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  • 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

individual CEOs have an impact on a large set of measures of hospital performance. This result is not due to the allocation of good performers to poorly performing hospitals. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

coffee drink sold from a vending machine. Where do we compete? "What should a company's global footprint look like? How should it allocate resources across countries?" Collis asks. In the eternal battle between Coke and Pepsi, should... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon, who faces a time-varying investment opportunity set, parameterized using a flexible vector autoregression. We apply this framework to study the horizon effects in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

and the Allocation of Investment Authors:Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin Jacob Abstract When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). If there are no perfect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016

local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity (defined as the percentage of household income recovered by the unemployment benefit), we estimate that a one standard deviation increase in generosity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2010
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How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

and productivity, but also in the labor market, as information access and communication technology changes can be expected to affect the wage distribution in opposite directions," their paper states. The researchers looked at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008

Working Papers Firm-Size Distribution and Cross-Country Income Differences Authors: Laura Alfaro, Andrew Charlton, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract We investigate, using firm-level data for 79 developed and developing countries, whether differences in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

managed, while multinational, dispersed shareholder, and private-equity owned firms are typically well managed. Stronger product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006

highlights the process through which diversity initiatives become successful and offers insight into how organizations can more effectively recruit and retain a diverse workforce. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-019.pdf Manage Resource View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Transnational business regulation is increasingly implemented through private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

allocated to sustainable funds that invest in companies with specific environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors and goals. Since 2015, when the US Department of Labor began allowing pension fund... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy
  • 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14

because external capital markets became more costly, but also because the efficiency of internal capital allocation increased significantly during the crisis. Our analysis provides new evidence on how the diversification discount and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2015
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The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

same time, more investors are using the reported ESG data in their capital allocation decisions. Twenty years ago, there were fewer than 30 companies around the world releasing this kind of data. As of this year, there will be more than... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
  • 13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

was substantial. We also show that immigrant inventors were more productive than native born inventors; however, they received significantly lower levels of labor income. The immigrant inventor wage gap cannot be explained by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

international capital flows net of government debt are positively correlated with growth and allocated according to the neoclassical predictions; (2) international capital flows net of official aid flows, which are mostly accounted as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 7

  Publications October 2014 Management Science Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance and Resource Allocation in Science By: Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva Guinan, Karim Lakhani, and Christoph Riedl... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4

in Large Markets By: Kojima, Fuhito, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract—Accommodating couples has been a long-standing issue in the design of centralized labor market clearinghouses for doctors and psychologists, because couples... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

literature on information and control in interfirm agreements using a sample of over 100 Internet portal alliance contracts. The literature on information and control in alliances suggests that the use of verifiable performance measures to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

Bias for Normal Science: Evidence from Randomized Medical Grant Proposal Evaluations Authors:Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva C. Guinan, Karim R. Lakhani, and Christoph Riedl Abstract Central to any innovation process is the evaluation of proposed projects and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

Formation of Beliefs: Evidence from the Allocation of Land Titles to Squatters Authors:Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian F. Galiani, and Ernesto S. Schargrodsky Periodical:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We study the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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