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- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
the chicken-and-egg challenge of how companies can attract their first customers. Donald Trump’s Winning Marketing Manual Donald Trump's upset election win offers six lessons for marketing professionals, says John A. Quelch. When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid With a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
information environment relating to IFRS adoption that is more likely to reflect changes in comparability versus information quality. If IFRS adoption improves financial statement comparability across firms, we predict this should reduce... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
economics, in the sections that follow, we review three sets of possible interpretations for understanding the empirical facts related to the entry into, and persistence in, entrepreneurship. Differences in risk aversion provide a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
to generate profits, he threw them out. To be clear, large German firms definitely do not move as quickly today as many American firms. The German economy is going through fundamental structural changes because of Europeanization and globalization. Corporate governance... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
returns are more positive for acquisitions in which both the target and the acquirer are financed by the same venture capital firm. Similarly, we find that having a common investor increases both the likelihood that a transaction will be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
Campbell, Asís Martínez Jerez, and Peter Tufano Publication:Journal of Banking and Finance (forthcoming) Abstract Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary consumer bank account closure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
assets that investors incorporate into equity values. I further find that the positive relation between analyst following and the market's valuation of R&D capital is strongest for the portion of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
complementary economic activities provide an impetus for agglomeration: the growth rate of an industry within a region may be increasing in the size and "strength" (i.e., relative presence) of related economic sectors. Building... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
experience of individuals in a team (i.e., years in a given role within a team) is associated with better team performance. We examine the impact of role experience separately for team managers and team members. We find that a manager's role experience is positively... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
capitalization of firms in their coverage portfolio. Our results hold after Regulation Fair Disclosure, suggesting that these relationships are not based on selective disclosure. Overall, the evidence shows both the importance and limitations of professional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
around a lot will be successful." Future Trends What about future trends, asked Sahlman. Many venture capitalists made money in enterprise software, until the space was saturated. Will venture capitalists have an impact in fields View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
willing to make choices-Who is more intelligent? Who is more polite?-between two white individuals (same-race decisions) than between a white and a black individual (cross-race decisions), a tendency that was enhanced when judgments involved traits View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
paper concludes that savings contributes to growth in locations where entrepreneurs and companies lack access to necessary technological advances, in countries far away from the "technological frontier." To overcome this obstacle companies must lure foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
or form networks. Firms make complementary choices when determining production inputs, entering related markets, and strategic mergers. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/banand/ComplementaryChoices.pdf August 2013 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
classes. While most investors specialize in a single asset class, a handful of generalists can gradually reallocate capital across markets. Upon the arrival of a large supply shock, prices of risk in the directly impacted asset class... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
how the composition of patenting teams relates to both the scope of their patent applications and the speed of their patent approvals by examining the main effects of team members’ intra-organizational diversity (based on affiliations... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro Abstract—We propose a relational theory of how change agents in organizations use the strength of ties in their network to overcome resistance to change. We argue that strong ties to potentially influential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
have provided average returns to their investors that are superior to those of conventional portfolios, while exhibiting lower risk. Myth Number 2: ESG is already well integrated into mainstream investment management. Reality: The UNPRI... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
PublicationsThe Profits of Power: Commerce and Realpolitik in Eurasia Authors:Rawi Abdelal Publication:Review of International Political Economy (forthcoming) Abstract Although the energy trade is the single most important element of nearly all European countries'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
wrote. “They are too general to cause a reasonable investor to rely upon them.” That’s typical of the way that many people and even employees view codes of conduct, says Eugene F. Soltes, Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding