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- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring is nonverifiable and financial frictions exist. The mechanism generating MNC activity is not the risk of technological expropriation by local partners but the demands of...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
subscriptions. So it was doing well, but there’d been friction within the family, as there often is in family businesses, over the last few decades. Kind of towards the end of my time at HBS, my dad died in January '87. And the stock...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
five-minute video on your smartphone while waiting in line at the post office or riding the bus to school? No friction at all. This new reality has not gone unnoticed at traditional networks like the Disney/ABC Television Group, where...
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Julia Hanna;
HBO;
Netflix;
Hulu;
Vimeo;
YouTube;
Telecommunications;
Information;
Arts, Entertainment
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
models predict that the division of stock returns into dividends and capital appreciation does not affect investor consumption patterns, while mental accounting and other economic frictions predict that investors have a higher propensity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
a world where buying decisions are made not in months or days, but in seconds. The enemy in today’s customer environment is friction. Those who can minimize friction, guiding potential buyers rapidly through the ‘tornado funnel’ buying process, will win. But taming...
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- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
relating to the agricultural assets, which create frictions such that market value and book value do not converge despite the application of fair value for the majority of the firm's assets. The case also highlights how fair value...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
geographic friction influence FDI and present the key empirical studies and findings. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52121 January–February 2017 Harvard Business Review Africa's New Generation of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
final product. Moreover, a firm's propensity to integrate a given stage of the value chain is shaped by the relative contractibility of the stages located upstream versus downstream from that stage, as well as by the firm's productivity. Our results suggest that...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
contractual frictions play an important role in shaping the integration choices of firms around the world. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49090 How Best-Self Activation Influences Emotions,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
would not be achieved even if the product offered a payout ratio comparable to U.S. insurance contracts. We present evidence suggesting that lack of trust, liquidity constraints, and limited salience are significant non-price frictions...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
frictional unemployment, because people are changing jobs and they’re being really, really choosy. Now, the key thing you’d want to know, if you were running a company, is why you have such unbelievably high churn. I would say, “Okay,...
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Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
index-based benchmarks do not adequately achieve this objective. Further, the index-benchmark selection is associated with governance-related frictions and is not driven by plausible alternative theories. Both structural calibration and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
governance-related frictions and not driven by plausible alternative theories. Both structural calibration and reduced-form estimates reveal significant negative performance implications from suboptimal peer selection. Compensation...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
the country had become a darling of the international aid community. As the country was preparing for the 2011 Party Congress, however, signs of growing economic frictions were becoming increasingly visible. The case closes by setting the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
governance, human capital, and informational frictions help account for the variation in management. Publisher's link: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20102 August 2013 Review of Economics and Statistics Does Planning Regulation Protect...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
measures of constraints. These findings imply a high degree of market segmentation and suggest that frictions within specialized financial institutions prevent capital from flowing into the market at shorter horizons. Publisher's link:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
you can get ahead of some of those fires, what you will do is not reduce your workload, but you’ll reduce that level of tenseness and friction that exists between so many couples. And I say this personally, too, I live this as much as...
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- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
payoffs differently than private households do. This gives the government a "social risk management" motive: projects that ameliorate market failures when household marginal utility is high are appealing. The second friction is that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
purchase low market-to-book targets. Instead, mergers pair together firms with similar ratios. We then build a continuous-time model of investment and merger activity combining search, scarcity, and asset complementarity to explain this like-buys-like result. We test...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
external information environment helps mitigate agency problems that arise when firms expand their operations across borders. This paper contributes to the literature by showing that the external information environment helps MNCs mitigate information View Details
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Sean Silverthorne