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- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
the technology bubble to examine the hypothesis that inexperienced investors play a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. Using age as a proxy for managers' investment experience, we find that around the peak of the technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
losing the rating, a starred restaurant often invests more money than ever on high-quality staff, flatware, wine, and ingredients. The result: higher prices. Dinner tabs in France or Italy often skyrocket to more than 120 per person, for... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009
position is strong enough. To curb this possibility, the principal-owner optimally reduces the degree of autonomy granted to the manager. Hence higher levels of managerial autonomy are more likely for intermediate levels of competition.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
FDI increase when we account for the quality of FDI. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-072.pdf The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data Authors:Laura Alfaro and Faisal Z. Ahmed Abstract In this paper we use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
is likely to have a meaningful effect on health care spending patterns. In addition, precision medicines can change the expected profitability of therapies both by allowing more sophisticated pricing systems and potentially decreasing the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
respond to changes in their competitive environment, Sull argues that outward manifestations of success — such as impressive earnings, media attention, and monuments to their past accomplishments — can cause managers facing new challenges... View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
issuers and rating agencies, to select a rating agency for the bond issuer and negotiate a rating fee. This would eliminate the two worst abuses: the issuer shopping for a higher rating, and the issuer paying inflated fees to get a View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10
John A., and Leora Kornfeld Abstract—The new marketing order, as played out on media platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Instagram, is so unlike the order it is displacing that it might seem like bedlam, an asylum of sorts for ideas... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
Ickis (MBA 1971, DBA 1978) REISNER: One of the hottest areas of investment growth is in cross-border shipping, but there are two core problems: In an age of terrorism, customs are commercial constraints and also valuable public safety services. The other is View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
terms, both companies would like nothing better than to have customers to themselves, wrapped up in their own seamless media universes: iTunes, iPad, and Apple TV on the one hand; and Kindle, Amazon Prime, and Fire TV on the other. “Even... View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008
variability in the importance of their posts. There are alternative routes to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to invest in developing expertise, but officers who belong to the same caste as the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
high level of understanding of the setting and that participants who pool are rewarded by the less informed party with higher payoffs. Finally, we demonstrate through a reexamination of Lai et al. (2012) and Cachon and Lariviere (2001)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26
order to achieve higher yields-is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
approaches. It will also allow them to determine which actions they are now taking (or might take) that are not aligned with achieving these goals. The greater the clarity about key goals, the higher the likelihood that the actions we... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Historical Research - India
Which resources should I use for historical research on India? Online Resources Newspapers and Other News Media The Times of India Check Harvard availability Harvard has access to this national newspaper out of Bombay back to 1861. South... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
cooperation of people with lower power was influenced by both their culture and the culture of the person with higher power. In particular, in a multicultural setting, low-power managers from Hong Kong, a vertical-collectivist culture... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
producers, and thus worthy of slapping with 25 percent or higher penalties as they come in the country. The first three pages were chemicals and medical products, and as a one-time chemist I was surprised to see what the US was aiming to... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Batten’s life and career: how he grew Landmark Communications into a media powerhouse, championed racial equality, gave away more than $400 million to charity, mostly to education, and dealt with losing his vocal cords to cancer. The Art... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
Case of Search Platforms Authors:Hanna Hałaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We show that a two-sided platform can successfully compete by limiting the choice of potential matches it offers to its customers while charging higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
Abstract We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, where trust increases efficiency and thus allows higher growth of the experimental economy in the future. We find that trust is initially high in a treatment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne