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  • June 2019
  • Article

Fraud Allegations and Government Contracting

By: Jonas Heese and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos
This paper examines whether fraud allegations affect firms’ contracting with the government. Using a dataset of whistleblower allegations brought under the False Claims Act against firms accused of defrauding the government, we find that federal agencies do not reduce... View Details
Keywords: Whistleblower; Fraud Allegations; False Claims Act; Government Contracting; Risk Allocation; Government and Politics; Contracts; Crime and Corruption; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Government Relations
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Risk and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

By: Mark Seasholes, Radu Burlacu, Patrice Fontaine and Sonia Jimenez-Garces
This paper mathematically transforms unobservable rational expectation equilibrium model parameters (information precision and supply uncertainty) into a single variable that is correlated with expected returns and that can be estimated with recently observed data. Our... View Details
Keywords: Risk Premiums; Cross-sectional Asset Pricing; REE Models; Risk and Uncertainty; Asset Pricing; Investment Return
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  • October 2008
  • Article

The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns

By: Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini and Christopher J. Malloy
This paper uses social networks to identify information transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are... View Details
Keywords: Financial Markets; Information Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Announcements; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Asset Pricing; Governing and Advisory Boards
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  • 09 Sep 2020
  • News

The Great Experiment

  • 28 Sep 2016
  • News

Can Washington control high-tech lending?

  • 08 Sep 2016
  • News

Airbnb adopts new anti-discrimination policies: Do they go far enough?

    The Elasticity of Science

    The adjustment costs of science -- getting scientists to study what you want them to -- are very large.

    Abstact: This paper identifies the degree to which scientists are willing to change the direction of their work in exchange for resources.... View Details

      Facts and Figuring

      2014 INGRoup Outstanding Conference Paper

      When it comes to solving problems, the connectedness enabled by transparent, open collaboration is a double-edged sword. Problem-solving involves both the search for information (facts, or puzzle pieces... View Details
      • 28 Nov 2023
      • Book

      Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

      call it “looting,” drawing on a well-known paper on US firms in the savings and loan crisis, among other episodes. That paper shows that firms loot their own assets in expectations of bailout, but I show... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
      • 13 Jan 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?

      Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • 07 Apr 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Better Deals Through Level II Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping to Solve Their Internal Problems

      Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
      • 08 Jan 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Leading Amidst Competing Technical and Institutional Demands: Revisiting Selznick’s Conception of Leadership

      Keywords: by Marya L. Besharov & Rakesh Khurana
      • 2007
      • Chapter

      Legal Origin vs. the Politics of Creditor Rights: Bond Markets in Brazil, 1850-2002

      By: Aldo Musacchio
      This paper explores the question: Do institutions persist over time and determine current economic outcomes? Specifically, does the adoption or inheritance of a legal tradition in the past determine the subsequent course of institutional and financial development? This... View Details
      Keywords: History; Rights; Common Law; Code Law; Financial Markets; Credit; Economy; Government and Politics; Financial Services Industry
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      • 19 Dec 2017
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

      but also in explaining the number of different uses. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49447 Creating the Market for Organic Wine: Sulfites, Certification, and Green Values By: Jones, Geoffrey, and Emily Grandjean Abstract—This... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 22 Jan 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: Jan. 22

      and increased employment has attracted increased interest. Yet questions about efficacy and the efficiency with which funds are used is a subject of frequent debate. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish National Advanced... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 06 Aug 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

      working paper that Iyer coauthored with Quy-Toan Do, of the World Bank, probes this topic in depth by examining the country of Nepal, the land-locked home of Mount Everest. Nepal's internal conflict has killed more than 13,000 people... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace
      • 07 Feb 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss

      frustration or sadness. Wolf differentiates those expressions from anger directed at others. In the paper Managing Perceptions of Distress at Work: Reframing Emotion as Passion, published in the November 2016 issue of Organizational... View Details
      Keywords: by Roberta Holland
      • Web

      Economic Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      environment can be distinctive strengths relative to peers? What strong or emerging clusters can be built upon? How Should States Compete with Each Other? Related Resources 04 May 2012 BusinessWeek “Why America Needs an Economic Strategy” by Michael E. Porter 27 Oct... View Details
      • 11 Jul 2006
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Globalizing the Beauty Business Before 1980

      Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones
      • Research Summary

      The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game

      Small businesses are core to America's economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation’s private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs in our country. Yet in... View Details