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- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
today provides core benefits that align with the conditions necessary for democracy. A critical takeaway is that billions of marketing transactions help to develop the social glue that holds democratic societies together. Q: How can the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
that future work should develop more precise and context-specific theories to help guide research and practice in disparate task and industry domains. Working paper not available. Why Do Firms Hold So Much Cash? A Tax-Based Explanation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
"five contexts framework"—issues to consider, in essence—to understand institutional variations between countries. We excerpt a summary of the five contexts. As we helped companies think through their globalization strategies,... View Details
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
Exxon’s institutional investors would be eligible to submit shareholder proposals under the current law, only 7 (at the time of this writing) would meet the 1 percent threshold. In high tech, the thresholds grow even higher: Owning 1... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
Getting a seat at the table often makes all the difference in the world. New research from Harvard Business School suggests that this idea holds true literally at the World Bank, where the 24 countries serving on the Board of Executive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
managers. We haven't always understood these changes." Leviathan In Business In a new working paper, Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and Their Implications for Economic Performance, Musacchio and colleague Sergio G. Lazzarini of the Insper View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
competitive firms. August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics Winners in the Spotlight: Media Coverage of Fund Holdings as a Driver of Flows By: Soltes, Eugene F., David H. Solomon, and Denis Sosyura Abstract—We show that media coverage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
short-term profits and returns to shareholders at the expense of worker safety and health, the environment, and society in general. In this article, I argue that a very different logic informs the practices of most high-performing and sustainable companies: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
years: unbundling of agency services, the problem of competing clients sharing a common agency, and concern over consolidation with the growth of holding companies. To understand them, it's first important to appreciate how advertising... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
rich-world domination over the poorer South or as a neutral mediator facilitating a tariff-free world of economic prosperity. This article instead analyses how the WTO has sought legitimacy for itself and for the underlying institution of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
characteristics of the clients of their institutional shareholders indicates that "dividend-averse" institutions are significantly less likely to hold shares in firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
the firm-size distribution; controlling for level of economic development, regulation, institutional constraints, and other variables that might affect the business environment; and using different empirical specifications. We further... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
they keep a larger fraction of the gains that they produce by keeping watch over management. "Shareholder activism" refers to the practice of holding managers accountable for the performance of their firms. Shareholder activists... View Details
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
Evidence from Social, Environmental and Governance Scores Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Abstract We investigate the institutional drivers of Corporate Social Performance (CSP) by focusing on its three fundamental components:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
To what extent do multinational corporations have an institutional obligation to the Asian countries in which they serve, and does that obligation include holding higher standards than Asian law requires?... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
completion of a detailed survey, allowing us to precisely characterize European biologic drug procurement institutions over time. Using data from three classes of biosimilar drugs, we analyze how market features and public polices predict... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
PublicationsSpanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Juan Alcácer and Paul Ingram Publication:American Journal of Sociology (forthcoming). Abstract Global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
markets, such as the one for patents, generally create profit opportunities for intermediaries. We begin with an overview of the problems that arise in patent markets, and how traditional institutions like patent brokers, patent pools,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
streamline loan paperwork and reduce turnaround times, particularly in small dollar loans. Together, these actions resulted in three record years in SBA lending. In 2012 alone, 3,786 financial institutions made an SBA-guaranteed loan, up... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
Pontet-Canet's style, and whether the institutions of Bordeaux were helping Pontet-Canet or holding it back. Consequently, Tesseron wondered how to best align his choices along these dimensions and secure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne