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  • 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

(forthcoming) Abstract In large U.S. corporations, founding families are the only blockholders whose control rights on average exceed their cash flow rights. We analyze how they achieve this wedge, and at what cost. Indirect ownership... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

interviews to replace a worker the company has a huge amount of data on from personnel files, performance evaluations, etc. When they replace the worker who leaves because of caregiving conflicts, they incur the direct costs, but they also absorb View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

two-sided platforms and indirect network effects to develop an explanation why markets with two-sided platforms are often characterized by incompatibility with one dominant player who may subsidize access to one side of the market. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

resolution settings. It is believed that by making people more aware of their failure to notice and punish indirect unethical behavior, others can create a world where the use of intermediation will no longer provide harm doers an easy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

namely its shift from a supplier and builder of affordable housing to an approach that focuses on demand-side solutions and indirect subsidies to private developers. In addition to a shift from supply-based to demand-based solutions,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

Effects, and Investment Strategy Willy ShihHarvard Business School Note 611-082 This technical note discusses scale economies and direct and indirect network effects in the context of building better business models. Some of the great... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

bureaucracy can be wildly at odds with what entrepreneurs and their backers really need. Economists have also focused on a second problem, delineated in the theory of regulatory capture. These writings suggest that private- and public-sector entities will organize to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

severity of the coordination problem faced by users. Read the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38648 The Costs of Ambient Cultural Disharmony: Indirect Intercultural Conflicts in Social Environment Undermine... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

based upon directed network graphs, which allows us to identify all of the direct and indirect linkages between the components in a system. We use this approach to define three fundamental architectural patterns, which we label... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

that the cost of change is associated with the degree to which applications are highly coupled. We show the best measure of coupling that predicts the cost of change is one that captures all the direct and indirect connections between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—Financial constraints are not directly observable, so empirical research relies on indirect measures. We evaluate how well five popular measures (paying dividends, having a credit rating, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas where seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to pay dividends, initiate dividends, and have higher dividend yields. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

Responsible Mining. Assessment of four necessary conditions for SDG contributions (goal alignment, rule strength, uptake patterns, indirect effects) suggest weak contributions to date. First, only the weakest versions of standards are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

between bundling and indirect network effects, we find that they act as substitute strategies, with a lower relative effectiveness for bundling when network effects are stronger. 2013 pub From Social Control to Financial Economics: The... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 30 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

indirect materials, which are primarily downward auctions. Although, there are some market situations where you would use an upward auction just to have people bid on certain kinds of pricing. Basically, we've evolved our business model... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

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