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By: Boris Vallee
Professor Vallée focuses on financial innovation, investigating it from different angles. This research thread has led him to relate the methods and insights of corporate finance and banking with those of other subfields, including household finance, public finance,... View Details
  • 14 Sep 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity?

Feldberg embarked upon a new survey of parents in two-earner households with kids under 18 at home. Across several papers recently presented at the Academy of Management meetings in Boston, they sought to understand how parents allocated... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

such as stable value funds, balanced funds, and life-cycle (or target date) funds. We find that life-cycle funds designed to match the risk tolerance and investment horizon of investors have small welfare costs. All other choices,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

  Publications 2013 pub The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents By: Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro Abstract—Change is hard, especially in a large organization. Yet some leaders succeed-often spectacularly-at transforming their workplaces. What makes them... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes

businesses need to know in 2024. Alexander MacKay: Focus on finding balance Since 2021, as companies faced supply shocks and changes to demand in an inflationary period, executives have increasingly focused on consumer price elasticities.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Consumer Products
  • Research Summary

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Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

stayed home full time, according to a new study. Men raised by working mothers are more likely to contribute to household chores and spend more time caring for family members. “There are very few things that have such a clear effect on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

managers have to learn how to lead others rather than do the work themselves, to win trust and respect, to motivate, and to strike the right balance between delegation and control. Many fail to make the transition successfully. In this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Book

Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

Australia, together with colonies ready to stand on their own, formed a political and cultural community that owed allegiance to the queen. The Commonwealth would be the triumphant coda to the greatest empire in world history. "Turning to history’s View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 11 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 11

in 2007. A sizeable portion of the growth can be explained by rising asset management fees, which in turn were driven by increases in the valuation of tradable assets, particularly equity. Another important factor was growth in fees associated with an expansion in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

After High-Profile Failures, Can Investors Still Trust Credit Ratings?

for signs of greater risk that might not appear on a balance sheet or cash-flow statement. In addition, the study also looked at how well agencies did in estimating potential recovery by borrowers in the... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 01 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 1

of capital within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

nothing wrong, or they rationalize that their deviations are acceptable to achieve a greater good. During the financial crisis, Lehman CEO Richard Fuld refused to recognize that Lehman was undercapitalized. His denial turned balance View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 27 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

Business Administration in the Strategy unit and Senior Associate Dean for Research. Balancing design and identity Whereas organizational design is concerned with how tasks are prioritized, structured, and coordinated across individuals... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

find that involuntary closures are most frequent in U.S. counties with high rates of households headed by single mothers, low levels of college education, high rates of property crime, a strong presence of multi-market vs. local banks,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Nov 2023
  • Book

Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

world of rational actors destroying their own firms’ balance sheets in late Suharto-era Indonesia and in contemporary China was fascinating and surprising. Once I understood the phenomenon, I saw it... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

information and communication appears to be driven not as much by gender as by control: men whose wives control household savings are much more likely to exhibit this treatment effect, and women whose husbands control savings exhibit the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

African-American entrepreneur through the process of sourcing a potential acquisition, valuing a company, and securing the funding to purchase the company. This entrepreneur must decide if he should close the deal and which financing term View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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