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  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less emphasized explanation is between-firm selection and market reallocation, whereby competition from multinationals leads to factor View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2014
  • Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

whereby headquarter locations have been split up and reallocated across the world, and c) the growing importance of non-US markets for US firms. Rather than questioning the loyalties of executives, it is critical to understand these... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical
  • 06 Nov 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

reallocates resources to go after those 'cracks', they will be missed." At the end of the day, he wrote, "most investors are looking at total cash flow return on total investment. An agile corporate center can better focus on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 11 Jan 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

philosophy are flawed? What if intellectual capital rather than financial capital was the scarce resource, as it is in many companies today? Unlike financial resources, an organization's vital information, knowledge, and expertise cannot be hauled to top management... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 4

India on firm size dynamics and reallocation of resources within industries. Following deregulation, resource misallocation declines, and the left-hand tail of the firm size distribution thickens significantly, suggesting increased entry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 22

2003. An open-economy after-tax capital asset pricing model is used to derive the hypothesis that JGTRRA should lead to a portfolio reallocation by U.S. investors towards equities in tax-favored countries. A difference-in-difference... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

instance — is what the researchers call the intramedia decision. Here there is considerably more price sensitivity and a greater willingness to reallocate expenditures. A fundamental question bearing on rivalry in the advertising industry... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising
  • 02 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Spending on Happiness

of dollars to charity to experience the benefits of prosocial spending; small changes—a few dollars reallocated from oneself to another—can make a difference. Q: So many of us equate having money with happiness. How does this relate to... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 16 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 16

multinational's country of origin and subsidiary's country of location increases decentralization, even after instrumenting trust using religious and ethnic similarities between the countries. Trust raises aggregate productivity through two channels: (1) trust... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 9, 2016

Statistics Trade Credit and Taxes By: Desai, Mihir, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Abstract—This paper analyzes the extent to which firms use trade credit to reallocate capital in response to tax incentives. Tax-induced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2015
  • Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

election, the Athens stock market index is down by almost 20 percent and the bank index by 45 percent. Investors, which are so badly needed in order to restart the Greek economy, are fleeing the country expecting that the economy will get worse, not better. This View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 07 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

preoperative holding room was less than that of placing epidurals in the operating room. Personnel reallocation and workflow changes resulted in mean cost reductions of 14% with epidurals in the holding room and 7% cost reductions with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

can be reallocated to lower-tax jurisdictions with a fair amount of ease. Finally, changing patterns of incentive compensation have sharpened incentives to squeeze profits out of parts of the organization that were heretofore not profit... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

FDI are raising concerns that there might be bidding wars: This means governments throwing a lot of money to foreign investors. This weakens corporate finances and can also start the reallocation of resources. "Is Brazil as a country... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 22 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

forthcoming American Economic Review Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Jun 2003
  • What Do You Think?

What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?

on basic courses such as marketing, accounting, and the like does so at the risk of inadequately providing its graduates with the basics needed for success in the early years of their careers. Do recent events warrant this reallocation of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

market reallocation and survival of only the most productive domestic firms. We develop a model that incorporates both aspects and identify their relative importance in the gains from multinational production by exploring their distinct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

offer order management solutions and the corresponding efficiency that can then be gained by reallocating sales investments. Some small innovative firms like Comergent have taken it a step further. They offer an integrated demand chain... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path

Yes, overall, the US business sector has been remarkably strong in this crisis, but there has been a lot of reallocation between sectors. Roughly 400,000 firms in the United States fail every single year. We don’t have updated numbers yet... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

reallocation effects, and the linkages generated between foreign and domestic firms. The survey focuses mainly on work related to developing countries. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52689 February 22,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne