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- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets
in its annual financial statements, primarily the annual report. For this we use the recently released transparency-and-disclosure scores provided by Standard and Poor's. Q: What did you discover about the disclosure practices of foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
during the expansion period. Downstream propagation effects are comparable or even larger in magnitude than direct effects. The results corroborate the importance of network effects in quantifying the real effects of credit shocks and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
achievements and volunteer roles. The result is a hiring process that is more fair, and one that helps companies access talent that they are excited about. “For too long, we’ve depended on degrees as proxies for competence and capability.... View Details
- 15 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners
opportunities within ACP’s pipeline. Each day was an immersion into critical questions about climate impact and financial viability, set against the backdrop of a fast-evolving sector. Why This Path? I came to HBS with the goal of... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
Staging the Olympics is a Herculean task. Years of preparation, including budget-busting financial requirements, a panoply of construction projects, world-class logistical and communications challenges, and event-planning needs that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
that the subprime problem was the result of “greed, gullibility, and optimism.” Do those terms apply equally to borrowers and lenders? Oh yes. Borrowers overborrowed, lenders overloaned, and builders overbuilt. If you think about it, that... View Details
- 24 May 2018
- Blog Post
Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris
For many successful business people, retirement (or the advanced stages of their careers) is not a time to abandon old interests, but an opportunity to create new successes on the foundations of previous ones, perhaps by serving on a board of directors. "Most board... View Details
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
and entrepreneurial management, done with colleagues C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr. at the University of Michigan. Their research will appear in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Financial Economics. In this interview, Desai... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
Strömberg Publication:The Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity-debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
also more pronounced for the insurance firms for which regulatory capital requirements are more binding. The results hold both at issuance and for trading in the secondary market and are robust to a series of bond and issuer controls,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
and counting, well beyond the $500 million goal. With events in more than fifteen cities, the campaign energized alumni worldwide with new awareness and support for the School’s mission, resulting in increased alumni involvement. By every... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
members of the Fed pay attention to media speculation? How do they deal with a situation where the speculation is going in the wrong direction and will likely result in a “surprise” to the markets when announced? Would they prefer to... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
delay implementation of the Rule in response to the Business Roundtable challenge. We also examine intra-day returns and find that the value loss occurred just after the SEC's announcement on October 4. We find similar results on July 22,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
Karen A. Jehn, and Martin Euwema Publication:Journal of Organizational Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract Contrary to much boundary spanning research, we examined the negative consequences of boundary spanning contact in multi-organizational contexts. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage
governments to fight the downturn. "It seems likely that economic historians will look back at the years since 2007 as a grand natural experiment for assessing the effectiveness of alternative macroeconomic responses to a financial... View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Moss
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
While the knowledge sharing benefits of clusters takes off, the liability of institutionalization rise steadily as a function of time. These costs consist primarily of foregone flexibility resulting from persistence of established... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
would not be tractable and it would not be possible to obtain results. After having analyzed the base model, we relax some of these assumptions. Harnessing demand-side learning more efficiently is not sufficient for Linux to win the competitive battle against Windows.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
you’re in. Mike Toffel: And there’s a real limitation to thinking that win-win opportunities that provide both financial and environmental gains will get us where we need to go. In some domains—especially where the cause and View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
In order to get its financial and management woes under control, the health care industry might want to peek at the playbooks of retail giants like Walmart, Google, and Amazon.com. This was a key conversation point at "Perspectives... View Details
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Working Papers Putting Skin in the Game: Managerial Ownership and Bank Risk-Taking By: Bouwens, Jan, and Arnt Verriest Abstract—This paper examines the relation between managerial ownership and bank risk exposure for a large sample of international View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne