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- 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24
is currently provided by GAAP financial reporting. The purpose of this paper is to examine the optimal design of information intermediaries that can increase the impact of sustainability information on corporate conduct. Specifically, we focus on two issues: who View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
decade ago, becomes the most expensive painting ever sold, all the while surrounded by controversy. Did the buyer of Leonardo da Vinci's painting pay too much? Was it real? Did View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
would continue hedging primarily with forward contracts, but in much higher volumes and at increasingly unfavorable rates, or to break with past practice and begin using foreign exchange option contracts. The decision would have... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26
serve as the glue across functions and business units. But without clarity about strategy and the ability to articulate strategy, people can only pick up random, disconnected cues about priorities, and alignment is then hit-and-miss, especially when View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
shock that occurred when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. Our study is among the first to theorize about the impact of ratings on subsequent performance, and we introduce important contingencies that influence firm response.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016
gaining information. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51329 July–August 2016 Harvard Business Review How to Pay for Health Care By: Porter, Michael E., and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—The United States stands... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
announced their first ever public-sector pay cuts, triggered by the Vision 2030 agenda. Ajeej, with 50% of its portfolio invested in Saudi companies, had to decide how to position View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
students and investors how to evaluate mutual funds and other collective investment vehicles. It discusses how different types of funds are managed, marketed, and regulated. It also reviews how funds invest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 2, 2009
Working PapersTruth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor Authors:Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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The health care industry needs so much improvement, it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better,” says Luc Sirois (MBA 1997), who sees progress coming not through a single organization, but rather from groups of... View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20
license the property in exchange for a royalty and when it prefers to use the property directly. We find that variable royalty arrangements that depend on either audited self-reports or third-party attestation become more attractive as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
mechanisms by which multinational activity might create positive effects and externalities to countries and the role of complementary local conditions, also known as “absorptive capacities,” that allow a country to reap the benefits of FDI View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015
Hepatitis C? If so, how would its U.S. healthcare customers, who were paying $84,000 per patient, react? On the other hand, Gilead had to balance the interests of its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016
rather than creating the best content. Success comes not from making the "best" content, but from recognizing how content facilitates user connections; it comes not from protecting the value of content at all costs, but from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
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driven by their desire to pay it forward for others. In addition to being the beneficiary of the Forward Fellowship, Thompson-Woode received the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 8
Entrepreneurs in U.S. Financial History, 1775-1914 Author:T.K. McCraw Publication:Capitalism and Society 5, no. 1 (2010) Abstract Throughout its history, the U.S. has been the beneficiary of a worldwide in-migration of entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
for the merger of Mars and AFM, putting all of Actera’s efforts on Mars at risk. Should Çavuşoğlu push the stop button for distribution? If Çavuşoğlu decided to move forward with distribution, should he do View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
highlight the importance of friendship formation and social integration for the long-term well-being of university students. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54330 How Do Your Sales Efforts Pay Off?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016
examine if it can be implemented in different contexts and across academic cultures, structures, and traditions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51496 Spring 2016 Journal of Applied Corporate Finance ESG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
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First Look: May 31
respond to adverse shocks and how voters react to these responses. The data show that voters punish the incumbent party for weather events beyond its control. However, fewer voters punish the ruling party when View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne