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- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
television advertising influences online shopping. We construct a massive dataset spanning $3.4 billion in spending by 20 brands, including measures of brands' website traffic and transactions as well as ad content measures for 1,224... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
company. The company specialized in providing its clients with software used for transaction processing and risk management in various commodity markets. Triple Point Technology had grown substantially in its 13 years of existence and was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
Garry Twite Abstract U.S. corporations hold significant amounts of cash on their balance sheets, and these cash holdings have been justified in the existing empirical literature by transaction costs and precautionary motives. An... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
horizontal expansion into new alternative asset products and services, both organically and through acquisition. These included businesses in private equity, real estate, funds of hedge funds, alternative credit, opportunistic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
transactions and vice versa. This paper examines how service quality, competition, and poverty are related to demand and inventory (of electronic credit and physical cash) where, in this setting, service quality consists of pricing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
developing countries considering both creditor and debtor side of the international debt transactions. Using these measures, we demonstrate that sovereign-to-sovereign transactions account for upstream capital flows and global imbalances.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
monitor my investments as often as I like, and that I can perform all kinds of financial transactions from my home computer at a fraction of the cost I would have had to pay twenty years ago. In this sense, these are good times for... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
standardized, and centralized repository, it mitigates information costs for buyers and sellers and, thus, facilitates transactions in the market for ideas. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53959... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
innovations also present a panoply of challenges for communities and states. Surprisingly, federal laws are chief among those challenges despite the fact that online marketplaces facilitate transactions traditionally regulated at the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated. Drawing on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs, we develop a set of hypotheses about differences in the expected depth of internalization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
is, of course, that the affiliate did not actually cause the transaction. The transaction would have occurred anyway, and so any amounts paid to that affiliate are entirely wasted. Dell pays the money and gets no benefit; all the sales... View Details
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
to debate these issues. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507074 Grosvenor Group Ltd. Harvard Business School Case 207-064 A global real estate investment firm is trying to decide whether to enter into a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
market transactions. Theoretical predictions of a model of household division and land transactions are successfully tested using household panel data from West Bengal spanning 1967-2004. The tenancy reform lowered inequality through its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 was the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. The case examines the economics of the off-balance sheet transactions Lehman undertook prior to the collapse and highlights the corporate governance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
transactions structured? Lastly, for Wong and his top managers, how will each listing choice affect Gome's future development in the context of the pending market deregulation and expected industry consolidation? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
Chancery Court was considering a suit claiming that Del Monte board members had breached their fiduciary duty to shareholders by not pursuing the best transaction for Del Monte. In the course of the discovery phase of the trial, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
transacting in what feels awfully like a market. Continuity and Change in the International Diamond Market Author:Debora Spar Periodical:Journal of Economic Perspectives 20, no. 3 (summer 2006): 195-208 Abstract The international diamond... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
have been the envy of the world for their ability to minimize transaction costs, maximize liquidity and access, and fund a lot of very innovative and complex businesses. Unfortunately, the same forces that made markets so liquid may have... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
political scientist Karl Deutsch and associates, relying on research conducted in the early 1950s, emphasized that the internationalization of transactions had declined significantly since the beginning of the 20th century, and averred... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Abraaj Group and the Acibadem Healthcare Investment (B) This case provides an update on the ultimate outcome of the transaction presented in the (A) case. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/214022-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne