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  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Deterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears

By: Benjamin Edelman
Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud can be well-hidden, and limited reputation systems reduce accountability. But partners are not paid until after their work is complete, and advertisers can... View Details
Keywords: Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Online Advertising; Profit; Corporate Accountability; Partners and Partnerships; Mathematical Methods
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  • 17 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun was on a fast track until the EC's antitrust concerns about open-source MySQL ignited a transatlantic war of words delaying the deal. Sun's performance suffered and its... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 25 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

effect that is strongest when recalls are in the same product area as innovation activity. A one standard deviation increase in the number of proximate focal firm recalls implies more than a one-year delay in minor innovation. However,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

investing, especially for smaller investors, and ultimately created greater returns than most professionally managed mutual funds could deliver. That has made index, or passive, funds wildly popular: For the 12-month period ending May... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

suggest that in many commonly regulated markets in which firms share similar cost structures, firms are likely to experience incentives to ratchet down and delay the introduction of innovative products. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology
  • January 2018 (Revised February 2018)
  • Technical Note

Making Markets

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Scott Duke Kominers
Explains how to identify and capitalize on marketplace design opportunities. Defines markets and marketplaces and describes the basic functions of each. Discusses attributes (e.g., heterogeneity of participants' preferences and asymmetry in available information) that... View Details
Keywords: Marketplaces; Two-Sided Markets; Entrepreneurship; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Auctions
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  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

trust and liquidity when launching new marketplaces as well as challenges encountered as marketplaces mature (e.g., congestion and disintermediation). Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

to strategically delay providing the service. Coordination Frictions in Venture Capital Syndicates By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract— An extensive literature on venture capital has studied... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

be headquartered in England in order to achieve a lower corporate tax rate. The British government favored the merger as it would boost the high-priority life sciences sector, but little attention was paid to whether the integration of the two company research groups... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
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Working Papers

By: Dennis A. Yao

 

Anton, James J. and Dennis A. Yao (2011).  "Delay as Agenda Setting." 

  • Abstract: In this paper we examine a class of... View Details
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Calling All Issuers: The Market for Debt Monitoring

By: Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen and Weiling Liu
95% of long-term municipal bonds have callable features, and yet we find new evidence of a substantial fraction of local governments exercising these valuable options sub-optimally, with significant delays – resulting in sizable losses. Using data from 2001 to 2019, we... View Details
Keywords: Bonds; Financial Institutions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Administration; Financing and Loans
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  • 02 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses

Ask any small business owner and they will tell you that cash flow is on their mind pretty much all the time. This isn’t surprising, given that they are continuously managing dollars coming in from customers View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
  • January 1993 (Revised May 2004)
  • Case

Laurinburg Precision Engineering

By: William J. Bruns Jr.
A small manufacturer needs additional financing for expansion and production improvements. A bond issue would provide needed funds, and a zero-coupon bond would delay payments until funds provided by operations were available. Present value tables are included. View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Bonds; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

data-sharing partnership that provided officials with traffic incident and congestion data. Since 2015, her program had enabled officials in Kentucky and elsewhere to share... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

percent of global output) by 2095. Moreover delaying action could increase mitigation costs by 40 percent every decade, making it ever more difficult to do what may need to be done. OP-ED COLLECTION The Business of Climate Change What... View Details
Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities
  • August 1980 (Revised March 1994)
  • Case

Freemark Abbey Winery

Freemark Abbey must decide whether to harvest in view of the possibility of rain. Rain could damage the crop but delaying the harvest would be risky. On the other hand, rain could be beneficial and greatly increase the value of the resulting wine. This decision is... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Forecasting and Prediction; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

August 14, 2017 Harvard Business Review Study: More Frequent Sales Quotas Help Volume but Hurt Profits By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53548 November 14, 2017 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Handgun Waiting Periods Reduce Gun Deaths By: Luca, Michael, Deepak Malhotra, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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