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- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54214 forthcoming Operations Research Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization By: Ferreira, Kris J., David Simchi-Levi, and He... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
politicians only provide the services people vote for within the civil and property rights protections set forth in the constitution. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
Strömberg Publication:The Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity-debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
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
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
this ritualistic document filled with financial information, different types of narratives, and lots of pretty pictures. The amount of detail and the level of complexity in the financial section have grown considerably in response to the increasing onslaught of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
rubber markets during the boom years of 1870-1910 shows that the government generated 1.3% of GDP through an export tax on rubber but that it could have generated 4.7% in total, had the government set the tariff at the optimal level.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
privately or in multiple non-bankruptcy courts. The American-US Airways deal is part of American's plan of reorganization and will have to be approved by its creditors and shareholders. However voting rules... View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
brand-name multinationals that contract out the work. “In a sense, global supply chains are serving a regulatory function, with companies imposing an additional layer of rules and investing resources to enforce them,” says Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
been ever upward. There was some hope that the concept of "say-on-pay," where shareholders vote on the CEO's compensation, might have some impact by making compensation committees more cautious, but we clearly still have a long... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
rules and purchase orders, and can optimize supply chains across different systems. Niche leverage: Power over keystones. Finally, the emergence of loosely coupled technology interfaces has another critical... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
market's growth that is the primary driver of profit margins and sales growth. A few retailers have succeeded in going global by developing strategies that apply four retail-specific rules for globalization. View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Publication:Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming) Abstract We take a decision theoretic approach to the classic social choice problem, using data on the frequency of choice problems to compute social choice functions. We define a family of social choice View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
are low, and some useless care is bought even when patients face the full cost. In the presence of behavioral hazard, welfare calculations using only the demand curve can be off by orders of magnitude or even be the wrong sign. We derive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
campus is closed to most motor vehicles, a rule that encourages face-to-face encounters along the walking paths. Taxis, and often black limousines, patiently wait for their clients on the campus' margins. As the campus master plan... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest. China seemed without peer. Decline came fast. By 1900, China had been invaded,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
in a new paper, Why Do We Redistribute So Much but Tag So Little? The Principle of Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation. The fundamental challenge, he writes, is that "different people find different criteria compelling, and most people... View Details
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
performance, most investors have found it easier to vote "with their feet" by selling shares, rather than making formal complaints. Large shareholders, however, have stronger incentives to monitor management. The conventional... View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
consequence of these developments, these firms now face a wide variety of governmental regulations and institutional environments around the world. In short, tightly integrated global operations with a rising reliance on foreign operations are the View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
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
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
will be voted down by shareholders, but rule changes made by Dell Inc.'s board eventually pave the way for Mr. Dell to take the eponymous company private-for a price only slightly higher than the original... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne