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  • 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

feedback reports that help managers hone their essential skills. Because these tools were built from the ground up, using the staff's own input, they've been embraced by Google employees. Managers say that they've found their training to be invaluable, and managers'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27

partially reversed when the congressman resigns, and are most pronounced among geographically concentrated firms. The effects are economically meaningful and the mechanism—entirely distinct from the more traditional interest rate and tax... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

counterparts. In most countries, firms have become less diversified over time. However, there is no such trend in China. The level of diversification of Chinese enterprises does not vary over our study period (2001-2005), making Chinese firms the most diversified in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

This case consists primarily of excerpts from term sheets and prospectuses for six securities offerings made by U.S. companies during 2009-2010, just after the financial crisis and recession of 2008-2009. There are three issues of senior unsecured notes, one floating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

rates in Asia, and high wage rates in Italy. Two plans have been presented to the CEO, Antonio Colombo. The first is to push development of all of the company's technologies, perhaps even seeking new markets... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

are used as a modeling framework for such studies, this data inadequacy can manifest itself as imprecision in the elements of the transition matrix. In this paper, we study how to compute maximal and minimal values for the discounted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609050 NEC Electronics Harvard Business School Case 209-001 Why do shares in NEC Electronics, a publicly listed subsidiary of Japan conglomerate NEC, trade at a discount to their fundamental value? Can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Feb 2012
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing

Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business? In a new study, Assistant Professor Michael Luca shows just how much restaurant reviews on Yelp affect companies' bottom lines. The more difficult question: Are these ratings reliable... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Technology
  • 19 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States

more from shopping malls, they have shown little interest in building affordable apartments. Government policies have favored home ownership, and today's interest rates are low. Finally, the rising prosperity of Israel has exacerbated... View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas, John H. Vogel & Charles S. Laven; Construction; Real Estate
  • 23 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs

Ruiqing "Sam" Cao. That reality is particularly problematic for female entrepreneurs, who are more likely to invent products that address the needs of female consumers. “You could imagine those products being discounted because the men on... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

realized bond risk and bond return volatility. The yield spread appears to proxy for business conditions, while the short rate appears to proxy for inflation and economic uncertainty. A decomposition of bond betas into a real cash flow... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

proxy for inflation and economic uncertainty. A decomposition of bond betas into a real cash flow risk component and a discount rate risk component shows that yield spreads have offsetting effects in each... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

empirical investigation of the risk of globally diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds and of optimal intertemporal global portfolio choice for long horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and transitory View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 5

  Working PapersTo Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts Authors:Benjamin Edelman, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract We examine the profitability and implications of online View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors

attracting top talent,” says Cheng. “I don’t want to discount the day-to-day concerns board members deal with, but they don’t seem to match up with the critical issues we see covered in the popular press.” The researchers wrote up their... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

sellers' product spaces. We find evidence consistent with the former explanation: the likelihood of Amazon's entry is positively correlated with the popularity and customer ratings of third-party sellers' products. We also find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up

messages, stating that if the case was not settled before a specific date, it would no longer be eligible for the fee reduction. This time, the needle jumped. Whether they described the lower costs as a discount or waiving the surcharge,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing
  • 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

that feelings of power lead individuals to discount advice received from both experts and novices. Experiment 1 documents a negative relationship between subjective feelings of power and use of advice. Experiments 2 and 3 further show... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Nov 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections

Companies spend significant sums to acquire customers. Once hooked, marketers protect those investments by attempting to keep patrons happy, engaged, and most of all, loyal. Reducing customer attrition, or "churn" in marketing parlance, often involves offering... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Service
  • 02 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Four Companies that Conquered America

consumers but exclusively on an online basis. Taking advantage of its low no-bricks-and-mortar cost structure, ING was able to offer generous rates on certificates of deposit. Just four years on, ING is the third-largest holder of... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
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