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- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
percent of the 366 pairs of cross elasticities are sign asymmetric. Finally, we find that the occurrence of negatively signed cross elasticities can be partially explained by a set of hypothesized relationships between cross-price elasticities and brand View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
underlying reasons for their limited success. Our analysis of American Hospital Association (AHA) data on hospital-based ACOs found that many organizations do not have the capability to track and share performance metrics, including... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
businesses outperform both single-unit firms and multi-unit firms composed of unrelated businesses. Explanations for this relationship between focus and firm performance have largely centered on economies of scope achieved by sharing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
domestic distributions of productivity and revenue. We show that knowledge spillover shifts both distributions rightward while market reallocation raises the left truncation of the distributions and shifts revenue leftward. Using a rich... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
periods. We show that the resulting opportunistic earnings management is concentrated in CEOs, firms, and periods where such incentives are likely to be strongest: (1) where CEO wealth is sensitive to change in the share price, (2) where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
to a disproportionate rise in innovations where information on future prospects is revealed quickly and cheaply and has reduced the relative share of innovation in complex technologies where initial experiments cost more and reveal less.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
patent applications in 1976 to 16% in 2008. This is partly driven by the increase in the prevalence of information and communication technology; however, even for patents unrelated to information and communication technology, we see a disproportionate increase in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
generalizations are misleading. The two countries are neighbors who share a common Spanish colonial legacy. However their institutions differ in important ways and this affects the process of decision-making. Historically Chile developed... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Triangle. The As stand for the three distinct types of international strategy. Through Adaptation, companies seek to boost revenues and market share by maximizing their local relevance. Through Aggregation,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
a moment in time of its financial position. In buying a share on any stock exchange, the purchaser makes an assessment of the economic value of a company. The assessment considers the value of matters not accounted for, such as future... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
Abstract—This working paper examines the impact of two entrepreneurs who offered alternative paths to reach their shared goal of a more sustainable world. Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins were respective founders of the prominent outdoor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
inventory (a proxy for support). Our findings highlight important factors for successful implementations of 360-degree systems as complements to explicit incentives. Finally, we share some lessons learned with respect to performing field... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
.com sites, and we crawl more than 285,000 of these domains to analyze their revenue sources. We find that 80% are supported by pay-per-click ads, often advertising the correctly spelled domain and its competitors. Another 20% include... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
poor financial markets, b) increases in the share of FDI or the relative productivity of the foreign firm leads to higher additional growth in financially developed economies compared to those observed in financially under-developed ones,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
number of developers affect the incentives to invest in the open platform and (ii) how investment in the open platform affects the revenues of the proprietary platform. Finally, a proprietary platform may benefit from higher investment in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
as hard as it can be to overcome infrastructure issues, Gordon’s challenges go well beyond lemon shortages and umbrella access: She’s a first-time entrepreneur trying to build a family business in a country with an ever-shifting stance toward business—and with View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
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out some sacred time and space in your busy lives to engage in a rigorous, theoretically-supported, meaningful conversation about who you are and the purpose of your leadership. This is a different kind of work. You cannot do it alone. Do not take this course unless... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
challenge, which is aligning the interests of different stakeholders. When you think about a business, ideally the customers are paying for a product that generates revenue for the firm, which ultimately generates value in the form of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna