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  • 01 Sep 2003
  • What Do You Think?

To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?

discount in price in order to sell to an organization with a comparable journalistic reputation, the fear of a shareholder lawsuit limited the size of the discount, even in a company with a semi-public, family-controlled ownership. What,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

extends existing work demonstrating the importance of political economy explanations for financial development and financial backwardness. It should help to better understand which policies will work for financial development, because... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

firm's capital to provide liquidity for the event. He must decide what positions to establish, and at what price he is willing to get out. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207109 Parmalat... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

experiments to test theoretical predictions of why adoption may be low. Insurance purchase is sensitive to price, with an estimated extensive price elasticity of demand between -0.66 and -0.88. Credit constraints, identified through the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

pricing theories. First, in an era when efficient portfolio diversification was not possible, the intrinsic risk of an equity security was an important input into investor decision making. Second, our evidence suggests that businesspeople... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

and shared significant export agribusiness sectors, but whose organic food sector became significantly larger. While the power of incumbent vested interests and unsupportive public policies emerge as major explanatory factors, the article... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

the process? Features such as “instant book,” allowing a buyer to sign up for a rental, say, without the seller’s prior approval, can reduce discrimination while increasing convenience; 3) Can we make discrimination policies more top of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

historical long run). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52277 February 2017 Journal of Arthroplasty Drivers of the Variation in Prosthetic Implant Purchase Prices for Total Knee and Total Hip Arthroplasties... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

90th percentile of corruption are much lower across the board. We make progress towards causality through Granger-style tests and by considering periphery counties where effective tax policy is largely driven by bordering states. Finally,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

productivity, how many people they see. They have lousy information systems to back them up. And then they have a public policy establishment that more or less continuously deprecates their ideas and squeezes down their income. Not a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 05 Oct 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?

With a yearly price tag of roughly $87 billion in lost productivity and adverse health consequences, the flu is nothing to sneeze at. It’s no surprise that workplace flu vaccination clinics have gained popularity as employers try to keep... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health
  • 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

units up to the contract quantity selected in the previous period. We prove that in each period and at each such stage, there are three base-stock levels that characterize an optimal policy, two for the inventory policy and one for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006

increase their allocation to growth stocks as a result of their desire to optimally increase their overall allocation to equities. We also explore the welfare implications of adopting the optimal dynamic rebalancing strategy vis-à-vis other View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private firms operating in free markets. We wanted to know in what ways forces within capitalism itself might create... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 27 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

pollution. However, in late February, South Korea had encountered problems with its mask supply. As the number of confirmed cases increased, many Koreans vigorously sought out face masks. As a result, the price of masks skyrocketed to as... View Details
Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health
  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54331 forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending By: Cutler, David, Jonathan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

affiliate marketing programs in which merchants oversee thousands of affiliates they have never met. Some merchants hire outside specialists to set and enforce policies for affiliates, while other merchants ask their ordinary marketing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

downstream companies lobbying in favor of the general protection of highly integrated conglomerates. In the steel industry, by contrast, national industrial policy in the absence of exogenous economic shocks fails to weaken local state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55865 in press Behavioural Public Policy Invisible Inequality Leads to Punishing the Poor and Rewarding the Rich By: Hauser, Oliver P., Gordon T. Kraft-Todd, David Rand, Martin A. Nowak, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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