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- 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3
large private firms in the services sector. Rates of return also have remained stable over time and show low dispersion across sectors and across ownership groups within sectors. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-030.pdf Can View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13
during the interview process. Research shows that companies with more women on their boards have higher return on sales, higher return on invested capital, and higher return on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Mapping the Salt Tax That Helped Shatter a Monarchy | Working Knowledge
number of riots by 68 percent, indicating a strong connection between higher taxes and public unrest. Why did the impact of the salt tax peak in the 1780s? Researchers point to the local weather conditions during that decade, documenting... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Working PapersMixed Source Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study competitive interaction between profit-maximizing firms that sell software and complementary goods or services. In addition to tactical View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
helpless neighbor and to flex its geopolitical — and potentially expansionist — muscles. Big bully vs. little innocent. Case closed? Nyet. “The Western notion that Russia uses energy as a weapon is a media oversimplification of very... View Details
- 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30
find that U.S. listed foreign companies experience securities class action lawsuits at about half the rate as do U.S. firms with similar levels of ex ante litigation risk. The lower rate appears to be driven partly by higher transaction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
matter if they come from pure-play online retailers or omnichannel retailers, suck volume out of a store and often lead to more intense price competition. For reasons we'll cover later in this book, neither buy-online-pick-up-in-store nor... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
is higher than the exercise price of the option) within the agreed upon time frame, the likelihood can be so slight that they no longer provide much incentive. Hall has found that when options fall out of... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
FOR MORE INFORMATION Legislating Stock Prices Psst looking for a hot stock tip? Forget the Wall Street Journal. Try the Congressional Record. HBS professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy, with Dartmouth's Karl Diether, analyzed the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
media wanted Glauber’s expert opinion. After all, he played a key role in setting up the Resolution Trust Corporation to handle the S&L bailout in the late 1980s, and he helped formulate regulatory reform of commercial banks in the early... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
Geradin Abstract—Many of the largest and most successful businesses today rely on providing services at no charge to at least a portion of their users. For consumers, it is easy to celebrate free service. At least in the short term, free services are often high... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016
customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
We end by running instrumental variable estimates using indices of export prices for each state to instrument for revenues per capita. Our instrumental variable estimates confirm our results that states with commodities that had View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
phenomenon that retailers have also seen in categories such as home and fashion, but beauty’s more accessible price point makes it a natural space for retailers to experiment with the hybrid shopping model. The everyday presence of beauty... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
depends upon the decisions of two or three people in the oil business— that's the leader of Saudi Arabia and the president of Mexico, principally," Stobaugh explains. Recent higher prices paid by consumers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
at around $450 for months). I don’t expect volatility to go away anytime soon, as it is still highly speculative, highly concentrated and doesn’t have enough liquidity yet. Most people think gold and silver have always been extremely stable; but looking back between... View Details
- 29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29
The price of output is a crucial determinant of this choice, since it affects the size of the pecuniary benefits: higher prices lead to more integration. Because tariffs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
paper, printing, and binding,” he points out. “They relate to the book’s distribution, the absence of returns, and the absence of a physical bookstore with the associated costs of rent and staff.” Lower prices could attract more readers,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
Working PapersPoverty, Social Divisions, and Conflict in Nepal Authors:Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer Abstract We conduct an econometric analysis of the economic and social factors which contributed to the spread of violent conflict in Nepal. We find that conflict... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne