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- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
evidence of a lower likelihood of SEC enforcement for labor-intensive firms that are headquartered in districts of senior congressmen that serve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
creditor has more debtors and each debtor has more creditors) increases the number of firms that must be endowed with the liquid asset. Interconnectedness then makes payment defaults more likely. By... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
acquisitions, while positive for the developing economies, puts a burden on Asian cultures to “bear the brunt of the change of ownership at local firms,” increasing the View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
underlying collateral portfolio in the event of liquidation, as well as assessing the likelihood of different outcomes. The case takes place during a period View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
likelihood of valuable outcomes. However, the methods you'll use will differ from, and sometimes conflict with, methods that work when you do know where you're going. There is an increasingly important... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
(0.74%). Even after controlling for filers' demographic factors and self-revealed savings intent, the likelihood of tax-site savings was 5.5 percentage points higher at treatment sites as compared with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
guarantees, being born as an insider increases the odds and likelihood of success. Conversely, those who did not win the "lottery" are often outsiders looking in. They have the wrong parents, the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Fast Answer
Aggregate financial ratios: including private company data
Studies Offers industry default risk and cash flow measures for 400 lines of business whose total assets are less than $250 million. Available in IBISWorld: (Search for an industry using keywords... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced firm risk,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
consistent with the proposition that employed mothers provide non-traditional gender role models to their children, liberalizing gender attitudes and transmitting life skills for managing competing responsibilities, increasing the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
off going with really smart investors, even if it costs you more, because they're going to increase the probability of success. It's better to own less of a business that has a higher View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
of predictable surprises at the corporate level. United Airlines is one of many companies with serious pension-fund problems. You have to feel a little sorry for a new CEO who came on as part View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
did just that, says Quelch. After legislation was passed, 14 states exercised the option to set up their own health insurance exchanges, as opposed to the other 36, which defaulted to the federal exchange. View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
controlling for financial performance. The likelihood of demotion in this organization is also sensitive to nonfinancial performance on the dimension of service quality, while... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
commitment to transparency increase the likelihood of providing fair values prior to their required provision under International Accounting Standard 40 - Investment Property. We also find that firms not... View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
and Dan Ariely Publication:Psychological Science 21 (2010) Abstract Although people buy counterfeit products to signal positive traits, we show that wearing counterfeit products makes individuals feel less authentic and increases their View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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1.24 Commencement | MBA
preceding academic year may participate in the May exercises and walk across the stage during the ceremony. HBS defaults to printing a student's legal name on the diploma; please email the Registrar’s Office ( registrar@hbs.edu) to... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
homeowner—equity extraction is sufficiently widespread-as it was during the years leading up to the peak of the U.S. residential real-estate market-the inadvertent coordination of leverage during a market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
spaces. We find evidence consistent with the former explanation: that the likelihood of Amazon's entry is positively correlated with the popularity and customer ratings of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
engaging in a pre-eating ritual over a 5-day period helped participants reduce calorie intake (Experiment 1). Pairing a ritual with healthy eating behavior increased the likelihood of choosing healthy food... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne