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- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
Journal of Law & Economics Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India By: Alfaro, Laura, and Anusha Chari Abstract—This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
latest e-commerce enterprise. And in a new MBA elective course he has developed, Large-Scale Investment, Esty examines how private firms structure, value, and finance large, first-of-a-kind (or greenfield) projects. "Although the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007
firms and reports on a survey of the structure and staffing of more than 600 headquarters in Europe, USA, Japan, and Chile. It explores the extent to which corporate headquarters are contingent on size of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
management will inhibit innovation and entrepreneurial activities. We disagree and argue that risk management should function as a Revealing Hand to identify, assess, and mitigate risks in a cost-efficient manner. Done well, the Revealing Hand of risk management adds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
repurchasers to forecast characteristic-related factor returns. For example, we show that large firms underperform following years when issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms. While our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23
attention to the returns of firms that do not issue at all, suggesting that issuance is partly an attempt to cater to broad time-varying patterns in characteristics mispricing. Our approach helps forecast returns to portfolios based on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19
Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management Authors:Guadalupe, Maria, Hongyi Li, and Julie Wulf Abstract Top management structures in large U.S. firms have changed significantly since the mid-1980s. While the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
lines. We model and show empirically that exploration R&D does not scale as strongly with firm size as exploitation R&D. The resulting framework conforms to many regularities regarding innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015
Statistics Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints By: Garicano, Luis, and Claudia Steinwender Abstract—We introduce a novel empirical strategy to measure the size of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
or form networks. Firms make complementary choices when determining production inputs, entering related markets, and strategic mergers. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/banand/ComplementaryChoices.pdf August 2013 Relations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016
proportion of cross-institutional publications between funded and unfunded firms. Specifically, we measure the impact on each of these variables based on three dimensions—small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME), younger firms, and size... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
transactions of all kinds and with the size of firms growing, the reliability of technology becomes increasingly important. "The increased use of technology offers huge economies of scale," notes Warren... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1
Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Job requirements at the top of corporations have changed. Companies have come to expect much more from their C-level executives, who need new and different skills to deal with today's business realities. Exactly what abilities do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
used in the iPod as a foundation for an entirely new product, the iPhone. And then it increased the size and added functions to create the iPad, a portable tablet computer. "It was already halfway to becoming a computer, and they... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
The unparalleled size of Asia's markets has always caught the eye of multinational corporations. More recently, as government policies and cultural attitudes in the region continue to evolve, the strategies of multinational companies have... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
suddenly came under common ownership. In addition, mergers between advertisers could be a source of conflict-of-interest problems: for example, when the ad agency of an acquired company also provided services to a firm that competed with... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3
we identify core insights about how firms compete against one another in established markets. Based on our evaluation, we argue that a promising research opportunity for strategy lies in exploring how firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
viral load more than 200 copies/ml despite ART. The sample sizes of the three groups were as follows: PVI, n=21; incentive choice, n=19; and passive control, n=70. Main outcome measure: Virologic suppression (plasma HIV-1 viral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
difference. If there’s a way to build collective commitment to continuing to move forward I think we’ll emerge in much better shape than if every firm focuses only on its own concerns. Rebecca Henderson (@RebeccaReCap) is the John and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12
measured by the value of integrated production is negatively correlated with delegation. Surprisingly, absolute size of the firm is negatively related to delegation. The overall pattern of results highlights... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne