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  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 9, 2016

Statistics Trade Credit and Taxes By: Desai, Mihir, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Abstract—This paper analyzes the extent to which firms use trade credit to reallocate capital in response to tax incentives. Tax-induced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 16

multinational's country of origin and subsidiary's country of location increases decentralization, even after instrumenting trust using religious and ethnic similarities between the countries. Trust raises aggregate productivity through two channels: (1) trust... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

market reallocation and survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We develop a model that incorporates both aspects and identify their relative importance in the gains from multinational production by exploring their distinct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2015
  • Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

election, the Athens stock market index is down by almost 20 percent and the bank index by 45 percent. Investors, which are so badly needed in order to restart the Greek economy, are fleeing the country expecting that the economy will get worse, not better. This View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 02 Jun 2003
  • What Do You Think?

What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?

on basic courses such as marketing, accounting, and the like does so at the risk of inadequately providing its graduates with the basics needed for success in the early years of their careers. Do recent events warrant this reallocation of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

forthcoming American Economic Review Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

passing and running, defensive formations to protect the pass and the run—that Holcomb, Holmes Jr., and Connelly called resource bundles. Head coaches rely on their evaluations of players’ skills, and they reallocate players with specific... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 30 May 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

reallocation effects, and the linkages generated between foreign and domestic firms. The survey focuses mainly on work related to developing countries. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52689 February 22,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2014
  • Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

whereby headquarter locations have been split up and reallocated across the world, and c) the growing importance of non-US markets for US firms. Rather than questioning the loyalties of executives, it is critical to understand these... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical
  • 06 Nov 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

reallocates resources to go after those 'cracks', they will be missed." At the end of the day, he wrote, "most investors are looking at total cash flow return on total investment. An agile corporate center can better focus on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 11 Jan 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

philosophy are flawed? What if intellectual capital rather than financial capital was the scarce resource, as it is in many companies today? Unlike financial resources, an organization's vital information, knowledge, and expertise cannot be hauled to top management... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4

India on firm size dynamics and reallocation of resources within industries. Following deregulation, resource misallocation declines, and the left-hand tail of the firm size distribution thickens significantly, suggesting increased entry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

increasingly complex processes (including product R&D) and to reallocate resources away from long-term research have played a central role in the erosion of the US industrial commons. As we shall discuss, each of these individual... View Details
Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

instance — is what the researchers call the intramedia decision. Here there is considerably more price sensitivity and a greater willingness to reallocate expenditures. A fundamental question bearing on rivalry in the advertising industry... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising
  • 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53561 Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

Journal of Law & Economics Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India By: Alfaro, Laura, and Anusha Chari Abstract—This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm size dynamics and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

derive the hypothesis that JGTRRA should lead to a portfolio reallocation by U.S. investors towards equities in tax-favored countries. A difference-in-difference analysis that compares U.S. equity holdings in affected and unaffected... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

13% of employment over two years. In short, private equity buyouts catalyze the creative destruction process in the labor market, with only a modest net impact on employment. The creative destruction response mainly involves a more rapid View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

preoperative holding room was less than that of placing epidurals in the operating room. Personnel reallocation and workflow changes resulted in mean cost reductions of 14% with epidurals in the holding room and 7% cost reductions with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

can be reallocated to lower-tax jurisdictions with a fair amount of ease. Finally, changing patterns of incentive compensation have sharpened incentives to squeeze profits out of parts of the organization that were heretofore not profit... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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