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- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
field and the central research questions that it sought to answer. However, the commitment to engage with the complexities of business and the disinclination to rely on models with simplistic assumptions about business behavior also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
examine how well the most widely used ratings—those of Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini Research & Analytics (KLD)—provide transparency about past and likely future environmental performance. We find KLD "concern" ratings to be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
performance metrics should be included in assessing the sustainability performance of a company. Publisher's link: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415624510/ March 2015 Journal of Applied Finance Wall Street Research By: Healy,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
acknowledged that the difficulties faced in RE are multifarious, recent research has primarily focused on limited factors. This ongoing research project addresses this limitation by integrating the fields of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
decade. These secular trends have profound implications for our theories of innovation and organizations. Our extant theory and research is increasingly uncoupled from the phenomena. We would be well served to revisit the nature, locus,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Course MaterialsAustin, Blakeley, & Cambridge, LLC Harvard Business School Case 207-098 The founding partners of ABC, LLC, one of the leading private equity firms in the world, are trying to understand why some of the other top firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
customers to target, which new customers to acquire, and how to balance resources between promotions and advertising, allocate promotional dollars, and determine the effectiveness of word-of-mouth communications. We asked the researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
government-sponsored organization that was funded with 50 billion yen in equity capital and 10 trillion yen of government-guaranteed funds. Daiei presented the IRCJ with a unique opportunity to demonstrate the effectiveness of its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
financier, a public stock offering, or some other source. But potential investors often greet entrepreneurs' business plans with skepticism, or worse, turn them down entirely. Alternatively, some investors demand a large equity stake in... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Working Papers An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors: Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
the board take into account? Bagley: The Business Roundtable is to be commended for its clear stand on the importance of selecting an ethical CEO. Anyone who ever wondered whether ethics matters need only look at the outflow of funds from the View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
learning, can reorient research about the link between identity-group-based diversity and performance. How to Make Finance Work Authors:Robin Greenwood and David S. Scharfstein Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
assets; they aren't hamstrung by substantial resource allocation decisions, giving them remarkable flexibility. Now incumbent firms are seeing their competitive position eroded by technology, alternative staffing models, and other forces. Market View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
lenders. It is difficult for qualified borrowers to find willing lenders, and vice versa. Federal Reserve research finds that small-business borrowers can spend almost 25 hours on paperwork for bank loans, and often apply to multiple... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Abstract—Existing apology research has conceptualized apologies as a device to rebuild relationships following a transgression. As a result, apology research has failed to investigate the use of apologies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Missing Quarterly Analysts Forecasts (revised) Authors:Richard Mergenthaler, Shiva Rajgopal, and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We find that missing the quarterly analyst consensus earnings forecast is associated with career penalties in the form of a reduced bonus, smaller... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
governments and the International Monetary Fund and put the last six years in the book of history as lessons of what not to repeat in the future. — George Serafeim A citizen of Greece, George Serafeim is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business... View Details
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
vector of state variables describing investment opportunities, with coefficients that are a function of the investment horizon. We apply our method to the optimal portfolio choice problem of an investor who can choose between value and growth stock portfolios, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
attention to the question of when to mix qualitative and quantitative data in a single research paper. We discuss implications of the framework for educating new field researchers. Cooperation and Equity in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
PublicationsManager-Specific Effects on Earnings Guidance: An Analysis of Top Executive Turnovers Authors:Francois Brochet, Lucile Faurel, and Sarah McVay Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne