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- 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-124.pdf First-Party Content, Commitment and Coordination in Two-Sided Markets Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Daniel Spulber Abstract We study the effect of two-sided platforms' ability to invest in first-party content on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
many tradeoffs Barge must make in balancing the benefits of the former organization with those of the new structure to achieve the firm's strategic goal of becoming more customer-solutions oriented. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2016
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August 2, 2016
the optimal capital requirement is around 20%. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51305 The Empirical Economics of Online Attention By: Boik, Andre, Shane Greenstein, and Jeffrey Prince Abstract—In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
as pure profit maximizers, assuming that market forces alone will ensure that farmers benefit. Even when e-intermediation benefits farmers, it is insufficient to mitigate the negative effects of supply fragmentation, suggesting that for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
forming a more fully dedicated team, developing facilities that allow for better optimization of specialized care, greater leverage in purchasing based on focus and volume, greater capacity for sub-specialization, and eventually, an... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
early in a relationship. We show that certain kinds of exchange partners can systematically reap differential returns from a common history of interaction. Organizational similarity significantly enhances the ability of exchange partners to translate the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21
point increase in entrepreneurship, equivalent to a 4% increase in the number of entrepreneurs. New entrants were more likely to start businesses in sectors where they had no prior experience and were more likely to fail than those who did not View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
empirical investigation of the risk of globally diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds and of optimal intertemporal global portfolio choice for long horizon investors in the presence of permanent cash flow shocks and transitory... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015
find that each $1 invested in display and search leads to a return of $1.24 for display and $1.75 for search ads, which contrasts sharply with the estimated returns based on standard metrics. We use these results to show how optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24
is currently provided by GAAP financial reporting. The purpose of this paper is to examine the optimal design of information intermediaries that can increase the impact of sustainability information on corporate conduct. Specifically, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
ad auctions as a dynamic game of incomplete information, so we can study the convergence and robustness properties of various strategies. In particular, we consider best-response bidding strategies for a repeated auction on a single keyword, where in each round, each... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
likely to be licensed before patent grant and shortly after 18-month publication. Licensing delays are reduced by about 10 months, on average, after AIPA's enactment. These findings suggest a hitherto unexplored benefit of the patent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
that accounting research would benefit from a greater focus on the study of causal mechanisms (or causal pathways), increased emphasis on structural modeling of the phenomena of interest, and more in-depth descriptive research. We argue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
Implicit in U.S. Tax Policy and the Costs of Unequal Growth and Recessions By: Lockwood, Benjamin, and Matthew Weinzierl Abstract—We use official data and standard optimal tax conditions to infer the positive and normative judgments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 25
showcase several areas of theoretical development that might benefit from revisiting the taboo. I conclude by reviewing key practical implications of such a shift for our profession and by arguing that organizational scholarship could... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006
misvaluation as explanations for this relation, we analyze the association between our measure of external financing and sell-side analysts' forecasts. Consistent with the misvaluation explanation, our measure of external financing is positively related to over View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
mechanism, which we refer to as the "clamped second price auction mechanism," into the laboratory to determine whether it helps human subjects learn to play their optimal strategy faster than the standard second price auction... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
work-life balance and with their work in general. And the firm was better able to recruit and retain employees. Clients also benefited-often in unexpected ways. In this engaging book, Perlow takes you inside BCG to witness the challenges and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008
Authors:Zvi Bodie, Robert Merton, and David Cleeton Publication:N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2009 Abstract This book seeks to explain finance through its functions rather than its institutions, concentrating on the three pillars of finance: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework predicts, we find that leverage is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman