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    James E. Austin

    Dr. Austin holds the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. Previously he held the John G. McLean Professorship and the Richard P. Chapman Professorship. He has been a member of the Harvard... View Details

    Keywords: agribusiness
    • July 1998
    • Supplement

    Bell Atlantic in Union City

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
    In this pioneering project to wire a school for the Internet and put computers in students' homes, Bell Atlantic combined its need for a beta site for a technology trial with the school reform efforts of the Union City, New Jersey public schools, under the leadership... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Social Enterprise; Internet and the Web; Education; Business and Community Relations; Education Industry; New Jersey
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    • 18 Oct 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks

    Keywords: by John Y. Campbell, Carolin E. Pflueger & Luis M. Viceira

      Gerald C. Chertavian

      Gerald Chertavian is the Founder of Year Up, one of the nation’s largest and most effective youth workforce development programs. Chertavian was a successful technology entrepreneur and Wall Street banker, but it was through his many years as a Big Brother... View Details

        David B. Yoffie

        Professor David B. Yoffie is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. A member of the HBS faculty since 1981, Professor Yoffie received his... View Details

        Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; financial services; information; information technology industry; internet; retail financial services; semiconductor; soft drink; telecommunications; video games

          TraceTogether

          By April 7, 2020, over 1.4 million people worldwide had contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Governments raced to curb the spread of COVID-19 by scaling up testing, quarantining those infected, and tracing their possible contacts. It had taken Singapore's... View Details

            Andy Zelleke

            Andy Zelleke is the MBA Class of 1962 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. A member of the General Management unit, he is the Faculty Chair of HBS’ Middle East & North Africa Research Center.

            Since Spring 2021, Dr. Zelleke has taught “Unpacking... View Details

            Keywords: federal government; professional services; defense; financial services

              Rohit Deshpande

              Rohit Deshpandé is a Baker Foundation Professor and Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Advanced Management Program,... View Details

              Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; airline; banking; beauty products; beverage; financial services; home video games; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; tourism; video games
              • 2010
              • Chapter

              The Euro as a Reserve Currency for Global Investors

              By: Luis M. Viceira and Ricardo Gimeno
              This article explores the demand for the euro for risk management purposes and the evidence of stock market integration in the euro area. We define a reserve currency as one that investors demand either because it helps them hedge real interest risk and inflation risk,... View Details
              Keywords: Volatility; Inflation and Deflation; Capital Markets; Currency; Stocks; Financial Markets; Financing and Loans; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management
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                Caroline M. Elkins

                Caroline Elkins is the Thomas Henry Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government and International Economy unit at HBS. She is also Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, an... View Details

                • January – March 2012
                • Article

                Bond Risk, Bond Return Volatility, and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

                By: Luis M. Viceira
                This paper explores time variation in bond risk, as measured by the covariation of bond returns with stock returns and with consumption growth, and in the volatility of bond returns. A robust stylized fact in empirical finance is that the spread between the yield on... View Details
                Keywords: Bonds; Volatility; Forecasting and Prediction; Interest Rates; Inflation and Deflation; Investment Return; Risk and Uncertainty; Currency Exchange Rate; Cash Flow; Stocks
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                  The a2 Milk Company

                  The a2 Milk Company (a2MC) became the most valuable company listed on the New Zealand stock exchange in 2018 by capitalizing on a biochemical discovery related to the protein composition of cow’s milk--cows naturally produce two types of beta casein proteins (A1 and... View Details
                  • 2013
                  • Working Paper

                  Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly

                  By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
                  Minimum capital requirements are a central tool of banking regulation. Setting them balances a number of factors, including any effects on the cost of capital and in turn the rates available to borrowers. Standard theory predicts that, in perfect and efficient capital... View Details
                  Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Cost of Capital; Capital Markets; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; United States
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                    Bank Capital and the Low Risk Anomaly

                    Minimum capital requirements are a central tool of banking regulation. Setting them balances a number of factors, including any effects on the cost of capital and in turn the rates available to borrowers. Standard theory predicts that, in perfect and efficient... View Details

                      Stephen P. Bradley

                      Professor Bradley is the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. In addition to teaching Management and Strategy in the Owner President Management Program and leading an... View Details

                      Keywords: e-commerce industry; financial services; health care; high technology; internet; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications
                      • September 2012 (Revised May 2015)
                      • Case

                      Philips-Visicu

                      By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Natalie Kindred and Sara M. McKinley
                      Would the advent of global payment models and ACOs create sufficient demand for a telemedicine offering covering the care continuum, from hospitals to the home? This was the decision facing Royal Philips Electronics (Philips), the Netherlands-based producer of... View Details
                      Keywords: Health Care; Philips; Visicu; Telemedicine; eICU; Accountable Care Organization; ACO; Bundled Payment; Hospital To Home; Patient Monitoring Devices; Home Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Communication Technology; Quality; Safety; Performance Productivity; Performance Capacity; Performance Efficiency; Consumer Behavior; Emerging Markets; Health Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Netherlands
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                      • 30 Jan 2024
                      • Research & Ideas

                      ‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash

                      user contributions spiked, generating 27 percent more repos compared with those that weren’t eligible for sponsorship. Once the beta period ended, sponsorable users contributed 30 percent more repos than non-sponsorable users. But once a... View Details
                      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
                      • Web

                      Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

                      sentiment in the US stock market More Info Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Malcolm P. Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler AUG 2020 Baker, Hoeyer, and Wurgler propose a simple tradeoff theory to explain the well-known weak empirical relationship... View Details
                      • 02 May 2023
                      • What Do You Think?

                      How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?

                      These three competitors are going all out to bring to light the fruits of work they’ve been engaged in for as long as a decade. The usual beta testing in the market is now underway; the kinks will be worked out with the help of all of us.... View Details
                      Keywords: by James Heskett; Information Technology; Technology
                      • 06 Jun 2013
                      • Working Paper Summaries

                      Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly

                      Keywords: by Malcolm Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler; Banking; Financial Services