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- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
duties in firms incorporated in that state. This change limited managers' incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
from the developed to the developing country and (ii) adjustment costs to investment flows. Consistent with the model, we observe that the flow of technologies from N to S co-moves positively with output in both N and S. After calibrating... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
which require full and fair disclosure of the financial performance of companies and of the risks associated with their business. This attitude is reminiscent of the Roaring Twenties when, according to Representative (and later Speaker of... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
complementors so as to appropriate value from their innovations, or they may target poor performing complementors to improve the platforms' overall quality. Using data from Amazon.com, we analyze the patterns of Amazon's entry into its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
Shawn A., Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract—This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk assessment and lending decisions. We first show that while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
document that firms report more negative discretionary accruals when financial markets are less certain about their future prospects. Stock-price responses to earnings surprises are moderated when firm-level uncertainty is high, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
externalities, two traditionally under-emphasized forces, exert consistently strong effects. Within each macro network, there is a large heterogeneity across subsidiaries. Subsidiaries with greater size and higher productivity attract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
studies of live dyadic conversations, we identify a robust and consistent relationship between question-asking and liking: people who ask more questions are better liked by their conversation partners. When people are instructed to ask... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
and high levels of press freedom. We further demonstrate that suppliers perform better when they serve buyers located in countries where consumers are wealthy and socially conscious. Taken together, these findings suggest the importance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
the aftermath of the 2008 recession, the asset management firm BlackRock was busy charting a course for growth. Its revenues, profits, and stock price all performed consistently through this tumultuous... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18
analysts' forecasts of firm performance actually reflect any of these factors and which are considered most important. We use survey data from 967 analysts ranking 837 companies to judge how their forecasts are related to evaluations of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
activation inspired improvements in people’s emotions, resistance to disease, resilience to stress and burnout, creative problem solving, performance under pressure, and relationships with their employer. Results also revealed that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley as a result of poor performance and cultural problems, as well as his relationship to the board of directors. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=405105... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
Interdependence in Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors examine prominent placement of search engines' own services and effects on users' choices. Evaluating a natural experiment in which different results were shown to users... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Convergence, and Economic Performance By: Delgado, Mercedes, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern Abstract—This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster composition in regional industry performance. On the one hand, diminishing returns... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9
systems in the software industry. Our sample includes 1,286 software releases taken from 19 distinct applications. We find that 75%-80% of systems possess a core-periphery structure. However, the number of components in the core varies widely, even for systems that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
drug business. They relied, however, on licensing rather than building their own in-house capabilities for drug discovery and commercialization. In the low-tech OTC [over-the-counter] sector, they consistently maintained a strong profit... View Details
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
consistently outperformed the industry. The company's culture was on display during the power grid failure of September 2003, when two of Continental's three hubs went dark and other airlines grounded their fleets. Continental's... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
investors, consistent with investors trying to sell as soon as possible. Many of these firms have come down further in price, but there will probably be more. Regulators have recently put into place safeguards that will prevent high-ratio... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
creditors for quality reporting. In contrast, the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis posits that public equity firms, because their managers have a greater incentive to manage earnings, have lower earnings quality than their private equity peers. The results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace