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06 Sep 2019
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The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact

students, many of whom would be the first in their family to attend college, to HMS for a three-day immersion program. Ameen says he has a natural inclination for business. At Columbia, he ran a campus laundry service and managed a stock... View Details

27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

drive up the cost of capital and curb investment. This paper evaluates the effects of capital controls on firm-level stock returns and real investment using data from Brazil. On average, there is a statistically significant drop in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

Abstract We survey the theory and evidence of behavioral corporate finance, which generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

market participants on key characteristics and significantly increase their equity exposures over the sample period. The introduction of retail structured products thereby raises both the likelihood and the extent of View Details

10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Amir Kermani, and Carlo Sommavilla... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52405 forthcoming Critical Finance Review Inflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds By: Campbell, John Y., Adi Sunderam, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract—The covariance between U.S. Treasury bond... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

the index-inclusion incentives accounted for 16% of the average increase in aggregate annual earnings and 20% of the growth in aggregate market capitalization over our sample period. Stock indexes can affect... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

Combining action and analysis, they are a formidable crime-fighting duo. In Pale Gray for Guilt (1968), Meyer carries out an intricate con to trick a wealthy bad guy into stock market losses that will... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

Avenue, a luxury department store chain, has been hard hit by the 2008 financial crisis and stock market crash. Speculation about impending bankruptcy is rampant in the press. The CEO, Stephen Sadove, must... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

is an attempt to connect these two narratives. I provide early evidence that the growth of public university tuition over the previous two decades is negatively associated with movement into self-employment. Because labor market and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

nature of strategy, organizational design, and leadership. Management: An Integrated Approach is the only introductory management text on the market to address this challenge by taking an integrated and holistic approach to management, as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1960-2011, it was unusually high in the 1980s and negative in the 2000s, a period during... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13

software and IT services industry as players seek to develop their capabilities for their growing domestic market. We describe the implications of our findings for CIOs in developed countries. Our main prediction is that the challenges of serving the domestic View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

major investment bank to investigate factors associated with analysts' annual compensation. We find compensation to be positively related to "All-Star" recognition, investment-banking contributions, the size of analysts' portfolios, and whether an analyst is... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

Publications August 2013 Marketing Science Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans By: Chung, Doug J., Thomas Steenburgh, and K. Sudhir Abstract—We estimate a dynamic... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

to the support of companies, investors, and the initiatives of a number of NGOs, widespread regulatory intervention has yet to materialize. Outside of South Africa, adoption remains voluntary, accomplished via social movement abetted, to varying degrees, by View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2005
News

Buy the Book

As a longtime authority on marketing communications, HBS professor John Deighton has analyzed the consumer-product relationship from every angle. But when he heard the best-selling author James Patterson address a meeting of the Direct... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services

01 Jun 2001
News

Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies

and their role in emerging markets has been part of a larger effort to understand how local business environments influence company strategy. Strategy scholars have often emphasized how industry- and firm-specific characteristics affect... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services

12 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

The New Real Estate

How long can the real estate boom last? No one knows the answer, but this is the most exciting time in real estate during my almost thirty years in the business. The world is awash with liquidity, and real estate is capturing much of it for three reasons. First,... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate