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  • 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

even rational in making funding decisions. Drawing on a panel of national experts and comprehensive data from the largest crowdfunding site, we examine funding decisions for proposed theater projects, a category where expert and crowd... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

because venture capitalists repeatedly sell their portfolio companies through acquisitions, venture capitalists may be able to certify the quality of the assets that an outside party is buying because they are "staking their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

are large. However, the proposed exchange ration values Mellon at a discount to its last closing price, even though it is the smaller and non-surviving bank. Kelly must consider the various dimensions of the deal—specifically the value of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

March 2015 American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A Behavioral Model of the Popularity and Regulation of Demandable Liabilities By: Rotemberg, Julio J. Abstract—Overoptimism regarding one's ability to arrive early in a queue is shown to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios By: Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Terry Burnham Abstract—We examine the optimal weighting of four tilts in U.S. equity markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

  Working PapersHedge Fund Investor Activism and Takeovers Authors:Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor Abstract We examine long-horizon stock returns around hedge fund activism in a comprehensive sample of 13D filings by portfolio investors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

changing competitive landscape, consumers who may not have considered buying a GM vehicle over the past decade may now be inclined to do so again. What the company has done in rationalizing the number of brands in its View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2270579   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 314-114 The Park Hotels: Revitalizing an Iconic Indian Brand Priya Paul, chairperson of The Park Hotels, an award-winning View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

patients. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W18202 Dividends as Reference Points: A Behavioral Signaling Approach Authors:Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Abstract We outline a dividend signaling approach in which View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

tripwire that is often triggered before a person crosses the line and violates the law. A manager who becomes accustomed to disregarding his or her inner voice in the name of shareholders is more likely to rationalize other actions to the... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 10 Nov 2014
  • HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

realm. The idea is this: There is a market logic, which has rational economic calculations, and an artistic logic where one is doing something for self-expression. So how do you blend those two worlds? Noma does it by charging a high... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

and can be decomposed into four types of changes. We then present a simple better-reply dynamics with myopic and boundedly rational agents and identify conditions that ensure that limit outcomes are outcome equivalent to the outcome... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

alternative coding of variables. In two-stage models we also find that prominent venture capitalists might help their portfolio companies by steering them to effective technology strategies, in this case active participation in the IETF,... View Details
  • 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

rationalized step processes vs. open platform systems. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52466 Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings By: Begenau, Juliane, and Berardino Palazzo Abstract—Among... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

increases. Lastly, it is argued that the common practice of announcing price increases in advance is much easier to rationalize with regret concerns by consumers than with more standard approaches to price rigidity. Download the paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

leaves a set of information-rich trades by "opportunistic" insiders that contain all the predictive power in the insider trading universe. A portfolio strategy that focuses solely on opportunistic traders yields value-weighted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

rational assessment of ethicality should not depend on the identifiability of the victim of wrongdoing or the actual harm caused if the judge and the decision maker have the same information. Yet in five laboratory studies, we show that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

market where demand outgrew supply? How could Hengdeli balance the needs of these competing suppliers without being overreliant on one or two suppliers? How could it continue to expand its retail network to enhance its value and position? How could Hengdeli 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 strongest results are for portfolios... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

outperform others stands in contrast to theory and evidence supporting a broader scope for organizations. The literature on related diversification at the level of the firm provides some reconciliation of these conflicting observations by suggesting that multi-unit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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