Money Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11

firms identified by Google and Yahoo Finance, as well as product market competitors gleaned from 10-K disclosures, turned in consistently worse performances. We contextualize these results in a simple model that predicts when information... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

should hire for curiosity, model inquisitiveness, emphasize learning goals, let workers explore and broaden their interests, and have “Why?” “What if ?” and How might we ?” days. Doing so will help their organizations adapt to uncertain View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

countries through both formal business relationships and informal contacts. Formal mechanisms run the spectrum from direct financial investment in overseas businesses that pursue technology opportunities to facilitating contracts and View Details

Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer

06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

larger class of financial and managerial consultants who sought to refine business decision-making through the introduction of statistical data and scientific analysis. The failure of most forecasting agencies to predict the stock market... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

and Enel, the largest electric utilities in Germany and Italy, respectively. In March 2007, Acciona's executive chairman Jose Manuel Entrecanales is considering three strategic alternatives: tendering its shares-and realizing a capital gain of 1.2 billion, 13% of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

you're taking to business value creation, then asking for your customers' opinions and desires is not the way to go. In another case, David Lewis, the chief designer of Bang & Olufsen, said in an interview, "I don't believe in View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

20 Feb 2013
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Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

Business Administration and author of Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups As United States equity markets and corporate balance sheets continue their remarkable comeback from... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation

16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

author cites a number of companies that have moved toward or into what he calls "the efficiency frontier." These include Sarvajal, in India, which saves money and eliminates waste by selling direct to customers through its... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

U.S. data. We confirm that the equity of better-capitalized banks has lower systematic risk (beta) and lower idiosyncratic risk. However, over the last 40 years, lower risk banks have higher stock returns on a risk-adjusted or even a raw basis, consistent with a stock... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

competitive pressures in a saturated market. As 2018 dawned, all parties were assessing the deal’s implications. Had the stock market overreacted to news of the deal? Why was Amazon buying Whole Foods? What were the long-term implications... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

The bottom line is, after all, the bottom line when it comes to business success. No profit, no business. But should money be the sole measure for evaluating and rewarding the effectiveness of a leader? In a new Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 May 2003
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Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

the board take into account? Bagley: The Business Roundtable is to be commended for its clear stand on the importance of selecting an ethical CEO. Anyone who ever wondered whether ethics matters need only look at the outflow of funds from the equity View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

resulting endogenous scarcity of informed investors exacerbates primary market collapses in bad times. Inefficiency arises because informed investors are a public good from the perspective of originators. All originators benefit from the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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