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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Economics First Place Jensen Prize for “How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?” (January 2020) with William Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ilya A. Strebulaev. John D. Macomber: Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
of 10‐year sustainability‐related goals. In an effort to meet such goals, the company invested a total of $1 billion in environmentally beneficial products such as new seeds and traits in Dow's AgroSciences business, solar shingles, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan
Wharton School, and Emer Moloney, a research associate at HBS. The case describes the traditional production process for Parmigiano-Reggiano, commonly known in dairy circles as "The King of Cheeses." The supply chain begins with...
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Medical Devices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
system regulation to sales. It also includes chapters on legal issues, such as product liability litigation, preemption, intellectual property issues. 55 35759 Medical devices law and regulation answer book...
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Terms of Use | HBS Online
online.hbs.edu and/or myhbx.org web domains) or any other websites, applications, programs or online or mobile products or services of Harvard Business School Online (collectively, the “Services”). The term “Services” includes the Site...
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- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
funding leads to a net increase of 2.3 patents. Though valuing patents is difficult, we report a range of estimates for the private value of these patents using different approaches. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50038 Catering...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with commercial banks and shadow banks to study the unintended consequences of capital requirements. A key feature of our model is defaultable bank View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
treated with unproductive therapies while more easily uncovering therapeutic signals. However, such research initiatives alone will not deliver new medicines to patients in the absence of strong incentives to bring new products to market....
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- 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20
innovation in open systems is an important trend in the modern global economy. In general, distributed innovation is made possible by the modularity of the underlying product or process. But despite the documented technical benefits of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
organizational theory of the multinational firm states that foreignness is a liability to be overcome, in particular that being a foreigner "unembedded" in host-country social networks is a source of competitive disadvantage,...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do...
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- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
high-powered incentives lead to greater screening effort and more profitable lending, their power is muted by both deferred compensation and the limited liability typically enjoyed by credit officers. Second, we present direct evidence...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
benefits from racial diversity but that diversity is a liability when society's negative stereotypes about racial minorities' competence inhibit such interactions. We analyze two years of data from 496 retail bank branches to investigate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
several critical sectors of the economy, including banking and private insurance, federal and state governments act as insurers of last resort, assuming literally trillions of dollars in contingent liabilities. Whether you like it or not, the nation's View Details
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by Laura Linard
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Faculty Books
consumers. Comparing eight areas of policy — product liability law, product safety standards and recall, misleading advertising, comparative View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
"contrary to popular wisdom, government involvement with private-sector risks is nothing new." Moss noted that public-risk management goes back to the earliest days of the Republic and cited policies such as limited liability, federal deposit insurance, bankruptcy, and...
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- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
every Congressional district is the health industry. Private insurers should have a freer range of competitive options through legislation that enables them to sell across state lines in the individual and small-group markets. Further, they should be able to bundle...
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- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
analysis, Walmart has yet to be found guilty in any such product liability suit. A similar indirect effect of Walmart on safety—this time, the safety of those who make products...
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- 02 May 2017
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First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
two new measures of bank productivity: one focused on deposit-taking productivity and one focused on asset productivity. We then use these measures to evaluate the cross-section of bank value. Both View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
tacit knowledge flows. These knowledge flows, in turn, contribute to cumulative incremental innovations in both product and process technology among firms embedded in the cluster. I use the term 'active inertia' to describe the tendency...
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