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- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
perspectives of investors, lenders, and suppliers and shows that inventory turns, a commonly used metric to identify excess inventory, has limitations that reduce its utility for all these stakeholders. This paper presents a new metric,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
non-fundamental risk. We define an asset to be fragile if it is susceptible to non-fundamental trading shocks. An asset can be fragile because of concentrated ownership or because its owners face correlated liquidity shocks, i.e., they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
to Multinationals examines the evolution of multinational trading companies from the eighteenth century to the present day. During the Industrial Revolution, British merchants established overseas branches which became major View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
Daniel Kahneman, 217-247. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Abstract We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
under plausible assumptions regarding this altruism and the reaction of consumers to firms that demonstrate insufficient altruism, existing firms (or brands) can face a larger demand for new products than View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
a period of financial repression. Nationalization led to lower interest rates and lower quality intermediation and may have slowed employment gains in trade and services. Development lending goals were met, but these had no real impact.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2008
- Working Paper
Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya
By: Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine and Dean Karlan
In much of the developing world, many farmers grow crops for local or personal consumption despite export options which appear to be more profitable. Thus many conjecture that one or several markets are missing. We report here on a randomized controlled trial conducted... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Developing Countries and Economies; Trade; Profit; Product Marketing; Standards; Failure; Risk and Uncertainty; Non-Governmental Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Service Industry; Kenya; Europe
Ashraf, Nava, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan. "Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-065, February 2008. (forthcoming, American Journal of Agricultural Economics.)
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
particularly in venture-funded companies where investors seek to protect their intellectual property. It might seem that Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) would guard against the loss of trade secrets and other IP, but such agreements are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
"hot money" moving quickly in and out of the Fund. This short-term trading is an attempt to take advantage of the difference between the closing times of the Tokyo and New York Stock Exchanges. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
study they asked, what is the effect of mandatory sustainability reporting on management practices across the world? Read the paper: http://bsr.london.edu/lbs-article/611/index.html Mutual Fund Trading Pressure: Firm-Level Stock Price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
attributable to comparability. Together, the findings are consistent with mandatory IFRS adoption improving comparability and thus leading to capital market benefits by reducing insiders' ability to exploit private information. Epistemic Contests and the Legitimacy of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
economic impact of digitization, with each chapter identifying a promising new area of research. The Internet is one of the key drivers of growth in digital communication, and the first set of chapters discusses basic supply-and-demand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
trading volume, and more dispersion in analyst forecasts following the calls. Further, the capital market's response to linguistic complexity is limited to firms for which there is greater demand for English-language conference calls. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
Abstract This paper empirically investigates how market leadership influences firm propensity to adopt new business process innovations. Using a unique data set spanning roughly 35,000 plants in 86 U.S. manufacturing industries, I study... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
key problem for organization design will be the management of distributed innovation in such dynamic ecosystems. Specifically, how should diverse entities be integrated into a coherent network that generates goods in the present and new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents
the US withdrew this ill-fated measure in 2003 after the World Trade Organization authorized the largest penalty sanctions ever against a member state, and after the European Union threatened retaliation. Back then, there was ample... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
the company's marketing department into an integral part of product development, product management, and strategic planning after years of relative neglect is considered. The role of Chief Executive Officer Jeff Immelt in initiating and overseeing that change is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
season. We first document relatively low levels of adoption of this new risk management technology: only 5%-10% of households purchase insurance, even though rainfall variability is overwhelmingly cited by households as the most important... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
large sample of publicly traded U.S. firms over 15 years, we confirm that in the early 1990s, analysts issue more pessimistic recommendations for firms with high CSR ratings. However, in subsequent years up to 2007, analysts progressively... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
issuance and for trading in the secondary market and are robust to a series of bond and issuer controls, including issuer fixed effects as well as liquidity and duration. Comparison of the ex-post performance of bonds acquired by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne