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- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
forthcoming Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Leverage and the Beta Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, Mathias F. Hoeyer, and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract— The well-known weak empirical relationship between beta risk and the cost of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
multiple times, with short notice. Work-life balance became irrelevant to us. Instead, as a family we adopted what I’d best summarize as “strategic equality,” making my wife’s career the central pivot around which everything else was fair game. I went for flexibility... View Details
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
people believe the risk decreases (negative recency) but at the same time exhibit more cautious behavior (positive recency). The rest of the difference is consistent with two well established mechanisms: judgment error and the use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
money in the bank, Bridgespan has shared its reports, case studies, and other content freely in the interest of promoting knowledge in the social sector. When your clients are nonprofits and foundations, Bradach and Tierney reasoned, the... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, such as ownership; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to incentives, dismissals, and promotions; and measurable outcomes, for the firm and for the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
puts you more at risk to do the wrong thing." The Perils Of Inducing Creativity In another study, which included 111 university students, the researchers tested whether they could actively induce creativity, and whether doing so... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
MBA 1974 STAMPS: At home in Coconut Grove. Roe Stamps took a significant risk when he left a successful career at one of Boston’s leading venture capital firms to launch his own company. Together with a longtime colleague, in 1984 he... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
Kordestani recalls. Once they felt confident that McKenna was ready to accept the role, Mercy Corps leadership shared the detailed findings of the investigation with her. (As a group, they revealed organizational mishandling and a greater... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
“With the MJFF sharing some of the initial risk in funding projects,” Hood explains, “the hope was that if positive outcomes emerged, industry would get involved where it might not have before and would take... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
value. Hence, life settlements allow policyholders to capture a much larger, if not full, share of their contracts’ economic value. In this Industry Note, we lay out the basic structure of the market, the important players, and the basic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
lessons or definitive answers. But somewhere in the two-day span we spend talking with villagers, sharing their food, and sleeping in their homes, perceptions shift. It’s one thing to read a newspaper article about the impact of... View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
of the NFL coaching carousel over the last few decades? Why did coaches succeed or fail in a league that some scholars have referred to as a natural laboratory for studying performance? When and why did previously successful coaches lose their powers? One of the... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
authors, who offer a framework for creating a thriving marketplace while minimizing the risk of discrimination. For starters, they say, companies must track and report on potential problems and carefully test choices that may influence... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
votes receive relatively little media attention yet may foster investor risk perceptions. This research presents a multifaceted view of activists and their tactics and suggests that this approach in examining activists and their tactics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
physical proximity to communities of opportunity. The Engineering Department and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University have contributed a great deal to West Coast management, if there is such a thing. At the risk of using... View Details
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
aspect of doing business must be completely rethought for both short-term survival and long-term advantage—and CEOs are profoundly aware of that. We want to share with you both high-level findings about the sleep-robbing concerns of... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
Social Enterprise Initiative at Harvard Business School shared advice for nonprofits facing dire financial challenges. How can donors support social impact organizations through a recession? Michael Chu: Support proven organizations with... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
806-148 Describes the sixth and final module of the Harvard Business School MBA second-year elective course Legal Aspects of Management. This module deals with the way firms should approach business risks in order to avoid legal liability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
risk and uncertainty. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-127.pdf It Is Okay for Artists to Make Money...No, Really, It's Okay Authors:Robert D. Austin and Lee Devin Abstract In this paper, we examine the apparent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace