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  • 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007

out less-intensive users of the product. High prices do not cause greater product use than low prices for a given buyer, but there is some evidence that the act of paying increases use. Our estimates imply that positive prices may be View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2006
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The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

incorporate other organizational objectives and managerial interests. For example, tax optimization can be a powerful tool but can also create performance evaluation and incentive problems. Many financial practices out there excessively... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

had established a reputation as a provider of some of the district's best-prepared new teachers. Yet Solomon wondered if their approach so far was optimal going forward. Carol Johnson, the new superintendent for BPS, was developing a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

balance sheet instead of raising our cash dividends or buying back shares?; Do we have the optimal capital structure, with the lowest weighted after-tax cost of total capital, including debt and equity?; Do we have an operating plan that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007

successful technological innovation—but whose mindsets often clash. The authors dub these two types stewards and creators. An organization's stewards are usually managers; their goal is the careful allocation of the organization's resources, with an aim of achieving an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

increase performance while social comparison reduces it, especially for low-ability trainees. These effects appear when treatments are announced and persist through training. The findings are consistent with a model of optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

One method multinationals use to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Nov 2006
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How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

after all. Many companies find it optimal to pick their niche rather than to try to completely diversify across risks. Q: How do you think the South African economy will evolve over the next five to ten years? A: A major test for South... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

the optimal path to reinvention? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/419012-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-075 Yatooq: Longing for Arabic Coffee As one of the few female entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia, Lateefa... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

facial-expression tracking is used to study viewers’ real-time emotional responses when watching comedy movie trailers online. These data are used to predict both viewers’ intentions to watch the movie and the movie’s box office success. The authors then propose an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

accounting, control, and reporting systems in firms. How Can Decision Making Be Improved? Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Dolly Chugh, and Max H. Bazerman Publication: Perspectives on Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract The optimal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2004
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The Big Money for Big Projects

investment decisions, the use of project finance can also affect asset values. By using project finance, companies get the opportunity to create a project-specific governance system designed to optimize the value of the project. Thus,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

Strategies By: Pomeranz, Dina, Cristobal Marshall, and Pamela Castellon Abstract—Reducing tax evasion is a key challenge for governments around the world, particularly in developing countries. This paper presents a methodology to generate information to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

parts. Implications for diversity research are discussed.   Working PapersUnobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem Authors:Faisal Z. Ahmed and Eric Werker Abstract Autocrats experiencing a windfall in unearned income may find it View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

default. Over the two years preceding default, we find that ratings grow increasingly pessimistic relative to a standard benchmark rating model prediction, while optimism remains for similar firms that do not default. Further, we find... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

consumers. One view argues intermediaries provide valuable product education and guide consumers towards suitable products. Consumers understand how commissions affect agents' incentives and make optimal product choices. The second view... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

customers, and the variables involved in designing an optimal credit card. Concludes with a consideration of the decisions the CRM team had to make in designing the project, including whether to use conjoint analysis or implement a mini... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

sharing where all peers are endowed with 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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

optimize brand exposure they need information on how to best retain consumers' attention from moment-to-moment during television advertising. This large-scale eye tracking study shows that the decision to zap or not to zap depends on how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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