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- 01 Dec 2015
- HBS Seminar
Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto
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Finance - Faculty & Research
views – with a 47% correlation in return expectations – and their disagreement is associated with elevated trading volume. This belief heterogeneity proves important for understanding stock market puzzles: jointly, investor beliefs... View Details
- 05 Sep 2023
- Book
Thriving After Failing: How to Turn Your Setbacks Into Triumphs
that the more people in a team agreed with that statement, the higher the team’s rate of medical errors. Could it be that the teams that worked well together didn’t necessarily make more errors, but rather reported more errors because... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
targeted Internal Rates of Return at or above 20% annually. They now had to decide which opportunity was the best match to the Fund's investment profile and showed the highest economic promise. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research
ambiguously-deserved punishment. In situations involving politicized moral transgressions, including those where the case for punishing the transgressor is judged to be relatively ambiguous, subjects expect punishers to be perceived positively by co-partisans, and... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
of Psychological Science Advisers' By: Teachman, Bethany A., Michael I. Norton, and Barbara A. Spellman Abstract—On September 15, 2015, President Obama issued an Executive Order recommending that executive departments and agencies use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
during the AFC. Regression estimates suggest that the relationship between leverage, exchange rate depreciations, and corporate financial distress is time varying. Also, a central finding is that firm size is correlated with corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
practice related to AI in developing countries. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52296 December 2017 Journal of Advertising Research Rethinking the Profession Formerly Known as Advertising: How Data Science Is Disrupting the Work of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
prior industries: photography, consumer electronics, and computers. By 2004, several features had emerged as a dominant design; however, the timing and rate of adoption varied by prior industry. This study extends previous research on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Business & Environment
entrepreneurs about how to align impact with profit. Carbon Credit Ratings and Market Integrity: A Conversation on the Calyx Global Case 09 APR 2025 | Climate Rising In this bonus episode of Climate Rising, we share an episode from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
prior to incarceration, and when they did have jobs, their median earnings were a mere $6,250 per year. In addition, one in 10 boys born to families in the bottom 10 percent income bracket were incarcerated by the age of 30—a rate 20... View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research
Mortgage Convexity By: Samuel G. Hanson Most home mortgages in the United States are fixed-rate loans with an embedded prepayment option. When long-term rates decline, the effective duration of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) falls due... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Unilever—A Case Study
1920s to 8.5 percent in 1932. 18 Brands were built up by spending heavily on advertising. As a percentage of sales, advertising averaged 25 percent between 1921 and 1933, thereby funding a series of noteworthy campaigns conceived by J. Walter Thompson. This View Details
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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
rating agencies that applied AAA ratings to subprime loans for which little documentation was required from the borrower. Lehman Brothers and other investment banks became... View Details
- 13 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?
Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
or fail to analyze the utter breakdown in board governance and Enron's internal controls, and the failure of credit rating agencies to blow the whistle," he says. "They also overlook the collusion... View Details
- 04 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness
men to the bench. “There was plenty of evidence showing Trump wasn’t particularly pro-diversity,” says Chang, noting that Trump had issued a memo telling federal agencies to halt diversity trainings because they were “un-American.” “It... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?
refugees were shamed on social media after being photographed with smartphones, and federal agencies have reprimanded how lower-income individuals spend relief funds after natural disasters. Even groceries aren't safe, Hagerty and Barasz... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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HBS - The year in Review
Doctoral Programs; the acceptance rate for both was highly competitive, at 15% and 4%, respectively. Fellowships in fiscal year 2023 were awarded to 947 MBA students, with an average fellowship of $43,992. MBA CLASS OF 2024 Students 1,015... View Details