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- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive, respectively, a small monetary margin on each pack sold, a large margin, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
Publication:Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (spring 2011) Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Then he began lobbying the administration of George W. Bush for additional funding to fight AIDS (in 2003, the US government pledged $15 billion toward... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003 Authors:Sergio G. Lazzarini and Aldo Musacchio Abstract There is a growing literature comparing the performance of private vs. state-owned companies. Yet, there is little work... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
producing analysis and interpretation, while operating in key decision-making fora. In the first bank ("Saxon Bank"), the risk function was successful in achieving such influence. The risk experts established a tight... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
derivative accounting. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111051-PDF-ENG Oriflame S.A. (C) David F. Hawkins, Karol MisztalHarvard Business School Supplement 111-052 Notes from Oriflame's 2009 annual report relevant to the assessment of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
models or for country-level factors like culture, genes, or institutions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-052.pdf A Theory of Growth and Volatility at the Aggregate and Firm Level Authors:Diego A. Comin and Sunil Mulani Publication:Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
Their behavior is motivated by a norm that says you should help others when they are in need, but you must not exploit this situation. Monetary incentives "work" in this instance because people read them as a sign for the needs... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
reasons—and revisits the associated implications for investing and corporate finance, examining asset allocation, high leverage in financial firms, low leverage in industrial firms, private equity, venture capital, and bank capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52217 2016 Monetary Policy Through Asset Markets: Lessons from Unconventional Measures and Implications for an Integrated World Forward Guidance in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
flows. The hyperbole was striking: The language of religion—orthodoxy, heresy, dogma—seems for some reason to pervade policy discussions of international monetary and financial issues. And the prevailing orthodoxy had been determined in... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
Measuring Social Impact Historically, economists and firms alike have banked on the theory that workers are motivated by earning financial incentives and boosting revenues. And in designing development projects for developing countries,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
and Matthew C. Weinzierl Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model in which prices are sticky in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
and develop a construction budget and financing plan. Students are asked to evaluate the prospective financials for this development and assess the viability of the development plan and its prospective returns. The case then ends with a change in the fundamental... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
long-term nonfinancial performance. We use a novel dataset compiled by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and find that firms setting more difficult targets complete a higher percentage of such targets. We also find that this effect is negatively moderated by the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
join the European Monetary Union in 1999. With strong unions, weak competitiveness, and a legacy of socialism, it could not compete with north-European countries. After borrowing extensively to fund deficits, Portugal went into debt... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
to financial results, to behave according to the organization’s long term values and goals. Surprisingly, we find that the intervention drove even higher effort on performance associated with pre-existing monetary incentives but, on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
crisis? Did the International Monetary Fund (IMF) help or hinder recovery? Did democracy help or hinder recovery? Seen as an economic miracle, Korea succumbed to the wave of currency crises sweeping Asia in late 1997. Did the same... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
monetary rewards are at stake (Study 3). The tendency to infer dislike from dissimilarity is driven by a belief that others have a narrow and homogeneous range of preferences (Study 5). Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel