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  • 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10

abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=6747   Working Papers Price Coherence and Excessive Intermediation By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Julian Wright Abstract—Suppose an intermediary provides a benefit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

Man, and operates ships that travel around the world. In analyzing the choices he faces, students must consider how the initial capitalization of Navigator contributed to its financial distress, evaluate several restructuring plans from a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

forthcoming PublicAffairs Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White-Collar Criminal By: Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract—From the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, the failings of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2016
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July 26, 2016

connecting the macroscopic with the microscopic in human behavior has traditionally been difficult. Manifestations of homophily, the notion that individuals tend to interact with others who resemble them, have been observed in many small and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

Financial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract In 1980, India nationalized its large private banks. This induced different bank ownership patterns across different towns,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

  Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have offered a combination of low... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

CMBS represent a $550 billion market. It's hard to overestimate the impact of this market restructuring. In fifteen years, the public equity and debt markets for commercial real estate have gone from financial infancy to trillion-dollar... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate
  • 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008

  Working PapersWhere Does It Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained Authors:Shawn A. Cole, John Thompson, and Peter Tufano Abstract In this paper, we analyze the spending decisions of over 1.5 million Americans who vary in their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

  Publications March 2015 Journal of Financial Economics Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors By: Hanson, Samuel G., Andrei Shleifer, Jeremy C. Stein, and Robert W. Vishny Abstract—We examine the business model of traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

turn, reveal that a significant group of firms have two-way "vertically permeable boundaries": (i) they participate in multiple stages of an industry's value chain, hence are vertically integrated, but also (ii) they allow both downstream units to purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

multiple charges of bribery, conspiracy, racketeering, and tax fraud. More recently, there’s the Scranton School Board. In October 2017, a scathing 107-page report from the state auditor general for July 2012 to June 2016 uncovered multiple examples of wasteful... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

import-intensive. Motivated by these facts, we build a dynamic model in which real depreciations raise the cost of importing intermediates but increase demand and the profitability to engage in exports and R&D, thereby relaxing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

ideas lie outside their organizations, in an ecosystem of potential innovators who possess wide-ranging skills and knowledge." Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/spurring-innovation-through-competitions/ August 2013 Journal of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

May 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading relationships shape their trading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

integrated, but also (2) they allow both downstream units to purchase intermediate inputs from and upstream units to sell intermediate goods to other sector firms. We demonstrate that the 10 largest... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-040_96933ceb-3097-4432-97d1-0b32625889f9.pdf January 2014 Harvard Business Review Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy By: Ready, Douglas A., Linda A. Hill, and Robert J. Thomas Abstract—When most of the world's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

viable,” says Slaughter. Today, CMBS represent a $550 billion market. It’s hard to overestimate the impact of this market restructuring. In fifteen years, the public equity and debt markets for commercial real estate have gone from View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

underlying reasons for their limited success. Our analysis of American Hospital Association (AHA) data on hospital-based ACOs found that many organizations do not have the capability to track and share performance metrics, including View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

Wall Street: From Managing Money to Saving Souls on the Streets of New York by Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In The Missionary of Wall Street, Auth shares dozens of riveting and often funny stories about ordinary Catholics from the View Details
  • 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

monopoly platform when the degree of horizontal differentiation between platforms is intermediate (low). On the other hand, more intense competition between active platforms (i.e., less differentiation) leads to less search diversion.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne