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    When Do Stocks and Bonds Move Together, and Why Does it Matter?

    The co-movement of Treasury bonds and stocks is an important indicator for both policy makers and for long-term investors. A positive co-movement between nominal Treasury bonds and stocks, as in the 1980s, means that nominal bonds amplify the volatility of stock... View Details

    • January 2011 (Revised May 2011)
    • Case

    Paydiant

    By: Jose B. Alvarez, Elizabeth C. Williamson and James Weber
    Kevin Laracey, founder of Paydiant, needed to figure out how to launch a payment processing company with a new technology based on smart phones. Consumers had increasingly turned to electronic payment methods such as credit cards and debit cards to make purchases.... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Credit Cards; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Industry Structures; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Cooperation; Technology Adoption; Retail Industry
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Supply- and Demand-Side Effects in Performance Appraisals: The Role of Gender and Race

    By: Iris Bohnet, Oliver P. Hauser and Ariella Kristal
    Performance reviews in firms are common but controversial. Managers’ subjective appraisals of their employees’ performance and employees’ self-evaluations might be affected by demographic characteristics, interact with each other as self-evaluations are typically... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Appraisals; Gender; Race; Performance Evaluation
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    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System

    By: Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio
    In 1997, the Mexican government reversed long-standing policies and allowed foreign banks to purchase Mexico's largest commercial banks and relaxed restrictions on the founding of new, foreign-owned banks. The result has been a dramatic shift in the ownership structure... View Details
    Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Balance and Stability; Foreign Direct Investment; Banks and Banking; Society; Economics; Banking Industry; Mexico
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    • 15 Apr 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: April 15

    Poverty and Crime: Evidence from Rainfall and Trade Shocks in India By: Iyer, Lakshmi, and Petia Topalova Abstract—Does poverty lead to crime? We shed light on this question using two independent and exogenous View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 Jan 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

    (2011), idiosyncratic shocks to the sales growth of large firms are positively and significantly correlated with GDP growth in our emerging markets sample. Relatedly, the negative impact of exchange rate View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 22 Aug 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: August 22, 2006

    authors describe how organizational biases arise from the different incentives, agendas, and blind spots of the various functional areas of a business, and how they compromise forecast accuracy and disrupt the supply chain process. They... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 10 Oct 2018
    • HBS Seminar

    Michael Bordo, Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences

    • 11 Apr 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Pian Shu, Harvard Business School

      John C. Mulliken

      Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor.  Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.

      John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details
      • 2023
      • Working Paper

      Estimating Productivity in the Presence of Spillovers: Firm-Level Evidence from the U.S. Production Network

      By: Ebehi Iyoha
      This paper examines the extent to which productivity gains are transmitted across U.S. firms through buyer-supplier relationships. Many empirical studies measure firm-to-firm spillovers using firm-level productivity estimates derived from control function approaches.... View Details
      Keywords: Supply and Industry; Partners and Partnerships; Production
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      The New Face of Chinese Industrial Policy: Making Sense of Anti-Dumping Cases in the Petrochemical and Steel Industries.

      Why have China's petrochemical and steel industries behaved so differently in seeking trade protection through anti-dumping measures, especially given that both industries face the full force of the global economy? We argue that the patterning of anti-dumping actions... View Details
      Keywords: Policy; Trade; Economy; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Motivation and Incentives; Marketing Channels; Industry Structures; System Shocks; Price; Restructuring; Interests; Energy Industry; Steel Industry; China
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      • 30 Jun 2015
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      First Look: June 30, 2015

      Management Journal Monitoring Global Supply Chains By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Firms reliant on supply chains to manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 15 Oct 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: October 15

      inventory turns and can be uniformly utilized by all stakeholders to assess whether a retailer is carrying too much or too little inventory. We explain applications of the metric with examples and lay out prescriptions for retailers. August 2013 Review of Financial... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 29 Jun 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: June 29

      considerable heterogeneity in the role of FDI. First, multinationals located in countries that experienced sharper declines in aggregate output, demand, and credit conditions displayed a greater advantage over local firms. Multinationals... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
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      By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

      Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

        Rajiv Lal

        Rajiv Lal, is the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. He is currently teaching an elective MBA course on the Business of Smart Connected Products/IOT. He has been responsible for the retailing curriculum and has served as the course... View Details

        • August 2002 (Revised July 2003)
        • Case

        LAE Enterprises Corp.

        Jay Entrepreneur had to decide whether it was worth his time to plow through a 12-page term sheet for a Series A round of preferred stock prepared by HBS Investors, a well-established venture capital firm that did seed, early-round, and mezzanine financings. He could... View Details
        Keywords: Venture Capital; Contracts; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Startups; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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        Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

        research here . More Info Large banks and small firm lending By: Victoria Ivashina & Vitaly Bord OCT 2021 The contraction in bank credit supply was a core propagation mechanism of the Great Financial Crisis... View Details

          W. Earl Sasser

          Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details

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