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- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
global accelerator in which judges across international regions are randomly assigned to evaluate startups headquartered across the globe.” Case Studies and Materials Rolex SA Doug J. Chung “Rolex SA was one of the most successful watchmakers in the world. In recent... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
sector may be traced back to fundamental properties of the underlying technologies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-144.pdf Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply: An... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
"structural breaks"-privatization, for example, or globalization-and assess why powerful actors across countries behaved similarly or differently in terms of network properties and corporate governance. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
industry to measure to what extent waiting-time performance impacts different firms' market shares and price decisions. We report on a large-scale empirical industrial organization study in which the demand equations for fast-food... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
presence. This effect was particularly strong in cities with limited hotel capacity during peak demand days. On those days, hotel room prices were affected relatively more than occupancy rates, meaning that a hotel in one of these cities... View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
earnings growth by 6%. Consistent with the hypothesis that this effect derives from the local demand channel, we find that consumption is less responsive to local labor demand shocks in counties with more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
strong complementarity, but it can arise for other reasons as well. Transaction cost economics and property rights theory advise that strong complements should be placed under unified governance, for example, through common ownership.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
of capital within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for performance measurement and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
rates to monetary shocks appears to reflect changes in term premia. One mechanism that may generate such variation in term premia is based on demand effects due to the existence of what we call "yield-oriented" investors. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
and services they consume. In many cases, collaborative user innovators are vying with producers for intellectual property rights and the control of standards and innovation trajectories. In light of these developments, it is time to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
property (IP) protection to safeguard their competitive advantages. However, the majority of recent patent litigation is driven by nonpracticing entities (NPEs), firms that generate no products but instead amass patent portfolios for the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
establishing the existence of equilibria and other useful properties in diverse settings such as matching, auctions, and exchange economies with indivisible goods. We extend earlier models’ definitions of substitutability to settings in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
delegator's (e.g., a citizenry) demand to hold a delegate (e.g., shareholders) to account. When effective, corporate accountability reporting can internalize certain externalities into firms' resource-allocation decisions, although doing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
investments in customized test software developed for UNIX systems. Teradyne's top customers were not interested in sacrificing accuracy and scrapping already installed software for the cost benefits of CMOS chips and NT. Instead, they had an extensive list of View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
expensive, and irritating to employees. This book shows you how to implement time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC), an easier and more powerful way to implement ABC. You can now estimate directly the resource demands imposed by each... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
directly: high oil prices, a growing demand in emerging economies like China and India, and the possibility of agribusiness companies competing successfully in the production of biofuels. Bunge had traditionally followed an organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
economic motives behind individual concerns for privacy. Recent theories of privacy demands in commercial contexts have assumed an economically aware and sophisticated consumer, capable of evaluating the indirect consequences of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
Working PapersContracting in the Self-reporting Economy (revised) Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Richard Sansing Abstract This paper examines the effect of accounting on the use of intellectual property. We analyze the licensing of intellectual View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
optimization problems. We argue that the classical RO paradigm need not produce solutions that possess the associated property of Pareto optimality and illustrate via examples how this could lead to inefficiencies and sub-optimal... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
expensive precisely because of the country's prosperity. With the wages and purchasing power of working people largely stagnant over the last two decades, the cost of adequate housing in a decent neighborhood has soared beyond the reach of many. Today, the View Details