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  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

Fundamental principles of intellectual property rights and agricultural subsidies are described, along with the challenges of creating and operating multilateral institutions. The note begins with a brief history of multilateral View Details
  • 02 Nov 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?

merger of Office Depot and Staples, ending a marriage that would have reduced the number of big box office supply specialty chains to two, the other being Office Max. In seeking to stop the merger, the Federal Trade Commission argued that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
  • 06 Aug 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?

1999, the company's first year of operation. The following year, the company was on a $5.3 million run rate. The bad news: competition is suddenly on the horizon, in the form of British start-up VisiDat—at least according to a trade... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • 21 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers' cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to 400 employees in the London office whose derivatives trading nearly... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

these few men, proud, arrogant, and blind, drove the country to financial ruin." Like the individuals convicted of insider trading in the 1980s, some of today's business leaders appear to have forgotten that they are fiduciaries who... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

tend to rebalance more actively. We find some evidence that households rebalance towards a higher risky share as they become richer. We also study the decisions to trade individual assets. Households are more likely to fully sell directly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

support for the Geneva Accords, an agreement for a two-state solution negotiated by unofficial delegations of Israel and the Palestinian Authority in 2003. The results demonstrate that Israelis are more likely to support agreements that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

institutions of global governance and, compared to others—such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization, various United Nations agencies, and other multilateral development banks, to name just a few—one of the most... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 24 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

flow to reforming countries as a consequence of reforms and may give policy makers working at agencies like the U.S. Trade Representative's Office some helpful facts to bring to the negotiating table.... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

show that politicians use school ties as a mechanism to engage in vote trading ("logrolling"), and that alumni networks help facilitate the procurement of discretionary earmarks. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where founders trade off the simplicity of accepting an equal split, with the costs of negotiating a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Aug 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

manufacturer like Ford Motor Company. Ford cooperates with its suppliers to design new vehicles even as it negotiates vigorously with them over the terms on which parts will be supplied. By cooperating to develop new cars, Ford and its... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

2006, Macri is approached by Spanish and Italian soccer powerhouses, seeking to purchase the players Fernando Gago and Rodrigo Palacio. Should Macri enter negotiations with the clubs interested in buying the star players? If so, how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

specialization, or firm prestige. We discuss the theoretical implications of these results for the literatures on status and groups, along with practical implications for strategic human resource management. The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

trading and investing being particularly controversial. We focus on the role of banks in the private equity market. We show that bank-affiliated private equity groups accounted for a significant share of the private equity activity and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

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

people he knows, but can he persuade Congress to act? If he’s a good communicator and good negotiator and good creator of shared value, he’ll figure out something that works for House Speaker Paul Ryan and for Senate Minority Leader Chuck... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

create a partnership to acquire the assets of Parmalat in Uruguay. Focuses on their analysis prior to submitting a bid and their plan for improving the operations once their bid is accepted. In addition to improving operations, they must View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

trade given that attempts to negotiate a comprehensive arrangement have so far failed. Also, presents several criticisms of the current system. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

shocks, i.e., they must buy or sell at the same time. Two assets are "co-fragile" if their owners have correlated trading needs, even if the holdings of these owners do not directly overlap. We formalize this idea and apply it... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

threatening to jump to another company—a card that few founders are willing to play at the negotiation table, says Wasserman. Wasserman's paper on the subject "Stewards, Agents, and the Founder Discount: Executive Compensation in New... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

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