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- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
August 2013 Management Science The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance By: Eccles, Robert G., Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim Abstract—We investigate the effect of corporate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
something? Based on my experience as a real estate and construction CEO and my academic research on urbanization, new cities, and the finance of sustainable infrastructure, I propose these simple ABCs (actually A-F) for business leaders... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
to European banks, we evaluate a variety of interventions to reduce their vulnerability to fire sales during the sovereign debt crisis. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
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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
- 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010
and recovery to be associated with increases in orders from Hugo Boss's retailer customers Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-034.pdf A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity Authors:Robin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced firm risk, consistent with a decrease in debt-equity conflicts of interest. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract—This paper documents a set of stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility in the nonfinancial corporate sector in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
in press Journal of Systems and Software Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect-related Activity By: MacCormack, Alan, and Daniel J. Sturtevant Abstract—Technical debt is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007
reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming constant debt levels does not allow addressing one of the puzzles behind using reserves as a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically. We revisit sovereign debt sustainability under the assumptions that countries can... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
compensation plan. Substantively, the paper sheds insights on how different elements of the compensation plan enhance productivity. We find evidence that: (1) bonuses enhance productivity across all segments; (2) overachievement commissions help View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Professors Introduce Valuation Software
to see how off-balance sheet debt affects the company's performance, they can easily adjust the financials for that affect. If they want to see how expensing stock options would affect the company's performance, they can add that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016
service requests to their city government. Users who viewed photos of city workers responding to their service requests were more likely to continue using the app over the ensuing 13 months, demonstrating that operational transparency led to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
capital flows—both debt and equity—into public and private components and study their relationship with productivity growth. This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions and sovereign to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
often for two or more years. Any debtor, no matter how small, could hold up the process at any point by issuing written complaints to the court. Fernando needed to figure out whether the company was worth saving, whether it had a business strategy that could succeed if... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
will be critical to their success. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51813 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
emerging Asian markets. Paper: http://www.asiabusinessinsights.com/articles.html#sub_articles_E-commerce_in_Asia Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel G. Hanson Publication:Review of Financial Studies Abstract We show that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016
can harness volunteer leadership for transformative change; and how professionals can sustain core values in the midst of daily routine. The diverse array of writers with international reputations in their fields makes it the only book of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18250 The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Abstract We examine the effect of mandatory corporate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
no legal duty to protect or serve the companies whose shares they own; they are shielded by the doctrine of limited liability from legal responsibility for those companies’ debts and misdeeds; they may buy and sell shares without... View Details
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