensen, and Per Strömberg Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures of dispersed shareholders, or whether LBO funds... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—In the presence of managerial short-termism and asymmetric information about skill and effort provision, firms may opportunistically shift earnings from uncertain to more certain times. We document... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Thomas Grenier
to tomorrow, rather than to an idealized vision of what I hope to have accomplished by the distant future. I want to enjoy each day, including the earliest ones, and take time to learn from those around me. This might seem short-term... View Details
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
differentials. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-089.pdf The Bloody Millennium: Internal Conflict in South Asia Author:Lakshmi Iyer Abstract This paper documents the short-term and long-term trends in internal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace