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- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
capital to pay fixed and variable costs affects choices firms make regarding export entry and operations, and, as a consequence, influence aggregate trade patterns. Financial frictions and the use of internal capital markets shape... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
company’s engineers integrated a sensor into the bearings used on light trucks that would not only serve the friction reduction purpose of the bearing, but also be the sensor for the antilock braking system. As a result of this added... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
deal-driving third party (Ovitz). As a result, each side had an optimistic but badly distorted view of the other's real intentions, leading to post-deal friction and the sale of MCA a few years later to Seagram, at a substantial loss to... View Details
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
Programs By: Hanson, Samuel G., David S. Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop a model of government portfolio choice in which a benevolent government chooses the scale of risky projects in the presence of market failures and tax distortions. These two... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
relating to the agricultural assets, which create frictions such that market value and book value do not converge despite the application of fair value for the majority of the firm's assets. The case also highlights how fair value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
literature on the role of financial frictions in macroeconomics, this paper suggests that time-variation in expected returns to credit-market investors can be an important driver of economic fluctuations. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
deployment of their technology abroad. The paper demonstrates that when firms want to exploit technologies abroad, multinational firm (MNC) activity and foreign direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring is nonverifiable and financial View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
governance-related frictions and not driven by plausible alternative theories. Both structural calibration and reduced-form estimates reveal significant negative performance implications from suboptimal peer selection. Compensation... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
the country had become a darling of the international aid community. As the country was preparing for the 2011 Party Congress, however, signs of growing economic frictions were becoming increasingly visible. The case closes by setting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
on compensation of talented people, then you stop this mechanism, and you run the risk of having your company be less profitable," Vallée says. "You're putting a friction on a competitive market that's doing what it's meant to do." He... View Details
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
managers-firms with the greatest information frictions prior to the rule change. We report three changes related to compensation after 1992 for division managers. First, within firms with dispersed managers, division manager pay co-moves... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
more sustainable world? In the short term, I’m committed to helping big companies decarbonize because we desperately need them to move today. Long term, I want to use my skills and experience to reduce the friction that tough-tech ideas... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
frictions play a first-order role in determining market prices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49425 Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-Based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
substantial variation exists across organizations with regard to management, suggesting frictions in the broader diffusion of management knowledge. We argue that peer networks may allow for the diffusion of productive management across... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring is nonverifiable and financial frictions exist. The mechanism generating MNC activity is not the risk of technological expropriation by local partners but the demands of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
environments. Further, this effect is larger when (i) there are greater cross-border frictions between the parent and subsidiary and (ii) the parents are relatively more involved in their subsidiaries' investment decision-making process.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Staff Directory | Baker Library
reducing the friction of accessing content both through improved physical access and leveraging current and emerging technologies to provide digital access. In addition to experience in library administration, knowledge management,... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
United States economy, and how innovation in financial services will reduce the friction and barriers in small-business lending, helping more of them thrive. In our Q&A, Mills, who served as a member of the Obama Cabinet and headed... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
located upstream versus downstream from that stage, as well as by the firm's productivity. Our results suggest that contractual frictions play an important role in shaping the integration choices of firms around the world. Publisher's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
a given stage of the value chain is shaped by the relative contractibility of the stages located upstream versus downstream from that stage, as well as by the firm's productivity. Our results suggest that contractual frictions play an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne