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- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
efficiency. I'll first consider a range of examples, from slavery and indentured servitude (which once were not as repugnant as they now are) to lending money for interest (which used to be widely repugnant and is now not), and from bans... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
sales. If the economy remains shut for more than a couple of months, the enterprise will not survive. A creative donor rushing in with debt at low rates and a grace period may decide the future access of the majority of Mexicans to good... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
PublicationsThe New M&A Playbook Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising, and Andrew Waldeck Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Companies spend more than $2 trillion on acquisitions every year, yet the M&A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
interest rate risk premium and a changing liquidity risk premium, and that the variability in the nominal bond risk premia reflects a changing inflation risk premium. We estimate significant time series... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
observers rate those who reveal even questionable behavior more positively (experiments 4A and 4B). The negative impact of hiding holds whether opting not to disclose unflattering (drug use, poor grades, and sexually transmitted diseases)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
study the dynamics of multi-round position auctions, considering both the case of exogenous click-through rates and the case in which click-through rates are determined by an endogenous consumer search... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
other prime locations in Chicago Downtown, and high interest rates suggested he should think long and hard before committing the company's resources to this speculative undertaking. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
evaluated under more permissive incentive schemes are rated significantly less risky than the same loans evaluated under pay-for-performance. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
mass shootings lead to laws that actually loosen gun restrictions. Frustrated that the US firearm-related death rate hasn’t seen a meaningful reduction in more than a decade, the HBS team is hoping their latest research might point the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
a period of financial repression. Nationalization led to lower interest rates and lower quality intermediation and may have slowed employment gains in trade and services. Development lending goals were met,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
of Summit's funds that were ten years old or older were in the top quartile, and he said he believed the 1999 fund he's involved with would likely occupy a similar spot when exits were made and the returns counted. "But that means single-digit (internal View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
policy may reflect dividend-averse institutions gravitating towards low dividend paying firms or managers adapting their payout policies to the interests of their institutional shareholders. Evidence is provided that both effects are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
economic and social value. The goal of the corporation is to add value to employees, customers, suppliers and other partners, and community/society. These CEOs and the companies they lead make decisions with the interests of these other... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
difference across innovation systems is whether disclosure is of intermediate progress and solutions or of completed innovations. We present experimental evidence that links intermediate versus final disclosure not just with quantitative tradeoffs that shape the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
parameter is calibrated to local interest rates. A quantitative exercise calibrated to Brazil finds welfare gains of the optimal fiscal policy to be economically substantial, and the optimal rule to not entail a countercyclical fiscal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
rate of 37% is fairly close to the model's estimated welfare-maximizing taxation rate of 42%. Reducing corruption provides the largest potential impact for welfare gain through its impact on the uses of tax... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
trends in cost behavior. First, when revenues are growing, "indirect" costs related to sales, distribution, marketing, personnel, technology, and occupancy are far from fixed in this industry. In some cases they are "supervariable" or rising at a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
targeted Internal Rates of Return at or above 20% annually. They now had to decide which opportunity was the best match to the Fund's investment profile and showed the highest economic promise. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
executive programs on jumpstarting innovation that I chair for executives in large firms and owners of small to midsize businesses are all oversubscribed. This interest in innovation is confirmed by an IBM study in 2006 that asked over... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
one season in which I can show my wife that I'm actually reading books at a rate that approaches that with which I buy them. Therefore, I tackle long books only after considerable consideration. This summer, I am hoping to read an... View Details
Keywords: by Staff