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  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

organization. Coordination in this case, however, also leads to inequitable allocation of costs and benefits across the different departments, which then provides students with an opportunity to explore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

digitization of information goods have changed the commercial landscape: Virtual shelf space is infinite, consumers can search through innumerable options, and the marginal cost of reproducing and distributing products is low. What does... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

currency. This reduced profitability because Clearwater's costs were in Canadian currency while its sales where largely in other currencies. The case also discusses the challenges of maintaining a sustainable fishery and uses the collapse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4

resources to meeting that customer's needs. This article will show you how to identify the best primary customer for your business by analyzing perspective, capabilities, and profit potential; allocate resources through structural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

of 2.5 million U.S. respondents, and Eurobarometer data that cover multiple business cycles over four decades. This research provides a new perspective on the welfare cost of business cycles with implications for growth policy and our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

Vadim Kogan Abstract—"The 2010 Vancouver Winter Games lost $223 million, astonishing for a 17-day event. Next year's London Summer Games, which cost a record Olympic rights fee of $1.18 billion, are expected to lose at least as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

license the property in exchange for a royalty and when it prefers to use the property directly. We find that variable royalty arrangements that depend on either audited self-reports or third-party attestation become more attractive as accounting information system... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

analyses indicate that "All-Star" recognition proxies for buy-side client votes on analyst research quality used to allocate commissions across banks and analysts. Taken as a whole, our evidence is consistent with analyst... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008

Abstract No abstract is available at this time.   Cases & Course MaterialsBayesian Estimation & Black-Litterman Harvard Business School Note 208-085 Describes a practical method for asset allocation that is more robust to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

benefit-based principle. Together, these results suggest that a large share of the American public views the allocation of pre-tax incomes as relevant to optimal tax policy and—at least in part—justly deserved unless proven otherwise,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

Formation of Beliefs: Evidence from the Allocation of Land Titles to Squatters Authors:Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian F. Galiani, and Ernesto S. Schargrodsky Periodical:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We study the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

responsibility for securing these materials.   Working PapersPayout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment Authors:Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin Jacob Abstract When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

transactions and markets we see. When my colleagues and I have helped design markets and allocation procedures, we have often found that distaste for certain kinds of transactions is a real constraint, every bit as real as the constraints... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

These platforms provide notable benefits including reducing transaction costs, improving allocation of resources, and creating information and pricing efficiencies. Yet they also raise questions of regulation, including how regulation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

legal change applied). These reductions in agency costs were followed by an increase in average leverage and a reduction in interest costs. Finally, we can estimate the welfare implications of agency costs, because firm values increased... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

workforce is not a quick fix to control costs or improve the quality of care. A poorly planned redesign can even result in increased costs and decreased quality. Changes in skill mix and role definitions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

$800) instead of receiving lower amounts (e.g., self and other each get $500) in their transactions (Bazerman, Loewenstein & White, 1992). The present analysis, however, shows that the perceived value of such tradeoffs—the transaction utility (Thaler, 1985;... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015

2015 University of Chicago Press Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy By: Goldfarb, Avi, Shane Greenstein, and Catherine Tucker, eds. Abstract—As the cost of storing, sharing, and analyzing data has decreased, economic activity has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

structure the organization, design jobs, and allocate roles and responsibilities—that shape how people who work in the organization experience their jobs. Second, leaders engage in symbolic actions—through the stories they tell, the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

Bias for Normal Science: Evidence from Randomized Medical Grant Proposal Evaluations Authors:Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, and Christoph Riedl Abstract Central to any innovation process is the evaluation of proposed projects and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel