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  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

self-report of the licensee. The self-reporting aspect of the environment gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

guidance for leaders considering these questions and can help them estimate their optimal span of control. The issues explored are ones many senior executives-not just CEOs-should revisit throughout their careers. The best leaders stay... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25

held by the mutual fund clients of the analyst's brokerage firm. The optimism in analyst recommendations increases with the weight of the stock in a mutual fund client's portfolio and the commission revenue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

decisions, the executive team must consider the impact of their decision on not only near-term earnings, but on how it will enable Corning to diversify over the medium- to long-term in terms of the quality and quantity of its portfolio of... View Details
  • 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

is mediated by perceptions that their own advice will not be followed. Advice seekers fail to anticipate this negative relational impact, exposing them to unanticipated adverse consequences of their advice-seeking decisions. These findings challenge previous... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

Describes how Royal DSM NV, an $8 billion dollar global corporation, leveraged information technology to enable a major corporate portfolio transformation between 2000 and 2006. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

liquidated include Borders Group in 2012, Circuit City in 2009, and Linens `n Things in 2008; the value of inventory sold during these liquidations alone is $3B. The store liquidation problem is related to but also differs substantially from the markdown View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

this tool to optimize impact and financial performance going forward. This case was designed to be taught alongside Root Capital’s Efficient Impact Frontier Simulation exercise. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Dec 2015
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December 22, 2015

2015 The $13 Trillion Question: How America Manages Its Debt The Optimal Maturity of Government Debt By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-124.pdf First-Party Content, Commitment and Coordination in Two-Sided Markets Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Daniel Spulber Abstract We study the effect of two-sided platforms' ability to invest in first-party content on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

We exploit households’ portfolio weights in previous years as an instrument for actual capital gains and dividends payments. We find that unrealized capital gains lead to a marginal propensity to consume (MPC) of 13% for the bottom 50% of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

in January 2009, a little more than a year from the time the principles-based approach had been adopted. It is a good time to review the implementation process and how the new principles-based approach changed CaIPERS' emerging market equities View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

will disagree about the optimal choice from a randomly selected available set. We provide an algorithmic method to compute these metrics in the case where the probability of a given feasible set is a function only of its cardinality. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

potential adverse event once the test-statistic crosses a stopping boundary. We employ asymptotic analysis that assumes a large number of observations in a given window of time to show how to compute the stopping boundary by solving a convex View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

first time authors and more favorable to authors who have garnered other attention in the press (as measured by number of media mentions outside of the review) and who have won book prizes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-080.pdf Technology... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

Acceptance of Morally Arbitrary Luck and Widespread Support for Classical Benefit-Based Taxation By: Weinzierl, Matthew C. Abstract—Public moral reasoning is shown to differ in three specific ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

Political corruption governs the efficiency with which tax revenues are translated into infrastructure. The model predicts an inverted-U relationship between taxation and growth, with corruption reducing the optimal taxation level. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

the optimal capital requirement is around 20%. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51305 The Empirical Economics of Online Attention By: Boik, Andre, Shane Greenstein, and Jeffrey Prince Abstract—In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

find that each $1 invested in display and search leads to a return of $1.24 for display and $1.75 for search ads, which contrasts sharply with the estimated returns based on standard metrics. We use these results to show how optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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