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  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

Altruism and solidarity were also significant drivers in the private sector, resulting in large part from the long-standing tradition of charity and civil commitment derived... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 24 Feb 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

million, of secure web servers on the internet and allowed numerous data breaches, including the theft of 4.5 million medical records from a large hospital chain. In response to Heartbleed, the Linux... View Details
Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer
  • 27 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

To other functional departments such as finance and operations, the sales and marketing functions look alike. After all, they are both "outward looking," focused on... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

The Camel and the Unicorn

from one town, New Bedford. The reason actually has nothing to do with them having better ships or them having better anything. It's only because of their invention of a new financing mechanism, whereby merchants were able to take money... View Details
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

occupational segregation on which most prior research has focused. We examine more than 40 years of longitudinal data on the racial employment composition of every large private-sector workplace in the United States to calculate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

to the times? A: Policy is not particularly flexible, though major reforms do happen. For instance, they have occurred every few decades in the United States since the mid-20th century. Many commentators and tax experts think that we are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

New subways or water projects need to be repaid from usage fees over the very long term. London or Beijing may upgrade a transit line to accommodate the rush of athletes and visitors, but these... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports
  • 03 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

Feedback Shapes Social Networks By: Green, Paul, Jr., Francesca Gino, and Bradley Staats Abstract—Many organizations employ interpersonal feedback processes as a structured means of informing View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 2012
  • Article

Mutual Fund Trading Pressure: Firm-Level Stock Price Impact and Timing of SEOs

By: Mozaffar N. Khan, Leonid Kogan and George Serafeim
In tests of the equity market timing theory of external finance, the prior literature has used overvaluation identifiers such as high market-to-book and high prior returns that are likely correlated with other determinants of SEOs. We use price pressure resulting from... View Details
Keywords: Equity; Market Transactions; Valuation; Capital Structure; Market Timing; Mathematical Methods; Acquisition
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    Victoria Ivashina

    Victoria Ivashina is the Lovett-Learned Professor of Finance and Head of the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. She also serves as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy... View Details

    Keywords: banking; federal government; financial services; investment banking industry; private equity (LBO funds); private equity (other)
    • 10 Jul 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

    gap” was a problem in Nigeria as in many parts of the world. Infrastructure projects like power plants and dams were very large capital investments that could generate... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 03 Oct 2023
    • Research Event

    Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

    that. Little kids, you know, they feel an emotion and they they scream. They - something's funny, they laugh. Something's makes them angry, they yell. That's the reason is because they're reacting according to the limbic system of their... View Details
    Keywords: by HBS Staff
    • 11 Dec 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

    native men and women. We show that these effects were driven by the large and positive impact of immigration on native men’s employment and... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 19 Mar 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

    Counterfactual simulations of our structural model show large gains from screening potential hires via psychometric measurement and training to improve managerial practices.... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog

    including small and large companies, family-owned ventures, private and public firms, and US and international... View Details
    • 12 Feb 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

    must decide if there is an opportunity, how to structure a trade to exploit it, and how much of her fund's capital to allocate. Case exposition includes descriptions of basic View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 03 Jul 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

    one emerging economy. Based on an exploratory field study of medical device development projects in India, we observe the frequent, iterative testing of prototypes in clinical settings and investigate the... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 18 Dec 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

    in terms of their R&D investment and financing decisions. We document that these negative shocks lead affected firms to increase R&D expenditures, which they finance... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 29 Jan 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

    over time, the relationship between firm size and corporate vulnerability is relatively time invariant. All else being equal, large firms in emerging markets are more financially vulnerable View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 24 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

    size of the LGBT population are misestimated, likely substantially. In a series of online experiments using a large and diverse but non-representative sample, we compare estimates from the standard... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne