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- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
issues. In short, it posits that when hired managers, or "agents," are faced with a conflict between their organization's best interests and their personal best interests, the agents will choose the latter. Therefore, the owners...
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- 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13
foreign market share therefore increased five-fold between 1997 and 2007. We construct and analyze a panel of Mexican bank financial data covering this period and find no evidence that foreign entry increases the availability of credit....
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
by a public health organization are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group receive a standard volunteer contract often offered for this type of task, whereas agents in the three...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 31, 2006
Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek Abstract The empirical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
practices is important for understanding financial decision-making of households in dire circumstances as well as for setting appropriate consumer protection policies. We conduct a simple experiment in three sites in which we paid off...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
source of internal capital. Lawmakers and lobbyists justified its passage by arguing that it would alleviate financial constraints. This paper's results indicate that repatriations did not lead to an increase in domestic investment,...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5
Limits to Network Effects Authors:Hann Hałaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets rationally prefer a platform restricting choice rather than a platform that offers...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015
Empirical Analysis of Mobile Money Agents in Africa By: Balasubramanian, Karthik, and David F. Drake Abstract—The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks ("mobile money") is rapidly increasing in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Kwame Owusu-Kesse
Why was earning an MBA at HBS important to you? To achieve success as a business leader and agent of empowerment, I knew I had to learn valuable new skills. My experiences as a junior banker, young entrepreneur, and novice service...
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- 08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010
Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper reports a three-phase experiment on a stylized labor market. In the first two phases, agents face simple games, which we use to estimate subjects' social and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
oversees more than $16 billion. Compare these figures with data from 2003, when the entire asset class consisted of only a handful of funds managing about $12 billion. Activist investors, once considered Wall Street outcasts, are now respectable View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations
McCray, who sees herself as an agent of change, was most interested in policy solutions. When one classmate proposed dispersing reparations in the form of college scholarships, McCray voiced concern about overlooking those who don’t...
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R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
their previous history and their general standing here, that they are regarded here as a good house. Are estimated from 300 to 400m$ [$300,000 - $400,000] & in last report 500m$ [$500,000]. Are financial View Details
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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade
less risky for smaller firms to compete and easier for Chinese merchants and compradors to become brokers. “Chinese would similarly displace Westerners in many areas of economic enterprise as they gained skills and developed modern View Details
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
many of these CSI-like stories, and they almost always yield substantial financial or operational benefits. Sometimes the CSI stories do involve deeper quantitative and statistical analysis. One member of Megibow's team was investigating...
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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
entrepreneurs, strategies for identifying opportunity, and leadership. Agents of Change: The Founding and Impact of the African-American Student Union Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the African-American Student Union,...
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
generations of the Heard Family of Ipswich, Massachusetts, constitute the most comprehensive and detailed collection held by Baker Library on the China trade. Engaged in the China trade principally from 1840 to 1877, Heard & Co. records include business correspondence,...
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- 02 Dec 2018
- News
A Chance to Thrive
after HBS and then joined Lehman Brothers, where she cofounded a group that focused on developing strategic opportunities for women and minority-owned financial services firms. At work as well as through her philanthropic activities,...
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- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
Overall, the findings demonstrate the power of non-financial rewards to motivate agents in settings where there are limits to the use of financial incentives. Publisher's link:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008
foreknowledge and/or control. Experiment 4 indicates that effects of indirect agency result from a failure to automatically consider the potentially dubious motives of agents who cause harm indirectly. Download the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne