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  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

likely to dissent, we do not find that academics, accountants, and lawyers are significantly more active in dissenting. Lastly, we show that dissent is consequential to the director and the firm. For directors, we show that dissent is significantly associated with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

and other ancillary services such as mergers and acquisition work, private placements, asset financings, and so on. The mixed results of prior research that we summarized in the Investor Relations Quarterly article are not surprising if... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

of Earnings-per-share Harvard Business School Note 208-059 When discussing the pros and cons of an acquisition, practitioners often talk about the impact of the deal on the buyer's earnings-per-share (eps). An acquisition is said to be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

crossed with small incentive (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open a bank savings account. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings account in the full sample but do find modest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

computational power for model estimation. We overcome computational burden by utilizing an improved simulator for likelihood evaluation and the general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPGPU) technology that takes advantage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

Dollar General Corporation's acquisition by private equity sponsor KKR, which took the company private in 2007. Although the proposed merger generated a 30% premium over the stock price at the time, and the enterprise value to EBITDA... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

that acquisitions can build competitive advantage partially through retention of valuable human capital of the target firm. However, making commitments to retain and motivate successful top managers is a challenge when contracts are not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

sellers' product spaces. We find evidence consistent with the former explanation: the likelihood of Amazon's entry is positively correlated with the popularity and customer ratings of third-party sellers' products. We also find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

categorical hierarchies and in the ability to reconcile incompatible organizational capabilities. Second, we theorize and attend to the role of emotional frames in innovation adoption. Thus, we advance a model that articulates how cognitive and emotional framing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

spaces. We find evidence consistent with the former explanation: that the likelihood of Amazon's entry is positively correlated with the popularity and customer ratings of third-party sellers' products. Amazon's entry reduces the shipping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

manufacturing plant in West Bengal state, in the face of widespread farmer protests over land acquisition issues. This meant abandoning a project in which the company had invested $300 million and delaying the launch of the Nano, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

systematically higher in markets with high contemporaneous utilization rates for the online banking channel. This finding holds even after controlling for contemporaneous market share suggesting it is not simply the result of increased market power leading to the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

certify structured products with a low default likelihood as safe and from a large supply of investors who view them as such. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-102.pdf The Persuasive Appeal of Stigma Authors:Michael... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

technological and market risks, where the former is of paramount importance. Pioneers ultimately realize a higher likelihood of acquisition but wait longer to be acquired. Therefore, to some extent, later... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

way for higher rates of customer acquisition and higher rates of repeat purchasing among existing customers in the direct channels in the long term. Our results are based on intervention analysis with a treatment/control group design. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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