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- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
of a front page per month, or 37% of a standard deviation in our measure of coverage. The results control for newspaper, month, and individual corruption scandal fixed effects. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15402 PublicationsGlobal...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
he's seen improvements in the way reinsurers distribute risk over the last two decades, he still questions whether reinsurers in their current form can survive a major catastrophic event. "Reinsurers assume the risk of, and hold the View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
shared savings and capitated arrangements and away from fee-for-service, they will be better positioned not only to withstand any COVID aftershocks but also to gain patients during the recession. Leemore S. Dafny (@LeemoreDafny) is the...
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by Danielle Kost
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
environmental regulation. Previously, it was believed that corporate managers resisted the extra costs imposed by environmental regulation from the 1960s. This argument was primarily based on empirical evidence from the United States. It...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
animals, as well as fertilizers and new techniques. There's a huge amount of human capital and knowledge invested in farming. Q: What sets energy apart from these other industries? A: The first and most obvious is that it's difficult to...
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- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
of these firms face various issues—including management of exchange rate risk, how to structure their internal capital markets, how to do capital budgeting worldwide, and how to respond to varying regulatory...
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- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
pension and life insurance arrangements) to GDP, suggesting that preferred-habitat demand by the P&I sector for long-dated assets drives the long end of the yield curve. We draw on changes in regulations in several European countries...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 22
how power struggles activated faultlines and were, in turn, reinforced by them, and documenting the emotion regulation processes triggered by subgrouping and enacted through language-related choices and behaviors. Cases & Course...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
Private Politics research, heavily regulated firms dominate Public Politics studies, and theoretical studies dominate research on Integrated Political Strategy. With this AiSM volume we seek theoretical and/or empirical articles that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
global accounting. As V.G. Narayanan and I were discussing the work on international accounting issues, it became clear that India was a very interesting case of many of these forces coming together. For example, while India's capital...
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- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
well as tying up capital from buying and paying for materials and merchandise well in advance of when they are used. The quality of incoming items supplied by low-price suppliers may not be guaranteed to conform to buyer specifications,...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
subsequently. Our results are consistent with theory on the active role firms can play in managing their reputational capital through anticipatory actions to avoid negative media coverage. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
and a regulation of the whole process, in the main by the market." He later added a fifth essential, that the society not "breed (producing population growth) up to the limits of its subsistence." (The words in parentheses...
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by James Heskett
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
conditions. One of the key assumptions underlying this proposition is that financing and investment decisions are separable and independent. When this assumption holds, various financing decisions such as the firm's capital structure, its...
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- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-011.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsCutlass Capital, L.P. Harvard Business School Case 805-075 David Hetz and Jon Osgood are forming a new venture capital fund in 2001 to invest in health care...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
biggest money center banks, had zero risk of loss. They did not fully disclose what was happening, and they did not put up enough capital to cover potential risks. Now, the FASB [Financial Accounting Standards Board] has overacted by...
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- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
facilitate the expatriation of US corporations. Such transactions reflect the effects of policies and of the changing structure of multinational firms. From a policy perspective, the transactions highlight the increasing costs of employing a) a worldwide tax regime...
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- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
line—if this had been our own retirement fund or our kids' college fund—I don't know if we would have necessarily had the conviction to stick with it," says Singhal. (She and Higgins now work together at AQR Capital Management, an...
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- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
Regulation By: Drake, David, Paul R. Kleindorfer, and Luk N. Van Wassenhove Abstract—We study the impact of emissions tax and emissions cap-and-trade regulation on a firm's technology choice and capacity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
within markets: When sentiment is high, future returns are low on relatively difficult to arbitrage and difficult to value stocks. Private capital flows appear to be one mechanism by which sentiment spreads across markets and forms global...
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Sean Silverthorne