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  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

trading and investing being particularly controversial. We focus on the role of banks in the private equity market. We show that bank-affiliated private equity groups accounted for a significant share of the private equity activity and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

and elaborate on their normative implications. Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan Authors:Douglas J. Skinner and Suraj Srinivasan Publication:The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract We study events surrounding... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

analyzing the relevant processes. Part 2 discusses strategic choices, what research tells us about selling effectiveness, and how to translate a strategy into customer-selection and sales-call criteria. Part 3 focuses on core sales management issues: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

this period, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) delivered some important technologies for the corporation. One of the most critical inventions was laser printing for Xerox's printers and copiers, an effort that led to new Xerox products View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

profits when one side is subsidized in equilibrium. By contrast, if platforms make positive margins on both sides, the same investment has the regular, expected effects. Our analysis implies that the strategy space and the logic of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

an established cost accounting method, time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC), to assess the costs of performing an abdomen and pelvis computed tomography (AP CT) in an academic radiology department. We then identified opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

Publications Market Reaction to and Valuation of IFRS Reconciliation Adjustments: First Evidence from the UK Authors: Joanne Horton and George Serafeim Publication: Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

public firms. Most importantly, they fail to account for offsetting equity issuances by firms. We show that, taking into account issuances, net shareholder payouts by all U.S. public firms during the period... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

connectivity to the Internet, which customers need to access services such as Skype. Decoupling The Future Now the decouplers are turning to the future. One industry Teixeira sees as ripe for the process is banking, whose model relies on offering checking and savings... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

consider the possibility that the risk anomaly represents mispricing and develop its implications for corporate leverage. The risk anomaly generates a simple tradeoff theory: at zero leverage, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity risk, but as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

results suggest for-profit insurers are likelier than not-for-profit insurers to exercise market power when they possess it. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55635 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8

with gambling exposure. How would investors in ITP view this transaction? Ben-Gacem also worried about whether Moneybookers could manage the growth of its business and the evolution of regulation around monetary transactions. Moneybookers had effectively become a type... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

that attempts to maximize profits. This stage takes into account costs as well as firm's objectives and constraints (e.g., minimum market share requirement). Over the last several decades, marketing researchers and practitioners have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

shocks—measured as CDS portfolio margin payments—account for 12% of the time-series variation in weekly spread changes, a significant amount given that standard credit factors account for 18% during my... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 24 Nov 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

counsel. "Sometimes they'll be a little more subtle and say, 'My wife's going to be in Hong Kong next week, and she's going shopping.' Either you say, 'That's nice,' and you pass on, or you say, 'What store is she going to, and can I give you an View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

but increased Hollande's vote share in the first round and accounted for one-fourth of his victory margin in the second. Visits' impact persisted in later elections, suggesting a lasting persuasion effect.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

that a sizable decline in mortgage payments (up to 50%) induces a significant increase in car purchases (up to 35%). This effect is attenuated by voluntary deleveraging. Borrowers with lower incomes and housing wealth have significantly higher View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

religiosity at the individual level and employing a religious prime. That is, the more religious people are, the less willing they are to follow through on novel purchase opportunities that arise during their grocery shopping trips. This effect is consistent with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

unforeseen oil and gas demand slump drove ProdEng’s average service rates down by more than 37%, with EBITDA margins falling from 50% to 24% in the second half of 2016. Although the partners remained optimistic about ProdEng’s long-term... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

increases that would solve these problems are not expected in the near- or medium-term. The paper outlines first a number of directions for effecting improvement through marginal capacity increases and better management of demand and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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