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- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
information aggregation treatments do not affect total equity investment when we make the investment environment more realistic than in prior experiments. Previously documented aggregation effects are not robust to changes in the risky... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
Assessing creditworthiness of small businesses can be difficult due to information asymmetry. Little, if any, public information exists about the performance of most small businesses because they rarely... View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
barred sponsors from soliciting small investors for large commercial real estate. However, the JOBS Act of 2013 loosened U.S. restrictions on equity crowdfunding. Nino believes that crowdfunding will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
in preferred equity from the United States government via the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Yet, the stock had continued to slide in early 2009. In late February, the company announced that it would convert as much as $50 billion... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2007
- Op-Ed
How Marketing Hype Hurt Boeing and Apple
damage to Apple brand equity among its core customers. After heavy blogging complaints about Apple exploiting its loyal followers, Steve Jobs had to apologize publicly (after a curt "That's technology" response fueled the fire)... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
venture capital firms, offering to invest Rs 200 million in return for an equity stake in the company. His dream of transforming Getit from a regional print company into a digital company with broad... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
School Case 111-114 Inconsistencies in accounting treatment across countries are a major obstacle for global equity investment. Adoption of a single accounting standard (IFRS) has been received with much... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
gross margin for retailers using historical data. We show that sales forecasts from this model are more accurate than consensus forecasts from equity analysts. Further, the residuals from this model for one fiscal year are used to predict... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
"We were shocked at how predictable the returns are in this industry." Over the course of a year, Greenwood and Hanson interviewed a variety of people, including dry bulk shipping industry leaders, private... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
framework allows for wage rate uncertainly, variable labor supply, social security benefits, and portfolio choice over safe bonds and risky equities. Our analysis reinforces prior findings that equities are the preferred asset for young... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
5-year roadmap known as the "2015 EPS roadmap." The case is set in May 2014, just after IBM's annual investor briefing. Despite more than 10 years of strong financial performance, IBM reported relatively weak financial results... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
Working Papers Diversification of Chinese Companies: An International Comparison Authors: Joseph P.H. Fan, Jun Huang, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Troy D. Smith, and Mengxin Zhao Abstract Purpose—This paper provides a systematic comparison View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
Banning Big Box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers Research shows how regulations designed to protect independent retailers from big box competition may backfire. Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail Retailers... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
self-employment is positive at the median. The option to return to paid work is large enough to reverse the result from cross-sectional studies that the median man expects to earn significantly less from self-employment. However, after... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-073.pdf The Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Portfolio Firms' Corporate Tax Planning Authors:Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz, and Sonja... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Thin Slices of Workgroups By: Satterstrom, Patricia, Jeffrey T. Polzer, Lisa Kwan, Oliver P. Hauser, Wannawiruch Wiruchnipawan, and Marina Burke Abstract—In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
Spring 2018 Journal of Cold War Studies The Enemy of My Enemy: The Soviet Union, East Germany, and the Iranian Tudeh Party's Support for Ayatollah Khomeini By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—This article examines... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
decade ago, becomes the most expensive painting ever sold, all the while surrounded by controversy. Did the buyer of Leonardo da Vinci's painting pay too much? Was it real? Did it matter? The sale of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
executives a question. That's the procedure that HBS Associate Professor Lauren H. Cohen followed to find out more about the odd dealings he'd observed at a company that was the subject of one of his case... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
In 1962, the Harvard Business School faculty voted for women to be directly admitted to the two-year MBA Program for the first time. In September 1963, eight female students enrolled in the Class of 1965, alongside 676 men. The School has... View Details