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- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
impact people's feelings about their decisions. We compare post-choice satisfaction from choices made by mind wandering to reason based choices and randomly assigned outcomes. Participants chose a poster by mind wandering or deliberating-or were randomly assigned a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
professional and customer reviews, and ratings systems” Understanding how online retailers can cause these same-store sales and gross margin declines by affecting the operating metrics of a retail store is fundamental to understanding the...
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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
pharmaceutical drugs, such as those initiated by Turing Pharmaceuticals under CEO Martin Shkreli, had recently brought media attention to this issue. Baum believed it would be relatively easy for Imprimis to create compounded versions of many of the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
positive picture, I’m afraid. Michael Kaufman: In 2019 the industry had 15.3 million employees; the forecast for 2020 was 15.6 million. I don’t know that we’ll see those levels in the future—as of early May, 8 million of those jobs have...
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- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54214 forthcoming Operations Research Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization By: Ferreira, Kris J., David Simchi-Levi, and He...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
probability of a crash; (3) attributes of the price run-up, including volatility, turnover, issuance, and the price path of the run-up, can all help forecast an eventual crash and future returns; and (4) some of these characteristics can...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Physical Health By: John, Leslie, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—This research examines how access to information on peer health behaviors affects one's own health behavior. Methods: We report the results of a randomized field experiment...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
that issuance is partly an attempt to arbitrage mispriced characteristics. Our approach helps forecast returns to portfolios based on book-to-market, size, price, distress, payout policy, profitability, and industry. Our results provide a...
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Martha Lagace
- Person Page
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos Abstract— This paper examines whether fraud allegations affect firms’ contracting with the government. Using a dataset of whistleblower allegations brought under the False Claims Act against firms accused of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
period 2002-2009 by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), one of the largest development banks in the world. In our fixed effect regressions, we find that BNDES' allocations do not seem to affect firm-level operational...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
Analyst Recommendation and Earnings Forecast Anomaly Author:George Serafeim Publication:Chap. 3 in The Handbook of Equity Market Anomalies: Translating Market Inefficiencies into Effective Investment Strategies, 63-91. John Wiley &...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
interest costs. Finally, we can estimate the welfare implications of agency costs, because firm values increased when the rules were introduced. We conclude that equity-bondholder conflicts are economically important, determine capital structure choices, and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
a significant presence of multi-location firms are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that strategic interaction among firms plays an important role in firms' decision-making processes. This paper explores how strategic interaction among competitors View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
attention to the returns of firms that do not issue at all, suggesting that issuance is partly an attempt to cater to broad time-varying patterns in characteristics mispricing. Our approach helps forecast returns to portfolios based on...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
organization. What the authors also found was that managers' behavior dramatically affects the tenor of employees' inner work lives. So what makes a difference to inner work life? When the authors compared the study participants' best...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-105.pdf Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors Author:Sharon P. Katz Abstract This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
the United States, for instance; especially when their profits were viewed as going to shareholders rather than toward investments. You could argue that these issues are more of a concern for customers and the public relations department of a company, but in fact it...
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- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
disproportionately affect the debt financing costs faced by low credit quality firms. As a result, time-series variation in the average quality of debt issuers may be useful for forecasting excess corporate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
stronger demand for home goods and furnishings. Many retailers may be wary about excess inventory and will pare back their ordering. The COVID-19 pandemic is also adversely affecting the supply chains of manufacturers who provide goods to...
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