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- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
competition is restricted. Using 28 million vehicle emissions tests from more than 11,000 facilities, we show that increased competition is associated with greater inspection leniency, a service quality attribute that customers value but is View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
Professor Jonas Heese. When local newspapers shutter, some businesses evidently treat the lack of press coverage as permission to act badly and end up committing more illegal violations, including pollution, workplace safety infractions,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
to illegally hack into the phones of select individuals. That these hackers seem not to be News of the World employees illustrates the Russian nesting doll model, which contains the seeds of moral hazard, since it allows for the... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
Horie represented all that is wrong with Western-style capitalism, others saw him as the future of the country's media industry, and a man of the people. But last month, Horie was arrested on suspicion of accounting fraud and illegal... View Details
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
consumers are saved unnecessarily high fees. Opponents argue the rule would create an uneven playing field between products and raise fees. Related Reading: Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?... View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
In this case, it concerns the treatment of illegal immigrants already in the U.S. The fact that they are here and that millions of others have arrived in Europe suggests an increasing tendency for labor to seek global solutions. Whether... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
markets we want to create, given options of illegal file-sharing and copyright infringement," says Anteby. "Any arena where there are concerns that entrepreneurship would place us in a situation where we're not entirely... View Details
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
undereducated and underemployed, leading many to turn to gangs and illegal activity to survive. Meanwhile, companies such as Walmart and Hilton, which may want to enter the country, are thwarted by a lack of entry-level service workers.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
Times. The AHLA also launched a campaign to portray Airbnb hosts as being, in reality, commercial operators looking to compete illegally with hotels. As margin pressure increases from Airbnb properties over time, hotels will be forced to... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
particular, patient data can be shared relatively easily between providers within a given practice, and some of the errors that result from illegible penmanship might be avoided. "We rely on physicians' penmanship in making some pretty... View Details
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
such things are implemented." Kapil Kumar Sopory speculated, "The very idea of scanning someone's brain before employing him/her is mind boggling. And at present it may be illegal too it is all so complex that a laboratory... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
show that increased competition is associated with greater inspection leniency, a form of illicit quality that customers value but is illegal and socially costly. Firms with greater numbers of local competitors pass customers at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
at the end of the day, we are a principles-based society rather than a rules-based society, even though rules and referees are important. Enron's senior management straddled many gradations of ethical and legal behavior. At one end of the spectrum, where no charges of... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
disbelieving music industry with their findings that illegal music downloads don't hurt CD sales. Oberholzer discusses what the industry should do next. A Balanced Scorecard Approach to Measure Customer Profitability Published: August 8,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
from the list as "too sick to transplant," Roth says. The system is rife with trouble. First of all, "there aren't enough deceased donors," Roth says. Second, while healthy people are able to live with a single kidney—and therefore able to donate... View Details
- 17 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the Artful Sidestep
There are two findings that we find most interesting. First, it is striking that participants failed to punish the speaker when he dodged the question asked. For example, the speaker paid no price for answering a question about the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
extended turbulence. This working paper suggests that this context drove different business responses than in the developed world. Entrepreneurs counted more than managerial hierarchies, immigrants and diaspora were critical sources of entrepreneurship, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
adjustments, and Jepsen considers the wisdom of having him involved. Further, he has discovered an illegal practice to avoid customs duties that has been going on for years and condoned by the owner. He has taken steps to bring on new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
economic impact of export subsidies by investigating stock price reactions to a critical event in 1997. On November 18, 1997, the European Union announced its intention to file a complaint before the World Trade Organization (WTO), arguing that the United States... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
that marijuana was a popular treatment in the nineteenth century, and the drug was listed in the Dispensatory of the United States by the 1850s. The paper looks at how the Federal Bureau of Narcotics managed not only to illegalize the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino