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  • 07 Jun 2016
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June 7, 2016

discontinuity design that facilitates sharper identification of treatment effects, we find a significant and discontinuous increase in tax avoidance following Russell 2000 inclusion. The tax avoidance involves the use of tax shelters, and immediate benefits include... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

waiting in queues or of exposing their private information. Second, and more importantly, South Korea took proactive measures to test its people, even those without symptoms, through contact tracing. In addition to having every confirmed patient quarantined... View Details
Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

upgrade sales to an installed base. When profits from the installed base are sufficiently large, a pure strategy equilibrium exists with two B firms active in the market. Although there is competition in the complement market, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

Lee, Ma, and Wang (2014) perform best, followed by peers with the highest overlap in analyst coverage, in explaining cross-sectional variations in base firms' out-of-sample (a) stock returns, (b) valuation multiples, (c) growth rates, (d) R&D expenditures, (e)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

merchandising decisions in their stores. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111069-PDF-ENG Emergia: Driving Profitability on Help Desk Contracts F. Asís Martínez-Jerez and Lisa BremHarvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

conditions in which an advertising principal can set its payment delay to deter rogue agents and to attract solely or primarily good-type agents. Through the savings from excluding rogue agents, the principal can increase its profits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608016 China Resources Corporation (B): China Resources Microelectronics Harvard Business School Supplement 107-015 Supplements the (A) case. Late in October 2006, China Resources (Holdings) Co., Ltd. (CRC)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

platform-based products (applications) and users of such products. We show that the unique equilibrium under platform compatibility leads to higher profits than the symmetric equilibrium under incompatibility. Notwithstanding,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

businesses outperform both single-unit firms and multi-unit firms composed of unrelated businesses. Explanations for this relationship between focus and firm performance have largely centered on economies of scope achieved by sharing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

Life, faced decisions about the company's growth strategy. Despite profound initial skepticism about demand for a user-generated virtual world that was not a traditional game, Second Life had achieved profitability and strong growth.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008

the nation's cramped urban centers where vacancy rates held near zero and families often "doubled up" in single-housing units. Hoping to spark a burst of new construction, New York Senator William Calder called for the creation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

wise or lucky. His blend of new statistical methods and old common-sense reasoning helped him profit as the forecasting industry first developed. Irving Fisher, Economic Forecasting, and the Myth of the Business Cycle Author:Walter A.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

support not only itself, but also a growing majority of the 6 billion people now living on earth. This unparalleled abundance is allowing our species to develop, distribute, and profit from innovation in nearly every corner of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

strategic choices that affect both the expected profits of the firm and their riskiness. Even if competition at first pushes the manager towards profit maximization as commonly argued, I show that further... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

that eventually resulted in a historic windfall for the drug maker soon after it began marketing UK-92,480 under the brand name Viagra. Pfizer was able to develop and launch a wildly successful and profitable new drug because it... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

more profitable lending, their power is muted by both deferred compensation and the limited liability typically enjoyed by credit officers. Second, we present direct evidence that incentive contracts distort judgment and beliefs, even... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

as on how it should evolve. Since 1980 General Electric, for instance, has continued to reinvent itself in every field from wind energy to medical diagnostics; and it enjoyed a $22.5 billion profit in 2007. Organizations that foster... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

professor and Dean of the Faculty, provided a brief outline of the landscape as well as thoughts on how to view the proposed bailout. Lecturer Nicolas P. Retsinas, Director of Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies, then... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 04 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

medical centers didn't want minimally invasive surgery because it threatened the surgeons and it threatened the hospitals; their real profit centers are the surgical suites. It... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

introduced the JPX400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's "best-run" companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable among Japan's large and liquid firms. Index-inclusion incentives led firms to increase ROE... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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