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  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

that jobs virtually dried up. "Real estate development companies were rescinding offers to classmates of mine." When the job market for commercial real estate tanked, so did MBA student interest. Today, MBA students again are flocking to real estate courses... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate
  • 27 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 27

of inflation increases demand for cost of living adjustments. Frames that highlight flexibility, control, and investment significantly reduce annuitization. A majority of respondents prefer to receive an extra "bonus" payment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

outlet store use. Consumers who shop at outlet stores also do not differ significantly from those who shop at regular stores in terms of income. I use a structural demand model to show that consumers are segmented according to their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2022
  • News

Lesson Plans

With demand growing, Khan eventually left his full-time job as a hedge fund analyst to devote himself full-time to Khan Academy, bootstrapping it for the first nine months before receiving early support from Ann and John Doerr (MBA 1976),... View Details
  • 26 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

ways of understanding the world and as sets of varying methods for achieving that understanding. It rejects the assumption that material interests either linearly or simply determine economic outcomes and demands that analysts consider,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jan 2018
  • First Look

January 30, 2018

insights and discuss intuition regarding which product categories likely lead to positive vs. negative values of concealment. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49531 The Long-Run Dynamics of Electricity Demand: Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

variation in average asset returns than aggregate or non-stockholder consumption risk and provides more plausible economic magnitudes. We find that risk aversion estimates around 10 can match observed risk premia for the wealthiest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

managerial practices explain this variation in productivity? A randomized evaluation of the introduction of a mobile-phone based agricultural consulting service, "Avaaj Otalo (AO)" to cotton farmers in Gujarat, India, reveals the following: View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Nov 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

in large and small groups. They wrote case studies on MBA programs at Chicago, INSEAD, Stanford, Yale, and HBS, plus a case on the Center for Creative Leadership (all are available from Harvard Business Publishing); collected data on View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education
  • 28 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

"lean," capacity-constrained firms. As demand varies, the industry switches between symmetric and asymmetric phases, generating predictions for firm size and costs across the business cycle. Surprisingly, increasing available... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: December 21

When producing a unit of output, the content of the knowledge gained can vary dramatically from one unit to the next. This suggests that while aggregate experience in learning-by-doing is generally valuable, not all prior experience has... View Details
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

associated with high used ship prices and heightened industry investment in new ships, but we forecast low future returns. We propose and estimate a behavioral model of industry cycles that can account for the evidence. In our model, firms over-extrapolate exogenous... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

financial and society demands intensify." Rather than ignoring them or pretending that they do not exist, managers need to directly confront these trade-offs and be clear on the choices they've made and why—recognizing that some... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

start-ups to gain knowledge and agility. The logic of corporate venturing is compelling: a well-run fund can help a firm respond quickly to changes in markets and gain a better view of threats. In some cases, it can stimulate demand for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

deductibles. We show how choice difficulties or biases may lead patients to respond to such increases in patient cost-sharing by reducing demand for high-value care, muddying the traditional argument that the price elasticity of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

estate firms' decisions to provide investment property fair values prior to the required disclosure of this information under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We find evidence that investor demand for fair value... View Details
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

direction and the internal data to understand its own strengths and weaknesses can be overly influenced by outside demands for metrics that may not always be relevant to its ultimate success. “Without understanding outcomes, you can't get... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

extrapolating past returns. Such beliefs are hard to reconcile with existing models of the aggregate stock market. We study a consumption-based asset pricing model in which some investors form beliefs about future price changes in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Perspective." In Operation and Regulation of Financial Markets , edited by Peter Englund. Stockholm: The Economic Council, 1993. Merton, Robert C. "Optimal Investment Strategies for University Endowment Funds." In Studies of Supply and View Details