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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Internal Models, Make Believe Prices, and Bond Market Cornering

By: Ishita Sen and Varun Sharma
Exploiting position-level heterogeneity in regulatory incentives to misreport and novel data on regulators, we document that U.S. life insurers inflate the values of corporate bonds using internal models. We estimate an additional $9-$18 billion decline in regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Life Insurers; Capital Regulation; Internal Models; Corporate Bonds; Regulatory Supervision; Concentrated Ownership; Bonds; Capital; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Insurance; Investment Portfolio
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Sen, Ishita, and Varun Sharma. "Internal Models, Make Believe Prices, and Bond Market Cornering." Working Paper, June 2020.
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

The Benefits of Selective Disclosure: Evidence from Private Firms

By: Joan Farre-Mensa
Private firms’ ability to communicate confidentially with selected investors implies that valuation disagreements between firms and investors are larger at public firms than at private ones. Consistent with the notion that misvaluation concerns lead public firms to... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Equity; Private Companies; Corporate Cash; Precautionary Motives; Share Issuance; IPOs; Selective Disclosure; Private Ownership; Cash; Market Timing; Corporate Finance; Public Ownership; Corporate Disclosure; United States
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Farre-Mensa, Joan. "The Benefits of Selective Disclosure: Evidence from Private Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-095, April 2014. (Revised March 2017.)
  • 02 May 2005
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Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?

"consumer generated marketing." Is it time to ask ourselves whether these trends are always in our best interests as marketers and customers? Is it possible to be too well connected with one View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 Jun 2014
  • Blog Post

Recruiting Millennials in a Global Market

talent. Organizations need to be nimble and stay ahead of the curve to effectively target the right candidates through methods that appeal to them. As an international educator who has worked with... View Details
  • 01 Aug 2018
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Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

the notion that efficient markets for capital, goods, and labor will always regulate themselves, producing the appropriate “price” of various inputs to the productive process. He advocates new trade... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • December 2010
  • Article

Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts

This paper reports a three-phase experiment on a stylized labor market. In the first two phases, agents face simple games, which we use to estimate subjects' social and reciprocity concerns. In the last phase, four principals compete by offering agents a contract from... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Markets; Contracts; Decisions; Distribution; Labor; Game Theory
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Cabrales, Antonio, Raffaele Miniaci, Marco Piovesan, and Giovanni Ponti. "Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts." American Economic Review 100, no. 5 (December 2010): 2261–2278.
  • May 2003
  • Background Note

Customer Management Strategy in Business Markets

By: Das Narayandas
Describes in detail customer management strategies in business markets, including selection decisions, design and management of customer relationship strategies, monitoring the health of customer relations, and linking the vendors' customer management effort to... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Relationship Management; Decision Making; Networks; Customization and Personalization; Manufacturing Industry
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Narayandas, Das. "Customer Management Strategy in Business Markets." Harvard Business School Background Note 503-060, May 2003.
  • October 2024
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Sampling Bias in Entrepreneurial Experiments

By: Ruiqing Cao, Rembrand Koning and Ramana Nanda
Using data from a prominent online platform for launching new digital products, we document that ‘sampling bias’—defined as the difference between a startup’s target customer base and the actual sample on which early ‘beta tests’ are conducted—has a systematic and... View Details
Keywords: Target Market; Sampling Biases; Beta Testing; Product Launch; Entrepreneurship; Gender
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Cao, Ruiqing, Rembrand Koning, and Ramana Nanda. "Sampling Bias in Entrepreneurial Experiments." Management Science 70, no. 10 (October 2024): 7283–7307.
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Investment Management and Capital Markets - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Investment Management and Capital Markets Course Number 1446 Professor Luis Viceira Associate Professor Emil Siriwardane Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 sessions Exam IMCM is suitable for all... View Details
  • June 23, 2021
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Research: When A/B Testing Doesn't Tell You the Whole Story

By: Eva Ascarza
When it comes to churn prevention, marketers traditionally start by identifying which customers are most likely to churn, and then running A/B tests to determine whether a proposed retention intervention will be effective at retaining those high-risk customers. While... View Details
Keywords: Customer Retention; Churn; Targeting; Market Research; Marketing; Investment Return; Customers; Retention; Research
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Ascarza, Eva. "Research: When A/B Testing Doesn't Tell You the Whole Story." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (June 23, 2021).
  • 05 May 2003
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Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?

respondents concerned the misuse of such techniques. As Tom Henkel put it, "I'm sure the same companies that wasted time and money on poorly designed surveys and focus groups will engage in similarly... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2013
  • Tool

Harvard Business Review's Go to Market Tools: Customer Lifetime Value

By: Thomas Steenburgh and Jill Avery
How much are your customers worth? Has your marketing budget been slashed? Need to figure out the best place to invest your time and effort to reach your growth target? HBR's Go to Market Tool helps calculate your customer's lifetime value, allowing you to prioritize... View Details
Keywords: Quantitative Analysis; Tools; Customer Lifetime Value; Customer Defection; CRM; Customer Relationship Management; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships
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Steenburgh, Thomas, and Jill Avery. Harvard Business Review's Go to Market Tools: Customer Lifetime Value. Tool. Harvard Business Review Press, 2013. Electronic.
  • 17 Jan 2008
  • Research & Ideas

If Marketing Experts Ran Elections

requires the development of a distinctive, appealing message, delivered consistently over time. But politicians can't win by targeting a single niche segment. They have to win a majority on election day, and... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks

By: Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard Posner and Alvin E. Roth
In the past, judges have often hired applicants for judicial clerkships as early as the beginning of the second year of law school for positions commencing approximately two years down the road. In the new hiring regime for federal judicial law clerks, by contrast,... View Details
Keywords: Law; Education; Employment; Selection and Staffing; Marketplace Matching
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Avery, Christopher, Christine Jolls, Richard Posner, and Alvin E. Roth. "The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13213, July 2007.
  • July 2023
  • Case

DayTwo: Going to Market with Gut Microbiome (Abridged)

By: Ayelet Israeli
DayTwo is a young Israeli startup that applies research on the gut microbiome and machine learning algorithms to deliver personalized nutritional recommendations to its users in order to minimize blood sugar spikes after meals. After a first year of trial rollout in... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; AI and Machine Learning; Nutrition; Market Entry and Exit; Product Marketing; Distribution Channels
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Israeli, Ayelet. "DayTwo: Going to Market with Gut Microbiome (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 524-015, July 2023.
  • August 2024
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The Labor Market Effects of Loan Guarantee Programs

By: Jean-Noël Barrot, Thorsten Martin, Julien Sauvagnat and Boris Vallée
We investigate the labor market effects of a loan guarantee program targeting French SMEs during the financial crisis. Exploiting differences in regional treatment intensity in a border discontinuity design, we uncover a central trade-off for such interventions. While... View Details
Keywords: Labor; Financial Crisis; Policy; France
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Barrot, Jean-Noël, Thorsten Martin, Julien Sauvagnat, and Boris Vallée. "The Labor Market Effects of Loan Guarantee Programs." Review of Financial Studies 37, no. 8 (August 2024): 2315–2354.
  • 30 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

take in our first business model was that of a destination site, FairMarket.com. We would run a site and drive buyers and sellers to it. Our concept was to start on one vertical View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology
  • 26 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Lipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing

Instagram and YouTube. In the competition for the consumer’s attention, influencers are winning with pretty packages of photos and videos, as consumers increasingly reject more traditional forms of View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 25 Nov 2013
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Does successful viral marketing lead to a successful product?

  • 19 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Finding Success in the Middle of the Market

provider of premium-priced products tailored to a particular customer segment, or you have to shoot for scale, using low prices and volume purchasing to attract a mass market View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Auto; Retail
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