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  • 31 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

price drops, suggesting that they have failed to reach a very low bar indeed, making the news particularly bad. The main concern about these findings is that Fitch might have grown their share of the ratings in an industry at times when some of the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 11 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

future lock-in can arise without changing the structure of a should-choice, but by just changing people's temporal focus. Finally, we provide evidence that the should self operates at a higher construal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

other factor for the great influence it has enjoyed in American society—have changed significantly from the era when the earliest schools were founded up until the present day. Thus the institution that came to be the major influence on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

directors. Controlling for these effects and other ratings determinants, we find that firms with lower residual ratings have higher subsequent citations in corruption news events. They also report higher future sales growth and show a negative relation between... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 4

outcomes for oneself and others. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/emotion-in-negotiations-an-introduction/an/914032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-063 Barclays Bank and Contingent Capital Notes, 2012 In 2012, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

regulatory regimes rests on the validity of the information third-party monitors provide to regulators. The challenge in designing third-party monitoring regimes is that profit-driven private monitors, typically selected and paid by the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

Abstract—The Food and Drug Administration approves new medical devices after in-depth reviews of safety and effectiveness data. Some have advocated for shorter review times to encourage innovation. We evaluated whether regulatory review... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016

Organizations' Strategic Responses By: Heese, Jonas, Ranjani Krishnan, and Frank Moers Abstract—We posit that nonprofits that provide a greater supply of unprofitable services (beneficent nonprofits) face lenient regulatory enforcement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

entrepreneurs in these countries to build the future. And from an intellectual perspective, emerging markets provide a lab for scholars because everything we know about management needs to be reexamined in a new context: Are ideas about management still robust when you... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

that egalitarianism distance has a negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the prevailing legal and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

primarily at auditors (both external and internal), risk managers, accountants, CFOs, and consultants, Effective Auditing for Corporates covers the following: 1) compliance and the corporate audit, 2) fraud detection, 3) risk-based auditing, 4) the development of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Jan 2011
  • Op-Ed

Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress

a new research stream, and there is a low probability you will get funded in a new area. You may be fired. In short, your career is in danger of total meltdown. That is the real cost of our randomized model of research support in the United States, in which a View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

understand or who can't operationalize these links can press for better execution when they need a better strategy or change strategic direction when they should focus on sales basics. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

addition, firms with more KLD concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory compliance violations in later years. KLD environmental strengths, in contrast, do not accurately predict pollution... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

and regulation of insurance markets, including the interaction between consumer choice difficulties or biases and adverse selection. We then document evidence on consumer mistakes in health-care utilization and treatment choices, especially in response to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

markets. We find that introducing a signaling mechanism increases the welfare of workers and the number of matches, while the change in firm welfare is ambiguous. A signaling mechanism adds the most value for balanced markets. Should You... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

and changes in the practitioner community that we were drawn to try to operationalize our thinking into recommendations that would allow the actors to do things differently, and dramatically increase the value we could achieve from all... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health
  • 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

help the USPTO achieve its joint goals of processing patent applications more quickly and granting better quality patents. But the new tools and organizational changes would bring challenges, too. Any View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

analysts at Moody's had to decide whether to downgrade the country's sovereign long-term debt from Aaa to Aa1 or lower. Investor sentiment toward Iceland had changed radically in March, and the Moody's team was fearful that the situation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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