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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Faculty News
books, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumer's Trust from Wedgwood to Dell and The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire. A member of the HBS faculty since 1991, Koehn is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
transformation strategies that can be executed in the capital market. Over the period 1960–2016, we find that (1) unlevered bank assets underperform passive portfolios of maturity-matched U.S. Treasury bonds; (2) the cost of bank deposits exceeds the cost of bank debt;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
president of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Japan, based in Tokyo. Porté serves as a trustee of the American School in Japan and of Camp Rising Sun, an international leadership camp. A magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Estonia, Incorporated
believing e-Residency can put it on the economic map: The country of 1.3 million citizens hopes to get to 10 million e-Residents by 2025. Five months in, more than 5,000 people had received their ID cards, though those numbers came mainly during a View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
Value: An Examination of Equity Betas and Bid-Ask Spreads Authors:Edward J. Riedl and George Serafeim Abstract Finance theory suggests that information risk—that is, the uncertainty regarding valuation parameters for an underlying... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
of Arts and Sciences, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.amacad.org/pdfs/challenges.pdf Information Risk and Fair Values: An Examination of Equity Betas Authors:Edward J. Riedl and George Serafeim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
they are granted. Some corporations whose option expenses represent a relatively modest charge—often due to low betas resulting from low stock price volatility—have done so already. On another front, organizations that are being forced to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
Risher’s story of the abandoned library in Guayaquil and donated 20 Kindles for the launch of Worldreader. After a beta test at an international school in Barcelona, where Risher was living at the time, he and cofounder Colin McElwee... View Details
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and you will likely be administered beta blockers, a class of drug that's generally recommended after a heart attack. The rate at which that drug is delivered nationwide, however, is about 65 percent. Another... View Details
- 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 View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew
3D printed, fully-functional, and in the final design aesthetic – which we’re now distributing to our advisors and friends to collect feedback (if you want in, you can sign up for our Beta at our website). We’ve been picked up in a few... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
hand, some technologies have come and gone: Witness the VHS tape, which killed the Beta format, only to succumb to the DVD. And I would never have guessed that managing in a regulated environment and process engineering would be so... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
diabetes by creating new beta cells in the pancreas. This is difficult work that is high risk but high reward. You have come to grips with the many ethical considerations in working with stem cells derived from embryos that were created... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
established the Bertrand Fox Publication Fund to support the dissemination of research studies and other faculty manuscripts. A native of Wisconsin, Fox earned his AB in mathematics and astronomy in 1929 from Northwestern University, where he was elected to Phi View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Helping Hands for HBS
mid-1990s, HBS officials discovered that office space was a scarce commodity. Bob Zider, founder of the Beta Group in Menlo Park, stepped forward, offering to share his company's small suite of offices at 3000 Sand Hill Road, the Valley's... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
the New York Times shows that the number two, the beta male who is theoretically the "nice guy" rather than the alpha male bully-ruler, has lower levels of disease-causing stress hormones—and also lower than those below. Ivan... View Details
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
get money. If they can't get money, they lay off people and cancel projects. Now imagine you are a postdoc in a lab and are working on a project to use human embryonic stem cells to cure diabetes by creating new beta cells in the... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
replacement, daily index return betas of the additions rose by an average of 0.45, while the index return beta of the deleted stocks fell by an average of 0.63. We predict changes in autocorrelations and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Grupo Beta San Miguel In November 2013, Dr. Jose Pinto, head of Grupo Beta San Miguel (BSM), Mexico's largest private sugar producer, is weighing the future prospects of the Mexican sugar industry as he... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
thousands of years to compute. More important, the quantum revolution would give us the ability to solve a whole class of problems that digital computers could never touch. In the quest to help us get there, Aliro offers two tools, both in View Details