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  • 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

Opportunities: Optimal Taxation when Children's Abilities Depend on Parents' Resources Authors:Alexander Gelber and Matthew Weinzierl Abstract Empirical research suggests that parents' economic resources affect their children's future... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Aug 2016
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Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer

Click Here If people made purely rational decisions, life might be much easier for marketers in selling products and services. But few of us are that rational. Instead, our decisions are based on illogical biases such as loss aversion and over View Details
Keywords: by Amelia Kunhardt
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

mimic the three-stage CDM process. To model airline disruption responses, an integer optimization model was developed to balance operational and passenger considerations in determining which flights to cancel, swap, or delay. The value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

leading government officials to set policies that undermine competitiveness and sap economic growth. Business is caught in a vicious circle. A big part of the problem lies with companies themselves, which remain trapped in an outdated, narrow approach to value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2004
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The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

Analysts and Research Reports," and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) issued Rule 472, "Communications with the Public." Both were effective in May of 2002, which is subsequent to the data used in our study, but seem to have noticeably affected the... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

that the greater uncertainty under cap-and-trade will erode value. We also show that improvements to the emissions intensity of the "dirty" type can increase the emissions intensity of the firm's optimal capacity portfolio.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

projects. When research activities are noncontractible, we show that it is optimal for the financing company to obtain the option right to terminate the research agreement while maintaining broad property rights to the terminated project.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

follow advice without understanding why the advice is correct: the average respondent does not demonstrate improved agricultural knowledge, though there is some evidence educated farmers learn from the service. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2179008 View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Sep 2009
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The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

less burdensome for all citizens. "While the idea of a height tax follows directly from the standard economic framework for tax analysis, most people find the idea crazy," allows HBS professor Matthew C. Weinzierl, an economist who studies View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 14

participation in OS arises as the optimal decision of profit-maximizing firms, and (2) OS and P firms may (or may not) coexist in equilibrium. Firms decide their type and investment in R&D and sell packages composed of a primary good... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

almost double. These results suggest a role of brokers in fostering predatory behavior and raise a red flag for regulators. Moreover, our findings highlight the trade-off between slow execution and potential information leakage in the decision of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

standard preferences and show that the endogenous structure of the network is conducive to sharing by a significant number of peers, even if sharing is costlier than freeriding. We build on this model of p2p to analyze the optimal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite well. We then characterize the optimal policy path implied by the model and our estimates. Optimal policy makes heavy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Apr 2010
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Earth Day Reflections

topsoil are free or cheap. A few years ago, a manager at a large IT company said something to me that I've never forgotten."For many years we've optimized our business as if capital and labor are what is expensive and we've gotten... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

structure, explore three alternatives using debt finance, and determine the optimal debt-to-capital ratio. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/913517-PDF-ENG Yum! Brands Jordan Siegel and Christopher PoliquinHarvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

a knowledge management system to optimally leverage employee-generated know-how. In particular, we consider the following practical strategic questions for the manager of a knowledge-intensive firm: should her firm develop a formal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

demand for auditing by the licensor. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We show when the owner prefers to license the property in exchange for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

informative in itself. When constrained to a "seller-initiated information revelation" format, where the firm chooses which feature to show, the firm never finds it optimal to offer more features than it is able to inform... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

a host of issues related to how contracts between financial intermediaries and their customers are structured and how risks are shared between them, as well as the consequences of (unexpected) deviations from the ex-ante optimal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

concerns. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-047.pdf   PublicationsOptimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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