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- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
estate firms' decisions to provide investment property fair values prior to the required disclosure of this information under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We find evidence that investor View Details
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1320187 Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An Experimental Investigation Authors:Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and M. Utku Ünver Abstract Markets sometimes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
replace poor performers in the "producer" sales force, and cut wages and expenses. During a post-closing audit, Thomson discovers a $600k problem that wipes out his contingency funds. He is concerned about having to go back to his View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
model of financial innovation, in which intermediaries engineer securities with cash flows that investors seek, but modify two assumptions. First, investors (and possibly intermediaries) neglect certain... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
determination demanded of Jim Collins' Level V leaders in his Good to Great study? No matter how important these qualities may be to future success, are employees and investors still going to look for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
renewables, nuclear, demand management and other low-carbon technologies are better understood by the Chinese than any other nation. The Chinese know more because they are building far greater numbers of solar, wind, carbon capture and... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two hypotheses. The "demand" hypothesis holds that earnings of public equity firms are of higher quality than earnings of private equity firms due to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
compensation is more effective for salespeople with high base performance, whereas conditional compensation is equally effective across all types of salespeople. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51539 forthcoming Management Science... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
auditing, and private credit- and quality-rating agencies in financial markets. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1640638 Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
capacity to pay. We use a newly created database with state-level fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show that in Brazilian states that exported commodities that were in high in demand (e.g., rubber... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to investment performance is the most frequent motivation for use of ESG data followed by client View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
After more than a decade of nearly can’t-miss growth, China’s stock market began a precipitous summer slide that has spooked investors worldwide. In July, the Shanghai composite index dropped 15 percent from June, prompting the People’s... View Details
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
and liabilities are combined through a merger or acquisition (the opposite is true when a financial firm makes these deals). According to the co-insurance theory, combined debt is safer and should reduce the yield investors View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Deregulation does not necessarily lead to lower prices to consumers.” Judging Foreign Startups Nataliya Langburd Wright, Rembrand Koning, and Tarun Khanna “Can accelerators and investors pick the most promising startup ideas no matter... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
finding is that societies that depend heavily on oil, and perhaps natural resources more generally, will experience a heavier demand for government intervention. We argue that this is one aspect that the good design of policies on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
faced little consumer demand for natural products, and little consumer knowledge of what they entailed. The creation of new categories involved three overlapping waves of entrepreneurship. The first involved making the ideological case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
intermediary's technology. We develop a model to show that the intermediary would want to restrict sellers from charging buyers more for transactions it intermediates. With this restriction an intermediary can profitably raise demand for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
income. By the end of the revolution in 2014, Hassab Labs was among the top five chains in the country. In October 2014, Seha partially exited Hassab Labs in a sale to an African conglomerate, SAHAM Group. At the same time, Azab learned that foreign View Details
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
Investors diligently manage financial portfolios to maximize returns on their assets; yet corporate managers who invariably proclaim their business customers to be "valuable assets" rarely manage their relationships with them... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details