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  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

product variety and inventory levels on store sales. Using four years of data from stores of a large retailer, we show that increases in product variety and inventory levels are both associated with higher sales. We also show that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806201 Vignette: Bombay Tyre Manufacturing Ltd Harvard Business School Case 806-207 Presents a U.S.-based investor who had taken a minority position in a publicly owned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

ratings play an important role in the financial system, but investors and regulators who use ratings cannot easily verify their quality, and ratings are paid for by the firms whose bonds are rated. The provision of quality ratings is at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2019
  • News

Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns

the development via NASA to an era where industry leads has sped up the pace of growth and primed the space sector for investment. Co-founder of space technology company Escape Dynamics and a longtime investor in the industry, Garriott de... View Details
Keywords: Space Research and Technology; Government
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

lower bound of 2 and an upper bound of m, thus leaving a large gap. They conjectured that their upper bound is tight but were unable to prove it. Despite many attempts that yield positive results for several special cases, the conjecture... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2022
  • News

Leading to Salvation

president and CFO of Medtronic, overseeing a number of acquisitions and sales at the medical device company and broadening its reach to include a more global investor base. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the... View Details
  • 02 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 2

returns can produce large valuation errors. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2182628 The Impact of Pooling on Throughput Time in Discretionary Work Settings: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

by a large extended family and fostering a deep connection to a vibrant, dynamic, and diverse community. She and her family would later move to Massachusetts, where she attended middle school, high school, and college at Smith College in... View Details
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

will in fact homogenize consumption patterns, and a few superstar products will emerge as winners in the market place. In this study, using two large customer transactions data sets obtained from an online music service and an online DVD... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

Organization Tax Aversion in Labor Supply By: Kessler, Judd B., and Michael I. Norton Abstract—In a real-effort laboratory experiment, labor supply decreases more with the introduction of a tax than with a financially equivalent drop in wages. This “tax aversion” is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 12

Author:Sophus A. Reinert Publication:Harvard University Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31289 The Return Experience of Hedge Fund Investors Authors:Ilia... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

private-sector financial intermediaries to engage in excessive amounts of maturity transformation—i.e., to finance risky assets using dangerously large volumes of runnable short-term liabilities. Specifically, we make the case that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-064.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsLinkedIn Corporation Francois Brochet and James WeberHarvard Business School Case 112-006 The purpose of this case is to help students critically evaluate the market value of LinkedIn's stock... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large cross-section of firms, we find that firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

conduit between large institutional investors and fledgling firms. KB: And that in turn triggered more departures from established companies, more module designs, more experimentation, and more investment.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology
  • 12 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 12, 2016

Andrei Hagiu of Harvard Business School and venture capitalist Simon Rothman of Greylock Partners. Most entrepreneurs and investors attribute this to the challenge of quickly attracting a critical mass of buyers and suppliers. But it is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

Vikram Sunderam Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We present a model that helps explain several past collapses of securitization markets. Originators issue too many informationally insensitive securities in good times, blunting View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

railroad track in the U.S. South to standard gauge between May 31 and June 1, 1886 as a large-scale natural experiment in technology standards adoption that instantly integrated the South into the national transportation network. Using route-level freight traffic data,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

alongside global brands. Retailing and distribution remain largely local. And American consumers show a desire for increasing cultural variety in their life experiences, eating more often at ethnic restaurants and vacationing more often... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising
  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

by a large extended family and fostering a deep connection to a vibrant, dynamic, and diverse community. She and her family would later move to Massachusetts, where she attended middle school, high school, and college at Smith College in... View Details
Keywords: All Industries