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  • 13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

contribution to employment, I find that labor-intensive firms are less likely to be subject to an SEC enforcement action. Next, I show that labor-intensive firms are less likely to face an SEC enforcement action in presidential election years if they are View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006

Jones Author's Abstract A noteworthy characteristic of the contemporary global economy is the uneven distribution of world foreign direct investment (FDI). While in the first global economy before 1929 most FDI was located in developing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

and test an empirical framework which allows us to separate selection from treatment effects of large shareholders. Individual blockholders tend to hold blocks in public firms located close to where they reside. Using this empirical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

If a dike or dam has sprung a number of leaks, there are many possible ways to respond. The initial impulse is to assiduously plug one hole after another, hoping that the situation will right itself. Another approach—and often a more sensible one—is to step back, View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman
  • June 2010 (Revised December 2013)
  • Case

Hang Lung Properties and the Chengdu Decision (A)

By: John D. Macomber, Michael Shih-Ta Chen and Keith Chi-Ho Wong
A residential real estate developer competes in a heated auction for a prime retail development site in the interior of China during the 2009 boom. Total project cost might be in excess of $1 billion U.S. for over 4,000,000 square feet of building. Hang Lung Properties... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Return; Geographic Location; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Infrastructure; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; Chengdu
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  • 20 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

have low-cost energy. JR: Mike described some issues that make location choices a hard problem for multinational corporations—particularly, hidden costs that don't appear until years in the future. A second... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
  • 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

innovations might impact—and be impacted by—workers, consumers, organizations, and society. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55845 March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Choice... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

Location Choices Through the Value Chain By: Alcácer, Juan, and Mercedes Delgado Abstract—We explore the impact of geographically bounded, intra-firm linkages (internal agglomerations) and geographically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation

translates upstream to a company’s willingness to produce new products.” That could take the form of more diagnostic tests or other complementary technologies that would help monitor procedures—for example, a new device to check the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/09/contextual-intelligence/ar/1 September 2014 The Interdisciplinary Science of Consumption Appetite, Consumption, and Choice in the Human Brain By: Knutson, Brian, and Uma R. Karmarkar... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

located upstream versus downstream from that stage, as well as by the firm's productivity. Our results suggest that contractual frictions play an important role in shaping the integration choices of firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

innovations from industry outsiders who saw economic opportunities where others didn’t—and how these mainstream firms had no choice but to innovate themselves. New models were tried: some succeeded, some failed. Commercial markets turned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

Authors:Richard M.J. Bohmer and Thomas H. Lee Publication:New England Journal of Medicine 361, no. 6 (August 5, 2009) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://healthcarereform.nejm.org/?p=1347 Dividend Taxes and International Portfolio View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers

says John. “When people weren’t presented with a privacy notice, their purchase interest was about twice that of those who had been shown the privacy notice.” In another experiment involving a car GPS system, the researchers showed some people a warning about how their... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
  • 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

when an independent director is more likely to dissent and who is more likely to dissent. Controlling for firm and board characteristics, we find that dissent is significantly correlated with breakdown of social ties between the independent director and the board chair... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

of all organizational units. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-030.pdf Future Lock-in: Or, I'll Agree to do the Right Thing Next Week Authors:Todd Rogers and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When making decisions a person often thinks that she should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

place. The leading players in these clusters are multilocation firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide. Strong internal links across locations allow these firms to leverage knowledge for competitive advantage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008

economists, to kidney exchange, and school choice in New York City and Boston. Third-World Multinationals: A Look Back Author:Louis T. Wells Periodical:In Emerging MNEs from Emerging Markets, edited by Ravi Ramamurti and Jitendra V.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

affects interventional cardiologists deciding between two types of cardiac stents. Analyzing 147,000 choices over six years, we find that individuals do respond to negative news by using the focal production tool less often. However, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

1972 to 1982, and both ran biotech firms located in a similar geographical region, Cambridge, Massachusetts, starting around the same time period, 1983 versus 1985. In several ways, the early design choices... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark

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