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- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
languages in many countries. We've been building that infrastructure ever since. Since we started, we've added a lot of technology to the marketplace over time and utilized the World Wide Web. And we've changed the pricing model quite a... View Details
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
History Review (forthcoming) Abstract This article uses the records of nineteenth-century Scottish banks in an attempt to understand investor behaviour in the early British capital market. It presents four main findings, some of which do not conform to the basic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
latter view has coalesced around two themes. The first, based on research in strategy, suggests that dynamic capabilities, the ability of a firm to reconfigure assets and existing capabilities, explains long-term competitive advantage.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
labor-intensive manufacturing process and the high prices of Zotter chocolates limit the scalability of the company, even though the founder desires to grow. While the founder has many ideas for the firm, it is not clear which path would... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Abstract We analyze the optimal strategy of a high-quality incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
opportunities by reconfiguring existing assets and competencies. We review the literature on dynamic capabilities and, using IBM as a case example, show how their strategy process permits them both to explore new markets and technologies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1638429 Accounting Scholarship That Advances Professional Knowledge and Practice Author:Robert S. Kaplan Abstract Recent accounting scholarship has used statistical analysis on View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
framework for an economy. CCA provides a natural framework for analysis of mismatches between an entity's assets and liabilities, such as currency and maturity mismatches on balance sheets. Policies or actions that reduce these mismatches... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
private-sector financial intermediaries to engage in excessive amounts of maturity transformation—i.e., to finance risky assets using dangerously large volumes of runnable short-term liabilities. Specifically, we make the case that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
However, Wingspanbank's financial backing comes not from a venture fund or an IPO but from a surprising source: Bank One Corp., whose more than $250 billion in assets make it one of the country's top five banks. Led by a team from Bank... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
erroneous expressions. Calls that have greater use of non-plain English and more erroneous expressions show lower intraday price movement and trading volume. The capital market responses to non-plain English and erroneous expressions are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
may benefit from limited developer access. Second, an open platform may lead to higher investment than a proprietary platform. Third, opening one side of a proprietary platform may lower incentives to invest in platform quality. Fourth, the structure of access View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
factors investigated were found to be significant for at least one segment, only consumer price index, personal savings rate, and real gross domestic product were strongly significant. To explore further the dynamics of the segments and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
has a positive and significant effect on rainfall insurance adoption, increasing take-up from 8% to 16%. Only one marketing intervention, the money-back guarantee, has a consistent and large effect on farmers' purchase decisions. This guarantee, comparable to a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
historical long run). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52277 February 2017 Journal of Arthroplasty Drivers of the Variation in Prosthetic Implant Purchase Prices for Total Knee and Total Hip Arthroplasties... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
to use credit to build assets and finance consumption. Moving Forward explores what caused the crisis and, more important, focuses on the path ahead. The challenge remains the same as ever: protect consumers, ensure fairness, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
private equity consortium led by Finansbank's previous owner and founder Husnu Ozyegin. Each of these potential buyers had different motivations for the purchase. NBG's motivations were to obtain the highest price and to close the deal as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
11 million in interior China. The case covers Hang Lung Properties' due diligence and thought process with respect to anticipated rental income, construction costs, and land costs. The auction includes many other well-capitalized firms and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
asset, yields frustratingly inconsistent, discrepant, and, therefore, controversial results. While it is widely accepted that brands are long-lived assets that can contribute significant value to firms over time, there is no consensus on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
boost earnings to meet earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the cost in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace