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  • 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6

rights and efficient debt enforcement mitigate the effect of excess control rights on loan spreads. Taken together, our results suggest that potential tunneling and other moral hazard activities by large shareholders are facilitated by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

rapidly replicate improved business processes throughout an organization, thereby not only increasing productivity but also market share and market value. We then empirically document a substantial increase in turbulence starting in the 1990s, as View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

raises aggregate productivity through two channels: (1) trust facilitates reallocation between firms by allowing more efficient firms to grow as CEOs can decentralize more decisions and (2) trust complements the adoption of new... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7

comparison to their private counterparts. We do not argue that all SOEs are efficient or that it is optimal to have government ownership of banks and other companies. What we aim to show is that the return of state capitalism is likely to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

facilitate efficient information sharing but can also increase the possibility of favoritism. Using the investment choices of mutual funds in China, we test whether funds with close ties to their investees make timelier investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

author cites a number of companies that have moved toward or into what he calls "the efficiency frontier." These include Sarvajal, in India, which saves money and eliminates waste by selling direct to customers through its... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

still contrary to merchants' interests), foregoing the efficiencies of specialization in favor of the better incentives of a company's staff. We consider the implications for marketing of online affiliate programs and for online marketing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

eventually a federation of many specialized companies. As they seldom committed to administrative centralization, their efficiency gain as a business organization remained marginal. The chapter first looks at the appearance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

available at positive prices. We characterize the size of the p2p network as a function of the firm's pricing strategy and show that the firm may be better off setting high prices, allowing the network to survive, and acknowledging that the p2p network may work more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

small inventors. NPE patent trolling has a real negative impact on targeted firms, without any increase in innovation, technology transfer, or other counterbalancing benefits measured thus far. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Drilling Down

past. Now the big strikes lie elsewhere. The wildcatters of today travel the globe from Angola to Kazakhstan to the deep waters off the coast of Brazil in search of "elephant fields" with flow rates measuring in the thousands of barrels... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities
  • 12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/chinas_quest_to_adopt_electric_vehicles Why 'Fair Value' Is the Rule: How a Controversial Accounting Approach Gained Support Authors:Ramanna, Karthik Publication:Harvard Business Review Abstract For the past two decades,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

recent Harvard Business Review article, "How the Quest for Efficiency Corroded the Market," proposes a number of radical remedies including tax breaks for long-term investors, the establishment of an investor's union, and making... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

make it the norm. August 2013 Management Science Pareto Efficiency in Robust Optimization By: Iancu, Dan, and Nikolaos Trichakis Abstract—This paper formalizes and adapts the well-known concept of Pareto e ciency in the context of the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

need in high-stakes situations. I think the incoming president has been very successful in terms of how he’s managed the American media to his ends. I can count on two hands the number of leaders I have seen in my lifetime who could walk into a room, take the View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

Abstract—We analyze time-series of investor expectations of future stock market returns from six data sources between 1963 and 2011. The six measures of expectations are highly positively correlated with each other, as well as with past... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

orientation of the "hierarchical industry leaders" can entail large missed opportunities for other members of the ecosystem, who are unable to fully exploit their potential in global markets. We argue that Japan has to adopt several key legislative View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717418-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-002 VMD Medical Imaging Center VMD Medical Imaging Center, a local independent provider of medical imaging services, is facing some important challenges. Despite View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

Volosovych Abstract—We construct measures of net private and public capital flows for a large cross-section of developing countries considering both creditor and debtor side of the international debt transactions. Using these measures, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne