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- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
look at banks, for example, they have localized decision rights in many cases, where branch managers and even some tellers have the ability to make loan decisions or give customers a better rate than what the guidelines say. In sales... View Details
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
customers by providing them adequate functionality in return for lower prices. The technology of this sort of disruptive innovation offers "good enough" performance along traditional metrics and is supported by a business model that generates attractive... View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
work pace patterns provide evidence for a time discounting mechanism: workers discount idle time when it is relatively distant but act to avoid it increasingly as it becomes more proximate. Finally, Study 4... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
particulars of your business is different depending on how prevalent bad affiliates are, the profit margins of bad affiliates, and what I call the discount rate of good affiliates—how quickly your good... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
reflected in stock prices. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43177 Cost of Capital Dynamics Implied by Firm Fundamentals Authors:Lyle, Matthew, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract We provide a tractable stock valuation model to study the dynamics of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
some of the interest rate risk. In the 1990s a couple of things happened that set the stage for where we are today: There emerged automated underwriting and credit scoring. All of a sudden the world of the deposit-taking institution, your... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
exposure is not much of an issue. A convertible bond can be viewed as a simple coupon paying corporate bond plus a conversion option. A bond pricing model discounts the promised payments at a rate that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (B) CIC engages in "guerrilla warfare," offering free or highly discounted rates in order to get its empty offices filled before the opening day of its St. Louis branch. Opening... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
Brian Kenny: In September of 2013, President Obama sent shock waves through American higher education by announcing plans to create a federal rating system that would allow parents and students to easily compare colleges. He said he would... View Details
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
effort to combat global warming. It raises the question, of course, of whether the free market has the patience for investments that may not pay out for many years. The end value may be huge (even infinite?), but the discounted value of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
entrepreneurial activity, which drew people away from large companies and encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
investigate whether stocks in the euro area have moved from a regime in which national stock markets were priced with discount rates that were predominantly country specific, to a regime in which national... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
Professor Bill Poorvu recruited him to help manage a $27 million pool of capital in the newly formed Baupost. While the starting salary was an underwhelming $35K, it turned out to be the opportunity of a lifetime. In 26 years, Baupost has racked up an enviable 20... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
socially responsible Working Assets Money Market Fund. Working Assets Funding Service emerged from the fund entity in 1988 and now operates various enterprises, with telecommunications as its core service. The company purchases long-distance telephone time at bulk-rate... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
belief that her own ability in math is lower.” Women Discount Positive Feedback About Their Abilities In an experiment for Coffman’s working paper Stereotypes and Belief Updating, participants completed a timed test of cognitive ability... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
ad platform can offer, an advertiser may forego use of an ad platform that the advertiser otherwise finds profitable. Mergers between ad platforms can increase advertiser welfare if the resulting click-through rate and volume of traffic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
a willingness to accept a social discount to financial returns. However, some in the social investing community believe that this is simply untrue. Because of the increased risk associated with investing in early-stage social ventures,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
airline's need to slow its growth rate in the response to increasing fuel costs and the effects of major operational crisis for the airline in February 2007. In 2005, JetBlue—typically viewed as a low-cost carrier (LCC)—made a move that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
who pays Medicare’s rates to providers. (For the purposes of this example, we assume Medicare pays providers 50 percent of the rates paid by private plans, at the midpoint of the 35 percent to 65 percent... View Details
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
In the United States, employers have often treated health benefits as a necessary evil. They have focused on the rising cost of providing health insurance benefits and taken aggressive steps to bring costs down, or at least to slow the View Details