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- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
consequence of these developments, these firms now face a wide variety of governmental regulations and institutional environments around the world. In short, tightly integrated global operations with a rising reliance on foreign... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016
anti-predatory laws to instrument for an outward shift in the supply of credit. First, a comparison between counties in the top and bottom deciles of presence of national banks in states with anti-predatory laws suggests that the preemption View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
Rica benefited from biodiversity and a pleasant climate, the country’s preeminence in ecotourism requires more than a natural resource endowment explanation. While previous literature has emphasized the efforts of the government and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
residents.” (Safe to say Draper’s envisioned government is smaller than what exists today, with fewer regulations in the business realm. “Libertarian” is one word that has been used to describe his politics,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
systems. We then develop a simple model of how these markets enable entry by small or flexible suppliers and the resulting impact on existing firms. Finally, we consider the regulation of peer-to-peer markets and the economic arguments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
arrive by motorcycle, a popular form of transportation. Inside, an iTrust relationship manager coaches a new financial adviser. While having a plan is essential, execution is the truly hard part. “India has certain quirks,” Varma laconically observes. First up, View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
scholars who focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task-enhancing port security across the United States. This title considers the challenge of driving change in a complex system involving hundreds of private organizations and scores of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
find support for these hypotheses. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2480097 Codes in Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
Associate Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Criminology and African American Studies, University of Iowa; Nonresident Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution; Carr Center Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
low and moderate income non-savers—and discusses the laws and regulations in the United States that largely prohibit their issuance. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16433 Cases & Course MaterialsHang Lung... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Werker Abstract Using rainfall, public relief, and election data from India, we examine how governments respond to adverse shocks and how voters react to these responses. The data show that voters punish the incumbent party for weather... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
Mozilo ... and 'Say on Pay' for All! (A) Harvard Business School Case 109-009 Union seeks to protect its pension funds through shareholder activism focused on corporate governance and executive compensation. The case uses Countrywide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2011
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First Look: May 10
reflect fundamental values in the current environment. After announcing the alternative valuation methodology in September 2009, he must convince industry participants—ship owners, appraisers, and bankers—to adopt the new valuation methodology and bank View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1
target market, but laws regulating e-cigarettes were far less stringent than those governing tobacco products. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/E-Cigarettes--Marketing-V/an/514059-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
responsibility of business leaders increases. We also document that both sustainable development and employee training become a higher priority for companies and that corporate governance improves. Furthermore, we find that companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
1971, JD/MBA 1978). Now Fisher is also on the board of Easterly Government Properties, and she’s launching two additional businesses: FitMoney, a nonprofit K–12 financial literacy program, and a health IT company that is still in the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
regulation are accounted for—must undergird any assessment of the long-term attractiveness of firm strategies. Our proposed framework provides an integrated view of competition and government intervention,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
and regulation of insurance markets, including the interaction between consumer choice difficulties or biases and adverse selection. We then document evidence on consumer mistakes in health-care utilization and treatment choices,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
chance of a Greek or Italian default today or the risks in the mortgage market in the United States viewed from the perspective of 2006." A Peek To The Future What fate befalls policyholders should reinsurers default after the next big calamaties? In the United... View Details