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- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
but would likely have to restructure to accommodate the new regulatory environment. The case allows students to consider the assumptions that underlie media regulation and to debate the role of media in society. It can also be used to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
funds exhibit no better skill at asset allocation. Furthermore, funds sold through brokers demonstrate more performance sensitivity than funds sold through the direct channel. While the costs of brokers' services are relatively clear, their benefits are not easily... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
bureaucracy can be wildly at odds with what entrepreneurs and their backers really need. Economists have also focused on a second problem, delineated in the theory of regulatory capture. These writings suggest that private- and... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
collection and privacy. Finally, we discuss emerging challenges surrounding software-driven medical devices, including open regulatory questions, advancements in underlying digital technology, and the likely necessity of new payment and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
legislative and regulatory calls for increased competition. The material entry of a third rating agency (Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers a unique experiment to empirically examine how, in fact, increased competition affects the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Science (forthcoming) Abstract While monitoring and regulation can be used to combat socially costly unethical conduct, their intended targets are often able to avoid regulation or hide their behavior. This surrenders at least part of the effectiveness of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
program for neuroscience entrepreneurs. The company has assembled a core staff and a roster of more than 140 mentors who are experts in its four areas of focus—product development, operations, clinical and regulatory affairs, and business... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Innovation ranks fifth, after more conventional concerns such as attracting and retaining top talent and the regulatory environment. Boards’ abilities to foster innovation clearly fall short when compared with their other activities.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
boundaries and property rights in a technical system. Bottlenecks are points of value creation and capture in any complex man-made system. The tools a firm can use to manage bottlenecks are first, an understanding of the modular structure... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
more or less effective? Does bundling serve as a complement or substitute to network effects? To address these questions, we develop a consumer-choice model from micro-foundations to capture the essentials of our setting, the handheld... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
investors execute similar trades through the same broker, allowing them to capture returns that are twice as large as their normal trading performance. Similarly, we show that the clients of the broker employed by activist investors to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
capturing value in modular systems. We illustrate each of the major strategies with examples from practice. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1971203 The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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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
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
throughout our system. It is perhaps a paradox that in order for a market-based system to really work effectively, you need a lot of people whose behavior and action is not based on the market, but rather on standards and principles that help that market function. Let... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
machines to cars. The story of Sunil Mittal (OPM 27, 1999) illustrates the challenges entrepreneurs faced in the years before the government loosened its regulatory hold on business. In 1983, Mittal saw a successful enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
business out of it. It is fair to say that without Li & Fung, the sourcing function for most major retailers in the U.S. would come to a grinding halt. Our framework for institutional voids captures what is common to all emerging... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
would have otherwise been undertaken at home. These two tempting claims are found to have limited, if any, systematic support. Instead, modern welfare norms that capture the nature of multinational firm activity recommend a move toward... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Moskowitz, and Annette Vissing-Jørgensen Abstract We provide new evidence on the success of long-run risks in asset pricing by focusing on the risks borne by stockholders. Exploiting micro-level household consumption data, we show that long-run stockholder consumption... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
private-sector financial intermediaries to engage in excessive amounts of maturity transformation—i.e., to finance risky assets using dangerously large volumes of runnable short-term liabilities. Specifically, we make the case that the Fed can complement its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
identifying possible forms of bias, and evaluating methods of verifying whether bias in fact occurs. I then consider possible legal and policy responses, and I assess search engines' likely defenses. I conclude that regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne