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    W. Carl Kester

    Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)

      Howard H. Stevenson

      Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

      Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry
      • 05 Sep 2006
      • First Look

      First Look: September 5, 2006

      individual level of analysis that neo-institutional theorists often tend to neglect. Relying on Bourdieu's conceptualization of fields, I propose that individuals' social position is a key variable in understanding how they are enabled to... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 08 Aug 2006
      • First Look

      First Look: August 8, 2006

      just than those that implied consistency and lack of bias. Information about the bias implied by a queue improved perceived procedural justice. The analysis suggests organizational artifacts to be "secondary contract makers" and... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 29 Jun 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: June 29, 2007

      focus exclusively on estimates of expected payoffs, such as credit ratings, without considering the state of the economy in which default is likely to occur. Such investors are likely to be attracted to securities whose payoffs resemble... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 03 Mar 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: March 4, 2008

      Vayanos Abstract We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in which clienteles with strong preferences... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 19 Mar 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

      changes, of political instability, of corruption, etc. Q: If you were to boil down the key ingredients needed by a country to create successful economic growth, what would they be? A: Key ingredients (also described in my book's conclusion) include sound fiscal and... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 25 Jan 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Being a Team Player: Why College Athletes Succeed in Business

      Members of these colleges’ sports teams secure higher-level jobs and better pay after graduation than their non-athlete peers, finds the analysis of more than 400,000 Ivy Leaguers over the past half-century.... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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      Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

      Harvard Business School strives to be the worldwide leader in research, course development, and teaching on top managements' use of performance measurement systems to: Communicate with external investors to ensure that their firms' View Details
      • 17 Oct 2023
      • HBS Case

      With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees

      years, according to some estimates. “There is such a thing as a poorly thought-out subscription model.” At the same time, companies should be worried about “subscription fatigue,” warns Ofek. Companies can’t assume that they will secure a... View Details
      Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Information; Information Technology
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      Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

      Financial markets in nineteenth-century France were far more complex than an analysis of the official Bourse or its state-authorized brokers would suggest. Most financial transactions occurred on an illegal yet tacitly tolerated curb... View Details
      • 20 Mar 2007
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      First Look: March 20, 2007

      Authors:Jane Wei-Skillern, James Austin, Herman Leonard, and Howard Stevenson Publication:Sage Publications, forthcoming Abstract Written for students and practitioners, this unique text, with Harvard cases, provides analysis and... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 22 Feb 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have

      model could learn what the underlying training data is. Layne: You mention that some of the data that people may want to get rid of is personally identifiable information like social security numbers. What are some others? Neel: For... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
      • 23 Sep 2008
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      First Look: September 23, 2008

        Working PapersSecuring Online Advertising: Rustlers and Sheriffs in the New Wild West Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract Read the news of recent computer security guffaws, and it's striking how many problems stem from online... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
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      Podcast - Business & Environment

      AI-powered waste stream analysis and autonomous electronics disassembly that are accelerating progress. She closes with advice and resources for students and professionals interested in careers at the intersection of circular economy,... View Details
      • 26 Apr 2011
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      First Look: April 26

      opportunity. This is particularly interesting as prior research in the finance literature has shown that firms will overinvest in high quality projects when investors have imperfect information about the quality of the firm's opportunities. While we conduct our View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Investment analyst reports (equity research reports)

      How do I find investment analysts' reports on companies, industries and geographies? Analyst Reports contain advice on whether to buy or sell the securities of specific companies or industries. They are produced by research analysts... View Details
      • 13 Nov 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: November 13

      http://hbr.org/product/what-makes-analysts-say-buy/an/F1211B-PDF-ENG The Internalization of Advertising Services: An Inter-Industry Analysis Authors:Sharon Horsky, Steven C. Michael, and Alvin J. Silk Publication:Review of Marketing... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 22 Jun 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      “Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

      key role "in conceptualizing and drafting" significant parts of the final product. Not everyone on the politically divided panel bought into Moss's analysis and recommendations. Warren and two Democrats embraced Moss's views on the need... View Details
      Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
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      Finance - Faculty & Research

      demand about as much as one's own recent payout experience. Third, the spillover effect decays as time passes while the effect of one's own experience does not. We discuss implications of this analysis for commercial sustainability of... View Details