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  • 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

establishing the existence of equilibria and other useful properties in diverse settings such as matching, auctions, and exchange economies with indivisible goods. We extend earlier models’ definitions of substitutability to settings in which each agent can be both a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Published Papers Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy? Journal of Financial Economics Samuel Antill “In United States, Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, firms are either reorganized, acquired, or liquidated. I show that decisions to liquidate often reduce creditor... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

business and the company's strategy. In a service business like Tesco's, the health of the brand depends heavily on the quality of the millions of daily transactions between shoppers and staff. Motivating the front-line personnel is... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 05 Apr 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?

terms: "Acquisitions are a macho exercise, not an intellectual one. Think World Wrestling Federation, not a chess tournament." Stephen Alexander adds: "Those promoting an acquisition are often dealmakers whose interest in the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 08 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

the value chain framework to define the set of activities through which products and services are created and delivered to customers.6 Once activities are defined, it is then possible to analyze the economics at each step in the chain by identifying both View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
  • 02 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’

retweets they got on Twitter would translate into sales or lower costs (which they rarely did). Second, with this approach, eBay is not trying to become friends with its customers with the intent of broadcasting messages to them. Instead,... View Details
  • 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

founders. To motivate the empirical analysis we develop a simple theory of costly bargaining, where founders trade off the simplicity of accepting an equal split, with the costs of negotiating a differentiated allocation of founder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

executives were able to better price their products and services. It was now possible to price each transaction based on the value it created for the customer, as well as on its cost. As activity-based View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
  • 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007

potential participants in the market; they have to overcome the congestion that thickness can bring, by making it possible to consider enough alternative transactions to arrive at good ones; and they need to make it safe and sufficiently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

racial, gender, and other forms of bias that affect the off-line world. And in the early days of Internet commerce, the relative anonymity of transactions did make it harder for participants to discriminate. But as listings began to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008

failures. To work well, marketplaces have to provide thickness, i.e., they need to attract a large enough proportion of the potential participants in the market; they have to overcome the congestion that thickness can bring, by making it possible to consider enough... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

for the evening?" When Lucci explained the situation, the cop said he'd drop the equipment off in twenty minutes. Lucci called back the television producer. "Good news!" he said. "You've got your radar gun." In return, Lucci might have asked... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19

and when buyers and sellers do manage to find each other, they usually negotiate under enormous uncertainty: prices of similar patents vary widely from transaction to transaction, and the terms of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 21, 2006

Garry Twite Abstract U.S. corporations hold significant amounts of cash on their balance sheets, and these cash holdings have been justified in the existing empirical literature by transaction costs and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 15

Publications August 2013 Economic Development and Cultural Change The Costs of Favoritism: Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?" By: Dreher, Axel, Stephan Klasen, James Raymond Vreeland, and Eric Werker Abstract—As is now well... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

online auctions). By contrast, consumption decisions about items purchased frequently via simple transactions (e.g., cereal) are easier to make on a trial-and-error basis and can be easily improved. Because these decisions are routine and... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

for fulfilling work. In fact, multiple pieces of evidence suggest that diaspora use of oDesk increases with familiarity of the platform, rather than a scenario where diaspora connections serve to navigate uncertain environments. We further show that diaspora-based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

$800) instead of receiving lower amounts (e.g., self and other each get $500) in their transactions (Bazerman, Loewenstein & White, 1992). The present analysis, however, shows that the perceived value of such tradeoffs—the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

Second, the ambitions of American inventors and entrepreneurs demanded the broadest possible distribution. The Wal-Mart mission, for example, is to lower the cost of living for everyone everywhere. Third, American society was open to... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising
  • 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

2018 Pearson Education Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav Rajan Abstract—Horngren’s Cost Accounting defines the cost accounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne