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- 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
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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
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
time. Optimal Deterrence When Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid in Arrears—With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed observation of agents' types. I View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
or she provides through direct payments, it is also critical to incorporate the indirect value generated through the customer’s social influence. In this note we develop a framework for measuring and quantifying the social value that a customer generates. We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
change is accommodation-helping individuals accommodate their work demands with no changes in the structure of work or cultural expectations of ideal workers. The purpose of this article is to derive a Work Redesign Model and compare it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
I. Norton Abstract—This research provides the first support for a possible psychological universal: human beings around the world derive emotional benefits from using their financial resources to help others (prosocial spending). In Study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
criteria. Hang Lung Properties is known for rigorous due diligence, for discipline in buying property, and for good understanding of market cycles. The (B) case reveals the firms assumptions in the Chengdu situation, as compared to what students had to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Harvard Business School Case 208-099 Primus is a credit derivative product company. How will they weather the credit crisis of 2007? Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
learn, the real benefit to the organization lies among many dimensions, only one of which is more knowledgeable people. The other is that coaches do not just teach domain knowledge, they teach how to learn. And so they teach people how to experiment and to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Deterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed observation of agents' types. I View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
get to know one another, so they decided to offer late dinners where participants could linger and talk to each other and faculty members without the pressure of having to rush off to complete a homework assignment. Hart and Amabile realized from the outset that the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
these conventions, pension assets and liabilities are not included in balance sheet calculations. The modern risk management tools of derivatives technologies can improve both corporate decision making and external analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
or grandchildren. But it just happened to have the progressive lenses that they needed at a lower cost and an easy accessibility. And now, over 50% of their revenue derives from progressive lenses. [music] DM: You also talk about the... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
transition to black majority rule. The account in this working paper carefully describes—but does not analyze nor draw lessons from—these challenging negotiations. Forthcoming papers will provide analysis and derive general insights from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
(Frank) Li, and Dylan B. Minor Abstract—We link the corporate governance literature in financial economics to the agency cost perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to derive theoretical predictions about the relationship... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
purchases―used to proxy for private information―are reduced following IFRS adoption. Similar results are derived across numerous subsamples and proxies used to isolate IFRS effects attributable to comparability. Together, the findings are... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
stocks: stocks of large, mature, low-volatility, profitable, dividend-paying firms that are neither high growth nor distressed. Variables derived from the yield curve that are already known to predict returns on bonds also predict returns... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
makes up 33% of Lan's overall revenues (markedly different from many U.S. legacy carriers that derive 3% to 4% of revenues from cargo). Since a change of ownership in 1994, Lan has grown steadily and quickly at a compound annual growth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
in a tenuous balance in its journey towards a sense of true belonging, equitable inclusion, and authentic representation. We still have a long way to go, but from this imperfect reality I also derive the motivation to help tackle the work... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
inherently a platform for performing computations as dictated by their programs. I state and prove five propositions about platform systems, which stand in contrast to the propositions derived for step processes in Chapter 8. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman