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  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

may benefit from limited developer access. Second, an open platform may lead to higher investment than a proprietary platform. Third, opening one side of a proprietary platform may lower incentives to invest in platform quality. Fourth, the structure of access View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

indices. In a validation test, we find that relative sentiment is correlated with the relative prices of dual-listed companies. Global sentiment is a contrarian predictor of country-level returns. Both global and local sentiment are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/kuziemko%20buell%20reich%20norton_3e675fb6-f83c-47fc-912d-e0c0b383e56d.pdf Working Papers Competing with Privacy By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Andres Hervas-Drane Abstract—We analyze the implications of consumer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-086.pdf Expectations, Network Effects and Platform Pricing Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract In markets with network effects, users must form expectations about the total number of users... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

Experiment 2 demonstrates that effects of indirect agency cannot be explained by perceived lack of foreknowledge or control on the part of the primary agent. Experiment 3 indicates that reflective moral judgment is sensitive to indirect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

Montgomery, the motivation for the pilot program was to improve the consumer reselling experience and to enhance "diamond equity." Somewhat paradoxically, consumers typically received very low prices when they tried to sell diamonds... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 10

insider stock purchases are significantly greater after SOX than before. Abnormal trading volumes around filings of insider sales are also greater post-SOX on average, but stock returns are not more negative. However, once controlling for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 12

debt issuers deteriorates during credit booms, and that this deterioration forecasts low excess returns to corporate bondholders. The key insight is that changes in the pricing of credit risk disproportionately affect the financing costs... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, resulting in unequal participation. We assigned 20,500 apartments to one control or six treatment groups that received canvassing visits providing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

disastrous mistakes that can splinter a founding team, strip founders of control, and leave founders without a financial payoff for their hard work and innovative ideas. He highlights the need at each step to strike a careful balance between View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

clubs," we show that 1) fees serve as a signal of price discounts, such that stores that charge fees are perceived as offering better deals for identical items; 2) the presence of fees can increase consumer spending and overall store... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Apr 2012
  • What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

data?'" That's Paul Nicholas' reaction after reading most of the responses to this month's column. It's not a bad "sense of the meeting," in which many contributors offered suggestions to managers wishing to get the most out of so-called big data and avoid paying the... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 08 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Cost of Cutting in Line

Felix Oberholzer-Gee: Companies can purchase almost every input they need: labor, office space, a great brand. But sometimes, the price system breaks down and there is no market. In my research, I have been interested in this... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

South Africa over its attempt to reduce the cost of HIV drugs through parallel importation (buying pharmaceuticals in countries with lower prices and then importing them) and compulsory licensing (requiring patent holders to allow others... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

are less likely to do so with increasing age and greater geographical scope. We also find a strong trend toward unbundling over time, a result that is partially explained by increases in media prices over time. Download the paper from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

Falato, Antonio, and David Scharfstein Abstract—We present evidence that pressure to maximize short-term stock prices and earnings leads banks to increase risk. We start by showing that banks increase risk when they transition from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

nearly all markets for commodities, the result was a significant spike in the prices of food, fuel, and raw materials. Rising commodity prices, in turn, have intensified inflationary pressures for China, necessitating the imposition of... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54634 forthcoming Journal of Finance Limited Investment Capital and Credit Spreads By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary credit default swap (CDS) data, I investigate how capital shocks at protection sellers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Case Study: Sneak Peak

would cost less and would be a faster, healthier way to get to the $1 million mark. —Karen Barth (MBA 1986) They should grow the old-fashioned way: hold back enough cash to grow in a controlled manner. Borrowing money to double in size... View Details
Keywords: Whole Foods; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 12 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 12

even after controlling for the focal district-industry's conditions. The core patterns hold when using local industrial conditions in 1994 to instrument for incumbent conditions in 2000-2005. The results highlight that the traits of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne