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  • 26 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

case:http://hbr.org/search/113076-PDF-ENG Xylem: Let's Solve Water Henderson, Rebecca M., and James WeberHarvard Business School Case 313-082 No abstract available. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/313082-PDF-ENG Entrepreneurial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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The Effect of Dividends on Consumption

By: Malcolm Baker, Stefan Nagel and Jeffrey Wurgler
Classical models predict that the division of stock returns into dividends and capital appreciation does not affect investor consumption patterns, while mental accounting and other economic frictions predict that investors have a higher propensity to consume from... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Investment Return; Economics; Stocks; Capital; Business Earnings; Investment Portfolio; Investment Funds; Cost; Saving
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  • 2006
  • Working Paper

The Effect of Dividends on Consumption

By: Malcolm Baker, Stefan Nagel and Jeffrey Wurgler
Classical models predict that the division of stock returns into dividends and capital appreciation does not affect investor consumption patterns, while mental accounting and other economic frictions predict that investors have a higher propensity to consume from stock... View Details
Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Personal Finance; Investment Return; Household
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  • November 2024
  • Article

Price Discounts and Cheapflation During the Post-Pandemic Inflation Surge

By: Alberto Cavallo and Oleksiy Kryvtsov
We study how within-store price variation changes with inflation, and whether households exploit it to attenuate the inflation burden. We use micro price data for food products sold by 91 large multi-channel retailers in ten countries between 2018 and 2024. Measuring... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Inflation and Deflation; Price; Consumer Behavior; Personal Finance; Product Positioning
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  • January 2011
  • Case

Sidoti & Company: Launching a Micro-Cap Product

By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Sarah Abbott
It is 2010 and Sidoti & Company, a New York-based brokerage firm specializing in small capitalization stocks, has just launched a new product- micro cap stock research. The firm has hired a group of five analysts who will produce written research reports on micro-cap... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Financial Strategy; Product Launch; Strategic Planning; Corporate Strategy; Financial Services Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance

By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
We examine in this paper the differential response of establishments to the global financial crisis, with particular emphasis on the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in determining micro economic performance. Using a new worldwide dataset that reports the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Local Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Production; Performance Evaluation; Networks
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  • August 2020 (Revised March 2021)
  • Supplement

Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations (B)

By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in February 2020 as Ozgur Tort and Mustafa Bartin, CEO and chief large-format and online retail officer of Migros Ticaret A.S. (Migros), Turkey’s oldest and one of its largest supermarket chains, are looking over the results of the fulfillment pilot the... View Details
Keywords: Grocery; Business Model; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry; Turkey
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

~Why Do We Redistribute so Much but Tag so Little? Normative Diversity, Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation

By: Matthew Weinzierl
Tagging is a free lunch in conventional optimal tax theory because it eases the classic tradeoff between efficiency and equality. But tagging is used in only limited ways in tax policy. I propose one explanation: conventional optimal tax theory has yet to capture the... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Framework; Policy; Taxation; Analytics and Data Science; Performance Efficiency; United States
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  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

health care cannot be delegated to the finance function. The most successful implementations have had strong executive support, exceptional clinical leaders, and dedicated, multi-disciplinary project teams. The paper describes the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015

paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49779 Home Equity Finance and Entrepreneurial Performance—Evidence from a Mortgage Reform By: Jensen, Thais Laerkholm, Søren Leth-Petersen, and Ramana Nanda Abstract—We study how a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

had an impact on entrepreneurship, using individual-level micro data from Denmark. The reform allows us to disentangle the role of credit access from wealth effects that typically confound analyses of the collateral channel. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

economy as a whole. Micro is about firms and individual actors and how they behave; macro is about aggregate performance of the economy: overall GDP, trade surplus or deficit, inflation. In principle, we should be able to get rid of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

1980s. On a macroeconomic level these four economies did not differ that much; they all had high savings rates, healthy growth prospects, political stability, and cheap labor. Local Entrepreneurship, Yes Or No A far more important driver of FDI is at a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

Management Accounting and Control: Lessons for and from the World's Tiniest Businesses Authors:Srikant M. Datar, Marc J. Epstein, and Kristi Yuthas Publication:Strategic Finance (November 2009) Abstract The article discusses skills... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

on the loan used to finance the Momentive buyout and allow issuance of senior secured notes. The case is set up from the perspective of a hedge fund that holds a fraction of Momentive's syndicated loan. The case serves as a vehicle for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

the graphics processor unit (GPU), ultimately became the most valuable parts of the chain. The GPU business had settled into a duopoly with Nvidia, Inc. and ATI Technologies (ATI). Intel had dominated the microprocessor segment, but Advanced View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

  Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have offered a combination of low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

the effects of these competitive ties? For starters, companies might benefit from looking beyond the traditional VC world to consider the wide range of funding options available—including super angel investors, micro VCs, accelerators,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking
  • 30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30

selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using detailed US Census micro data on firm-level output, R&D and patenting. The model provides a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008

(Winner of the Barclays Global Investors Award, Best Paper in Asset Pricing, European Finance Association 2007) Abstract This paper uses social networks to identify information transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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