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  • 19 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 19, 2016

borrowers likely involve fewer monitoring tools and weaker control rights. We evaluate these explanations of cov-lite contract provisions in a large sample of U.S. loans for the 2001–2014 period. Consistent with creditor-driven... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

207-075 In May 2006, a resident of Key West, Florida had to decide whether to renew his policy to insure against hurricane damage. The policy would cost $13,000 for one year, $5,000 more than what he paid in 2005. At the same time, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Riding It Out

dog-sized doses,” says Minard. Going beyond supplements, SmartPak Canine introduced high-quality, premeasured dog food, inspired by Tally, Minard’s lovable but extremely overweight (94-pound) Lab. Including high-protein dry food in one of the SmartPak compartments... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 26 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Syngenta Tomato Vision

sanitation station in order to avoid bringing any unwanted diseases into the greenhouse. It is an active greenhouse, meaning the team has full control over the climate and light conditions. Inside, there are dozens of rows of tomato... View Details
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

the social objective function, tagging generates costs that must be weighed against the benefits it generates through conventional channels. Only tags that are sufficiently predictive of ability, such as disability status, will be used.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

degree of coordination required in the relationship, and that the effect of dispute approach on resolution costs is moderated by the degree of power asymmetry between the parties. Thus, even after View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Lords of Strategy

strategy revolution was a way of systematically putting together all the elements that determined their corporate fate, in particular, the three Cs central to any good strategy: the company’s costs, especially costs relative to other... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

between bundling and indirect network effects, we find that they act as substitute strategies, with a lower relative effectiveness for bundling when network effects are stronger. 2013 pub From Social Control to Financial Economics: The... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

most rigorous extant methodologies for detecting "tunneling," or efforts by firms' controlling owner managers to take money for themselves at the expense of minority shareholders. We find that, in contrast to prior views, Indian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Nov 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

and my bosses' interests. It was terrifying." Loyalty is something that we come to expect as leaders. Understanding what loyalty can look like from a subordinate's point of view is illuminating, helping us understand the choices that we ask our subordinates to... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

including patients, physicians, employers, insurance companies, and the government need to recognize that value is best defined as “a given health outcome per dollar of cost expended.” In this article, we examine some of the challenges to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

Online Advertising By: Kireyev, Pavel, Koen Pauwels, and Sunil Gupta Abstract—As firms increasingly rely on online media to acquire consumers, marketing managers feel comfortable justifying higher online marketing spending by referring to online metrics such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

by increased bank capital requirements can reduce overall bank funding costs and increase bank lending. I quantify this mechanism in a two-sector business cycle model featuring a banking sector that provides liquidity and has excessive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

outcomes while controlling for the endogenous matching of projects and organizational forms. Solo firm leases are less profitable than alliance leases because alliance members combine their information and expertise. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53811 Do Banks Have an Edge? By: Begenau, Juliane, and Erik Stafford Abstract—We decompose bank activities into passive and active components and evaluate the performance of the active components of the bank business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work

to maximize their time in the office," Sadun says. The Monsoon And Cricket Effect The researchers also took care to look for outside events that might affect the CEO's cost of exerting work effort within the survey week, testing whether... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

in the control group receive a standard volunteer contract often offered for this type of task, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive small financial rewards, large financial rewards, and non-financial rewards,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16

research. Analysis of the citation rates of the articles in our data set by non-negotiation organizational research indicates that more open systems assumptions increase the likelihood that a negotiation article will be cited in organizational studies, after View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

infringement and support small inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out firms that, absent NPEs, would produce... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel