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- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
dictate people should be treated preferentially. We first use a scenario study to establish that individuals expect leniency on their birthday. We then show that, compared to other days, transgressors are penalized more severely when it's their birthday, both by law... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
opportunistic traders are local non-senior insiders, who come from geographically concentrated, poorly governed firms. Lastly, opportunistic traders are significantly more likely to have SEC enforcement action taken against them and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
Apple and government authorities from accessing data stored on the device. Law enforcement officials warned that the encryption hindered investigations for criminal cases and international terrorism and called on Apple to build a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
if the government is subject to oversight, and whether bureaucrats and politicians are independent from one another. Companies should gauge the level of actual trust among the populace as opposed to enforced trust. For instance, if people... View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
empirical implications and possible theoretical extensions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-056.pdf Testing Coleman's Social-Norm Enforcement Mechanism: Evidence from Wikipedia Authors:Mikołaj J. Piskorski and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
code law countries, consistent with investors' concerns over enforcement of IFRS in those countries. Finally, we find a positive reaction to IFRS adoption events for firms with high-quality pre-adoption information, consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
These changes relate to: advisory notes by shareholders, refinements to board structure, non-disclosure on compensation and tightening up of certain enforcement provisions. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
affiliate marketing programs in which merchants oversee thousands of affiliates they have never met. Some merchants hire specialist outside advisors to set and enforce policies for affiliates, while other merchants ask their ordinary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
increases repayment rates, as borrowers anticipate that a good credit record improves their access to credit. This incentive effect of information sharing is substantial when repayment is not third party enforceable and lending is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
(1998) compiled a list of forty-seven such initiatives; more recently, Business for Social Responsibility, a national business association, prepared a document in 2000 that compares and contrasts eight of these standards (http://www.bsr.org/resourcecenter). Lacking... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Case 318-079 Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (B) This case supplements “Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (A),” covering select events in 2017, including a mass shooting in which U.S. law enforcement was not able to access the shooter’s encrypted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
corruption, which increases managerial credibility. These effects are larger for countries with stronger law enforcement and more widespread assurance of sustainability reports. We conclude with thoughts about mandatory sustainability and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
with a small group to see whether we can tighten some of the enforcement or provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the OECD treaty on corrupt payments. View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
required the Patriots to play in the stadium through 2001. Most real-estate investors wouldn't have cared about that latter clause; they would value the lease for its guaranteed rent, regardless of where the team actually played. But Kraft had his eye on eventually... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
patent protection. Improvement in the enforcement of patent rights. Improvement in the administration of the patent system. On paper, fifteen of the sixteen countries we studied improved IPR along at least four of the five dimensions. In... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
their increased tendency to behave fairly. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/shaw et al.pdf Robust Enforcement Should Complement Voluntary Regulation Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Publication:Georgetown... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
likelihood of valuable outcomes. However, the methods you'll use will differ from, and sometimes conflict with, methods that work when you do know where you're going. There is an increasingly important category of work—knowledge work—that you can best manage by not... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
pronounced in banks, and with higher pre-adoption information asymmetry, consistent with investors expecting net information quality benefits from IFRS adoption. We also find that the reaction is less positive for firms domiciled in code law countries, consistent with... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
time in terms of bond market size, creditor protections, and court enforcement of bond contracts to assume that the adoption of a legal system can constrain future financial development. The paper examines in detail the evolution of bond... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
suppliers or host governments. High leverage prevents cash from accumulating inside project companies, thereby eliminating the temptation for related parties to seize the cash. It also helps enforce contracts by, somewhat paradoxically,... View Details