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  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

19th century but, by the end of the 20th century, had apparently grown to account for the bulk of it. Partly for this reason, replication is often treated, at least implicitly, as what "modern" or "true" multinationals... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

owned. This book explores the political logic of reforms to land ownership and control, accounting for how land development and real estate have become synonymous with economic growth and prosperity in China. Drawing on extensive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

spillovers. We conduct a field experiment in which agents recruited by a public health organization to sell condoms are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group are hired as volunteers, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive a small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

accounting standards to argue that when the political process of determining institutions of capitalism is "thin," in that managers find themselves with specialized technical knowledge unavailable to outsiders and with little... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818061-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-079 Margin Accounts No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218079-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 12, 2016

Calibrating the model to data from the Financial Accounts of the U.S., the optimal capital requirement is around 20%. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51305 Bias in Official Fiscal Forecasts: Can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

avoidance at portfolio firms as an additional source of economic value. We document that PE-backed portfolio firms engage in significantly more nonconforming tax planning and have lower marginal tax rates than other private firms.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2020
  • In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

promotions to control the flow of shoppers inside stores to meet social distancing requirements. Many started offering Black Friday deals in early November. Discounts appear to be larger than ever this year, likely reflecting soft consumer demand. The holiday season... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

Incentives, and Explicit Incentives Authors:Romana L. Autrey, Shane S. Dikolli, and D. Paul Newman Publication:Journal of Management Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We examine a setting in which managers have differential... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

of Arts and Sciences, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.amacad.org/pdfs/challenges.pdf Information Risk and Fair Values: An Examination of Equity Betas Authors:Edward J. Riedl and George Serafeim Publication:Journal of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

commitment to transparency increase the likelihood of providing fair values prior to their required provision under International Accounting Standard 40 - Investment Property. We also find that firms not providing these fair values face... View Details
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

predictions; (ii) international capital flows net of official aid flows, which are mostly accounted as debt, are also positively correlated with productivity growth consistent with the predictions of the neoclassical model; and (iii)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

we posit that cost transparency, insofar as it represents an act of intimate disclosure, fosters trust. In turn, this heightened trust enhances consumers’ willingness to purchase from that firm. This account was supported in four studies,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

the intensive margin vary substantially across technologies; (3) the cross-country dispersion of adoption lags has declined over time while the cross-country dispersion in the intensive margin has not; and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

In a Harvard Business School classroom, students in the Dynamic Markets class may have one minute to make a decision in a pressure cooker one called "the most stress I've experienced in ten years." It's margin call time in a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

the chain—failures of mobilization—occur when leaders recognize and give adequate priority to a looming problem but fail to respond effectively. When the Securities and Exchange Commission tried to reform the U.S. accounting system—well... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Our paper tests a key prediction of property rights theory, specifically, that agents will respond to marginal incentives embedded in property rights when making non-contractible, revenue-enhancing investments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

margin by 1 to 2 percent of sales within months. These improvements are significant for both small and large companies. Q: What are the key benefits to an organization for implementing this model? Can it be benchmarked and evaluated? A:... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

cross-country variation in the intensive margin of adoption accounts for more than 40% of the variation in income per capita. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-026.pdf Medium Term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

valuations of consumers who have access to vouchers must systematically differ from—and typically be lower than—those of consumers who do not have access to vouchers. Offering vouchers is more profitable for merchants that are patient or relatively unknown and for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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