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- 26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016
data from hospitals, we examine mispricing via "upcoding," which involves misclassifying ailment severity. Archival analysis indicates less stringent regulatory enforcement of upcoding for beneficent nonprofit hospitals, defined... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008
Earnings Announcements Authors: Malcolm Baker, Lubomir Litov, Jessica A. Wachter, and Jeffrey Wurgler Publication: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (forthcoming) Abstract We consider measures of stock-picking skill of mutual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
detailed historical analysis is no less so.9 Schumpeter's Rhetoric—and Keynes's Schumpeter could be a very persuasive writer, but in Business Cycles he appears at his stylistic worst. Read cover to cover (a chore I do not recommend), the... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
some 2,100 shares in Allstate, which would have been worth around $200,000—100 times the minimum requirement of $2,000 to issue a shareholder proposal, but well below the 1 percent holding requirement proposed in the CHOICE Act. “Our View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
"Obamacare"—enjoyed a decidedly lackluster launch. Despite there being 35 million uninsured people in the United States, only 8 million signed up for insurance on the exchange. True, another 5 million people signed up on their own for policies that qualified... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 7
discretion. Corporate philanthropy is our setting to study how a differentiated structural element, the corporate foundation, constrains the influence of individual senior managers and directors on corporate strategy. Our analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 23
comparative historical analysis of consumer lending in the United States and France, I argue that national differences in the regulation of consumer credit had their roots in the historical conditions by which the small loan sector came... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 17, 2008
single shareholder (and sometimes even a single proxy voter) could exercise during a shareholder meeting. An analysis of the shareholder lists of nearly 100 Brazilian companies revealed a correlation between corporate statutes that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
balance of power between partners and be flexible, because the balance of power may shift and change over time. Do a realistic appraisal of the external environment for your program. While an internal analysis of your company is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
analysts, he or she must believe that an analyst's report is something more than a disguised sales pitch. So banks have ordinarily insisted that analysis and sales were separated by a so-called Chinese wall which left analysts free to... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
prompted renewed debate on the role of fiscal rules. Their optimality, however, remains unclear. We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation and default modified to incorporate... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22
and overly restricting access to credit and consumer choice. Nicolas Retsinas, Eric Belsky, and their colleagues aim to stimulate debate based on analysis of the opportunities and challenges presented by the various components of global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407049 Analyzing Relative Costs Harvard Business School Note 708-462 Introduces students to the technique of relative cost analysis, a core technique of strategists. Among the intricate quantitative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
multi-part tariffs, we note that while nonlinear pricing schemes are popular, any analysis of demand under such schemes is nontrivial. One important reason is the two-way relationship between price and consumption in multi-part... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location, and patents of firms active in R&D since 1921; and a historical state-level corporate tax database since 1900, which we link to an existing database on state-level personal income taxes. Our... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
consequences. Reduced-form analysis shows that a firm's choice of index-based benchmarking is 1) driven by its compensation consultants' systematic tendencies and governance-related frictions and 2) associated with lower ROA, suggesting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2
development. We then develop a contingency framework for measuring results, suggesting that some organizations should measure long-term impacts, while others should focus on shorter-term outputs and outcomes. In closing, we discuss the implications of our View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008
act. New practice area founders need to engage in appropriate legitimacy-mobilizing efforts in order to sustain diversification efforts. Our analysis of 46 cases of new practice area creation attempts in consulting and law firms shows... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
on a systematic selection and analysis of articles, the paper outlines an emerging consensus on the definition and process of institutional entrepreneurship. It also presents the previously identified enabling conditions for, and reviews... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and (iii) a coordination problem (lacking perfect foresight, it is unlikely that users will end up buying the same set of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel