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  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

of investment greatly matters. Accordingly, prior studies find that cash holdings enable firms to increase product market share at the expense of their rivals. Recently, however, U.S. multinational firms have received a lot of attention... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6

response to an ad-sponsored rival often entails business model reconfigurations. We also find that when there is an ad-sponsored entrant, the incumbent is more likely to prefer to compete through the subscription-based or the ad-sponsored... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008

decision would require a 76% shareholder approval. When Augstein died in 2002, however, his co-owners exercised the option the same bylaws gave them to buy a 0.5% stake each from Augstein's heirs, who thus lost their veto rights. In September 2007, the benefits and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

the fiscal quarter end when they have greater incentive to boost earnings. Our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey, and Rajgopal, 2005) and their stated View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

religious group and for the population as a whole. To control for politician identity to be correlated with constituency level voter preferences or characteristics that make religion salient, we use quasi-random variation in legislator... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9

Competition for Social Preferences in Simple Extensive Form Games: An Introduction Authors:Eyal Ert, Ido Erev, and Alvin E. Roth Publication:Special Issue on Predicting Behavior in Games. Games 2 (2011) Abstract Two independent, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

unethical. In four experiments, participants wore purportedly fake or authentically branded sunglasses. Those wearing fake sunglasses cheated more across multiple tasks than did participants wearing authentic sunglasses, both when they believed they had a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

Caruso, and Max H. Bazerman Periodical:Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 91, no. 5 (November 2006): 872-889 Abstract Group members often reason egocentrically, believing that they deserve more than their fair share of group... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2005
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An Organization Your Customers Understand

If customers were unhappy, they reasoned, the product should be changed. Militant demands displaced an environment of mutual respect and shared learning. Needless to say, the practice of telling students they were customers was quickly... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

patent applications in 1976 to 16% in 2008. This is partly driven by the increase in the prevalence of information and communication technology; however, even for patents unrelated to information and communication technology, we see a disproportionate increase in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2012
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Why Do We Tax?

this policy be designed not just to meet Utilitarian goals but also to align with the principle of Equal Sacrifice. The principle of Equal Sacrifice declares that the goal of tax policy is to share the costs of funding public goods evenly... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

leads to the possibility of strategic delay by decision participants who differ in their preferences and are limited by the resources they can allocate to influence decisions. We focus on sources of delay caused by the strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2005
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Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

methods unquestioningly. While Americans pioneered the multidivisional firm (divisions within one legal entity), for instance, Germans still preferred Konzerne (multisubsidiary operations). The fact that they were subsidiaries also kept... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

feature advertisements, and aisle displays) at the fiscal quarter end when they have greater incentive to boost earnings. Our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey, and Rajgopal, 2005) and... 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

Becker, Zoran Ivkovic, and Scott Weisbenner Publication:Journal of Finance 66, no. 2 (April 2011) Abstract : We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on corporate payout policy. Retail investors tend to hold local stocks, and older... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

sufficient to fuel international expansion. The author presents advice on overcoming the paradox but warns it can be a lengthy process. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2010/12/why-you-arent-buying-venezuelan-chocolate/ar/1# Bringing Ethics into Focus: How Regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

with oversupply and declining demand and to New World winemakers faced with rising costs and a deteriorating image. But changing Chinese market conditions and consumer preferences required both sets of players to devise new strategies to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

amateurish creations as similar in value to experts' creations and expected others to share their opinions. We show that labor leads to love only when labor results in successful completion of tasks; when participants built and then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

match between firms, managers, and incentives using a new survey that contains information on managers' risk preferences and human capital, on their compensation schemes, and on the firms they work for. The data is consistent with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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