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  • 31 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

approach, you can get more efficiency out of the system and still have a nice balance of fairness when you have two conflicting programs in the system." According to the US Congress Joint Economic Committee, the cost associated with... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation
  • 14 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 14

of host countries' investment laws. Second, and perhaps most important, is the very rigid view of contracts that panels have tended to take, even when a host country acts as a result of an economic crisis. A third cause of backlash is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 1

  Working PapersWhat Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we articulate a positive theory of GAAP under the assumption... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 24

  PublicationsHigher Risk, Lower Returns: What Hedge Fund Investors Really Earn Authors:Ilia Dichev and Gwen Yu Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract The returns of hedge fund investors depend not only on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

acquisition, offer branding guidelines, and explain how a choir of angel investors often will sing different parts. Publisher's link: http://www.amazon.com/Managing-Startups-Best-Blog-Posts/dp/1449367879 2006 Journal of Economic Behavior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

classical economic model and discussing extensions of the classical model and explanations grounded in behavioral economics that can account for the observed patterns. This part covers five topics:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10

more than twice as likely to be untrustworthy as uncertified sites. This difference remains statistically and economically significant when restricted to "complex" commercial sites. Meanwhile, search engines create an implied... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

productivity and employment. There are few significant differences between industries with limited and high private equity activity. It is hard to find support for claims that economic activity in industries with private equity backing is... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 22, 2006

business in the early 21st century: to promote economic growth; to protect workers; to promote consumer welfare, and to promote public welfare. Other major economic powers tend to have laws that promote... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 3

field and other business fields complements the contributions from industrial organization economics (IO). These business fields also offer theoretical and empirical challenges to the IO paradigm, which dominates antitrust analysis. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

Samuel G., and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop a novel methodology to infer the amount of capital allocated to quantitative equity arbitrage strategies. Using this methodology, which exploits time-variation in the cross section of short... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

course with HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan on business serving the so-called "base of the pyramid" sector. Chu says microfinance is one of the few effective responses to poverty that he is aware of, and its concepts and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

applicable to every listed company in the world: "The market capitalisation of any company listed on the [Johannesburg Stock Exchange] equals its economic value and not its book value. The financial report of a company, as seen in its... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

lock-in in light of hyperbolic discounting, multiple selves, and wise policy design. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-038.pdf The Political Economy of Capitalism Author:Bruce R. Scott Abstract Capitalism is often defined as an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

requirements. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w19018 Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture By:Baldwin, Carliss Y., Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract—In this paper, we describe an operational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-109.pdf When Smaller Menus Are Better: Variability in Menu-Setting Ability Authors:David Goldreich and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract The economics literature on choice focuses on individuals' decisions when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

And it is changing fast. Its size and importance to human, environmental, and economic health means that no system is viewed with as much suspicion by so many people around the globe. Changing societal expectations and scientific and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

forthcoming Annual Review of Economics History, Micro Data and Endogenous Growth By: Akcigit, Ufuk, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—Economic growth is concerned with long-run changes, and as a result historical data should be especially... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

companies had already begun using this methodology to calculate their emissions in three categories. Carbon accounting Scope 1: GHG emissions that come directly from sources that a firm or group controls or owns, such as vehicles or... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 21 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 21

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52435 CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Pratt, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in Brazil, France, Germany, India, UK, and U.S. using a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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