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- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
effect on small business job creation, and thus, the jobs gap overall. Although there is no way to accurately measure the gap in this market, the evidence strongly suggests an imperfect market and acute impediments to creditworthy... View Details
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
fully realized and are stronger in mature, slow growth industries. Prices do not fall, however, when the acquirer is diversifying into a new product market. This direct evidence of real changes induced by merger activity is consistent... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
Nobody questions that there's whopping gender imbalance in today's boardrooms, despite ample evidence that it makes financial sense to put women on the board. Companies with female board representation routinely outperform those with no... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-114.pdf Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930 Authors:André C. Martínez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio Abstract There is a large amount... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
the low achievement levels of these four countries and the incredible amount of heterogeneity within each of them. Salience in Quality Disclosure: Evidence from the U.S. News College Rankings Authors:Michael Luca and Jonathan Smith... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
information. Finally, we provide evidence that high sustainability companies significantly outperform their counterparts over the long-term, both in terms of stock market and accounting performance. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
http://www.ftpress.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0132779781 Hiring Cheerleaders: Board Appointments of 'Independent' Directors Authors:Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We provide View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
to determine the best ways to develop prize competitions to maximize participation, the evidence shows that they can be a valuable approach to spurring new inventions—whether you are designing a new plow or putting another man on the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
distributional side they [the plan’s authors] seem to be sending signals that they don't want this to be criticized as just a tax cut that privileges people at the top. But they have some work to do. I think it's not easy to sell this as a middle-class tax cut. I don't... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
particular setting. This paper exploits a plausibly exogenous change in the liability structure offered by a microfinance program in India, which shifted from individual to group liability lending. We find evidence that the lending model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
tight labor market, it is critical to understand how to effectively reward employees. To address this question, we review relevant evidence that explains the importance of workplace rewards and recognition. Based on a review and synthesis... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
Israeli says another surprising finding was the fact that men who admitted to being uninformed about market repair rates were not as penalized for their ignorance as women were—on the contrary, there is some evidence that uninformed men... View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
perspective is at the same time grounded in theory and in the experiences of particular places. Reviewing state-of-the-art of economic geography, setting agendas, and with illustrations and empirical evidence from all over the world, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
1,000 cluster initiatives in Europe by their engagement in New Growth Path-related activities. We then deploy this data to test the impact of cluster initiatives on regional New Growth Path performance. Overall, we find evidence... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
regulators" who regulate access to and interactions around the platform. We present evidence on Facebook, TopCoder, Roppongi Hills, and Harvard Business School to document the "regulatory" role played by MSPs. We find MSPs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
exactly what the evidence suggests. Looking at a Fortune 500 company, the researchers saw a surge in employees staying enrolled in the plan after the company switched to automatic enrollment, so employees needed to opt out, rather than... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
rentals, their "dynamic inconsistency" is attenuated. We interpret our results as evidence that myopia has a meaningful impact on decisions in the field and that people learn about their myopia with experience, allowing them to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
purchase wine at the same place that they procure other food and beverage products. So, I guess your view of these changes depends on your position in the marketplace. Q: Consolidation is often followed by a series of spin-offs and divestitures. Do you see any View Details
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
inclination to take offense that often attends the close juxtaposition of art and commerce, which was very much in evidence at that AoM symposium in Philadelphia, the interests of art, artists, and business can be best served if more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
different types of markets, and thus serve significantly diverging customer bases. Such market-type dispersion is likely to compromise the headquarter's ability to control its local managers' behavior and satisfy the divergent needs of different types of customers. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace