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  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2409251 Integrated Reporting and Investor Clientele By: Serafeim, George Abstract—In this paper, I examine the relation between Integrated Reporting (IR) and the composition of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

ultrasound use and bargaining power. I present evidence that village-level ultrasound is an exogenous source of variation for access to sex selection technology, demonstrate that parents are indeed considering the sex ratio of their unborn child’s future marriage... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

the redirection of existing inventive activity. Read the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-118.pdf Finding the Right Mix: How the Composition of Self-managing Multicultural Teams' Cultural Value Orientation Influences Performance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

US outbound FPI and FDI, this paper analyzes whether the composition of US outbound capital flows reflect efforts to bypass home country tax regimes and weak host country investor protections. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

distribute cash to shareholders. We also provide indirect evidence as to why firm managers may cater to the demand for dividends from local seniors. Overall, these results suggest that the composition of a firm's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

to 2008. We find that the divergence between control rights and cash-flow rights of a borrowing firm's largest ultimate owner has a significant impact on the concentration and composition of the firm's loan syndicate. A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008

Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets Authors:Pol Antras, Mihir Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines how costly financial contracting and weak View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

1999 to be UPromise's president and chief operating officer. Last March, almost precisely when the NASDAQ Composite Index peaked above 5,000, the company—a few months old, with a business plan and a few employees as its only... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016

staggered boards can be beneficial for early-life-cycle firms, which exhibit greater information asymmetries between insiders and investors. These results are validated using a larger sample of firms from the Investor Responsibility... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

votes receive relatively little media attention yet may foster investor risk perceptions. This research presents a multifaceted view of activists and their tactics and suggests that this approach in examining activists and their tactics... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

http://www.people.hbs.edu/asunderam/mmmf_2013-12-24_with_names.pdf August 2013 Accountancy Futures The Investor Conundrum By: Eccles, Robert G. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

imposing costs on marginal ones. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52388 Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey By: Amel-Zadeh, Amir, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

exploiting the well-documented social divide between urban resident workers and rural migrant workers in urban Chinese firms. We analyze data on weekly output, individual characteristics, and coworker composition for all weavers in an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

(NBS) institutional framework (Whitley 1997, 1999), we theorize about and empirically investigate the impact of nation-level institutions on firms' corporate social performance (CSP). Using a sample of firms from 42 countries spanning seven years, we construct an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

measure of national competitiveness. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18249 Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance Authors:Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern Abstract This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

in providing mentorship and even financing for students interested in creating their own ventures? Bill Kerr: We have alumni who are playing important roles on both the founder and the investor sides of enterprises. The Rock 100... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

provide indirect evidence as to why firm managers may cater to the demand for dividends from local seniors. Overall, these results suggest that the composition of a firm's investor base affects corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007

unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume or number of projects completed by a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice, however, such stability is rare,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

that demographic stability affects the community composition of organizational forms, and we also investigate arguments about a community's income distribution, age distribution, population trends, geographic sprawl, and commuter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

communication is possible. Hence, the other-regarding composition of a team of workers has complex consequences for organizational performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49874 Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne