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  • 26 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

that each $1 invested in display and search leads to a return of $1.24 for display and $1.75 for search ads, which contrasts sharply with the estimated returns based on standard metrics. We use these results to show how optimal budget View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10

across contestants of different abilities, most respond negatively to competition, and highest-skilled contestants respond positively. In counterfactual simulations, we interpret a number of tournament design policies (number of competitors, prize View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 9

Social Legitimacy and Global Capitalism Authors:Rawi Abdelal and John G. Ruggie Publication:Chap. 7 in New Perspectives on Regulation, edited by David Moss and John Cisternino, 151-162. Cambridge, Mass.: The Tobin Project, 2009 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Making Money Making Movies

keen exhibitors are to free up screens on which to show it, how much space foreign journalists allocate to reviewing it, and so on. As conventional wisdom suggests, the key drivers of success in the U.S. also apply to foreign markets.... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

variability than was the case historically. Under the new policy, dividends would be tied to the company's underwriting results, its performance relative to predetermined goals, and a target payout ratio. Progressive's new policy was intended to help with overall View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2018
  • Case

Chaudhary Group: Rebuilding Nepal

By: Christopher J. Malloy, Lauren H. Cohen and Inakshi Sobti
After the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the Chaudhary Group, a billion-dollar conglomerate in Nepal, decides to play a pivotal role in rebuilding the country. The Group's philanthropic arm (Chaudhary Foundation) works with stakeholders and develops a blue print for short- and... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Family Business; Decision Choices and Conditions; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Venture Capital; Microfinance; Geographic Location; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Management; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Resource Allocation; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Natural Disasters; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Issues; Business Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Banking Industry; Auto Industry; Real Estate Industry; Travel Industry; Nepal
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  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

crisis strikes, what will become of it in the longer term? By the same token, allocating resources to long-term exploration might incur the risk of precipitating the fall. Egalitarianism and International Investment Authors:Jordan I.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

Southeastern Pennsylvania University Hospital. He must balance his time taking care of patients, running a practice, managing up, down, and laterally, managing stars with little formal authority, allocating resources fairly, developing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

property. Despite its increasingly important role in the global marketplace, IP remained a notoriously illiquid asset-difficult to value, harder to trade, and often underutilized by owners. CEO Jim Malackowski and his colleagues hoped to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

is still thriving—while dramatically reinventing it? How do you envision a change in your current business model before a crisis forces you to abandon it? Innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan expands the leader's innovation tool kit with a simple and proven method for... View Details
  • 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

capture the degree to which organizations' identities are eclipsed and confounded. The theory is tested with data on U.S. venture capital firm syndication between 1995 and 2009. Venture capital firms with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

Detainees are randomly assigned to judges, and ideological differences across judges translate into large differences in the allocation of electronic monitoring to an otherwise similar population. Using these peculiarities of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

Authors:Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanzcuk Abstract We investigate, using firm-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants are a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

trust. Why is One Report important now? "The capital markets and our planet have simultaneously reached a fork in the road. One path continues the status quo. The other and new path is a commitment to a better society, stronger financial... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

environments," Sahlman says. "It is an integrative course in which managers can learn to use the financial perspective to inform resource acquisition and allocation decisions." Today the Entrepreneurial Management unit includes five full... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

local organizations, affiliates may have better success fundraising and mobilizing resources locally, and the fundraising responsibility may be more efficiently allocated between the central office and local affiliates. In fact, in our... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

restrictions. Woolf had been farming crops for more than 30 years, but this was the first time they suffered a water shortage so severe that crops had to be abandoned in the field. Even if there was short-term relief in the form of an increased View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

  Working PapersEquity-Debtholder Conflicts and Capital Structure Authors:Bo Becker and Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

evidence on a key mechanism: how employees allocate their time to work-related activities and to visiting distant family. To do so, we use field interviews, sub-sample analyses, and micro-data on the number of optional skill-development... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15

innovations. Ceteris paribus, the share of resources spent on development of general innovations, increases with the stability of the market share of the industry leader. As market shares become less persistent, the model predicts an endogenous shift in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace