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  • 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

correlated with each other, as well as with past stock returns and with the level of the stock market. However, investor expectations are strongly negatively correlated with model-based expected returns. We reconcile the evidence by calibrating a simple behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

traders increased Iceland's vulnerability to a confidence crisis because they were quick to liquidate their holdings at the first sign of distress. The plunge in the Icelandic Krona since the beginning of 2008 also forced the Icelandic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

payment arrangements that support international trade. It describes the principal instruments of trade finance, the limited evidence on their relative use, and the international trade dispute resolution mechanisms that form the backdrop against which View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

the world's largest commodities exchange, futures and options on futures contracts, history, regulation, and the strategic choices the company faced. CME Group was formed from the oldest and most well-known exchanges in the world. Traders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

with routine traders are essentially zero. Further, opportunistic trades predict future news and events at a firm level, while routine trades do not. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/pomalco.pdf Course... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

Elena CorsiHarvard Business School Case 312-108 The head of Denmark's largest energy group pondered how to use their limited resources to advance the delivery of clean and reliable energy. The Danish State owned DONG Energy had started life as an importer and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

under the bridge — ancient history, like the history of imperial China. Markets have short memories. Many young traders today did not even experience the Asian crisis of 1997–1998. Those who went into finance after 2000 lived through... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

Commodity Trading Jones, Geoffrey, and Espen StorliHarvard Business School Case 813-020 Examines the career of Marc Rich, the world's leading commodity trader before his criminal indictment in the United States in 1983. The case surveys... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

innovation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-099.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsDoug Rauch: Solving the American Food Paradox José B. Alvarez and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 512-022 Doug Rauch, the former president of grocery store... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

filing of the 13D. Informed traders find it profitable to concentrate their trades with a leaking broker because the loss due to the information leakage is more than compensated by the gains derived from trading on the information... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

analytics revolution when they hired former Wall Street trader Ernie Adams in 2000. Yet another example can be seen in New England’s propensity to exploit league rules to gain a marginal advantage. For example, in a 2015 playoff game... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

In the Black-Scholes/Merton model, a trader should be able to exactly match the contractual payment at expiration. Therefore, students are penalized based on the absolute difference between their actual ending value and a target ending... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

technology platform that is used by nearly half of the school districts in the U.S. Prior to Clever, Rafael was an Algorithmic Trader at Jump Trading. Dayna Grayson MBA ’06, Harvard University; BS, Systems Engineering, University of... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

(Palantir Press) Tōru: Wayfarer Returns is an alternate history of the tumultuous period from the opening of Japan in 1853 to the Meiji Restoration in 1868. The hero of this fictional account is Tōru, a shipwrecked young fisherman rescued by View Details