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  • 13 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

groups by combining information from data analytic firms like Burgiss and PitchBook with SEC filings and research from public sources like LinkedIn, news articles, commercial datasets, and private communications. The researchers noted... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services
  • 09 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 9

a task that requires information on companies' emissions levels, risks, and reduction opportunities. This paper explores the conditions under which firms participate in this endeavor. Building on theories of how social activists inspire... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

benchmark setting, the marketplace mode is preferred if and only if the variance of local information exceeds the squared value of spillovers from marketing activities across products. We explore several... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?

whether a digital subscription was a substitute for or complement to the print subscription. When a company saw increased print subscriptions after creating a paywall, the paywall was found to have a positive spillover effect on print... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting
  • 09 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

"Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs," describes this research. Q: What are you working on next? A: I'm working with David Levine (UC Berkeley) to examine how companies' adoption of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

to counterfactuals, multinationals with greater factor-market externalities, knowledge spillovers, and vertical linkages exhibit significant co-agglomeration. The importance of these factors differs across headquarters, subsidiary, and employment networks, but... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: January 5

to counterfactuals, multinationals with greater factor-market externalities, knowledge spillovers, and vertical linkages exhibit significant co-agglomeration. The importance of these factors differs across headquarters, subsidiary, and employment networks, but... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

financial variables. They use a diagnostic expectations version of a dispersed information learning model to explain why individual forecasters typically overreact to news, while consensus forecasts underreact relative to full-information... View Details
  • 21 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54887 forthcoming Production and Operations Management The Operational Value of Social Media Information By: Cui, Ruomeng, Santiago Gallino, Antonio Moreno, and Dennis J. Zhang... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

highlights the key insights from the rich firm-level literature on MNCs. We then focus on how financial conditions in host countries affect the extent of FDI-related capital inflows, shape the operations of foreign firms, and mediate the extent of productivity View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

retailer, we find that showrooms (1) increase demand overall and in the online channel as well; (2) generate operational spillovers to the other channels by attracting customers who, on average, have a higher cost-to-serve; (3) improve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=25120&i=25122&cs=0b17ff7f3d16c64e4a6b72b71b876054 2013 pub Information and Subsidies: Complements or Substitutes? By: Ashraf, Nava, B. Kelsey Jack, and Emir Kamenica... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 20 May 2008
  • News

Endowment Tax Debate Puts Harvard on the Spot

Universities in Massachusetts. Then there’s the collective brainpower of their faculties and the spillover into public- and private-sector research and job generation. And even if the tax idea had merit, enforcing it would create huge... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 19 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

spillover effect to the private sector. The authors studied what happened after municipal governments in California adopted policies that required public (but not private) building renovations and new construction to build "green," which... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Nov 2024
  • In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

one-on-ones, to digital messaging. Your storytelling challenge isn’t over after one grim layoff email. Frances X. Frei is the UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management at HBS. Anne Morriss is a leadership coach. Their latest book is Move Fast and Fix Things. Maria... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Information Technology
  • 06 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

firms. We show that the spillover is stronger in higher-yielding and more financially open markets and for firms with a higher reliance on foreign bank credit. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53992... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

capture important information seemingly ignored by the market. A long-short portfolio based on these legislators' views earns abnormal returns of over 90 basis points per month following the passage of legislation. Industries that we... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

A Healthy Profit

Matrix allows users—health officials, for example—to assign weights to traditional measures that define the scale of health problems, the impact of diseases on household income, the medical and social spillovers of disease onto other... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Outsourcing firms seeking to avoid reputational spillovers that can arise from dangerous, illegal, and unethical behavior at supply chain factories increasingly rely on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 1

that have informed LGBT organizational research from the late nineteenth century to date. The frames include a "medical abnormality," "deviant social role," "collective identity," and "social... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel