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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

fluctuations. The authors introduce a novel measure of risk perceptions: the price of volatile stocks. They show that high perceived risk is associated with low risk-free interest rates, a high cost of capital for risky firms, and future... View Details
  • 28 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-096.pdf Shamed and Able: How Firms Respond to Being Rated (Revised May 2008) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract We examine how firms respond to third-party View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

structured finance instruments can be characterized as economic catastrophe bonds but offer far less compensation than alternatives with comparable payoff profiles. We argue that this difference arises from the willingness of rating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

essence, collaboration can help firms improve their bottom and their top lines. For a few, it provides a real source of competitive advantage. Q: You mention in the paper that many efforts at innovation collaboration fail because they... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

use, if only to fulfill accreditation requirements. "The real question remains, are they serving the intended purpose? It could be that very little happens with these reports in terms of the long-term learning that you would hope to see."... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • 09 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing

interactions that matter most are not with the people you work with closely every day, such as people in your home department. Instead, the real influence comes from colleagues whose intellectual pursuits are vastly different from your... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • April 2011 (Revised December 2017)
  • Case

Latvia: Navigating the Strait of Messina

By: Rafael Di Tella, Rawi Abdelal and Natalie Kindred
This case describes Latvia's transition from a Soviet republic into an EU member, its economic boom and subsequent bust in 2008, and its policy response. After implementing significant economic and political reforms in order to qualify for EU membership in 2004, Latvia... View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Competitive Strategy; Economic Growth; Policy; Financial Crisis; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Latvia
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Di Tella, Rafael, Rawi Abdelal, and Natalie Kindred. "Latvia: Navigating the Strait of Messina." Harvard Business School Case 711-053, April 2011. (Revised December 2017.)
  • 09 Jan 2024
  • In Practice

Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year

crowdsource diverse viewpoints and innovative solutions to their most complex solutions. Take the Netflix challenge. In 2006, Netflix launched an open competition for the best collaborative filtering algorithm to predict user ratings for... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology
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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

Emergency, business revenues declined by 40 percent, largely driven by national factors rather than local infection rates or policies. However, the pass-through of revenue losses to owner consumption was limited: each dollar of revenue... View Details
  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

be.” — Admiral James Stockdale. In August, while most developed nations’ rates of COVID-19 infections are falling, the rate in the United States continues to rise. States that had reopened or begun to, such... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Sam Walton: Great From the Start

learn that the store was a real dog." The rent for this "dog" was 5 percent of sales. This sounded fine to Walton; but after signing the lease, he discovered that this "was the highest rent anybody'd ever heard of in... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail
  • 26 Jun 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Leave a Lasting Impression on Customers? Don't Forget the (Proverbial) Fireworks

Boots: The Last Wish, and registering their enjoyment in real time as they watched. They were then asked to rate how much they wanted to see the movie on a scale of 1 to 100, and which movie they’d watch if... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

Abstract This paper examines the litigation of patents relating to financial products and services. I show that these grants are being litigated at a rate 27 to 39 times greater than that of patents as a whole. The patents being litigated... View Details
  • 30 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

As interest in the flat tax grows, the world seems transfixed on an unlikely country, Slovakia, whose 3-year-old tax reform program is paying early dividends. Essentially applying a uniform tax rate on citizens (and sometimes companies)... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

Acelerex

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry
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Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Acelerex." Harvard Business School Case 720-360, July 2019. (Revised May 2021.)
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

high-skilled immigrants on U.S. technology formation. Specifically, we use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Fluctuations in H-1B admissions levels significantly influence the rate of Indian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

underlying the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk. We find that the ratings are related to enforcement and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Feb 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve

their idea, but a little humility and a lot of discovery work can determine whether there’s a winning solution and save a lot of wasted time and money building the wrong thing. If fundraising is also a consideration, being able to have View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 16 May 2023
  • HBS Case

How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

they cared didn’t just boost morale, it also lowered injury rates and increased summer productivity. “This was one of the first changes we made that resulted in even skeptical people—for example, those who thought the safety rules were... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
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Podcast - Business & Environment

entrepreneurs about how to align impact with profit. Carbon Credit Ratings and Market Integrity: A Conversation on the Calyx Global Case 09 APR 2025 | Climate Rising In this bonus episode of Climate Rising, we share an episode from... View Details
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