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  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

contained in the mandatory transitional documents required by International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 1 (2005). We find significant negative abnormal returns for firms reporting negative earnings reconciliation. Although the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

for the first time, define and limit. Second, companies that create systemic risk should bear the cost of insuring against it, just as commercial banks pay into an FDIC insurance pool. And the government should insist on appropriate capital View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

commercially or have direct contractual relations. The framework aims to ground the responsibilities of managers in an intuitively plausible standard that is widely recognizedd—duty not to harm others—and to make tractable the concept of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Bird, Yanhua Z., Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and to conform their labor practices to the standards set... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

forward real rate. This finding is at odds with standard macro models based on sticky nominal prices, which imply that monetary policy cannot move real rates over a horizon longer than that over which all prices in the economy can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

mix of merchandise could be rapidly produced and delivered at high standards of quality. Kenyon's in-store personnel examined merchandise from all incoming shipments. One measure recorded the percentage of items that could not be offered... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca Abstract—Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the standard measures of economic activity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

default. Over the two years preceding default, we find that ratings grow increasingly pessimistic relative to a standard benchmark rating model prediction, while optimism remains for similar firms that do not default. Further, we find... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

faculty members to evaluate 150 submissions, resulting in 2,130 randomly assigned proposal-evaluator pair observations. Our results confirm a systematic penalty for novel proposals; a standard deviation increase in novelty drops the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

incentive pay. We contribute to this literature by analyzing all forms of incentive pay for several types of managerial positions and include additional measures of earnings manipulation-end-of-year excess sales and class action litigation-in addition to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

sharing where all peers are endowed with standard preferences and show that the endogenous structure of the network is conducive to sharing by a significant number of peers, even if sharing is costlier than freeriding. We build on this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

on five to 10 years of monthly sector returns that are initially drawn from a known multivariate normal distribution. Mean-variance optimization is designed to produce the highest ratio of excess portfolio return to portfolio standard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 14, 2006

leveraging already standardized data and work flows. What's most important, though, is that they look beyond the individual IT projects they select to the broader picture of how IT is likely to affect the organization. Information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

feature more volatile returns, and the volatility of a parent company's aggregate foreign returns also increases with the extent of the firm's political risk exposure. Parent companies mitigate the cost of return volatility by adjusting their capital structures: a one... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

"This is not simply a liquidity crisis or simply a problem of a messed-up financial system," said Merton. Standard financial models remove some of the mystery about what has happened and make the financial crisis comprehensible,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 04 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

the standards of U.S. hospitals will be minimized. Of course, the accreditation agency is a creature of the hospital system, so how much protection do you really get from that? But they will have the same kind of accreditation as the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

with a minimal level of altruism can be a source of dampened wage responses. The paper also considers a setting where this minimal level of altruism is subject to fluctuations and shows that, for certain parameters, the model can explain both the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

have higher productivity than their counterparts from large cities. As a possible explanation of our results, we test for selection and find that employees hired from smaller towns outperform their large city counterparts in standardized... View Details
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

into account, significant differences emerge between taxes that are equivalent in standard models but generate different information on taxable transactions. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43830 When Supply-Chain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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