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- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
relatively few events.” The problem is, reinsurance isn't like any other equity investment: it isn't really exposed to market risk, so expecting high returns is unrealistic. A financial adviser might be willing to accept lower returns... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
Company Authors:Michael Beer and Magnus Finnstrom Publication:Leadership in Action, November-December 2009 Abstract Traditional leadership development programs often fail to achieve the desired results because they don't focus on learning... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
to be coupled with very low life satisfaction. Thus, people may work hard to maintain or increase their income in part because they overestimate the hedonic costs of earning low levels of income. Capital Market Driven Corporate Finance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
In the debate over whether to increase or decrease the stringency of environmental regulations, the possibility that government agencies might use purchasing to stimulate market demand for "green" products and services is often... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
Advanced Management Program and a founding member of Intel. Now executive vice president of that corporation, he is also president of Intel Capital, a corporate venture capital unit investing in companies in this country and companies... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23
delay decisions leads the participants to sometimes act against their short-run interests. Two classes of activity of this type emerge, which we refer to as focusing and pinning. We also explore how strategic delay alters the benefits... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
uncertainty, and macroeconomic shocks affect the risk properties of U.S. Treasury bonds? The exposure of U.S. Treasury bonds to the stock market has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average over the period... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
lambasts carmakers that say their AVs will prioritize passengers’ lives over pedestrians, but research shows most customers will not step inside truly egalitarian vehicles. Marketing hype spurs adoption, a necessary step for training AI... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
ratios. Conversely, peer firms identified by Google and Yahoo Finance, as well as product market competitors gleaned from 10-K disclosures, turned in consistently worse performances. We contextualize these results in a simple model that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
for the most part. And private conversations, by their nature, can't mobilize an organization to address the gaps between its business strategy and the structure, capabilities, and market realities it faces. In our experience, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Financial Economics (forthcoming). Abstract This study identifies the effect of a key cultural dimension—egalitarianism—on a set of international investment outcomes. Egalitarianism expresses a society's cultural orientation with respect to intolerance for abuses of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
either by targeting distribution to high-use households (a screening effect), or by stimulating use psychologically through a sunk-cost effect. We develop a methodology for separating these two effects. We implement the methodology in a field experiment in Zambia using... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
(CRM) project would require, the bank decided to explore its benefits with a smaller pilot project. It appointed a CRM project team to design and implement a project focused on credit cards. Describes the challenges of the Spanish credit card View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
restructuring. Gilson's case studies have been used extensively in executive programs and are perfect tools to refer to when faced with real-world corporate restructuring issues. The Co-Mingled Code: Open... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
were already geared up to apply these data to the asset location question. Q: Why are tax considerations often not considered by a significant number of households when making decisions about financial investments? A: Financial markets... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
individual-level data from an Indian software services firm to examine the effects of team familiarity and variation in market experience on multiple measures of performance for over 1,100 software development projects. Consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
Enterprise Capital Markets Harvard Business School Case 307-078 Seeking to impact global poverty and philanthropy, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar donates $100 million to Tufts University for a trust restricted to investment in microfinance.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
bearers of bad news is mitigated when recipients are made aware of the benevolence of the messenger’s motives. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55611 March 2019 Enterprise & Society Oral History and the Business History of Emerging... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman