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  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

that over time they appear more skewed, more dispersed, and exhibit greater inequality. The share of total receipts realized by small agencies fell while that of large agencies rose. However, the position of mid-sized agencies appears to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

Publication:Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (forthcoming) Abstract People routinely engage in dishonest acts without feeling guilty about their behavior. When and why does this occur? Across four studies, people justified their dishonest deeds through moral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

local levels of government; (3) the Chinese electoral system; and (4) current pressures for change. Also includes a number of useful exhibits on Communist Party membership, political structure, and the administrative system. Can be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

of firm-level expected-return proxies (ERPs), based on the premise that superior proxies should closely track true expected returns both cross-sectionally and over time (that is, the proxies should exhibit lower measurement-error... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

firms' social responsibility and sustainability practices. Linguists suggest that obligatory future-time-reference (FTR) in a language reduces the psychological importance of the future. Prior research has shown that speakers of strong FTR languages (such as English,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

urban landscapes to anchor growth, generate land-lease revenues, and display a capacious administration, Chinese urban governments exhibit varying levels of control over land. This article uses a paired comparison of Dalian and Harbin in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

wealth is observed, the effect of higher wealth on equilibrium bribes is ambiguous (and that the political class will exhibit lower variance in consumption than the general population). In settings where formal contracts matter, we show... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

politicians from politically contested areas are also more likely to turn to toxic loans. Using a difference-in-differences methodology, we show that politicians time the election cycle by implementing more transactions immediately before an election rather than after.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

mergers and Pfizer as a marketing powerhouse growing through acquisitions is developed. Thirteen exhibits give concrete focus to the issues of the case. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

implies a counterfactual performance penalty of 106–277 basis points in annual returns. Consistent with these estimates, firms that choose index-based benchmarks exhibit lower annual returns and ROA. Finally, reduced-form analyses suggest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/rgreenwood/bgjs9.pdf The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying By: Kerr, William R., William F. Lincoln, and Prachi Mishra Abstract—We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior using a panel data set covering 1998-2006. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

historical and hypothetical scenarios. Additionally, we demonstrate that the exponential penalty approach exhibits exceptional computational performance, implying practical viability. Our results suggest that this approach could lead to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

levels—whether in a strategic planning meeting, or in Salzwedel's recent visit to a regional office to explain in person the content of and motivation for the company's new strategic plan. Anderson and Salzwedel were pleased that the just-ended meeting View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 418-036 Merging American Airlines and US Airways (B) Exhibit to Merging American Airlines and US Airways (A) case. In February 2013, US Airways... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

international equity markets, with a highly significant average slope coefficient of 1.05. In sharp contrast, standard factor-model-based proxies fail to exhibit predictive power internationally. We show analytically and empirically that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2

studies indicate that 1) individuals do not exhibit consistency in their sensitivity to variance; 2) consistent diminishing sensitivity is found within the gain and loss domain, but across these domains individuals seem to be consistent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

with more dedicated and fewer transient investors. This result is more pronounced for firms with high growth opportunities, not controlled by a family, operating in "sin" industries, and exhibiting more stable IR practice over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

Economics Prizes, Publicity, and Patents: Non-Monetary Awards as a Mechanism to Encourage Innovation By: Moser, Petra, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—This paper exploits the selection of prize-winning technologies among exhibitors at the Crystal Palace View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

focused on building up HabanaLive, the company’s new meetings, incentives, conferences, exhibitions (MICE) business, and growing CET’s luxury leisure business. This means meeting with partners like the Kempinski and cultivating new... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

contracts are structured as a repeated tournament with no carryover of performance across periods, we predict and find that workers subject to implicit rewards (penalties) exhibit performance reactions that counterbalance those of workers... View Details