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  • 20 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 20, 2016

predicted ratings and rating adjustments. These results, however, weaken when incumbent rating agencies face increased competition from other rating agencies. Together, these findings suggest that credit rating agencies strategically adjust their ratings to limit their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, users View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

are determined not only by the quality of the product, but also by the incentives of the media outlet providing the review. For example, a media outlet may have the incentive to provide favorable coverage to certain authors or to slant reviews toward the horizontal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

feature advertisements, and aisle displays) at the fiscal quarter end when they have greater incentive to boost earnings. Our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey, and Rajgopal, 2005) and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

discloses his "must have" issues, he may be gouged. Deception at the bargaining table can be hostile, too, as when someone pretends to have no authority to settle or makes promises he doesn't intend to keep. That's why many of us View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

economy of the '90s brought a golden age and aura to VC firms in the United States. In 1999, venture capitalists controlled more than $46 billion, with skyrocketing returns to match the risks of their early-stage investments. Europe,... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

classes. While most investors specialize in a single asset class, a handful of generalists can gradually reallocate capital across markets. Upon the arrival of a large supply shock, prices of risk in the directly impacted asset class... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

of trade finance terms is shaped by the risk that an importer defaults on an exporter and by the possibility that an exporter does not deliver goods as specified in the contract. The empirical results indicate that cash in advance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented a highly decentralized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

coefficients aggregate discrete choice model-which accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success-and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control for unobserved quality in athletics and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Task Force on Competition Policy and Antitrust Laws, Edelman wrote that the deal could have an anticompetitive effect on Internet advertising. "The proposed agreement creates a serious View Details
Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing
  • 17 Apr 2017
  • HBS Case

This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly

Turkasset began opening physical branches around the country to service customers who preferred to talk in person. Despite these additional outlays, the gamble paid off for the company by allowing it to collect a much higher percentage of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 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
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

use a new dataset on industry-level targeting to analyze quality FDI based on the subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

transparency over its state-contingent payoffs. The contractual nature of the put options in the benchmark portfolio allows us to evaluate appropriate required rates of return as a function of investor risk View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

"Denial might be best categorized as a form of risk taking." Aruna Sharma pointed out that "It's all about buying time to see if something can be done to reverse the trend ." Joe Schmid opined, "Denial is the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 08 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

Koppert Cress: Macro Greenhouses, Microgreens

believe in foraging because of the risk it poses to rare plants, so he instead searches out natural, innovative ingredients around the world and then figures out how to propagate them in his greenhouses. Baan sells his microgreens... View Details
  • Web

Expatriate Traders in the Treaty Port Communities - A Chronicle of the China Trade

branched out into other ports, its employees enjoyed far greater freedom. “I prefer Hong Kong decidedly to Canton. Business was more easily carried on there, it is true, but [in Canton] there is . . . that sensation of restraint which was... View Details
  • 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16

maximizing, yet asymmetric payoffs. Studies 1 and 2 showed that people prefer to maximize profits when interacting within their social category, but chose suboptimal individual and joint profits when interacting across social categories.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

real-time connections with colleagues, but will prefer to maintain their at-home work lifestyle. I suggest managers put some structure in place to ensure that time in the office is optimized for face time. For example, make a team... View Details
Keywords: All Industries