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- March 2015
- Article
Monetary Policy and Long-Term Real Rates
By: Samuel G. Hanson and Jeremy C. Stein
Changes in monetary policy have surprisingly strong effects on forward real rates in the distant future. A 100 basis point increase in the two-year nominal yield on a Federal Open Markets Committee announcement day is associated with a 42 basis point increase in the...
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Hanson, Samuel G., and Jeremy C. Stein. "Monetary Policy and Long-Term Real Rates." Journal of Financial Economics 115, no. 3 (March 2015): 429–448.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Can Marshall's Clusters Survive Globalization?
By: Giulio Buciuni and Gary P. Pisano
It is widely presumed that in today's globalized economy, the value of geographic clustering of manufacturing industries is no longer valuable. Manufacturing is represented as a highly mobile "commodity" that can be sourced from anywhere in the world where factor costs...
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Manufacturing;
Globalization;
Marshall Industrial Clusters;
Global Supply Chains;
Manufacturing Industry
Buciuni, Giulio, and Gary P. Pisano. "Can Marshall's Clusters Survive Globalization?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-088, May 2015.
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
PublicationsGlobal, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment Authors:Malcolm Baker, Jeffrey Wurgler, and Yu Yuan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We construct investor sentiment indices for six major stock markets and decompose them...
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Sean Silverthorne
- November 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Bridgit: Persevere or Pivot?
By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
In late 2012, Mallorie Brodie and Lauren Lake, two young women in their final year of college, founded Bridgit, a technology startup that developed solutions to simplify vital but laborious processes within the construction industry. In the Fall of 2013, after months...
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- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Want from Your Products
"Tell me about a time when you were in the same situation but you didn't buy a milk shake. What did you buy instead?" Sometimes, he learned, they bought a bagel. But bagels were too dry. Bagels with cream cheese or jam resulted in View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide
they are representative. I feel the S&P 500 could have a challenge down the road as an index, in my opinion, that is even more representative of the market and therefore give investors more of an idea of where they should actually allocate their funding....
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- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could...
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- 28 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis
and fast-food chains. Companies with fewer sticky costs laid off workers at the same rate regardless of how much cash they had in reserve. “There were clear winners and losers early on,” Rouen says. “It was heartbreaking to see companies...
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by Lane Lambert
- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
solved and it wasn’t even the hotel’s fault. Our booking agent had made a mistake.” The good deed that keeps on giving “Does it make economic sense to go over the top with it?” Thomke asks. “I would say ‘yes’ because it creates that View Details
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
Academy, on Job-Hopping Toward Equity, published recently in the MIT Sloan Management Review. A changing labor landscape The difference in pay that comes from job-hopping only helps to shrink—not eliminate—a longstanding gender pay gap, but any progress is important,...
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by Kristen Senz
- 24 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention
Behaviors, was prepared for the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium in 2018. Source: Alberto Cavallo “Price stickiness is very important for the impact of monetary policy,” Cavallo says. “When the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates to...
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- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
to get agreement from four people before moving forward? Can we keep that person from being put on one more committee?” It can get sticky because reallocating tasks and resources means other workers will be affected. To help with managing...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?
It’s a sticky but common dilemma for managers: A valued employee finds out that a coworker earns more, gets upset, and demands a raise. If gender or race figure into the wage gap, tensions can escalate fast. Companies, including Whole...
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by Avery Forman
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
from others who might provide counsel, and then we redouble those efforts” He made his remarks at a recent presentation to HBS staff about how to respond to sticky situations with resilience. The discussion included a step-by-step...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2020
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?
the lower ranks. One of the causes may well be inequities in the ability of executives and frontline labor to negotiate compensation for their skills. In particular, the declining power of unions and the stickiness of minimum wage laws...
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by James Heskett
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
“Consumers aren’t sticky or loyal either. This is not sustainable.” Lessons to be learned Kanter hopes current and future business executives are learning a lesson from Kalanick’s fall from business stardom. As Uber’s problems have...
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- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
and Matthew C. Weinzierl Abstract This paper examines the optimal response of monetary and fiscal policy to a decline in aggregate demand. The theoretical framework is a two-period general equilibrium model in which prices are sticky in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
West, which could have helped them bridge this divide? A: The drivers of the stickiness of modern economic growth is one of the most important questions in economic history. The leading explanations focus on so-called institutional...
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- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
to using funds to repair the broken infrastructure. Since sizeable commitments of this sort can further exacerbate the fiscal deficit, already high, it can worsen an already weak fiscal situation. As Indians say, we're on a sticky wicket,...
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by Zeenat Potia