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- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
defects to their children, single parents, fertile adopters, and "gender selectors" who want a baby boy (or girl) at any cost. "We're not talking about demand for potato chips," said Spar. "This is the kind of demand that becomes an obsession.... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
are less likely to do so with increasing age and greater geographical scope. We also find a strong trend toward unbundling over time, a result that is partially explained by increases in media prices over time. Download the paper from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
found to be associated with the ability to attract specialized solvers with range of diverse scientific interests. Furthermore, successful solvers solved problems at the boundary or outside of their fields of expertise, indicating a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
economics, demonstrating a persistent concern with market fairness—not only fair prices for consumers but also fair competition among businesses. Proponents of fair trade collaborated with regulators to create codes of fair competition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
transaction prices and bank deposits — that carry stiff penalties if violated. What are the attitudes overseas about U.S. enforcement efforts? The perception is widespread in developing and transitional economies that the West, including... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
South Africa, for example, the government's support for the transfer of assets to the historically disenfranchised native African community—a laudable social objective—has affected the development of the capital market. Such View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
more than five years, the global shipping (maritime) industry experienced a dramatic crash in late 2008 as the global financial system froze and the global economy slid into recession. Ship charter rates (revenue) fell by as much as 90% causing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
Paid transfers of IP addresses would better allocate resources to those who need them most, but unrestricted transfers might threaten the Internet's routing system. I suggest policies to facilitate an IP... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
it always has. It is too expensive; it carries too much investment risk for even the largest utilities without massive transfer of risk to taxpayers and/or ratepayers; and it takes too long from conception to operation to play a... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
farm refers to a complex of rights and duties secured by contract in which a sovereign transferred the temporary exploitation of a holding for rent in advance. It was one of four tenurial complexes under which entitlements fell, the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
pricing theories. First, in an era when efficient portfolio diversification was not possible, the intrinsic risk of an equity security was an important input into investor decision making. Second, our evidence suggests that businesspeople... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
Mumbai, and an ongoing investigation of the transfer of land from agricultural to industrial use in China. Pirates On The Horizon There are two primary types of IP theft for copyright industries, which include movies, music, books, and... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions. Politicians use frequent reassignments (transfers) across posts of varying importance to control bureaucrats. High-skilled bureaucrats face less frequent political transfers and lower... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
accounting, improve price and volatility discovery, and expand international risk intermediation activities. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-026.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsC. R. Smith and the Birth of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
in the coffee business, serving people—it's in the people business, serving coffee. It's about the human experience of coffee, which as a concept is very transferable from one business to another." That focus on the customer experience... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
Falato, Antonio, and David Scharfstein Abstract—We present evidence that pressure to maximize short-term stock prices and earnings leads banks to increase risk. We start by showing that banks increase risk when they transition from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
experiments to test theoretical predictions of why adoption may be low. Insurance purchase is sensitive to price, with an estimated extensive price elasticity of demand between -0.66 and -0.88. Credit constraints, identified through the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Lewis Jr. (MBA 1969), George R. “Bob” Price (MBA 1970), and A. Leroy “Roy” Willis (MBA 1969). In commemoration of this milestone, four of AASU’s founders (Price died in 2012) reflect on their time at the School, the creation of the... View Details
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
loaded cost basis. If these customers are not contributing to covering the overhead, let them go quietly. The best approach is to raise prices slightly to these customers. Most are "mercenaries" who will quickly, but quietly,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney