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  • 05 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

a search in the context of a single well-known case: the Federal Radio Commission's (FRC) 1927 decision not to expand the broadcast radio band. The standard account of this decision holds that incumbent broadcasters opposed expansion (to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several countries rapidly, albeit in a staggered manner, adopt IFRS over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

otherwise fail emissions tests. We find that for a significant number of inspectors, leniency is much higher for those customers with standard vehicles than for those with luxury cars, although a smaller group appears to favor wealthy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

History Review (forthcoming) Abstract This article uses the records of nineteenth-century Scottish banks in an attempt to understand investor behaviour in the early British capital market. It presents four main findings, some of which do not conform to the basic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

certain developing countries because the countries failed to meet certain standards for political stability, human rights, market regulation, etc. The new principles-based approach would allow CalPERS money managers to invest in companies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

speed of travel, making our apparent physical reality, in Einstein's words, "merely an illusion." Like time and distance, standard fiscal measures, including deficits, taxes, and transfer payments, depend on one's reference... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

expected to look for some objective standard of reasonable care before they will concur that indoor environments are reasonably safe. There are likely to be do-it-yourselfers, top shelf evaluators—and charlatans. You will need to be able... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate
  • 13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13

organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and internal monitoring of operations. We test our theory in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing

after Macmillan indicated it would begin setting higher consumer prices for e-books than Amazon's standard charge of $9.99 for new releases. Amazon capitulated after a few days: Under Macmillan's new terms, the publisher will set the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 12 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

we've increasingly observed another phenomenon: ideas flowing back to the U.S. Take wireless technology in Europe, for example, where the standards are more uniform and advanced than they are here. I'm now advising a one-year field study... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Profits and Purpose

measure the environmental and societal impacts of companies, how we can analyze them, and then how do we standardize them to create a race to innovation instead of a race to the bottom. Because then you can actually start mobilizing... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

feature-level entry choices. In addition, we contribute to work on dominant designs, going beyond characterizing a dominant design as a set of technological choices to understanding cognitive convergence on a standard set of demand-side... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

practices have on the long-term stability of the economy and the interests of beneficiaries in financial, social, and environmental sustainability. This volume provides a global and multi-faceted commentary on the evolving standards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

considerations. Important impediments to the use of ESG information are the lack of reporting standards and as a result, lack of comparability, reliability, quantifiability, and timeliness. Among the different ESG investment styles,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

variables, the note describes the standard properties of the normal distribution: a single peak, and a symmetric, bell-shaped curve.” Axis My India Ananth Raman, Ann B. Winslow, and Kairavi Dey “Pradeep Gupta founded Axis My India (AMI)... View Details
  • 09 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

years. One of his students, Simon Kuznets, developed [a standard way to measure] Gross National Product there in the 1930s. In all these ways, the growth of the forecasting industry spurred efforts to make sense of economic change. Q: How... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

company or team goals from the get-go. "Empowerment can happen only when there's a consensus on goals and an agreement that certain standards have to be met," Kanter says. "If there isn't agreement in the beginning, that's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

erosion of the economy, which could lead to a decline in the standard of living. An individual company, though, can move assets anywhere. So companies can reward their shareholders regardless of what happens to the national economy. As a... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing
  • 10 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 10, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-098.pdf Evidence from Goodwill Non-impairments on the Effects of Unverifiable Fair-Value Accounting (revised May 2008) Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watt Abstract SFAS 142 requires firms to use unverifiable fair-value estimates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

of having cases written about them? How do you work with reluctance or hesitation? A: Most Japanese companies I contacted to ask for cooperation to develop cases have been quite cooperative. I believe that the high academic standards of... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell