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- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
grants, and a greater chance of forced dismissal for both CEOs and CFOs during the period 1993-2004. These results are obtained after controlling for the magnitude of the earnings surprise, operating and stock return performance, and are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
across the major assignee groups. In addition, it appears that patents assigned to individuals and associated with non-practicing entities (NPEs) cite less academic work than those assigned to non-NPE corporations. While not statistically... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
note presents statistics on private equity exits and discusses important issues relating to the most common exit routes. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/private-equity-exits/an/213112-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
and responding to adverse drug reactions suggests that only government regulators are in a position to integrate case report and statistical analysis. Despite the appeal of fragmented post-market drug safety studies, centralization may be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
management team is rare. Next, we ask when an independent director is more likely to dissent and who is more likely to dissent. Controlling for firm and board characteristics, we find that independent directors' dissent is associated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
codes in the treatment and control regions; these procedures have been developed by scholars in other fields to approximate datasets that would have resulted from random experimentation. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
Strategic Value Advisors—predict environmental performance. We find that firms that have more KLD Environmental Concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory violations in later years than firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
private creditors is positively correlated with growth; and (4) public savings are strongly positively correlated with growth, whereas the correlation between private savings and growth is flat and statistically insignificant. These... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
abandon, this strategy over a two-year period. We find that formal statistical tests of the hypotheses underlying the firm's balanced scorecard and strategy map reveal problems with the strategy on a timelier basis. We also test... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
observation that sparked discussions about financial literacy and empowerment among female leaders. Mary Erdoes (MBA 1993), CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management, brought stark statistics to the conversation, noting that while 85... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
business, politics, media, and the arts. With a personal fortune estimated by Forbes to surpass $3.5 billion, Schwarzman has come a long way since leaving Lehman Brothers in 1985 to cofound Blackstone with start-up capital of $400,000. Blackstone today has 52 partners... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
disadvantageous position to compete with the two superpowers. However, it did compete, and the question is why. The existing historiography on the Sino-Soviet split focuses on Mao's desire for leadership of the international communist movement, his contempt for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
developed economies historically, and even today. In analyzing this historical evidence, the chapter first shows how organizational forms of business groups were employed over long time periods to control large and diversified... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
to an orthodoxy of capital controls in 1944 and then back again by 1994? How have such standards of appropriate behavior been codified and transmitted internationally? Contrary to conventional accounts, Abdelal argues that neither the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
Life in modern India, despite all of the advances of the last decade, is still barely controlled chaos. On the crowded streets, camels and donkeys mix with handcarts, three-wheeled scooter taxis, massive Tata trucks, luxury cars, and... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
early 1970s. China, however, had to wait to get out from under Mao’s control before it could make the moves that ultimately enabled it to catch up. Under Deng Xiaoping and then Jiang Zemin, government support for economic expansion really... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
than projected by the Congressional Budget Office in 2009. Using detailed data on the breadth of both hospital and physician networks, we studied the prevalence of narrow networks and quantified the association between network breadth and premiums. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
http://www.springer.com/economics/development/book/978-1-4614-1878-8?changeHeader Employee Selection as a Control System Authors:Dennis Campbell Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract Theories from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's—dominated the credit ratings industry, recently controlling 97 percent of the market. But the status quo was disrupted by the 2008 global... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
taught by Professor Ross Graham Walker and others, a company’s numbers had value far beyond mere record-keeping. Statistical data could instead be used proactively as a general management tool for analyzing an organization’s production... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons