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Collection, Exploration and Analysis of Crowdfunding Social Networks

By: Miao Cheng, Anand Sriramulu, Sudarshan Muralidhar, Boon Thau Loo, Laura Huang and Po-Ling Loh
Crowdfunding is a recent financing phenomenon that is gaining wide popularity as a means for startups to raise seed funding for their companies. This paper presents our initial results at understanding this phenomenon using an exploratory data driven approach. We have... View Details
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    Samuel G. Hanson

    Samuel G. Hanson is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 1... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; federal government; financial services; investment banking industry
    • January 2012 (Revised March 2012)
    • Case

    Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s Entry into the Retirement Market

    By: Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy
    This case examines Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s decision to enter the retirement market with their new "Dimensional Managed DC" product, a complete retirement solution that aimed to provide investors with what they really wanted: the same standard of living in... View Details
    Keywords: Retirement; Asset Management
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    • 17 Sep 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?

    Ramesh Balwani, had long known that Theranos’ home blood test didn’t work, but misled investors to keep money flowing in. Holmes and Balwani are accused of defrauding patients, doctors, and investors of over... View Details
    Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Biotechnology; Technology; Medical Devices & Supplies

      Signaling with Dividends

      We outline a dividend signaling model that features investors who are behaviorally averse to dividend cuts. Managers with strong unobservable cash earnings separate by paying high dividends but retain enough to be likely not to fall short next period. The model is... View Details

      • 2011
      • Article

      The Causal Impact of Media in Financial Markets

      By: Christopher Parsons and J. Engelberg
      Disentangling the causal impact of media reporting from the impact of the events being reported is challenging. We solve this problem by comparing the behaviors of investors with access to different media coverage of the same information event. We use zip codes to... View Details
      Keywords: Media; Financial Markets
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        Christian Kaps

        Christian Kaps is an Assistant Professor of business administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit at Harvard Business School. Kaps' research focuses on emerging topics in renewable electricity generation and storage - notably how new... View Details

        • August 2024
        • Case

        Sky Therapeutics: Innovating in Digital Therapeutics

        By: Satish Tadikonda, Olivia Reszczynski and William Marks
        Shad Faraz and Alex Youssef were intrigued by the opportunities in the relatively new area of Digital Therapeutics. Despite initial successes, early entrants had struggled with reimbursement and revenue-predictability challenges. However, venture investors still... View Details
        Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Mission and Purpose; Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Business Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry
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        • August 2023 (Revised August 2023)
        • Case

        Sky Therapeutics: Innovating in Digital Therapeutics

        By: Satish Tadikonda, Olivia Reszczynski and William Marks
        Shad Faraz and Alex Youssef were intrigued by the opportunities in the relatively new area of Digital Therapeutics. Despite initial successes, early entrants had struggled with reimbursement and revenue-predictability challenges. However, venture investors still... View Details
        Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry; Technology Industry
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        • November 2005 (Revised August 2006)
        • Background Note

        When Investing and Social Objectives Meet

        By: Gregory S. Miller, Vincent Marie Dessain and Anders Sjoman
        Introduces students to a group of investors and stakeholders who evaluate firms at least partially on factors other than eventual investment payoff. Focuses on investors who evaluate and attempt to impact firms' ethical, corporate governance, or other "societal"... View Details
        Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Investment; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations
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        • 14 Mar 2007
        • Op-Ed

        Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

        are mandated to work. Moreover, the behavior in the Justice Department's crosshairs—deal sharing—is an important aspect of this competition that benefits us all. It is clear that the industry thrives on its extraordinary flexibility and... View Details
        Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services
        • 2025
        • Working Paper

        Heterogeneous Beliefs and Stock Market Fluctuations

        By: Odhrain McCarthy and Sebastian Hillenbrand
        This paper examines the role of heterogeneous investor beliefs in explaining stock market puzzles. Using survey data, we show that individual investors and investment professionals, such as equity analysts and strategists, form distinct beliefs. These groups rely on... View Details
        Keywords: Financial Markets; Valuation; Stocks; Asset Pricing; Investment; Behavioral Finance
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        • Research Summary

        Overview

        Professor Huang examines the micro-foundations of entrepreneurship: the individual-level decision-making processes that influence entrepreneurs’ ability to acquire resources that they need, yet lack, especially financial capital. Deploying a variety of methods from... View Details
        • 2022
        • Book

        Purpose + Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World

        By: George Serafeim
        The roadmap and best practices to reap the enormous value that can emerge when your business prioritizes social and environmental goals—such as climate change, diversity and inclusion, and sustainability—right alongside the pursuit of profit.

        We not only... View Details
        Keywords: ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Profitability; Business And Society; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Goals and Objectives; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Value Creation; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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        Trust

        By: Sandra J. Sucher

        In this research, I aim to provide a practical orientation to trust—how to build it, how it can be damaged, how it might be repaired—grounded in my experience as an executive and in the research on organizational trust and moral philosophy. As a case researcher, I... View Details

        Keywords: Power; Globalization; Leadership; Corporate Culture; Future Of Work; Innovation; Human Resources; Technology Strategy; Automation; Stakeholder Engagement; Employee Attitude; Customer Behavior; Shareholder Value; Government And Business; Impact Investing; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Change And Sustainability; Asia; Europe; South America; Middle East; North And Central America; Trust; Asia; Europe; South America; Middle East; North and Central America
        • September 2019
        • Article

        The Self-Presentational Consequences of Upholding One's Stance in Spite of the Evidence

        By: Leslie John, Martha Jeong, Francesca Gino and Laura Huang
        Five studies explore the self-presentational consequences of refusing to “back down” – that is, upholding a stance despite evidence of its inaccuracy. Using data from an entrepreneurial pitch competition, Study 1 shows that entrepreneurs tend not to back down even... View Details
        Keywords: Self-presentation; Belief Perseverance; Judgment; Confidence; Persuasion; Personal Characteristics; Behavior; Perception; Decision Making; Outcome or Result
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        • 02 Apr 2018
        • Research & Ideas

        Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?

        associate professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. And yet, investors take chances over and over often with great success when they hit it big with... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
        • 19 Jun 2007
        • First Look

        First Look: June 19, 2007

        also show that the internal control provisions of section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley make royalty arrangements based on self-reporting more attractive. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-100.pdf Toward a Theory of View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 10 Nov 2003
        • Research & Ideas

        The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

        the team was able to draw some conclusions about how the companies performed individually and as a hypothetical portfolio. They were also able to make some observations about how investor behavior... View Details
        Keywords: by Manda Salls
        • 08 Sep 2003
        • Research & Ideas

        A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

        managers to act in owners' interests. However, as recent research in behavioral finance indicates, it also encourages investors to switch assets to the most recent hot funds each quarter. This creates... View Details
        Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services