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- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
be financially constrained or lobbied for the holiday. Instead, estimates indicate that a $1 increase in repatriations was associated with a $0.60 to $0.92 increase in payouts to shareholders—despite regulations stating that such...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
responses by firms that receive poor ratings, especially those that face lower cost opportunities to improve and that operate in highly regulated industries. Our empirical analysis examines how nearly 600 firms in the United States...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
start-up approach applicable to the health care sector? For heavily regulated drugs, diagnostics, and devices, a 'launch early and often' strategy simply isn't possible, although entrepreneurs can still run lean tests to gauge the level...
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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
statements about their commitment to long-term success. To understand the disconnect, we examine how S&P500 companies are actually allocating capital and show that firms are in fact plowing substantial amounts of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
Hellenic Bottling Company) and the role of regulation in integrated reporting (Anglo-American). April 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Real Effects of Relational Contracts By: Henderson, Rebecca, Steven Blader, Andrea...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
certifiers opt for a quick turnaround time at the expense of a lower accuracy. Finally, we investigate the opportunity of regulating transparency. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-062.pdf Cases & Course...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
chairman at AT&T as it was being broken up. "In the regulated days, Bell system employees—myself included—genuinely believed they were doing the best they could and acting in the best interests of customers," he says....
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by David Stauffer
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
it faced huge capital expenditures associated with constructing its manufacturing facilities. The company was at a crossroads: it had to decide whether to partner with IBM or align with other firms as it tried to keep up with Intel....
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
accumulated $74 billion in debt and beginning in 2014, the island had withheld debt payments despite the commonwealth’s constitutional guarantee of its general obligation bonds. In turn, the island found itself effectively excluded from View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history of...
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- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
each originator minimizes his reliance on costly informed capital in good times by issuing safe securities. Our model suggests regulations that limit the issuance of safe securities in good times. Read:...
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
technology but the bet on the movement of two fuels, which is a tough decision to make when a huge capital investment is required [to retrofit the locomotives]. [ Watch Video of Moorman & Ward ] Charles "Wick" Moorman , Chairman, Norfolk...
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- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
cognitive, normative, or regulative mainstays of an organizational field. Institutional innovation, like all innovation, is both novel and useful but differs in that it is also legitimate, credible, and appropriate. Legitimacy is hinged...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
suggest that in many commonly regulated markets in which firms share similar cost structures, firms are likely to experience incentives to ratchet down and delay the introduction of innovative products. The study highlights the importance...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And the top consulting (or law) firms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
and regulation of insurance markets, including the interaction between consumer choice difficulties or biases and adverse selection. We then document evidence on consumer mistakes in health-care utilization and treatment choices,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
neighborhood place, and she wanted to know where the chef got ingredients such as produce and chicken. It turned out that they were bought at a nearby market, but actually originated from abroad. Decades of corruption and haphazard View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
Small Business Lending: Innovation and Technology and the Implications for Regulation By: Mills, Karen Gordon, and Brayden McCarthy Abstract—Small businesses were among the hardest hit in the Great Recession, accounting for more than 60%...
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Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
billions into vaccine efforts. By midsummer, Moderna, for instance, had received $955 million in US government funding; it raised an additional $1.3 billion on the capital market. That kind of money buys speed: In normal times, a vaccine...
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- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
privatized by the Romanian state in 2004 and acquired by Austrian oil company OMV, with the state retaining a 20.6% stake in the company. The situation was particularly challenging for the foreign investor since the sector in which the company operated was strategic,...
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Sean Silverthorne