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  • 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007

should be designed to fit the corporate strategy. Although the results are capable of alternative interpretations, analysis provides no support for the view that "lean and mean" headquarters lead to better performance. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

base of PC operating systems, it had captured 20% of the server market by the end of 2005 and was quickly becoming a formidable alternative for productivity programs with OpenOffice. Linux's "business model" to compete against... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

intensity, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider four alternative business models—two pure models (subscription-based and ad-sponsored) and two mixed models that are hybrids of the two pure models.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

collectors, auction house operators, and other actors who played active roles as either institutional entrepreneurs or guardians in shaping the revitalization of the industry. We find these entrepreneurs and guardians initially espoused View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

shareholders more than $3.95 trillion via stock buybacks and $2.45 trillion via dividends—$6.4 trillion in total. These shareholder payouts amounted to over 93% of the firms' net income. Academics, corporate lawyers, asset managers, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

Brightwork Brand Holdings Corp. acquired it as an asset purchase in 2011. Ghurka, under CEO John Reuter, worked to re-launch the brand with a ten-year, three-phase growth plan. The company aimed to be profitable by 2016. Management worked... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

documented in other samples. The size of the low risk anomaly within banks suggests that the cost of capital effects of capital requirements may be considerable. Assuming competitive lending markets, banks' low asset betas implied an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

individuals to enroll in weight loss programs, without a decrement in program effectiveness. Future research could explore the cost effectiveness of such subsidies or alternative designs. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

visually depict outcome and cost data simultaneously. It provides clinicians, managers, patients, regulators, and policy makers with a readily understandable snapshot of the value being delivered for a specific medical condition and allows them to compare that value... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

http://www.people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/bcfsurvey2v20.pdf Comovement and Predictability Relationships Between Bonds and the Cross-Section of Stocks Authors:Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication:Review of Asset Pricing Studies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

  Working PapersEconomic Catastrophe Bonds Authors:Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

onset of the crisis. PE-backed companies consequentially experienced higher asset growth and increased market share during the crisis. Business History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

  PublicationsHeterogeneity and Graceful Technology Retreats: A New Perspective on Responding to Dominant Technological Threats Authors:Ron Adner and Daniel Snow Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change (forthcoming) Abstract We explore the implications of a real... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

$2.8 trillion via dividends—$7 trillion in total. These shareholder payouts amounted to over 96% of the firms' net income. Academics, corporate lawyers, asset managers, and politicians point to such shareholder-payout figures as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

index-based benchmarks do not adequately achieve this objective. Further, the index-benchmark selection is associated with governance-related frictions and is not driven by plausible alternative theories. Both structural calibration and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

turmoil. The case explores the risks and benefits of a different asset allocation strategy and also considers how to classify some of the different assets. It highlights the issues around allocations across different subclasses, e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119067-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 219-063 Blackstone Alternative Asset Management in 2018 No abstract available. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

consider and reject several alternative explanations of our findings. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45581 August 2013 Journal of Finance Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market By: Ivashina, Victoria, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

small changes in financial imperfections can give rise to large changes in price. We develop tests of this alternative against the null that the supply of intermediary capital is perfectly elastic. We take the U.S. catastrophe reinsurance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

(forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates how dividend taxes influence portfolio choices, using the response to the distinctive treatment of a subset of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA) of 2003. An open-economy... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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