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- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
risk or speculate on future price trends. In recent decades trading had undergone significant growth. From its roots in agricultural commodities, with trading typically occurring in face-to-face transactions in pits on exchange floors,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
transactions are made far in advance are markets in which it is acceptable for firms to make exploding offers, and unacceptable for workers to renege on commitments they make, however early. But this evidence is only suggestive, because... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
16,000 children in low-income neighborhoods across California and neighboring states. Observes Baer, “When your organization is such a visible part of a city, you have a unique opportunity to take actions — either through community outreach or through business View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Those selecting earlier settlement options pay higher fees and interest, therefore revealing the level of credit constraints or impatience. We find that more credit constrained or impatient individuals spend their monies more quickly. The mix of cash and merchant View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495 transactions with a focus on one form of long-term activities, namely investments in innovation as measured by patenting activity. We find no evidence that LBOs decrease... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
different, yet effective diversity efforts, each one closely aligned with the unique character of the particular firm. "Part of the key to an organization's success was adopting a model that worked well in its particular culture," Thomas explains. As a... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
peculiarity.” Guy said, “If you don’t have sizzle, who cares about security?” LarryWilhel added, “Cook should get focused on leading the company. Apple Pay has the opportunity to manage a trillion dollars of transactions a year ... There... View Details
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
transactions in the market for ideas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45527 Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay By: Keloharju, Matti, Samuli Knüpfer, and Joacim Tåg... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
Proprietary and Shared Platforms: A Life-Cycle View Author:Thomas R. Eisenmann Abstract In a platform-mediated network, users rely on a common platform, provided by one or more intermediaries, that encompasses infrastructure and rules required by users to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
View Video Cashex is building services to make life easier for African migrants by offering seamless digital banking that allows Africans in the US to send money to their families with zero transaction fees. Peter M. Sacerdote $25,000... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
advertising," Scher explains. Similarly, from the royalty it receives for marketing a credit card, Working Assets donates to the nonprofit pool a dime for every credit-card transaction its customers make. Through various virtual market... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
lawsuits alleging that the company had damaged creditors in their quest to preserve equity value. Of particular focus were a series of transactions that took place during 2013 and 2014 to sell assets from one subsidiary to another and to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
perceived benefits from lowering transactions costs to foreign financial-statement users increase and contribute significantly towards the country's decision to adopt IFRS. We find that perceived network benefits increase the degree of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
increased scope for markets, and distrust of markets generally. Our results suggest that while the public is potentially receptive to compensating kidney donors, among those who oppose it, general disapproval towards certain kinds of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
with relatively little industry experience and those with considerable experience but in other industries. The increase in investment rates does not affect the success of these transactions adversely to a significant extent. These... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
out. These agents are more likely to alter their electronic currency balance on a day (rebalance). In contrast, agents trained in person but who receive summary statistics of transaction volumes or agents who are notified about the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
small association with violations in the unauthorized channel. Last, we link our results to the literatures on agency theory, transaction cost analysis, and theories of price obfuscation. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
inform her engagement in social change.Yuille’s diverse professional formation — federal law clerk, Latin Americanist socio-economic development lawyer, Wall Street corporate transactional attorney, public school teacher, pro bono... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Minimizing Joint Gains: An Ethical Dilemma? Authors:Stephen M. Garcia, Max H. Bazerman, and Dale T. Miller Abstract People prefer maximizing joint gains (e.g., self gets $600 / counterpart gets $800) instead of receiving lower amounts (e.g., self and other each get... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
sample of M&A deals from 2003 to 2015 to identify four such areas of evolution in current transactional practice: (1) termination fee "creep," which was pervasive in the 1980s and 1990s, seems to have gone away by the 2000s;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne