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  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

capital shortages, distributed urban territory to assuage losers of reform and promote economic growth. The findings suggest that 1) growth strategies, and the territorial politics they produce, are products of the post-Mao urban... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21

been engaged in a large-scale, centrally coordinated national anti-Malaria campaign, which has become a model in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper aims at quantifying the individual and macro-level benefits of this campaign, which involved mass View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

the potential retaliatory measures of the stalwarts of the industry. And with their cash from shedding the non-core assets, South African firms had begun themselves to look for new opportunities. Q: How is it to do business in South... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

used the actual initial and current or exit valuation data of the companies, but constructed two hypothetical investment strategies. In scenario one, the team used a strategy that assumed an initial investment of $175,000, subsequent investments averaging $115,000 in... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 7

to reductions in dividends relative to the reference point set by prior dividends. Managers with strong but unobservable cash earnings separate themselves by paying high dividends but retain enough earnings to be likely not to fall short... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Screen Saver

Entertainment, HBS professor Anita Elberse documents the powerful, long-term success of high-investment, high-reward entertainment products, including movies. "She's absolutely right," says Lopez. "Those big successes spin off cash like... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment
  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

how these Americans spend their income tax refunds, using transaction-level data from a stored-value card product. Card-holders may choose among several tax settlement and loan options, effectively receiving cash as much as 90 days... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

show that knowledge spillover shifts both distributions rightward while selection and reallocation raise the left truncation of the distributions and shift revenue leftward. Using a rich firm-level panel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

don't hire armed guards to prevent the occasional nonbusiness use of copy machines, nor do you keep your company's cash in a filing cabinet. You protect each corporate resource in proportion to its value. The same principle applies to... View Details
Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby
  • 05 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

similar to that of advertising. A major challenge is that privacy laws prevent us from observing information about the applicant pool. I overcome this challenge by using order statistic distribution to infer applicant quality from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

is above average. And in a lot of companies the way the system works is most CEOs want to be at the 75th percentile of the distribution of compensation. Well, you can imagine what happens. You get a ratcheting up effect as that... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

itself, can obscure meaningful variation in individual use patterns, we investigate how the concentration of use within a team (the extent to which use is limited to a few members versus more evenly distributed within the team) affects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

distribution: (1) assistance selecting funds that are harder to find or harder to evaluate, (2) access to funds with lower costs excluding distribution costs, (3) access to higher performing funds, (4) superior asset allocation, and (5)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

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

noteworthy distinction is that the presidential marketer needs to win the vote on one day every four years, whereas the commercial marketer needs the cash register to ring every day. Nevertheless, public opinion is important to any... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

pay out capital also initiate debt or equity issues in the same year, resulting in 32% of aggregate payouts being externally financed. Most firms with simultaneous payouts and security issues do not generate enough operating cash flow to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

working solutions to a complex innovation problem over 10 days, with varying monetary incentives. We find that levels of effort are driven by cash incentives and the presence of other interacting teammates. The level of collaboration, by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

ultimately acting upon complex decisions. The (A) case provides an inside look as Felipe Calderón, president of Mexico, works with his cabinet ministers to decide how to turnaround a corrupt, highly unionized, and poorly managed state-owned company that View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

  Working PapersEconomic Catastrophe Bonds Authors:Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

behavior through reputational or status incentives. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55333 forthcoming Review of Corporate Finance Studies Short-Termism and Capital Flows By: Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—During... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16

multinational investment in host economies, and this chapter reviews this research. The focus is primarily on developing country host economies and more broadly on the global distribution of wealth and poverty. This chapter suggests three... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne