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  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

1926–2014 and international sector returns 1985–2014, we present four findings: (1) Fama is correct in that a sharp price increase of an industry portfolio does not, on average, predict unusually low returns going forward; (2) such sharp... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

resource management, which emphasized job rotation and minimal hierarchy. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/812134-PDF-ENG RentJuice Thomas R.Eisenmann and Liz KindHarvard Business School Case 811-069 RentJuice, founded in mid-2008, provided a subscription View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

associated with R&D investment are uncertain, the past track records of firms may give insight into their potential for future success. We show that a long-short portfolio strategy that takes advantage of the information in past track... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020 - Recruiting

the application of statistics testing and how regressions help shape decisions in real life, and to interpret results from running codes into insights useful for decision makers in business. HOW DID THIS EXPERIENCE IMPACT YOUR CAREER... View Details
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

highly efficient, and environmentally friendly service anywhere in the country through a national network of independent waste haulers and recyclers. A player in the sharing economy, Rubicon was developing an on-demand mobile application... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

affiliate marketing programs in which merchants oversee thousands of affiliates they have never met. Some merchants hire outside specialists to set and enforce policies for affiliates, while other merchants ask their ordinary marketing staff to perform these functions.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

allowed users to "check in" to a location using an application on a smartphone. Foursquare kept track of a user's check-ins, shared them with users' friends, and unlocked "Specials" that gave users discounts at nearby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

to take that risk with my portfolio because I'm taking a risk as it is. You just put a new level of risk in this whole thing." I have written a case called Zipcar, about how two women raised venture money. One of them, Robin Chase,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

product dubbed a “wearables game changer”; and enjoyed a loyal customer base, particularly among technology early adopters and the community of software developers that created applications and watch faces... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

transaction data from a Japanese bank's home loan application processing line. We find that over the course of a single day, specialization, as compared to variety, is related to improved worker productivity. However, when we examine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

What applications might they suggest, William A. Sahlman asked his students, for "electronic ink"—particles and dyes, embedded in a surface, that could be charged to form changing texts without the bother of paper and printing?... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 27 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 27

effects are often applied in settings where clustering may be important. We provide a general methodology for consistently estimating the variance of a large class of non-parametric estimators, including the simple matching estimator, in the presence of clustering.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • News

The Year in Ideas 2015

R&D-intensive fields are likely to correctly predict the success of the firm, but that the same is not true in non-R&D-intensive sectors. Why? Perhaps because success in sectors like consumer software relies less heavily on the initial... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White
  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

  Working PapersHedge Fund Investor Activism and Takeovers Authors:Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor Abstract We examine long-horizon stock returns around hedge fund activism in a comprehensive sample of 13D filings by portfolio investors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

information revolution pose for managers, and what important principles should govern management's response? In a plenary session on March 21, Jeremy Coote, president of the applications software producer... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Curing Health Care

back-office burdens from the doctors and support staff to the company. One of the company's software services, for example, translates electronic records from its system to others (no more stuck MRIs), and lets doctors track and manage... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 17 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

Globalization and Business Applications Globalization in Historical Perspective By: Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Geoffrey Jones Abstract—This chapter explores the role that firms have played over time in promoting international trade and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

Taking in Business, Investing, and Life by Karen Firestone (MBA 1983) (Bibliomotion) Firestone has developed four core tenets of risk-taking that are applicable when anticipating, evaluating, and responding to risks in business,... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

what-if and formal optimization approach). We discuss pros and cons of these approaches and illustrate them through applications and case studies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-069.pdf Positions of Power and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

calling on bullish analysts tend to underperform in the future. Firms that call on more favorable analysts experience more negative future earnings surprises and more future earnings restatements. A long-short portfolio that exploits this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne