Financial Complexity - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

Vikram Sunderam Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We present a model that helps explain several past collapses of securitization markets. Originators issue too many informationally insensitive securities in... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

2001 after his IT and consultancy startup, Mainspring, was acquired by IBM. Regardless of specialty, doctors complained of rushing through their days, too over- scheduled to fully comprehend patients’ lengthy and complex medical records,... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

a decline in their number of receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns. Given that a punter’s task (kicking the ball) is almost entirely reliant on his own strength and skill, and a wide receiver’s tasks are “governed by View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

is invested and aid has a small but insignificant effect on growth. Aid has no effect on the financial account, but does raise holdings of foreign reserves. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf Cases &... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

and complex emotions; where there's enough safety so that people can speak the truth openly at meetings, rather than secretly in the hallway afterward; where there's an elevated sense of integrity. These ideas are not new, and may even... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

21 May 2019
Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

the fraught (discussing the delicate relationships between government, technology, and privacy in the region). I am engaging now, hopefully and exploratively, and am learning how to figure out what being Asian can mean to me here, and now. Being Asian is View Details

07 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 7

Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212031-PDF-ENG Social Finance, Inc Shawn Cole, Rawia Abdel Samad, Matt Berner, and Raluca DragusanuHarvard Business School Case 212-055 Social Finance attempts to design and launch a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2022
News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

anecdotes illuminate technical concepts. A natural teacher, King emphasizes that complex software is unnecessary for success in this field. Readers will find real-life examples that help put statistical concepts into an understandable... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

reward. After a year, the researchers sat down to analyze the results. Ashraf is a behavioral economist, so she knows people make financial decisions in complex ways, but even she was surprised by what they... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Mar 2021
Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

approach will not work if it’s left to individual choice to come in when people feel like it; it must be structured, so that people are together in predictable ways for the parts of the work that present the most interdependence. So conceptual simplicity gives rise to... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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