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  • 22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22

the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of individual banks by managers, investors, and regulators. The basic analytical tool is the risk-adjusted balance sheet,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

today, while boldly gesturing to where it might head in the future. This handbook transcends the received dichotomy between political economy as an application of rational choice theory or as the study of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest. China seemed without peer. Decline came fast. By 1900, China had been invaded,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 21

the business model. We describe how parallel play promotes efficient search by unpacking the mechanisms by which it leads to fast, inexpensive, and reliable problem solving. We offer a richer and more realistic view of search in nascent markets and contribute to search... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

companies operate and how government invests in them. And yet, the business world has been slow to catch up to these changes, says Associate Professor Aldo Musacchio, a member of the Business, Government, and the International Economy... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 17 Nov 2015
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November 17, 2015

Societal and Political Dimensions of Innovation Innovation and Business Growth By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—Innovation and the pursuit of new business opportunities are essential for growth at the firm level; moreover, they provide the foundation for an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

practices designed to promulgate a particular culture, commitment to diversity, strategy for corporate involvement, and other core elements of City Year's theory of social change. It is expanding geographically through branches, in part,... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 22 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 22

heavy backpack on these behaviors. Our studies also examined the mechanism behind these effects and demonstrated that participants processed guilty stimuli more fluently when experiencing physical weight. Imprinting: Toward A Multilevel 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
  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

small association with violations in the unauthorized channel. Last, we link our results to the literatures on agency theory, transaction cost analysis, and theories of price obfuscation. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

to be depleted in “bad” times. Instead, issuing domestic debt while accumulating reserves acts as a hedge against external shocks. A quantitative exercise of the Brazilian economy suggests this strategy to be effective for smoothing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21

the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-002.pdf Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity Author:Eric Van den Steen Abstract This paper develops an economic theory of the costs and benefits of corporate culture—in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence, especially across countries. This has limited the ability to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

forthcoming Management Science The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures By: Hellmann, Thomas F., and Noam Wasserman Abstract—We examine the trade-off between efficiency and equality within the context of entrepreneurial founding teams. Using a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

of countries has its own fascination. That's why we prefer to think about a cross section of countries and understand what is similar and different. We focus on many different emerging markets to develop a theory that spans all emerging... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

markets allow the backward linkages between foreign and domestic firms to turn into FDI spillovers. Our calibration exercises indicate that a) holding the extent of foreign presence constant, financially well-developed economies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

Political Economy Costly Concessions: An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfectly Transferable Utility By: Galichon, Alfred, Scott Duke Kominers, and Simon Weber Abstract—We introduce an empirical framework for models of matching... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Aug 2006
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How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

Finance, forthcoming from Harvard University Press, Abdelal discusses the rise and diminishment of capital controls in the 1900s, the coming influence of China and India on global financial markets, and a conspiracy theory that U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

was in crisis—with bank suspensions running at near record levels. At the same time, the broader economy was sputtering, and U.S. gold reserves had come under severe pressure after Britain abandoned its gold standard in mid-September. As... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

Abstract We survey the theory and evidence of behavioral corporate finance, which generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne