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- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
gender composition of their transaction participants. A regular report on problems and successes among users who are at risk of being discriminated against can help companies reveal and confront issues. Withhold sensitive data. In many cases, a simple but View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
conclusions about the universality of gender stereotype content. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49830 in press Journal of Behavioral Decision Making Should You Sleep on It? The Effects of Overnight Sleep...
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- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
of individual investors and 30 percent of institutional investors appear to be more inertial than logical. They take the default option, passively accepting the shares offered as consideration in stock mergers and acquisitions. In...
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by Julia Hanna
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
Kast, Stephan Meier, and Dina Pomeranz Abstract While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from wages have been found to be highly effective to increase savings, they are unavailable to...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
default on his loan. Having now built three models, Figel compares them to determine which model is most effective at classifying borrowers correctly then uses that model to determine how to invest in a...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
effects in teams, meaning that they default to using the expertise of high-status members while becoming less effective at using team members with deep client knowledge. I test...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
likelihood of meeting or beating analyst expectations. Collectively the results shed light on the effect of increased ownership concentration on tax avoidance. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51123 June...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn...
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- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
as quite possibly record numbers of businesses (and individuals) default on their debt, restructure, or go bankrupt. The number of US business bankruptcy filings in the first quarter of this year is already up substantially over prior...
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- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
However, that’s not the reality of the enterprise world. Big enterprises by default are averse to change unless they are convinced the alternative is worth their business development effort and the time involved of the legal-finance team...
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by Rocio Wu
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
everyone needs to measure impact.” "There are two big conversations among nonprofit leaders," says HBS associate professor Alnoor Ebrahim. "One is around accountability. The second focuses on performance, particularly impact." Ebrahim is teaching in Performance...
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by Julia Hanna
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
In a recent Harvard Business Review article, authors Richard Nolan and Warren McFarlan explored the role of the board of directors in IT governance—and how most "fall into the default mode of applying a set of tacit or explicit rules...
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by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
the things I write about in these papers are applicable to a large range of Americans. Programs such as automatic defaults and 401(k) defaults, as embodied in proposals like the auto-IRA and AutoSave, are View Details
- 20 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
PE-backed companies increased investments relative to their peers, while also experiencing greater equity and debt inflows. The effects are stronger among financially constrained companies and those whose private equity investors had more...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of conditional and unconditional compensation. We account for salesperson heterogeneity by using a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
era before unemployment soared, the Dow plummeted, and credit default swaps surfaced. In today's jargon, these owners are underwater—they owe more than the value of their homes. But underwater is a misnomer. People underwater either swim...
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- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
course? Michael Luca: A deeper appreciation of the ways in which small—and sometimes subtle—changes in the way a process or product is structured can make a difference. Our intuition about these effects can also be off, which is why...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
borrowers are defaulting less.” Before recent interest rate hikes, American homeowners had been reaping the benefits of record home prices, cashing out amid a buying frenzy. However, data from the National Association of Realtors showed...
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- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
Abstract—We estimate the causal effect of sovereign default on the equity returns of Argentine firms. We identify this effect by exploiting changes in the probability of...
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Sean Silverthorne