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  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

Synthesis Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract This paper constructs a unified theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as networks of tasks. Transactions, defined as mutually agreed-upon... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

regularly ascribed to culture, Latin sensuousness, and machismo attitudes, this article shows that the growth of the industry was historically contingent. It was shaped by corporations, especially Avon and Colgate, that transferred... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5

ability of a firm to transfer its capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

selling the client firm's stock. This overweighting is not explained by superior information. We quantify a potentially large benefit to the 401(k) sponsor firm of having its price propped up by its trustee fund's more severe... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26

related to the repeal of these NAS disclosures in 1982 are associated with a small positive stock price reaction suggesting no adverse economic consequences of withdrawing NAS disclosures. Further, following the repeal of disclosure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008

of potential funding sources to solve social problems, much of it stemming from an intergenerational transfer of wealth and new wealth from financial and high-tech entrepreneurs. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

move signals the importance of partnering to a firm's strategy, facilitates efforts to transfer learning across projects, and helps to standardize methods for selecting and managing partners. Q: Can you give examples of companies that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

plans-epitomized by the ubiquitous 401(k)-which transfer the investment risk from the company to the employee. With that transfer has come a dangerous shift in investment focus, argues Nobel Laureate Robert... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

circumstances, including human purposes, evolved. While the invisible hand of the pricing mechanism can balance supply and demand on a global basis, or in subunits thereof, the visible hand of political authority is essential to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17

traditional banks have a stable source of funding, while shadow banks are subject to runs and fire-sale losses. In equilibrium, traditional banks have a comparative advantage at holding fixed-income assets that have only modest fundamental risk but are illiquid and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

of employees. We show that employees rely on this information to increase access to credit for borrowers, provide more favorable pricing terms, and reduce the ex-post risk of their lending decisions. These effects remain even when this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

still contains many subsistence farmers or folks who are living off of meager agricultural incomes and transfers from the state or their relatives in the big cities. So to compete with all of those site-specific issues would be a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

the underlying basis for learning. We find that intraorganizational knowledge spill-ins transfer heuristics crafted by one unit under local conditions of reliability and validity to other units, where they are reinterpreted and... View Details
  • 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

consistent with better audit quality from knowledge spillovers due to the joint offering of audit and consulting services. Events related to the repeal of these NAS disclosures in 1982 are associated with a small positive stock price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015

These platforms provide notable benefits including reducing transaction costs, improving allocation of resources, and creating information and pricing efficiencies. Yet they also raise questions of regulation, including how regulation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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