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  • 30 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

revenue is larger than the GDP of many small countries, the proposition makes sense. The authors argue that the problems are systemic, and who better to attack huge issues than people who run small, medium, and huge organizations. Bower,... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 11 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 11, 2006

service provider Geek Squad. For the eight years leading up to 2004, Best Buy had reported double-digit revenue growth every year and rarely missed earnings. But on December 13, 2005, Best Buy missed its third-quarter earnings per View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

revenue production are brought into the picture? The question is not hypothetical. In recent years, an ever increasing number of corporations have developed and adopted socially responsible behaviors, thereby hybridizing aspects of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

achieve actionable transparency by embedding their design in a centralized system with a shared design language and near-real-time updating, where everyone with an interest in improving the design has the right and the means to act on it.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Nov 2014
  • HBS Case

Marketing Marijuana

licenses grew in Colorado from 37 to 200, along with creation of 500 medical marijuana dispensaries. Most recreational buyers seemed to be casual users. In fact, for those six months, recreational marijuana accounted for 80 percent of the $25 million in tax View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

bootstrapped the funds to launch a vocational training program for dental assistants. Revenue from the new business pushed them out of poverty and into the middle class. Olds, a budding economist, was intrigued. “The rate of new business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

uniformly agreed on the mechanism underlying this relationship: the sharing of tacit knowledge and recombination of ideas that occurs because of intra-firm mobility. But a second mechanism may also be at work: intra-firm mobility might... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

only 14% in the last quarter of 2008 but contracted nearly as much as new lending for restructuring (LBOs, M&A, share repurchases) relative to the peak of the credit boom. After the failure of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 there... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 4

total consumer traffic for higher revenues derived by exposing consumers to unsolicited products (e.g., advertising). We show that competition between platforms leads to lower equilibrium levels of search diversion relative to a monopoly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

characteristics of the clients of their institutional shareholders indicates that "dividend-averse" institutions are significantly less likely to hold shares in firms with larger dividend payouts. This relation between the tax... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

brand mix that would be carried. Results from the pilot store (a remodeled hypermarket in Beijing) were encouraging, with revenues and profits up and customers spending more on each visit. The company must decide how quickly to roll out... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

matters worse, the United Kingdom’s June 2016 “Brexit” vote to leave the European Union cast a shadow over the project, and the markets reacted negatively. By the start of November, JCDecaux’s share price had fallen 21% since the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2192460 Dollar Funding and the Lending Behavior of Global Banks Authors:Ivashina, Victoria, David S. Scharfstein, and Jeremy C. Stein Abstract A large share of dollar-denominated lending is done by non-U.S. banks,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 20

following a prosocial norm and self-regulation. We tested 433 children between 6 and 13 years of age in two variations of the Dictator Game (DG). Children were asked what they should or would give in the game and then played an actual DG. We show that most children... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

Through the Generations Rodolfo, Marco, and Edoardo De Benedetti had received from their father his controlling shares in COFIDE, a publicly listed holding company that held 45.8% of CIR Group, another publicly listed holding. The latter... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and accounting irregularities can go unnoticed. However, when revenue and cash flow decline,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 4

tribes and U.S. states often find themselves at the bargaining table, often negotiating "compacts" to govern gaming operations on tribal lands. The operational success of the Pequot gaming operation in Connecticut, Foxwoods, and the substantial View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

used in combination or in substitute for some kind of a consumption tax but has a variety of benefits that we should certainly explore in addition to raising revenue and has all the other benefits you'd associate with the externalities... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

the level of holding companies (HCs) and find that the four largest HCs captured between a fifth and a quarter of total revenue from the A&MS industry, a share that remained quite stable over the period... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

viable product, in order to real-world test Gallop's "business of the future" concept while development was ongoing. IWRTW was conceived to bring together human good intentions with corporate good intentions, to activate both into View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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