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- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
default. Over the two years preceding default, we find that ratings grow increasingly pessimistic relative to a standard benchmark rating model prediction, while optimism remains for similar firms that do not default. Further, we find... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
capture strategies for modular systems. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2121600 Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes Authors:Kerr, William R., and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract We model spatial clusters of similar firms.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
managers and chief financial officers-are likely to have similar incentives and perhaps even greater opportunity to influence reported earnings in a manner that maximizes these managers' personal incomes. Moreover, previous research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
we propose that the greater self-insight they are attributed leads spontaneous thoughts to exert a greater impact on attitudes and behavior than similar deliberate thoughts. Compare a wife's thought of a former lover while perusing her... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Exchange Commission Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) website, we show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent searches by the same individual are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In fact,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
implication is that higher product prices result in more integration. Since trade policy affects prices, it influences organizational decisions: higher tariffs lead to more integration; moreover, ownership structures are more alike across countries with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
project goes poorly, and Hrad is left with the decision of how to rescue the relationship and avoid a similar problem in the future. The case allows the examination of how to manage an outsourcing project and permits a general discussion... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
the importance of the organization and had a similar vision for it," Ma says. "There's no way I could have done this job - or survived it - without her. I've never valued a partnership so much." Working together, the leaders helped... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
railroad culture and the people. It was similar to the Navy, where I spent 10 years working with the Seabees before coming to HBS. I made an overture to join them and was welcomed in, but I still had to sell Jess on Omaha." That took a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
of mine, Carl Kester. He takes some offense when I beat up on it. Sorry, Carl!” Sahlman’s perspective was influenced by his father, a successful manager who had dealt with similar kinds of resource allocation issues. Sahlman knew that in... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
healthcare system. "Since we opened our factory on April 1, we have produced 250,000 masks and 15,000 gowns with redeployed labor who are folding the masks and using sewing machines to stitch gowns," says Chatterjee, who is happy to advise others interested in... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
praised as the engine of growth of society and castigated for being the source of the weakness of the economy. In this paper, we review the literature on financial innovation and highlight the similarities and differences between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
propose a general mechanism of partner choice, "screening," that is similar to the economic theory of mechanism design. Imposing the appropriate costs and rewards may induce the informed individuals to screen themselves... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
Tom's of Maine by Colgate—to ascertain what is distinctive about the merger process and to analyze the elements critical to success. The article offers suggestions on how other companies considering similar arrangements might best manage... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
advice to MBAs just starting their careers, their responses contained a similar advocacy for what one of them termed a "wholistic" approach to life and work, with emphasis on the "whole." "We all have to be true to ourselves in the end"... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
searches by the same individual are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In fact, traffic-based peer firms identified by our algorithm significantly outperform peer firms based on six-digit Global Industry Classification Standard... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
break week in New York exploring new ventures in fashion, food, and fine arts, and co-led four similar winter break trips to study entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley . Professor Eisenmann received his Doctorate in Business Administration... View Details
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the course will take deep, vertical looks at both the differences and nuances that render Africa unique in today's emerging market landscape, and the similarities that can be drawn from other regions of the Global South and beyond.... View Details