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- 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009
Abstract This paper constructs an index of financial sophistication that, in comprehensive data on Swedish households, best explains a set of three investment mistakes: underdiversification, risky share inertia, and the tendency to sell... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 23
credit because they have been taught that access to credit is welfare promoting. This perception emerged from a historical coalition between commercial banks and NGOs that promoted credit as the solution to a range of social ills. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50690 2016 Handbook of Media Economics User-Generated Content and Social Media By: Luca, Michael Abstract—This paper documents what economists have learned about... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
norms—but that social closure and decoupling should preserve the status quo. Empirical research has been difficult because we lack data on comparable private firms and because firms likely self-select into going public. We View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
need for genetic testing. Business techniques employed include developing an emotive brand to draw people in; using more social media; employing jargon-free language; and “making everything simple and straightforward, from our... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
knowledge inflows into the multinational subsidiary, the literature is rooted in how subsidiaries inherit knowledge from the headquarters (HQ). In this paper we take the first step to liberate the construct of “subsidiary knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7
ownership influence Chapter 11 outcomes? To answer these questions, we construct a data set that identifies the entire capital structure for 136 companies filing for U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection between 1998 and 2009 and that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
deliver manpower and supplies overseas, Kaiser, who had never built a ship before, rose to the challenge and successfully directed the construction of thousands of Liberty ships. These merchant vessels gave the U.S. Navy the overwhelming... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Working PapersThe Global Networks of Multinational Firms Authors:Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen Abstract In this paper we characterize the topology of global multinational networks and examine the macro and micro patterns of multinational activity. We View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
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Negotiation Strategy: Pattern Recognition Game Harvard Business School Note 908-015 In negotiation, correctly identifying your counterpart's strategy is vital. Only then can you constructively influence their behavior—or adapt... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
3,100 employees were displaced. Company president Aaron Feuerstein immediately announced plans to rebuild the company—and to keep all the displaced employees on the payroll in the meantime. The media hailed him as a mensch. But in making sure the new View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23
even "victory speech" about why saying "yes" to the deal you want is smart and in the other side's interests; f) constructive actions at the bargaining table informed by knowledge of the other side's internal conflicts... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 31, 2006
accountability standards and for monitoring them. The authors show how accountability frameworks attached to principal-agent logics and applied universally across cultures typically fail to achieve their objectives. Accountability is a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010
of their corporate governance, placing them within the wider context of the economic and social history of Germany. Based on both quantitative data and archivally based case studies, this book explores how the relationship between the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 21
navigate nascent markets but overlooks an imperative for entrepreneurial firms that pioneer in these contexts: finding a viable business model. Through an in-depth, multiple-case study of ventures in the nascent social investing market,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
help him understand themes across the deals that can inform construction of new deals in the future. Topics include unsupervised learning; similarity and proximity; K-means clustering, with measures of Euclidean distance and cosine... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Oct 2000
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Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
Her objective of working with retailers known for carrying high-quality, premium-priced merchandise probably owed something to the social aspiration that drove her. Her interest in such stores was also strategic. Estée suspected that her... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015
construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating in more than 100 countries with Input-Output tables. In line with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
Global Health team were also working to construct a framework for measuring both the social and financial impact of the company’s shared value initiatives, starting with the BD Odon Device. Cohen believed... View Details
- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
Publication:Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Five studies investigate whether the practice of "regifting"-a social taboo-is as offensive to givers as regifters assume. Participants who imagined regifting thought that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel