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Information Dissemination in Capital Markets
Seeking to bridge economic theory and the role of individuals, Professor Brochet researches the transmission of information in capital markets. He has investigated the effects of information... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
energy came in the factor markets (for land, labor capital, and knowledge), and it required the abandonment of feudalism. Unlike trade, capitalism spreads by political decisions and by political units such as states. As a consequence,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Don’t Take ‘No’ for an Answer: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations
Keywords: by Judd B. Kessler & Alvin E. Roth
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
(forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, I examine the sensitivity of promotion and demotion decisions for lower-level managers to financial and nonfinancial measures of their performance and investigate the extent to which the behavior of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6
were making decisions that made them more acceptable to customers given the particular social, cultural, and economic contexts within which they were embedded. Ownership Structure and the Cost of Corporate Borrowing Authors: Chen Lin, Yue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
should loudly trumpet their A rankings as a matter of course. Then B-ranked restaurants or schools would reveal their rankings, to separate themselves from the Cs. The pattern would continue to the C establishments and so on. "The View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
truth. It turns business decisions into elaborate exercises in gaming. It sets colleague against colleague, creating distrust and ill will. And it distorts incentives, motivating people to act in ways that run counter to the best... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29
influence in their organizations. Specifically, we examine how influence-seeking risk managers (1) establish and maintain interpersonal connections with decision makers and how they (2) adopt, deploy, and reconfigure tools-practices that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
identity, search, and intellectual property. We suggest that much of the received wisdom in these areas of organization theory requires revisiting. We then discuss the implications for an organization's management of innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015
examples. The article claims that by focusing on agency, learning, intentionality, and demand-side factors, our approach complements and also challenges extant sometimes static, supply-side, agent-agnostic theories of the multinational... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
priorities of shareholder management are clear: shareholders have the loudest voice and the greatest influence. Some may argue that this notion became distorted by an element of agency theory that advocated outsized incentives for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs
their fundraising goals on Kickstarter. But during periods of higher anxiety, minorities experience an 8.2 percent lower success rate. Where and why it’s happening Meanwhile, Kerr and his co-authors considered—then knocked down— several different View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- November 2019
- Case
Hapag-Lloyd AG:Complying with IMO 2020
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney
A new environmental regulation known as IMO 2020 was creating what one industry analyst called “the biggest shakeup for the oil and shipping industries in decades.” According to the new regulation, all ocean-going ships would have to limit their sulfur emissions by... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Ship Transportation; Strategic Planning; Game Theory; Pollutants; Supply Chain; Corporate Accountability; Capital Budgeting; Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governance Compliance; Shipping Industry; Transportation Industry; Germany
Esty, Benjamin C., Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej, and Emer Moloney. "Hapag-Lloyd AG: Complying with IMO 2020." Harvard Business School Case 220-003, November 2019.
- 07 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 7
behavioral decision-making literature. In particular, we highlight three cognitive barriers that impede sound individual decision making that have particular relevance to behaviors impacting the environment. First, despite claiming that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
for Understanding and Applying the Science of Decision Making By: Hamilton, Ryan, and Uma R. Karmarkar Abstract—Scientists have spent decades creating powerful and detailed descriptions of how people make decisions. Unfortunately, many of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
components. Characteristics of the offered secondary attributes such as their perceived value, relative importance, and evaluability can therefore determine whether price partitioning stimulates or hinders demand. Beyond its descriptive and prescriptive implications,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
decide whether they want to try to restructure the nature of the engagement to better fit the firm's service model. Although young and small, the firm has grown successfully and is optimistic about its future prospects. Kutchins and Cullen thus want to make View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
pandemic) that challenge traditional economic theory centered on the so-called Phillips curve. It’s a simple economic model named after the economist who explored the positive relationship between low unemployment and higher wage rates.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
academics call transactional “friction.” As a result, decisions are made and implemented faster and at lower cost, something critical in an age where speed takes on greater and greater value. At a 2019 business conference, Brian Chesky,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate
mobility, female genital cutting, and anti-abortion attitudes. Will women stray when men are away? Becker, who works at the intersection of anthropology and economics, finds evidence for the theory that such customs and were designed to... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin