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- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
professor and Dean of the Faculty, provided a brief outline of the landscape as well as thoughts on how to view the proposed bailout. Lecturer Nicolas P. Retsinas, Director of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, then gave a brief history of housing...
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- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
this wealth-based discriminatory behavior using a laboratory study. Our experiment shows that individuals are more willing to illegally help peers when those peers drive standard rather than luxury cars and that envy and empathy mediate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
particularly a very public one. But high leverage does its disadvantages. Obviously, it can increase the probability of bankruptcy. It can also create incentive problems. When equity holders have too little "skin in the game," moral hazard (the idea that...
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- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
occupancy, providing a "spillover" effect. We find that the effects of inpatient workload on LOS spillover across patient types, which we theorize results from most inpatients, regardless of type, utilizing the same shared...
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Anna Secino
- 12 Jan 2010
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transportation system. Like cars and taxis, PRT vehicles carried small groups—often just a single passenger—with no need to wait for a shared vehicle to arrive or for others to board. Yet PRT followed train...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
periods. We show that the resulting opportunistic earnings management is concentrated in CEOs, firms, and periods where such incentives are likely to be strongest: (1) where CEO wealth is sensitive to change in the share price, (2) where...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
idiosyncratic rituals. One woman who lost a spouse years ago told Norton, “I washed his car every week as he used to do.” “There’s no ancient text to say you should wash someone’s car,” Norton says. “But, by doing something personally...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
technology is an important part of the story here. What would it take to get commuters out of their cars and into public transit? I envision a subway system with stops further apart, so long-haul transit can be faster and more efficient....
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