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Datastream | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
81595 Add My Librarian Item Datastream Documentation (PDF, 269.6 kB) Datastream guide for Refinitiv Workspace access Database AttributesCategories Corporate Governance Ratings & Profiles Stock Prices Fixed Income Options & Futures Indexes...
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Needs (14) Human Resources (284) Identity (5) Immigration (34) Income (7) Independent Innovation and Invention (5) Industry Clusters (8) Industry Growth (3) Inflation and Deflation (7) Information Management (37) Information Technology...
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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
endogenous investment response of their competitors. As a result, firms overpay for ships and overinvest in booms and are disappointed by the subsequent low returns. Formal estimation of the model suggests that modest expectational errors can result in dramatic excess...
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Carmen Nobel
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Alphas & Betas | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Guides Alphas & Betas Alphas & Betas Alpha and beta refer to the volatility of an asset with respect to a stated benchmark (alpha) and the marketplace (beta), which impacts return. This resource guide provides access to sources with...
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
and will it last? Why is the ‘skills gap’ so pervasive and enduring? Why is the workforce participation at historic lows across so many developed countries? What can be done to reverse the trend toward a barbell shaped income...
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Financial Markets | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
stock markets, commodities, futures, currencies, options, bond markets, company financials, and economic data. FactSet https://www.library.hbs.edu/find/databases/factset Financial data analysis platform to analyze data from global equity and fixed View Details
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps
before 1990. Heating oil furnaces are increasingly being seen as cost prohibitive as the ongoing cost of heating oil has doubled over last two years due to supply constraints from the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the pandemic. Heating oil also undergoes the same price...
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The Disruptive Voice - Forum for Growth & Innovation
Life, Aidan McCullen writes about how, centuries ago, sailors would set out to sea with maps labelled with the Latin words hic sun dracones - here be dragons - which meant that they didn't know much - if anything - about the uncharted waters and unexplored lands that...
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
financial market risk perceptions are important drivers of economic fluctuations. The authors introduce a novel measure of risk perceptions: the price of volatile stocks. They show that high perceived risk is associated with low risk-free...
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- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
influencing the cost and availability of money, goods, and services. Macroeconomic forces can conspire to make business more difficult, but they can also present opportunities to executives who know how to, for example, read a country's national View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
will look at an example—a company that is optimized to operate in a differentially turbulent environment and is thriving in part by virtue of its ability to handle elevated levels of risk. We will then consider other ideas about how firms can operate more effectively...
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- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
they sell, the more they are helping to keep our oceans free of plastics. Because companies find success using our certified material, it creates demand for more material —and that further incentives collection in at-risk communities, which leads to more View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
short-term price volatility of U.S. Treasury bonds has been about 5.5 percent per year in real terms—that is, after correcting for inflation. This volatility is certainly small when we compare it to the...
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by Ann Cullen
- 21 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish
As Ban Ki-moon begins his tenure as secretary-general of the United Nations, the world's poor continue to cry out for help and hope. One-sixth of the world's population lives in "deep poverty"—generally defined as surviving on half or less of the annual View Details
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by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
the environmental challenges of climate change, scarce water, and depleted fishing stocks as well as by migration driven by both income inequality and the environment. Interestingly (given that we interviewed them in late 2007 and early...
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- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Working PapersThe Long-Run Risks Model and Aggregate Asset Prices: An Empirical Assessment Authors:Jason Beeler and John Y. Campbell Abstract The long-run risks model of asset prices explains stock price variation as a response to persistent fluctuations in the mean...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
website is a public good provided by HBS,” says Jones, “and its success will be measured by the extent to which diverse researchers make use of it.” He credits the project with showing how successful businesses emerged from volatile...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
of the World Bank’s scenario for global economic progress out to 2030. While cheered by the prospect of continued economic growth that is expected to triple the middle class from 400 million to 1.2 billion people, the business leaders were disturbed by the growing...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Courting the Poor
Luiza Helena initiated a reorganization that replaced family members with professional management and launched a campaign to reinforce the company’s mission to serve customers and employees. Despite the volatile nature of the Brazilian...
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- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
Working PapersInvestable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Authors:Mihir A. Desai, Dhammika Dharmapala, and Monica Singhal Abstract The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC)...
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Martha Lagace