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- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-004.pdf Investment Taxation and Portfolio Performance Authors:Daniel Bergstresser and Jeffrey Pontiff Abstract Taxes have a first-order impact on portfolio returns. Most research mistakenly assumes that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
percent increase in housing prices. Moreover, Yelp measures of local business activity provide leading indicators for housing price changes and help to forecast which neighborhoods are gentrifying. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
experiencing a threat to their abilities, individuals who misrepresent their performance as better than it actually is boost their feelings of competence. We situate these findings in the literature on self-protection. We show that this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
Corporate Performance By: Brochet, Francois, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using conference call transcripts to measure the time horizon that senior executives emphasize when they communicate with investors, we develop a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Publications August 2013 California Management Review What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan Abstract—Organizations with social missions, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54596 Relative Performance Benchmarks: Do Boards Follow the Informativeness Principle? By: Ma, Paul, Jee Eun Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract— We examine whether and to what extent... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
class system, or an alleged "anti-industrial" bias of its social elite, or the post-1945 flirtation with socialism and extensive state intervention. We maintain that comparisons which use the United States as a benchmark can be... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
differentially spur employees of varying hierarchical levels to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons with peers could cause either junior or senior employees to seek to improve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
institutional client. Q: Your research uncovered that most academic research in the past has benchmarked "affiliated" analysts—or those covering a company that is an existing client—and "unaffiliated" analysts against... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
two-week online contest broadcast to participants outside academia and biomedical disciplines. Participants in our contest produced over 600 submissions containing 89 novel computational approaches to the problem. Thirty submissions exceeded the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
clear; 4) Taking the wrong approach to performance assessment. Milestones relevant to each stage of an initiative's development should be established, and key assumptions in the business plan should be linked to the financial forecast; 5)... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
when the ECB's Governing Council reconvened on April 10, 2008. Given both the market turmoil and the evident inflationary pressure, members of the ECB's Governing Council would have to weigh the available data extremely carefully as they decided whether to raise,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
mergers of good and bad banks and equity injections. We apply the framework to European banks vulnerable to sovereign risk in 2010 and 2011. Download the paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w18537 Boardroom Centrality and Firm Performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
on how firms interact in the marketplace. In the paper we provide a detailed characterization of the performance of both strategies. Q: Your work assumes there is transparency in the market with regard to the sharing of consumer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
step-by-step, room-by-room guidance on how to create a welcoming and functioning space that expresses your unique individuality. Breaking Through: Leadership Disciplines from Top Performing Staffing Firms by Mike Cleland and Barry Asin... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
haunting benchmark not only for Exxon-Mobil but for global corporations at large, which have since become keenly aware of their exposure to this type of episode. Shell was also deeply affected by the 1995 dispute with Greenpeace over... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
integrated reporting, and establishing collaborations with other asset owners to drive systems level change. He was convinced that the only way to meet his responsibilities to his beneficiaries was to improve the performance of the entire... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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