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- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
developed the relevant capabilities, but the formation of a new set of core activities is still inhibited. Taking a micro-perspective, the paper argues that there are situations where direct top-down interventions are necessary. Termed as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
nonetheless was met with positive abnormal returns of U.S.-listed foreign firms in both home and U.S. markets. These abnormal returns are actually higher the greater the percentage of a firm's capital listed on non-U.S. exchanges but are... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
as the sector faced increased competition from foreign innovation hubs, was being reshaped by the growth of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) locating R&D centers in Israel, and had to contend with a vexing shortage of human capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
We exploit households’ portfolio weights in previous years as an instrument for actual capital gains and dividends payments. We find that unrealized capital gains lead to a marginal propensity to consume... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
better ex ante allocation of capital to qualified projects that causes creative destruction; rather banking deregulations can also "democratize" entry by allowing many more startups to be founded. The vast majority of these new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
2000s, a period during which Treasury bonds enabled investors to hedge macroeconomic risks. This paper develops a New Keynesian macroeconomic model with habit formation preferences that prices both bonds and stocks. The model attributes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
strength of the country, is increasingly failing to provide stable policy decisions addressing the issues Sweden is facing. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53584 October 2017 Review of Economics and Statistics A Field Experiment on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
close association between the characteristics of actors’ environment and the processes of network formation among actors. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50445 Accounting Data, Market Values, and the Cross... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
2000; Schilling and Phelps, 2007); growth (Galaskiewicz et al., 2006; Powell et al., 1996; Stuart, 2000); power (Fernandez and Gould, 1994); acquisition of competitive capabilities (McEvily and Marcus, 2005); alliance formation patterns... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
formation in which investors learn about the fundamental value of an asset and trade it. We study the interaction of diagnostic expectations with two well-known mechanisms: learning from prices and speculation (buying for resale). With... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508052 Ithmar Capital Harvard Business School Case 809-032 The founders of Ithmar Capital, a mid-market private equity fund targeting businesses in and addressing the Gulf Co-operation Council countries,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
Historically, assembling a dataset might involve delving through annual reports or archives that had not previously been organized into a format ready for research: in some cases, surveying stores, factories, consumers, or workers, or in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008
patent records to explore these trends with greater detail. The contributions of Chinese and Indian scientists and engineers to U.S. technology formation increase dramatically in the 1990s. At the same time, these ethnic inventors became... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
outcomes. Instead, in most lines of business—with the exception of a few commodities in which international trade had developed—firms had an incentive to remain small and to employ as little fixed capital as possible. It was in this era... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
necessarily surprising. Also worth noting—those wide receivers who switched teams and experienced a subsequent decline in performance saw that performance stabilize after only a year, suggesting that after an adjustment period “the team-specific human View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
strategies: matching, within-firm variation, and instrumental variable. Public firms' greater access to capital accounts for about one-quarter of the difference. The remainder can be explained by differences in the extent to which public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
firms and agglomeration economies. We focus on areas where empirical research is scarce but possible. We first outline a conceptual framework for city formation that allows us to contemplate what empiricists might study when using... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
evaluate policies that change incentives for entry into self-employment. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51676 Short-Termism and Capital Flows By: Fried, Jesse M., and Charles C.Y. Wang... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
begun to explore the use of more distributed institutional forms. In this article, we review the emerging scholarship on the formation and function of self-regulatory institutions. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
learning concepts tested at its Cuicuilco (Mexico) kids’ edutainment park. As part of an effort to build a global network of such ventures, proposals for new franchises in Doha and London as well as the format for the first KidZania to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne