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  • 18 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 18

financial depth on the diffusion of capital-intensive technologies in the late stages of diffusion or in late adopters. Our results are consistent with a view that local financial markets play a critical role in facilitating the process... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010

education program has modest effects, increasing demand for bank accounts only for those with low levels of education or financial literacy. In contrast, small subsidies greatly increase demand. A follow-up survey confirms these findings,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

Borders By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Do Yoon Kim Abstract—Ethnic migrant inventors might differ from locals in terms of knowledge they bring to host firms. We study the role of first-generation ethnic migrant inventors in cross-border... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

Handbook for Banking and Governance, edited by James Barth, Chen Lin, and Clas Wihlborg. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming Abstract In this chapter, we examine the characteristics of acquisition of private firms by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

stage; and lastly, intermediaries facilitate earlier-stage sales for inexperienced writers. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/hluo/whentosell_2012.pdf Did Bank Distress Stifle Innovation During the Great Depression?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

compared to the long-easy philosophy. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton%20anik%20aknin%20dunn.pdf Deposit Insurance and Subsidized Recapitalizations Authors:Lucy White and Alan Morrison Publication:Journal of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

economic, institutional, and cultural setting of Germany. Publisher's Link: http://www.chbeck.de/productview.aspx?product=795301&toc=3264 Investor Behaviour in a Nascent Capital Market: Scottish Bank Shareholders in the Nineteenth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

coordinate the activities of the three product-based business units which, until now, have operated autonomously. As he is executing the restructuring, Bank of America, an important account of the firm, announces its intention to reduce... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

good weather. When the weather is bad, individuals appear to focus more on their work than on alternate outdoor activities. We investigate the proposed relationship between worse weather and higher productivity through four studies: (1) field data on employees'... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

support functions. Rather than dictating the company-level measures down to the operating units, leaders encourage the operating units to define their own strategy—based on local market conditions, competition, operating technologies, and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

experience has been a mixed blessing. In Argentina, liberalization and opening to the world in the 1990s first produced growth, and then instability as the Asian financial crisis impacted the country. At the turn of the century a wholesale View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

then dominated by state owned companies. In some developing countries, officials were converted to the new beliefs. In other countries, officials were not so enthusiastic about the new ideology, but they found themselves cut off from other sources of finance as the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities
  • 19 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

diminishing water supplies. To combat it, Kirby believes China must refocus on its domestic market, a market that continues to grow exponentially (its 1.36 billion citizens represent almost 20 percent of the world's population according to World View Details
Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Dec 2016
  • Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

restaurants, dry cleaners, and local grocery stores—form the backbone of communities across America and they are responsible for about 40 million jobs. And, as Mercedes Delgado and I show in research released earlier this year, small... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
  • 07 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 7

recommendations on how future research can be enriched through a systematic examination of how entrepreneurial ventures navigate the organizational dilemmas growth presents. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52353 2017 Economic Symposium... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006

effectively. So did Jamie Dimon, current CEO of JPMorgan Chase, during the bank's integration with Bank One. For employees who agree on what they want but not on how to get it—think of Microsoft in 1995—leadership tools, such as vision... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

since its founding in 1986, exiting from about 30 of them. Rather than spread its wings too far, he added, BC Partners intends to continue to rely on the strength of its local presence and expertise. The growing number of U.S. as well as... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

broadly consistent with theory. Quantitatively, the network-based propagation is larger than the direct effects of the shocks. We also show quantitatively large effects from the geographic network, capturing the fact that the local... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

venture, but the coalition was fundamentally unstable. Quadir was facing roadblocks no matter which way he turned in his quest to assemble the venture. He came to a point where the rational decision seemed to be to abandon the venture and return to his secure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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