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  • 25 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

How to Prevent Them, Bazerman and Watkins recently collaborated on the following e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: What distinguishes a predictable surprise from any event seen with 20/20 hindsight? Max Bazerman... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 30

& Law (forthcoming) Abstract The globalization of accounting standards as seen through the proliferation of IFRS worldwide is one of the most important developments in corporate governance over the last decade. I offer an analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218095-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-096 Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (B) Analyzes Snap’s value and analyst recommendations following the events described in the (A) case.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

percent had been acquired, and 6 percent had experienced an IPO. The incidence of bankruptcy in these social purpose companies was not unlike traditional early stage companies, but the percentage (15 percent) of companies that were able to achieve a liquidity View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 24 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

income exogenously allocated—complementary decisions should be more colocated, whereas substitute decisions should be more distributed. Confident people with a lot at stake should—in a wide range of settings—get more control. Learning in a New Cardiac Surgical Center:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

United States. In recent years, however, this centralized approach to the collection and analysis of adverse events through doctor-initiated case reports has been superseded by innovative, though episodic,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

models foreclosed by Google's restrictions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52178 January 2017 Nature Biomedical Engineering Review Times and Adverse Events for Cardiovascular Devices By: Stern, Ariel... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 5, 2016

and lowest quality. Our results underscore the importance of considering dynamic effects in the economic analysis of tort laws. Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Performance feedback is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 26

this earlier setting, we find cross-sectional evidence of improved earnings quality when auditors provide NAS, especially those related to information services. This is consistent with better audit quality from knowledge spillovers due to the joint offering of audit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 20

drives auditor lobbying. Broadly, our paper offers the first large-sample descriptive analysis of the role of Big N auditors in the accounting standard-setting process. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2545378 Cashing Out:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

managers’ contest, but the SEC does not allow exclusion, 21% go on to win shareholder or firm support suggesting that managers often seek to exclude legitimate shareholder interests from their proxy statements. Our analysis illuminates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

customers, and the variables involved in designing an optimal credit card. Concludes with a consideration of the decisions the CRM team had to make in designing the project, including whether to use conjoint analysis or implement a mini... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

reforming countries are directed towards other reforming countries. Analysis of firm-level responses to the creation of the ASEAN free trade agreement yields results that are consistent with these predictions. Download the paper from SSRN... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

so,” Kempf says. “We see it in views of the economy or views of certain risks, like the risk posed by certain political events or climate change or by the pandemic. There’s even the growing importance of partisanship in determining who... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

the forefront of American public policy. Press attention, congressional investigations, and legislative debates are highlighting the complex risk choices faced by patients, physicians, industry, and regulators in the post-market arena. To put current View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

2007-09 likely marks the beginning of the end of the Chimerican relationship. In this paper, we look at this era as economic historians, trying to set events in a longer-term perspective. In some ways, China's economic model in the decade... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

executives during the initial stages of implementing the new strategy. Our analysis demonstrates that this firm's balanced scorecard contained useful and timely information for distinguishing between these alternatives. These results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53459 Winter 2017 Oxford Review of Economic Policy An Invitation to Market Design By: Kominers, Scott Duke, Alexander Teytelboym, and Vincent P. Crawford Abstract—Market design seeks to translate economic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

Vayanos Abstract We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in which clienteles with strong preferences... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

in this field. Although the academics and CEOs agreed that innovation was key, especially process innovation, the content analysis revealed significant differences in the words most frequently used by CEOs—innovation, leadership,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

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