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  • 19 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

would come out strong, in fact ties from non–Ivy League schools were just as powerful, the researchers learned. They detail the results and implications in an HBS working paper, "Sell Side School Ties" [PDF]. "Our findings suggest that View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Intrinsic Motivation and Referrals Within Firms: Evidence from a Large Microfinance Institution

By: Natalia Rigol and Benjamin N. Roth
Many organizations rely on internal referrals between employees with differing comparative advantages. Yet when an employee encounters a lucrative opportunity, they may be motivated to retain it even when doing so harms efficiency. We develop a framework that... View Details
Keywords: Loan Officers; Strategic Behavior; Strategic Disclosure; Microfinance; Financial Institutions; Financing and Loans
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Business & Environment

entire United States for over a decade, with rich information on mortgage contracts, property characteristics, and climate exposures. We document pervasive under-insurance, particularly among the most financially vulnerable households. We... View Details
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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

experimentation with financial stability. You will return to your company prepared to build change strategies that inspire organizational change and drive corporate success. This program is eligible for the Certificate of Management... View Details
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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

Accounting & Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students May 2025 Case Initial Financial Statements at Blank Corporation: Bridging Content and Commerce By: Jung Koo Kang , Panje Jayden... View Details
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Finding Job Opportunities - Alumni

our 12twenty (our recruiting platform) to post opportunities for experienced talent. Want to get notified about newly posted opportunities? Create search agents to alert you when new jobs that meet your custom criteria are posted in the... View Details
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

  Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

Venture Capital Investment Cycles: The Impact of Public Markets Authors:Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner, and David Scharfstein Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming). (Earlier version distributed as National... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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General Management - Faculty & Research

offering specialized trade finance services to Asian markets eased both financial and information frictions. Tariff-hit firms with specialized banks borrowed at lower rates and were 15 pps more likely and 3 months faster to establish new... View Details
  • 09 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever—A Case Study

lower financial returns than their domestic equivalents in the United States. 9 One explanation for this phenomenon might be transfer pricing, but this has proved hard to verify empirically. The industry mix is another possibility, but... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage; Manufacturing; Retail
  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

exportadoras, mayoristas e industriales-canalizaron recursos por distintas vías para contribuir a atender la demanda de capital. Un agente clave en la redistribución del crédito, a nivel local, fue el sector de los comerciantes rurales.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Turning Point: Where Credit Is Due

from HBS, the reality of the financial burden dawned on me. The HBS fellowship I received was generous but not enough to cover the entire tuition. Consequently, I turned to Mongolia’s government-sponsored education loan fund. I... View Details
Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008

  Working PapersSome Neglected Axioms in Fair Division Author:John W. Pratt Abstract Conditions one might impose on fair allocation procedures are introduced. Nondiscrimination requires that agents share an item in proportion to their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Health Care - Faculty & Research

rewards are more effective when the peer group is larger. Overall, the findings demonstrate the power of non-financial rewards to motivate agents in settings where there are limits to the use of financial... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

stories of his great-grandmother Georgia Joyner, a sales agent for Madam C.J. Walker, the Black entrepreneur considered to be the first female self-made millionaire in the United States, and his great-great-great grandfather William... View Details
Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

utilize newly available individual-level data on homeowners insurance contracts covering the entire United States for over a decade, with rich information on mortgage contracts, property characteristics, and climate exposures. We document pervasive under-insurance,... View Details
  • 29 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Do Employees Work Harder for Higher Pay?

In a famous scene from the film "Jerry Maguire," NFL wide receiver Rod Tidwell repeatedly screams, "Show me the money!" as his agent listens on the other end of the telephone. Intuition might tell us that showing the money motivates, and... View Details
Keywords: by Chuck Leddy & Harvard Gazette
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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Lehman Brothers Timeline Sept-Oct 2008 Video-Coverage of the Financial Crisis Download the Exhibition Catalog (PDF) Lehman Brothers Archives Lehman Brothers Deal Books Search Exhibition Lehman Brothers - Introduction 1840s – 1880s General... View Details
  • 09 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

But the ascendancy of agency theory—the idea that shareholders are owners of the corporation and managers their agents in a quest to maximize shareholder value—need not be one of them. Agency theory will not be a problem if we bend it to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett