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- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
receiving only a dispenser, (2) these effects persist after monitoring or incentives are removed, and (3) the anticipation of monitoring increases handwashing rates significantly, implying that individuals internalize the habitual nature of handwashing and accumulate...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
social media information and 5.73% when using social media information is used. In both cases, this significantly improves the accuracy of the company's internal forecasts (a MAPE of 11.97%). Combining these empirical results, we provide View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
much mid-cap European stock you should have in your portfolio, any more than it would enable you to perform surgery on yourself." Intelligence is not the issue, he emphasizes; it really is a question of knowledge and time. Retirement...
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- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
that the Chinese wall was no protection at all for the independence of the analysts. Trying to sell IPOs, analysts gave glowing recommendations to firms which collapsed within months. Trying to support the View Details
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
agents over eight weeks to examine how differing types of guidance and training impact the agents' inventory management. We find agents who are trained in person and receive an explicit, personalized, daily text message recommendation of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
spending more money to hire a firm like Merrill Lynch that has people actively managing their stock portfolios. “Neither one of these approaches is better or worse than the other,” Quelch said. “They cater to two different types of...
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- 18 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Marketing After the Recession
involuntarily, since the recession began; but at least you're still in business. “Consumers are looking at your products and services through new lenses.” Now, you are waiting for the recovery, the chance to again have some fun and make some money. Here are my seven...
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- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
and $12 billion, which equates to between 1.3% and 8.7% of the stock of prepackaged software in private fixed investment in the United States and a very high rate of return to the original federal investment in the Internet. We argue that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
advantage is modeled as a stock of capability that accumulates over time, a firm's proclivity to manage short-term earnings at the expense of long-term investment can have very different consequences depending on whether the firm's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
Blair Storie-Johnson Right now, the eligibility requirements to submit a shareholder proposal are fairly nonrestrictive: A shareholder must hold either a mere $2,000 of stock in a company or at least 1 percent of a company’s shares. “Even...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform
difficult challenges ahead, he said, will be persuading people around the world that their trust in the private sector, rather than the government, could be well placed. "It becomes a lot more difficult when internal documents show that analysts were View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We document widespread ex-post changes to the historical contents of the I/B/E/S analyst stock recommendations database. Across a sequence of seven...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
their stock recommendations when they have an educational link to the company. A simple portfolio strategy of going long the buy recommendations with school ties and going...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
faith in the power of technology to solve their problems. (In fact, the Occupy Wall Street generation may be more likely to trust a fintech company than a big New York banking firm.) Moreover, millennials are heavy users of social media, and apt to View Details
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
Development (TvT) of Amsterdam, Holland, was deeply worried about the status of his largest ongoing project: the Amsterdam World Trade Center (WTC). As the discretionary developer, van Tartwijk needed to present his firm's recommendations...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
States outperformed the rest of the world in the majority of years. As such, there is something particularly bad about the return experience of foreign investors taking a controlling position in American companies. In short, America is a beautiful country for View Details
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by Mihir A. Desai
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
Section 404, which will become common knowledge from Wall Street to Main Street, as well as rules promulgated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in recent years. This is not an issue of interest only to those of us in the U.S., as suggested by a number...
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by James Heskett
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
frequently non-governmental organizations (NGOs), in locations such as Ghana, Tanzania, Romania, Philippines, and Vietnam. The case provides data for students to assess the first year of operation and recommend what changes IBM should...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
Healy, George Serafeim, Devin Shanthikumar, and Gui Yang Abstract We examine the selection and performance of stocks recommended by analysts at a large investment firm relative to those of sell-side analysts...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
assumption that continuity is more desirable. The problem apparently has much to do with the narrow definition of success, the ability to outperform the stock market that the authors use as the primary criterion for their study. Jonathan...
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by James Heskett