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  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

novel convertible bond dataset, I find that consumers often purchase dominated bonds—cheap and expensive versions of otherwise identical bonds coexist in the market. The empirical evidence suggests that broker incentives are responsible... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

relationship between green business and governments. The struggles of entrepreneurial pioneers have rarely proved profitable, as they were forced to compete with conventional businesses that ignored negative environmental externalities and were often subsidized by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

the fiscal quarter end when they have greater incentive to boost earnings. Our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey, and Rajgopal, 2005) and their stated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

this disconnect: The different approaches the disciplines take to translating real-world behavior into the laboratory create a ''gap in abstraction,'' which contributes to crucial differences in philosophy about the roles of deception and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

implications for both of these audiences. Governments, especially governments in emerging markets, have exerted considerable effort devising programs to facilitate the transfer of technology. Often these policies do not place much... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • December 1998
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Cash Management Practices in Small Companies

By: H. Kent Bowen, Andrew R. Jassy, Laurence E. Katz, Kevin E. Kelly and Baltej Kochar
Most small business managers claim that cash management is their leading concern. Often walking a tightrope between growth and illiquidity, small business managers face different cash management challenges than their counterparts in larger companies. Compared to larger... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Working Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Cash; Forecasting and Prediction; Policy; Business Strategy
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  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

  PublicationsDo Strong Fences Make Strong Neighbors? Authors:Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Publication:National Tax Journal 63 (December 2010) Abstract Many features of U.S. tax policy towards multinational firms—including the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

of the domestic economy. Moreover, we illustrate that gray markets may cause unintended social welfare consequences when domestic governments mandate the use of arm's length transfer prices between international subsidiaries.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

companies, where decision rights and incentives can be murky, and the effects of any given choice can be tough to pin down. So the authors chose a “lab rat” with fewer barriers to understanding—the venture capital industry. VC firms are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

those created by well-designed policy (the PPF). Specifically, this note analyzes how differences in governance structure, termination capabilities, funding mechanisms, and asset management policies created distinctly different financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2010
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First Look: May 11

Invention of Data Privacy in the United States and France Author:J. Gunnar Trumbull Publication:In The Voice of the Citizen Consumer, edited by K. Bruckweh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Lessons from the Crisis... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Robert Goodwin

talking about? Africa, for example, is littered with good intentions and strategic plans for what needs to happen. But there aren’t a lot of people on the ground who have the knowledge to follow through with implementation. A huge lesson I learned from my View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-028.pdf Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting Authors:Alessandro Bucciol, Natalia Montinari, and Marco Piovesan Abstract This paper examines whether monetary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

policy solutions, a challenging proposition in a politically polarized environment. This paper focuses on how CEOs engage in the political process to encourage government policies that will foster sustainability transitions and address... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

Jorge Tamayo Abstract—Canonical models of criminal behavior highlight the importance of economic incentives and employment opportunities in determining participation in crime (Becker, 1968). Yet, deriving causal corroborating evidence... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About

interests of society and spurs innovation. Even as we face challenges, I believe business can and will play a leadership role in devising solutions to the environmental, social, and governance problems that feel so urgent now. And this is... View Details
  • 31 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

are agencies' revenue models and their incentives to produce credible and accurate ratings? And what fault lines do you see in this process? A: Three different revenue models have been tried or proposed for ratings firms. Currently,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 09 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

The widespread use of pricing algorithms is reshaping the nature of competition in online markets and potentially driving up the prices of retail goods, according to recent research. These automated, price-adjusting software programs may also be catching the eye of... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Criminology and African American Studies, University of Iowa; Nonresident Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution; Carr Center Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School... View Details
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

the weakening of democratic governance and the politics of decisions about industrial policy. Publisher's link: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-05631-9.html August 2013 Research Policy Digital Dark Matter and the Economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne