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  • 21 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Missing the Wave in Ship Transport

bulk carriers called the 76,000 DWT (deadweight tonnes) Panamax. Using earnings and secondhand prices between 1976 and 2011, they computed the ships' return on investment. Swells And Troughs The researchers found that earnings were quite... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Transportation
  • 16 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

prompted a new research paper that starts to investigate ways to make these patents less volatile and more efficient—and makes the case for increased government involvement. "Standards are ubiquitous and necessary," says Josh... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services
  • 18 Mar 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Marketing After the Recession

recession has not been kind to marketers. In many multinationals, the positive financial impacts of recession-busting marketing plans have been obliterated by commodity price volatility and... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

economy in the last hundred-plus years. There was no specific event that brought the Dow over the 20,000 mark last week. Markets exhibit a fairly large degree of short-term volatility, so once you get close to 20,000, normal daily market View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51879 Structural GARCH: The Volatility-Leverage Connection By: Engle, Robert F., and Emil N. Siriwardane Abstract—During the financial crisis, financial firm leverage and volatility both rose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience - Blog - Business & Environment

communities to respond to the early warnings already embedded in pricing data. Together, the panel painted a challenging picture of the climate risk landscape—from growing disaster frequency and financial View Details
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

available at positive prices. We characterize the size of the p2p network as a function of the firm's pricing strategy and show that the firm may be better off setting high prices, allowing the network to survive, and acknowledging that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

analysis, the fish will lose every single time," he said. "And you'll have extinction after extinction after extinction." But the farmers benefit from other political decisions. Because of government subsidies, the price... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

the case. In the U.S. service sector, which makes up two-thirds of our economy, inflation is still running at 3 percent. So while some manufacturing businesses are experiencing price deflation for the first time in the postwar era, the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

stock market is overvalued and may experience some volatility as the economy continues to recover, Wang’s research suggests that investors may be relying too heavily on a formerly tried-and-true tool that isn’t paying off as well today.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

endogenous investment response of their competitors. As a result, firms overpay for ships and overinvest in booms and are disappointed by the subsequent low returns. Formal estimation of the model suggests that modest expectational errors can result in dramatic excess... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

"That's not great protection, but at least it's some coverage. But for really devastating kinds of large losses, the coverage levels actually fall from there. They should continue to increase, but don't—and even fall for the most devastating events." View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Full Stream Ahead

Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk Back in 1985, when Michael Jackson paid what at the time was an eye-popping $47.5 million for ATV Music—and with it the Beatles’s back catalog—he justified the sum by reportedly saying that, just as... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

organizational adoption of practice variants that differ in their degree of customization.   Working Papers X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

economics, demonstrating a persistent concern with market fairness—not only fair prices for consumers but also fair competition among businesses. Proponents of fair trade collaborated with regulators to create codes of fair competition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

that the prices are right, because they usually are," says Harvard Business School finance professor Lauren H. Cohen, who serves as an editor of Management Science. "From there, you can look for the small corners where they are... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

permanent cash flow shocks and transitory discount rate shocks to asset prices and returns. An increase in the cross-country correlations of cash flow shocks raises the risk of a globally diversified portfolio at all horizons. By... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

Beset by changes on several fronts, the media industry, traditionally comprising the familiar print and broadcast channels of mass communication, has been undergoing a major transformation in recent years, change that appears certain to continue apace. What forces are... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising
  • 05 Apr 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?

in an asymmetrical fashion (for example, through stock options), it is in their financial best interest to do M&A to add volatility to their business." Is M&A part of the natural Darwinian process of business, or is it rigged... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?

an average -3.6 percent three-day return around the announcement to stop guidance. . . . After the elimination of guidance, stock prices lead earnings less, but there is no change in overall stock return View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
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