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- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
effectively within the newly merged entities. No PDF is available at this time. Reputation and Competition: Evidence from the Credit Rating Industry Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract Fair and accurate credit ratings arguably play an important role in the...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9
May 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading relationships shape their trading...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
consumer products. Finally, a series of cubes represents major customers. The shapes lie scattered on your desk. Your job is to fit the pieces together. Do you place the spheres on top of the blocks so that functions report to the...
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by Robert Simons
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
also discussed. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607081 Dollar General Going Private Harvard Business School Case 108-015 Intended to improve students' understanding and encourage their use of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
introducing a different normative standard (i.e., National Regifting Day) corrected the asymmetry in beliefs about entitlement and increased regifting. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/adams flynn norton.pdf Creating a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
source of internal capital. Lawmakers and lobbyists justified its passage by arguing that it would alleviate financial constraints. This paper's results indicate that repatriations did not lead to an...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23
adherence to the global labor standards embodied in codes of conduct imposed by multinational buyers. We find that suppliers are more likely to adhere when they are embedded in states that participate actively in the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
new industries in Japan are things like highly skilled specialist personnel; a lack of risk capital because of heavily controlled financial markets; barriers to commercializing university research; and limited incentives for risk taking....
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
details of his theories regarding economic development and international financial interactions, as well as his indebtedness to earlier Renaissance traditions. The book also uncovers new material relating to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating,” says Sawyer, an assistant professor in the Business, Government and the International Economy unit who previously held the...
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- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
near absence of strong processes for internal operations such as HR, accounting, credit, invoicing, and collections. During this financial crunch, Flipkart (India’s e-commerce unicorn) offered BlackBuck $20...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007
itself from selling to a portion of the market. In addition, we show that contrary to standard results on double marginalization and pricing of complementary goods, a platform who already has exclusive access to content may prefer to...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
evidence during those times, along with countless acts of heroism by ordinary citizens-people not empowered or trained to do great things. We are seeing this in the horrible aftermath of the current earthquake and tsunami. Consider the View Details
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
little understanding of actual interaction patterns in modern, complex, multiunit firms. To open the proverbial "black box" and begin to reveal the internal wiring of the firm, this paper presents a detailed, descriptive...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 17
forthcoming Handbook of International Trade and Transportation Transportation Cost and the Geography of Foreign Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen Abstract—Falling transportation costs and rapid technological progress in recent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007
increases US investors' equity FPI holdings by 21%, controlling for effects on FDI. This suggests that the residual tax on foreign multinational firm earnings biases capital flows to low corporate tax countries toward FPI. A one standard...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
international equity markets, with a highly significant average slope coefficient of 1.05. In sharp contrast, standard factor-model-based proxies fail to exhibit predictive power internationally. We show...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
tax system can help us get there" On a recent and unexpectedly warm day for a New England fall, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge sat down to discuss tax policy in general and reform in particular with Professor Matthew C. Weinzierl and Mihir A. Desai,...
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by Sean Silverthorne