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  • 02 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 2

strategies leads to better access to finance. We hypothesize that better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

strategic management and to the literature on information disclosure. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=40289 Experimental Evidence on Decision Making Under Information... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

dynamic groups, don't learn naturally. I outline the factors that prevent them from doing so, such as interpersonal fear, irrational beliefs about failure, groupthink, problematic power dynamics, and information hoarding. With Teaming,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

procurement relationships for manufacturers and that this effect is partially mediated by the level of joint action and the quality of information exchange between the partners. Decomposing dependence View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

has more information on that dog than you do as a potential buyer or pet guardian, and that can lead to adverse situations,” Exley says. “The information asymmetry and search... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

compatibility can thus increase asymmetry between the platform owners’ profit foci and, given a sufficiently large difference in the standalone utilities, yields greater profits for both platform owners. We further show that social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

licensing, for example, is one such regulation that covers over 30 percent of the US workforce. It exists to correct informational asymmetries between buyers and sellers. Occupational licensing regulation... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service
  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

information provision, prices and disclosure levels are negatively correlated. The firm setting a high level of disclosure needs to subsidize consumers in order to attract them to the service, and the firm setting a low level of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

Much of the success of microfinance has been attributed to attempts to overcome the challenges of information asymmetries in uncollateralized lending. However, very little is known about the optimal contract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

expertise will continue to be the bedrock of the academy but the boundaries that separate schools and faculties will melt away. This trend has already taken hold at Harvard, where faculty from across the University are building formal and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

over consensus forecasts would be large in the next fiscal year. Our results show that historical inventory and gross margin contain information useful to forecast sales, and that equity analysts do not fully utilize this View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7

Firms Respond to Being Rated Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

profit foci. As the difference in the standalone utilities increases, royalties from content sales become less important to the platform with greater standalone value but becomes more important for the other platform. Compatibility increases View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

changes in fundamentals. Similarly, asymmetry embedded in the analysts' scenario-based valuations conveys information about asymmetric risk-reward exposure and predicts skewness in future long-run valuation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

information asymmetry in credit markets and problems connected with this phenomenon. However, institutional aspects—particularly, how information is gathered and shared—have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

Jan-Emmanuel, George W. Ward, Femke De Keulenaer, Bert Van Landeghem, Georgios Kavetsos, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Are individuals more sensitive to losses than gains in macroeconomic growth? Using subjective well-being measures across three large data sets, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

the effects of changes in comparability, we examine changes to information asymmetry for firms domiciled in the U.K. Domestic standards in the U.K. that preceded IFRS adoption are considered very similar to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

mitigate reputational spillover risks by reducing information asymmetries between themselves and their suppliers. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2343802   Cases & Course Materials... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 5

working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2470523 Decision Making Under Information Asymmetry: Experimental Evidence on Belief Refinements By: Schmidt, William, and Ryan W. Buell Abstract—We explore how individuals make decisions in an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22

better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large cross-section... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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