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- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
secured lenders and other involved financial actors, like Carl Icahn and James Packer, as well as MGM MIRAGE major stockholder Kirk Kerkorian. The firm considers various options and remedies with respect to the claim by Dubai World....
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
midst of a famine that had claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, and piracy had recently become the country’s greatest claim to fame, securing ransoms to the tune of millions of U.S. dollars in one of the poorest corners of the global...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17
how, all the way through the 1970s, the U.S. not only failed to resist pressure to defend American investments, but also remained unsuccessful at altering internal institutions of other countries in order to make property rights secure in...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009
from initiating and smoothing communication to establishing long-lasting relationships and mutual trust, and from bargaining and drafting agreements to securing their implementation. Chinese negotiators can be at once warm hosts and...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
associations, impressions and reputations that people have of a certain place can have a big impact in a number of areas—from tourism, to exports, to drawing talent, to securing foreign investment, to public diplomacy, and to political...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016
Astroscale, which had secured private funding years earlier, was nearing the first demonstration of the technology. This case is intended to help students understand how a tragedy of the commons develops in a specific, nearly textbook...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9
International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (forthcoming) Abstract We describe a method for identifying "typosquatting," the intentional registration of misspellings of popular web site addresses. We...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
based on company profits, a crisis in performance automatically reduces their cost structure and allows them to avoid layoffs. The global economic crisis of 2008, the worst since the Great Depression, may make such policies more attractive to employees as job View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
commitments for repayment. Research suggests that a common commitment mechanism is to borrow U.S. securities laws, which involves listing the emerging economy firm's shares on a U.S. exchange. This paper uses a quasi-natural experiment...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007
users or securing their exclusive affiliation--are costly and risky. Describes less costly staged strategies for building two-sided platforms. With the "vendor to two-sided platform" strategy, a firm starts as a vendor selling...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
responsibility for securing these materials. Working PapersPayout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment Authors:Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin Jacob Abstract When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
Abstract We survey the theory and evidence of behavioral corporate finance, which generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial responses to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015
which diversified into dried fruit processing and a cab service, against a background of some economic and social progress, but also continuing economic, social, and security challenges in the country. In October 2014 President Ghani...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
financial crisis. The trouble is that investment value and asset volatility are simply the wrong measures if your goal is to secure a particular future income. In this article, Merton explains a liability-driven investment strategy whose...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12
generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial responses to securities mispricing. The managerial biases approach studies the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
areas. Nestlé, for example, redesigned its coffee procurement processes, working intensively with small farmers in impoverished areas who were trapped in a cycle of low productivity, poor quality, and environmental degradation. Nestlé provided advice on farming...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
be driven by market mispricing to undertake activity in a highly cyclical manner, accelerating activity during periods when securities can be readily sold to other parties. While financial economists have largely focused on bank lending,...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 2
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0910.html#wp10-061 Accelerating Innovation in Energy: Insights from Multiple Sectors Authors:Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell Abstract A combination of concerns about climate change and...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007
Knowledge Workers' Performance: Myth or Reality Authors:Boris Groysberg, Linda-Eling Lee, and Ashish Nanda Periodical:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the portability of star security analysts' performance....
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008
(Winner of the Barclays Global Investors Award, Best Paper in Asset Pricing, European Finance Association 2007) Abstract This paper uses social networks to identify information transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between...
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Martha Lagace