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  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

the potential for non-traditional gender role models to gradually erode gender inequality in homes and labor markets. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49311 Customers and Investors: A Framework for Understanding View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

  Working PapersMental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, John Beshears, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman (revised March 2008) Abstract We study the effect of small windfalls on consumer-spending View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

stabilize the financial system and the economy. The case explores the details of policies, and the decision making process that led to them, that Geithner and his team devised under immense time pressure to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

Series, No. 15325, September 2009 Abstract Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for underinvestment that exist even when externality-induced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Smarter Policy” to help provide evidence on matters of small-business financing—looking in particular about whether and how the financial crisis created a credit gap for small businesses. Despite gathering information, however, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8

Entrepreneurs in U.S. Financial History, 1775-1914 Author:T.K. McCraw Publication:Capitalism and Society 5, no. 1 (2010) Abstract Throughout its history, the U.S. has been the beneficiary of a worldwide in-migration of entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

Life-Cycle Funds Authors:Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract We investigate optimal consumption, asset accumulation and portfolio decisions in a realistically calibrated life-cycle model with flexible... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

Strategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies (revised) Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

change in the information set for employees when the incentives and decision rights remain unchanged. Also examines the tradeoffs front-line employees face as they divide their efforts between reaching new customers and increasing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Oct 2006
  • Op-Ed

Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance

the vesting period—appears to vitiate many of the benefits of incentive alignment. How might option compensation be refashioned to deliver the benefits without the distortions? Perhaps the answer to these problems can be found with philosophers rather than View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis
  • August 2003
  • Article

When Does the Market Matter? Stock Prices and the Investment of Equity-Dependent Firms

By: Malcolm Baker, Jeremy Stein and Jeffrey Wurgler
We use a simple model of corporate investment to determine when investment will be sensitive to non-fundamental movements in stock prices. The key cross-sectional prediction of the model is that stock prices will have a stronger impact on the investment of firms that... View Details
Keywords: Stocks; Price; Investment; Equity; Forecasting and Prediction; Rank and Position; Markets
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  • 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

excluded the use of sulfites, while in Europe some use was permitted. For winemakers, distributors and retailers, navigating the complex layers of regulations regarding organic wine was enormously time intensive. Many winemakers chose to forego organic certification so... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

Abstract—Seven experiments explore people's decisions to share or withhold personal information and the wisdom of such decisions. When people choose not to reveal information—to be "hiders"—they are judged negatively by others... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

the investor's and the investee's countries, affects the asset allocation decisions of global mutual funds. We find that investors tend to underweight investees with greater accounting distance. Using the mandatory adoption of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2009
  • Teaching Note

First National Bank's Golden Opportunity (TN)

By: Shawn A. Cole
Teaching Note for [208072]. View Details
Keywords: Saving; Product; Interest Rates; Personal Finance; Cost vs Benefits; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment; Problems and Challenges; Demand and Consumers; Product Launch; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; South Africa
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  • 01 Jun 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

because you're talking about discovering something that's completely new," she says. "That requires a different kind of management strategy." For example, the financial metrics used to make management View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

scores frequently used in scientific peer review (similar to existing minimally important differences for scores in clinical medicine). To our knowledge, the magnitude of score change required to change editorial decisions has not been... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

exhibit "The Four Spans" provides a summary.) The span of control. The first span defines the range of resources—not only people but also assets and infrastructure—for which a manager is given decision rights. These are also the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

regulatory guidelines. Finally, I consider how the regulatory process affects small firms' market entry patterns and find that small firms are less likely to be pioneers in new device markets, a fact consistent with relatively higher costs of doing so for more View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

decisions that would not have made been made on purely financial grounds. It's like P&G's Children's Safe Drinking Water program. When P&G could not make a commercial market out of water purification... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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