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

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

increases in disclosure reduce the likelihood of litigation of the focal patent. Similarly, under conditions of greater disclosure, increases in value reduce the likelihood of litigation of the focal patent. Rare events logit analyses of business method patents that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22

we find the share of vertical FDI (subsidiaries that provide inputs to their parent firms) to be larger than commonly thought, even within developed countries. Most subsidiaries are not readily explained by the comparative advantage... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2019
  • News

Level Up

fed by some four thousand media sources that can give sports business executives an immediate idea of what platforms, products, or people are moving the industry—and which ones aren’t. “We’re helping our clients stay on top of comparative... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery and Dan Morrell; illustrations by Matt Chinworth
  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings by U.S. multinationals. The analysis controls for endogeneity and omitted variable bias by using instruments that identify the firms likely to receive the largest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27

Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA)? Empirical analysis shows that developing countries serving on the board can expect more than double the funding from the IBRD as countries not on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 8, 2006

(dating from the 1950's in psychology and continuing through the 1990's in economics). We consider a random sample of 2x2 constant sum games to determine how close on average are the equilibrium predictions to observed play in repeated play of a game against a fixed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

gender and work, the paper, An Outside- Inside Internalization of Shifting Gender Logics in Professional Work, identifies cycles of organizational analysis and resulting actions sparked by transformations in societal beliefs and practices... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

estate. Students are presented the opportunity to perform valuation analysis and compare two possible forms of financing for the potential acquisition: 1) traditional corporate debt and bond financing and 2)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

of the intriguing findings from our analysis is that electronic and face-to-face interactions are near perfect complements. In other words, people talk to the very same people they e-mail. As electronic collaboration technologies further... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why Evolutionary Software Development Works

industry experts to rate the comparative quality of each product relative to other products that targeted similar customer needs at the time the act was launched. Product quality was defined as a combination of reliability, technical... View Details
Keywords: by Alan MacCormack; Technology
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

paradox the result of an in-depth comparative analysis of two of the organizations in their sample. The two WISEs appeared to be extremely similar: Both operated in the recycling industry with similar... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

ones—lots of growth opportunities. The 1998 merger of BP and Amoco, for example, led to the disposal of 12 oil-storage terminals scattered across North America. The terminals were purchased by the Williams Companies, a small business View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
  • 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

Shipbroker's Association, introduced a proposal to value ships using discounted cash flow analysis (to determine a long-term asset value, LTAV) rather than market prices from comparable transactions. Thomas... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

Norton and Rohit Deshpandé. Mohan's interest in the subject began when she was a kid, on a shopping trip with her father. "We were walking around Costco, and he turned to me and said, 'You know, what I love about this company is that the CEO makes fair pay View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

and Jenny EverettHarvard Business School Case 111-081 This case is a comparative analysis of the strategy, accounting, performance, and valuation for two restaurant chains alternatively having a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking cost effective and routine. In addition, a web of interlocking ad networks trades inventory and offers to show the right ad to the right person at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

international trade. The empirical analysis has three comparative advantages: including emerging and advanced economies, isolating panel variation regarding the link between productivity and exports, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

demand for the various allergy products, which included several brands and package quantities, while modeling algorithmic price competition by the firms. When compared with a simulation in which each firm exhibited traditional (symmetric)... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail
  • 13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

May 2017 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We build on the analysis in Akcigit, Grigsby, and Nicholas (2017) by using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne