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- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-114.pdf Platforms and Limits to Network Effects (revised) Authors:Hanna Halaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets would rationally...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
interrelated, and all of them affected by government policy. U.S. lawmakers must carefully consider the effects of interventions in at least 12 areas, ranging from capital markets to tax treatment to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
that assume a 3.5 percent average growth rate over the next 10 years—something that would have profound implications for the global economy—largely through reductions in taxes and government regulation. Colleagues who have spent a lot...
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by James Heskett
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
relative viability, even if one focuses just on prices, is the pass-through of a higher price realization to the global producer after typically higher transportation and distribution costs, tariffs, or even risks, are netted out....
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
average person is going to want to shop in a few years? I don't think so. This is true for the supermarket space in general; it's really not about Kroger as an organization. Supermarkets are these very large, impersonal, and inefficient...
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- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
were shrouded with more uncertainty. The authors found that the lower prospects of future US employment reduced the average SAT score of affected international applicants by about 1.5%, with effects being...
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by Staff
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
Washington State) and by participants with responsibility to enforce rules in an experimental lab setting. We also show that this effect is driven by psychological reactance. We discuss both the theoretical and practical implications of...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
comprehensive micro-data allow us to study how the entry rate, the distribution of entry sizes, and survival rates for firms responded to changes in banking competition. We also distinguish the relative View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
recommendation levels, additions and deletions of records, and removal of analyst names. The changes appear non-random across brokerage firms, analysts, and tickers, and have a significant impact on the overall distribution of...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
preventing managers from wasting or misallocating free cash flow and deters related parties, including host governments, from trying to appropriate it. But is this always effective in preventing such misappropriation? A: It is true that...
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- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
had lower average returns during our sample period, but the difference in average returns is smaller than would be implied by the global CAPM given the historical equity premium. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
iPhoto This weekend the NFL is concluding its annual draft. Up to 255 college football players will be distributed over three days across the 32 NFL teams. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made the...
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- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
demonstrate with examples how our metric eliminates significant biases that exist in the PGA TOUR's Putting Average statistic. Lastly, extending the concept of putts gained to evaluate player-specific performance, we show how our models...
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- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
documented in other samples. The size of the low risk anomaly within banks suggests that the cost of capital effects of capital requirements may be considerable. Assuming competitive lending markets, banks' low asset betas implied an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming constant debt levels does not allow addressing one of the puzzles behind using reserves as a means to avoid the negative effects of crisis: why don't sovereign...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
executives had entered negotiations with broadcast networks to broaden the selection of free network content distributed via its video-on-demand (VOD) service. The major broadcast networks, however, were unsure of the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
residual 48%. The factors most strongly correlated with state fixed effects are the availability of Election Day voter registration and no-excuse absentee voting, as well as electoral competitiveness. Education is the only variable...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
rebalancing in the financial portfolio of participants. These patterns conceal strong household-level evidence of active rebalancing, which on average offsets about one half of idiosyncratic passive variations in the risky asset share....
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
surest way to lasting success in show business. “The battle for star talent is one of the most fascinating aspects of today's entertainment business” In my book, I show that the biggest investments have the highest average returns. Take...
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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
rights, and legal liability of companies and executives for violating human rights. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309097 DreamWorks SKG Inc.: To Distribute or Not to Distribute? Harvard...
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Martha Lagace