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- 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1
have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their investments. Conditional on ratings, insurance portfolios are systematically biased toward higher yield, higher CDS bonds. This behavior appears... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Papers The Real Effects of Capital Controls: Financial Constraints, Exporters, and Firm Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, Anusha Chari, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—In the aftermath View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
capital shortages, distributed urban territory to assuage losers of reform and promote economic growth. The findings suggest that 1) growth strategies, and the territorial politics they produce, are products... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
fair strategies in public finance? A: Tax economists generally point to a few things about current taxes that seem unwise. Probably foremost among them is the taxation of capital income, such as dividends... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- January 1996
- Case
Transportation Displays Incorporated (C): The Case for a Preemptive Restructuring
By: Stuart C. Gilson, Joel T. Schwartz, Steve Silver and David Stemerman
A company nears the end of a long multiyear turnaround and now must consider how to "cash out" so its management can realize a financial return on investment. The privately held company has several options, including a leveraged ESOP and a leveraged recapitalization. View Details
Gilson, Stuart C., Joel T. Schwartz, Steve Silver, and David Stemerman. "Transportation Displays Incorporated (C): The Case for a Preemptive Restructuring." Harvard Business School Case 296-035, January 1996.
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
content has grown quicker than Yelp and TripAdvisor. Overall, these results shed light on platform strategy and market entry: tying can facilitate entry in complementary markets, even when the tied product is of worse View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
these modalities. An incomplete understanding of the value of costly, yet effective, technologies could impede medical innovation and decrease the quality View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
factors such as "firm culture" and "employee engagement" in driving firm performance? Increasing evidence from a wide range of fields suggests that productivity differs widely across firms, even after the inclusion... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
librarians. Using journal impact factors to infer the quality of a faculty members’ publications incurs a high incidence of both Type 1 errors, when we conclude incorrectly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
Cases & Course MaterialsAQR's DELTA Strategy (A) Daniel B. Bergstresser, Lauren H. Cohen, Randolph B. Cohen, and Christopher J. MalloyHarvard Business School Case 212-038 In the summer of 2008, AQR View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
capital. We examine productivity differentials between machine learning and older vintage technology based on interactions with two important human capital attributes: domain-specific expertise and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
School, who coauthored the study. “[It] means not only that the pool of potential human capital for startup companies began declining when COVID started, but also that the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
School Case 510-033 Woolf Farming Company, a privately owned family farming business in California's Central Valley, found its business threatened by a lack of water, brought on by a combination of drought,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
(A) A year after Norwegian grocery chain REMA 1000 adopted Workplace, Facebook’s enterprise social network, Chief Human Resource Officer Tore Høylie is asked to evaluate its impact on company culture and communication. Almost 90% View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
Motivates values-based capitalism and drives companies to contribute to solving social and environmental problems while also providing employees stimulating and satisfying work. Restores trust by committing to government as an instrument... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
format. Finally, the wave of human health concerns (especially relative to obesity) will cause supermarkets to rethink some of their core strategies. We are currently in the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
seek the best health care value regardless of location. (Some consumers will continue to choose local care because of greater convenience even if the quality is not as good.)... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
Drivers of Corporate Sustainability and Implications for Capital Markets: An International Perspective Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Publication:In The Landscape View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008
with studies of immigration's impact for the public sector of host countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-013.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAbraaj View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
explosion of trade and capital flows created a world that looked in many ways like ours. Yet even in the early 20th century, there remained tensions of increasing inequality... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation