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  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

not tend to feel as threatened by potential competition from clean energy startups, given the market structure and regulatory environment in the energy sector. We highlight that the problem is unlikely to get solved without the active... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

is a theoretical inconsistency between the strong reliance on individuals as the primary unit of analysis and the examination of endogenously generated processes to explain institutional change (Scott, 2008). For example, the practical deficiencies of individual View Details
  • 16 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

question at an individual household level—not to mention at the level of boards of directors, CEOs, regulatory agencies, and politicians—is will we, and they, pick up the gauntlet of responsibility for our collective economy? What the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

collection and privacy. Finally, we discuss emerging challenges surrounding software-driven medical devices, including open regulatory questions, advancements in underlying digital technology, and the likely necessity of new payment and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

of a Leadership Team BrightStar Care was a rapidly growing franchise of home health care agencies. Founded by husband and wife team JD and Shelly Sun as a single agency near Chicago in 2002, BrightStar had opened nearly 300 franchises... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

addition to hurting performance, such workers can generate enormous regulatory and legal liabilities for the firm. We explore a large novel dataset of over 50,000 workers across 11 different firms to document a variety of aspects of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

average, use unverifiable discretion to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, use unverifiable discretion opportunistically. We test these alternative hypotheses using a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

to the support of companies, investors, and the initiatives of a number of NGOs, widespread regulatory intervention has yet to materialize. Outside of South Africa, adoption remains voluntary, accomplished via social movement abetted, to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

degree of stability and predictability. Many businesspeople thought elements of the Trump administration were favorable, such as a reduction in regulatory burdens and taking more aggressive steps toward foreign parties, especially China,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016

bankruptcy losses (moral hazard) and are subject to a regulatory capital requirement. In contrast, shadow bank liabilities are subject to runs and credit risk and thus typically less liquid compared to commercial banks. Shadow banks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Money Matters

months to register our company, something that could have happened almost instantly in the United States or Great Britain,” he laments. “After that, we had to go to six different agencies to get registrations to open shop. It gets... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

are overly sympathetic to management, while still technically independent according to regulatory definitions. We explore a subset of independent directors for whom we have detailed, micro-level data on their views regarding the firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

project negotiations, he’s had a chance to do that. In the presidency, there will probably be negotiations — with Congress, with other nations, or with agencies or with all the people a president deals with — where you have to make a... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Alumni Books of 2016

problems presented by growth, identifying growth triggers and barriers, and the financial and cultural implications of growth. Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency by James Andrew Miller (MBA 1988) (Custom... View Details
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and, most of all, moving the provision of trust from institutions and governments to network protocols that have no central authority. They challenge the core notions of brand value, scale, regulatory guardrails, hierarchy, incentives... View Details