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- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
visiting professor at HBS who teaches in the School’s FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) global immersion course, which sends groups of students all over the world to get first-hand experience doing business in...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
Approximately half of Mumbai lives in informal settlements—such as Dharavi (pictured below). These settlements have significantly higher density than the rest of the city and often lack green spaces resulting in 6-8ºC warmer heat bubbles...
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- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
of people's relationships with brands and a demonstration of the important and timely implications of this evolving sub-discipline. A range of different brand relationship environments are explored in the collection, including online digital spaces, consumer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
question of the dynamic between consumer protection and globalization. How do local consumer protections affect global free trade? Are there agencies that offer consumer protections on a global scale? A:...
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- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
pessimistic forecasts for banks that could be their future employers. This pattern is not observed when the same analysts forecast earnings of companies that are not likely to be their future employers. Moreover, we use the Global View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
they felt was inadequately represented in the bond market. "We could see this macroeconomic storm on the horizon," says Higgins, whose previous experience at a global macro hedge fund proved valuable to the team. "But there...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
leadership.” Be it in Washington’s poorer neighborhoods or Africa’s sprawling urban settlements — indeed, in struggling societies around the globe — America sees similarities and at least one constant: a crippling and unaddressed economic...
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- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
hand-collected novel data, we document the proliferation of these new stock exchanges that were created in a large number of countries, attracted a significant volume of global IPOs, were introduced fairly cyclically, and had lower...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
behavior on the part of government contractors and to keep a portion of any resulting settlement. Boeing, for example, has paid more than $40 million in settlements stemming from False Claim Act cases in the past five years. A detailed...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
nature preserve and perhaps the most pristine marine area in the world,” Cohen notes. But collecting that gem of the Pacific would be trumped by her lead role in a Florida swampland deal: the landmark agreement designed to restore the Everglades to its natural state....
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
business, government, and the global economy. It saps the strength of people and institutions, especially in developing countries. Everyone’s against corruption, or so they claim. But virtually all countries are involved in facilitating...
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- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
immigrants’ location decision by interacting pre-existing ethnic settlements with aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the propensity to leave the parental...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
induced by World War I and the Immigration Acts of the 1920s and instrument immigrants’ location decision relying on pre-existing settlement patterns. Immigration increased natives’ employment and occupational standing and fostered...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
bitter irony, especially for the multitudes of impoverished young people who inhabit them and similar settlements throughout this troubled, unforgiving land. Children comprise some 50 percent of Sudan’s 39 million people, and for most of...
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- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
the causes of anti-immigrant sentiments. I exploit exogenous variation in European immigration to U.S. cities between 1910 and 1930 induced by World War I and the Immigration Acts of the 1920s as well as instrument immigrants’ location decision relying on pre-existing...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
trials. As a result, this could change the types of products that can be profitably brought to market. To better understand the landscape of precision medicines, we use a comprehensive database of over 130,000 global clinical trials over...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
outperform peer firms based on six-digit Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) groupings in explaining cross-sectional variations in base firms' stock returns, valuation multiples, forecasted and realized growth rates, research...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
identification. The latter instruments are developed by combining panel variation on the development of new technologies across U.S. cities with historical settlement patterns for migrants from countries. The instrumented elasticity of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
believe, is why we saw the stock market sell off so dramatically on Monday. Investors fear a global slowdown in growth and a resulting negative impact on corporate profits. We won't know for several months the extent of the damage. GNP,...
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by Staff
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
process does not have these features, deal price should receive no weight. This approach would represent a middle ground between the competing approaches advanced by 29 law, economics, and finance professors in the DFC Global appraisal,...
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Carmen Nobel