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  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

rubber markets during the boom years of 1870-1910 shows that the government generated 1.3% of GDP through an export tax on rubber but that it could have generated 4.7% in total, had the government set the tariff at the optimal level.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54214 forthcoming Operations Research Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization By: Ferreira, Kris J., David Simchi-Levi, and He... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest. China seemed without peer. Decline came fast. By 1900, China had been invaded,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

default. Over the two years preceding default, we find that ratings grow increasingly pessimistic relative to a standard benchmark rating model prediction, while optimism remains for similar firms that do not default. Further, we find... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

consequence of these developments, these firms now face a wide variety of governmental regulations and institutional environments around the world. In short, tightly integrated global operations with a rising reliance on foreign operations are the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

2012 French presidential election. While existing experiments randomized door-to-door visits at the individual level, the scale of this campaign (five million doors knocked) enabled randomization by precinct, the level at which vote... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

been ever upward. There was some hope that the concept of "say-on-pay," where shareholders vote on the CEO's compensation, might have some impact by making compensation committees more cautious, but we clearly still have a long... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

for better accountability to project-affected communities, or in improving board accountability through greater transparency in decision making, more representative vote allocation, or better parliamentary scrutiny. Before elaborating, I... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 19 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

Mexican history, he found a common thread running through the country's various shifts of power: reliance on a third party to enforce the rules (such as property rights) that make it possible to do business. A Stake In The Game Porfirio... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

fields. A sponsor is someone who advocates for a protégé, and in doing so, takes a stake in her success. We use a laboratory experiment to explore two channels through which sponsorship has been posited to increase advancement in a competitive workplace. In our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

rules and purchase orders, and can optimize supply chains across different systems. Niche leverage: Power over keystones. Finally, the emergence of loosely coupled technology interfaces has another critical... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 18 Sep 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

campus is closed to most motor vehicles, a rule that encourages face-to-face encounters along the walking paths. Taxis, and often black limousines, patiently wait for their clients on the campus' margins. As the campus master plan... View Details
Keywords: Education
  • 05 Dec 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

actually enable the kind of economic growth that we generally measure and read about. It's reasonably obvious, for example, that growth in such things as the rule of law, so-called transparency, and ethical behavior foster trust in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

are low, and some useless care is bought even when patients face the full cost. In the presence of behavioral hazard, welfare calculations using only the demand curve can be off by orders of magnitude or even be the wrong sign. We derive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

well as emotional and business factors) every organization has to find its own optimal solution neuroscience in the last 20 years has proven that current business theory which basically has been developed from past slave-like &... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services
  • 24 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

in a new paper, Why Do We Redistribute So Much but Tag So Little? The Principle of Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation. The fundamental challenge, he writes, is that "different people find different criteria compelling, and most people... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services
  • 02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

will be voted down by shareholders, but rule changes made by Dell Inc.'s board eventually pave the way for Mr. Dell to take the eponymous company private-for a price only slightly higher than the original... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

politicians only provide the services people vote for within the civil and property rights protections set forth in the constitution. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

subgroups can shape information sharing to create a hidden profile where there was none initially. Second, we describe how individual defection can weaken subgroup competition and, paradoxically, increase the chance that a team will View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

the United States and use this list to analyze the relationship between insider ownership and firm value. Our data have two useful features. First, since dual-class stock separates cash-flow rights from voting rights, we can separately... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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