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  • 14 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 14, 2007

learning. Contingent Claims Approach to Measuring and Managing Sovereign Credit Risk Authors:Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton, and Zvi Bodie Periodical:Journal of Investment Management (forthcoming) Abstract This paper proposes a new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

model, which makes it difficult to separate the two notions. We show that the concepts of strategy and business model differ when there are important contingencies upon which a well-designed strategy must be based. Our framework also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

closed down flows of trade and capital across borders. Yet firms were rarely able to wholly dictate events. Their ability to transfer technology was constrained by the institutional, educational, and cultural conditions of host economies.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical
  • 09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

Schoar, Jialan Wang Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-024.pdf The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis, Zhi Huang... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

calculated and is used as the vector of market capitalization weights. With these market weights (w) and the given covariance matrix, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) implied expected returns are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

supplying superior bottleneck components while outsourcing non-bottleneck components. I show that a firm pursuing this strategy will have a higher return on invested capital (ROIC) than competitors with a less modular design. Over time,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

Entrepreneurial Beacons: The Yale Endowment, Run-ups, and the Growth of Venture Capital By: McDonald, Rory, Y. Sekou Bermiss, Benjamin J. Hallen, and Emily Cox Pahnke Abstract—This paper investigates the social context of entrepreneurship... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

Farjoun argues that we have neglected the full array of modes of cognition between rational choice and feedback-based adaptive learning and have therefore overstated the role of our focal mode, reasoning by analogy. Third, he highlights some of the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008

We obtain that the reserve accumulation does not play a quantitatively important role in this model. In fact, we find the optimal policy is not to hold reserves at all. This finding is robust too considering interest rate shocks, sudden stops, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

reserves at all. This finding is robust to considering interest rate shocks, sudden stops, contingent reserves and reserve dependent output costs. Download the paper (purchase from NBER required: $5): http://www.nber.org/papers/w13216... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

emergence of political economy and the project of creating market societies. By reconstructing ideas in their historical contexts, I address motivations and contingencies at the very foundations of modernity. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18

argue that the puzzling combination of high-frequency excess sensitivity and low-frequency decoupling between short- and long-term rates can be understood using a model in which (i) shocks to short-term interest rates lead to a rise in term premia on long-term bonds... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

contingent ways that a corporate risk function can foster highly interactive and intrusive dialogues to surface and prioritize risks, help to allocate resources to mitigate them, and bring clarity to the value trade-offs and moral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

share prices prior to turnover are not. A corollary is that a firm with poor stock market performance cannot, or will not, raise new capital unless the current CEO is replaced. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009

submitted a proposed term sheet. Recently, however, a venture capital (VC) group has submitted a competing term sheet. The company must decide whether to accept financing from the Angels or the VC group. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 29

co-fragility predicts cross-stock return comovement. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1490734 Sustainability and Capital Markets: How Firms Can Manage the Crucial Link Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

Challenges Authors:Michael I. Norton, Samuel R. Sommers, and Sara Brauner Periodical:Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (in press) Contingent Political Capital and International Alliances: Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007

of plant-level data provides evidence of capital deepening and a decline in total factor productivity following the introduction of wrongful-discharge protections. This last result is potentially quite important, suggesting that mandated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

Drivers of Corporate Sustainability and Implications for Capital Markets: An International Perspective Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Publication:In The Landscape of Integrated Reporting, edited by Robert G. Eccles, Beiting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

contingent on value-added communities [built around ideas] are self-defining, just about everything is decentralized ideas compete on an equal footing.” Again, not all of his case examples were drawn from the West Coast. But many of them... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

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