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- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
vulnerability indicators prior to the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate financial roots provide a benchmark for comparison. The firm-level data suggest that emerging markets post-GFC have lower leverage ratios than the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
is that if it fails to meet the benchmarks in its contract it can be shut down rather than renewed at the end of its five-year term. So while charter schools enjoy more autonomy than traditional schools, they are theoretically more... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
when the ECB's Governing Council reconvened on April 10, 2008. Given both the market turmoil and the evident inflationary pressure, members of the ECB's Governing Council would have to weigh the available data extremely carefully as they decided whether to raise,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
pillars to hire contract workers with non-traditional backgrounds. Typically, these candidates, who lack relevant experience or academic qualifications, wouldn’t be eligible to work for a large corporation with a comparable reputation. Contracts last for three years... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
WMS site also features individual policy reports for manufacturing, education, health-care, and retail organizations, providing a management benchmark for executives in any of those fields. On average, based on the evaluation tool, the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
services to patronize and how much information to provide them with. By focusing on the case of a transparent market, our analysis provides a benchmark for how a well-functioning market for consumer privacy should look like. It is worth... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
haunting benchmark not only for Exxon-Mobil but for global corporations at large, which have since become keenly aware of their exposure to this type of episode. Shell was also deeply affected by the 1995 dispute with Greenpeace over... View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
institutional client. Q: Your research uncovered that most academic research in the past has benchmarked "affiliated" analysts—or those covering a company that is an existing client—and "unaffiliated" analysts against... View Details
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
involve participatory design and implementation, should include benchmarks for determining whether engagements are meaningful, and should feed into a centralized system for informing future operations. 3. Improve the transparency of... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
capital were high compared to benchmark investments, at least in the early years of the nineteenth century. The whaling industry was one of the earliest to grapple with complex issues in relation to the provision of high-risk investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Spring, and years of weak oil prices. Leveraging deep local knowledge, strong relations in the region, and a “PE investment approach in public equity markets,” Ajeej had outperformed its benchmark regional stock indices and attracted... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
from shareholders than directors in a benchmark sample. They are also more likely than other independent directors to leave sued firms. Overall, shareholders use litigation along with director elections and director retention to hold some... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
classification and are more dynamic, pliable, and concentrated. We also show that co-search intensity captures the degree of similarity between firms. Our results highlight the potential of the collective wisdom of investors―extracted from co-search patterns―in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility for emerging market firms following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Corporate debt vulnerability indicators during the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate financial roots provide a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
default. Over the two years preceding default, we find that ratings grow increasingly pessimistic relative to a standard benchmark rating model prediction, while optimism remains for similar firms that do not default. Further, we find... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
(the “supply chain economy”) in national performance. Using the 2002 Benchmark Input-Output Accounts, we introduce a new industry categorization that separates supply chain (SC) industries (i.e., those that sell their goods and services... View Details