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  • 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

governance, human capital, and informational frictions help account for the variation in management. Publisher's link: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20102 August 2013 Review of Economics and Statistics Does Planning Regulation Protect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

a given stage of the value chain is shaped by the relative contractibility of the stages located upstream versus downstream from that stage, as well as by the firm's productivity. Our results suggest that contractual frictions play an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10

  Publications August 2013 pub Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Concert Industry By: Bennett, Victor Manuel, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how reducing search View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2022
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Blissful Thinking

frictional unemployment, because people are changing jobs and they’re being really, really choosy. Now, the key thing you’d want to know, if you were running a company, is why you have such unbelievably high churn. I would say, “Okay,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
  • 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

relating to the agricultural assets, which create frictions such that market value and book value do not converge despite the application of fair value for the majority of the firm's assets. The case also highlights how fair value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

payoffs differently than private households do. This gives the government a "social risk management" motive: projects that ameliorate market failures when household marginal utility is high are appealing. The second friction is that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2024
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Solving the Underemployment Crisis

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

Frictions in Shadow Banking: Evidence from the Lending Behavior of Money Market Funds By: Chernenko, Sergey, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We document the consequences of money market fund risk taking during the European sovereign debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2022
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Your Family, Your Work, Your Way

you can get ahead of some of those fires, what you will do is not reduce your workload, but you’ll reduce that level of tenseness and friction that exists between so many couples. And I say this personally, too, I live this as much as... View Details
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

purchase low market-to-book targets. Instead, mergers pair together firms with similar ratios. We then build a continuous-time model of investment and merger activity combining search, scarcity, and asset complementarity to explain this like-buys-like result. We test... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

governance-related frictions and not driven by plausible alternative theories. Both structural calibration and reduced-form estimates reveal significant negative performance implications from suboptimal peer selection. Compensation... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

the country had become a darling of the international aid community. As the country was preparing for the 2011 Party Congress, however, signs of growing economic frictions were becoming increasingly visible. The case closes by setting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

external information environment helps mitigate agency problems that arise when firms expand their operations across borders. This paper contributes to the literature by showing that the external information environment helps MNCs mitigate information View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17

geographic friction influence FDI and present the key empirical studies and findings. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52121 January–February 2017 Harvard Business Review Africa's New Generation of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job

now. There's just a lot of friction in that job market. Ethan Bernstein: Meanwhile, the way in which organizations and managers have been taught to retain and develop their people is really still rooted in some respects, back in the... View Details
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friction between the old guard and new talent? Final Deliverable Students have a choice between taking a final exam or completing a final project. The exam consists of a course-relevant case with assignment questions. The project invites... View Details