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- 31 Oct 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers
inequity inevitable. For example, an often-cited research finding is that woman can be viewed as competent or as likeable–but not both. True or not, believing it increases FOSO, as competent women face pressures, depending on their life and career stage: The beer after... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
provide good information. Sites have to provide robust online experiences if they want to create strong bonds and real relationships with their customers, he adds. The Question: So far LS has signed on mid-size businesses that generate... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
Abstract— We document a strong effect of pension and insurance company (P&I) assets on the long end of the yield curve. Using data from 26 countries, the yield spread between 30-year and 10-year government bond yields is negatively... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
that aims to explain what determines country risk (defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk-free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion by arguing that an important explanatory factor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
behave like money. We first present a simple model where households demand money services, which are supplied by three types of claims: deposits, Treasury bills, and asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP). The model provides predictions for the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
historical long run). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52277 February 2017 Journal of Arthroplasty Drivers of the Variation in Prosthetic Implant Purchase Prices for Total Knee and Total Hip Arthroplasties... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
at Fidelity Investments to launch a venture aimed at providing analytical information to bond traders. He showed Sahlman his business plan for a company that he was calling Technical Data Corporation. Basically, Parker had figured out a... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
economics, demonstrating a persistent concern with market fairness—not only fair prices for consumers but also fair competition among businesses. Proponents of fair trade collaborated with regulators to create codes of fair competition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
we find significant price differences between institutional investors' tranches and banks' tranches on the same loans, even though they share the same underlying fundamentals. Increasing demand pressure causes the interest rate on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
in the oil patch during that boom—that’s how I put myself through college. But once the price of oil dropped in 1982 and 1983, then that boom went bust because it was no longer cost effective to extract the oil. It was a very painful... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
reports, the relationship between ESG disclosure and performance, and how green bonds provide institutional oversight that helps bring credibility to firms’ environmental commitments. Key takeaway: “Standardized and comparable measures... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
business and financial challenges at the 171-year old UK travel services company. The company has lost almost £600 million in the last three quarters, has seen its stock price fall from 230 pence to a low of 8.8 pence in the past two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
prices of used ships to fall by as much as 80%. As ship prices (values?) fell, ship owners began to default on loans and new purchase contracts while banks holding loans secured by ships faced the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
that are shaping the world of the future and offers guidance on how to avoid being eaten alive. The Wind Blew Innocent: A Memoir by Donna Arp Weitzman (OPM 37 2008) (Howard Bond Media Group LLC) Claustrophobia. I didn't know the meaning... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-086.pdf Expectations, Network Effects and Platform Pricing Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract In markets with network effects, users must form expectations about the total number of users... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
less risky than value at long horizons for equity-only investors. Long-horizon aggressive investors who have access to bills and bonds increase their allocation to both value stocks and growth stocks at long horizons, but they do not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
factors causing the crisis but also evaluating the government responses to date and suggesting practical reforms for the future. Catering Through Nominal Share Prices Authors:Malcolm Baker, Robin Greenwood, and Jeffrey Wurgler... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
SFP raises funds from individuals, foundations, and endowments to achieve its goals. The huge demand for organic goods such as corn, oats, and alfalfa, and the higher prices they command than traditionally grown crops, creates a dramatic... View Details
- Profile
Deborah A. Farrington
with whom they were investing. The art of mentoring and advising clients struck a chord and she stayed four years before deciding it was finally time to maneuver toward her own firm. Back in New York, the HBS bond was rekindled.... View Details
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
its own. Proponents of the bill, meanwhile, believed that it was necessary to stave off a potentially disastrous and protracted housing shortage, and they cited the long-successful mortgage bond markets in France and Germany as evidence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace