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- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
Returns Authors:Robin Greenwood and Samuel Hanson Abstract When investors overvalue a particular firm characteristic, corporations endowed with that characteristic can absorb some of the demand by issuing equity. We use time-series variation in differences between the...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
predictions. Specifically, abnormal returns to two proxies for private information (insider purchases and analyst recommendation upgrades) are reduced following IFRS adoption. Similar results are obtained for subsamples that further isolate the reduction in private...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
decision to increase the royalties required to be paid by the web radio industry by 2.5 times over the next five years, effectively pushing profitability for Pandora out of sight. Pandora was a "webcaster" that was based on the Music Genome Project, which...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
firms in an industry adhere to. For example, the dominant design in automobiles today has a gasoline engine, four wheels with rubber tires, a steering wheel, a closed body, and automatic transmission. Designers may change the attributes...
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- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
vulnerability indicators prior to the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate financial roots provide a benchmark for comparison. The firm-level data suggest that emerging markets post-GFC have lower leverage ratios than the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
nonpartisan press rights organization Reporters Without Borders. They found that for every 10-point increase in the press rights score, countries averaged nearly 10 percent fewer violations in their factories. The team attributes this...
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by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
on making them thoughtfully and deliberately, without remorse. Q: Could you talk a little about the four service "truths"? A: Frei: Companies that excel at service typically do a great job in four areas: identifying the View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14
conglomerate Tata Group and Envision, an entrepreneurial alternative energy company based in China-and found significant commonalities. These three companies demonstrate the essential attributes of a game-changing organization: they are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
by the enormous improvements going on in other countries. It used to be that the wages of US workers rose in line with domestic productivity, but the two became decoupled. Some attribute that to declining unionization. That may be part of...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
Union (EU) are federal systems in which the responsibility for environmental policy-making is divided or shared between the central government and the (member) states. The attribution of decision-making power has important policy...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
also scored high on an attribute called "cultural metacognition," a psychological scale measuring the degree to which people examine their own cultural preconceptions when interacting with someone from a different culture. Chua...
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by Michael Blanding
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
logit model implies that individuals behave inconsistently across choice sets. Estimating the mixed logit on data in which individuals do behave consistently can result in biased parameter estimates, with the individuals' tastes for desirable View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007
Andrew Banks and Royce Yudkoff were considering raising a 5th fund for their media-focused private equity firm, ABRY Partners. ABRY had a strong track record that the co-founders attributed to their group's deep knowledge of the media...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
strategy. Methodological Fit in Management Field Research Authors:A. C. Edmondson and S. E. McManus Periodical:The Academy of Management Review 32, no. 4 (October 2007) Abstract Methodological fit, an implicitly valued attribute of...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
policy debate. Positive aggregate productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less emphasized explanation is between-firm selection and market reallocation, whereby competition...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
(B) Dorothy LeonardHarvard Business School Supplement 912-406 Professor Gupta has imposed two new policies on his class midway through the term: 1) no use of the Internet to locate additional information on the company in the case; 2) an increase in the percentage of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
success and failure in organizational learning, to date the phenomenon has received little attention at the individual level. Drawing on attribution theory in psychology, we investigate how individuals learn from their own past...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
Much of the success of microfinance has been attributed to attempts to overcome the challenges of information asymmetries in uncollateralized lending. However, very little is known about the optimal contract structure of these loans, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research. Positive productivity gains are often attributed to knowledge spillover from multinational to domestic firms. An alternative, less stressed explanation is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
document that firms report more negative discretionary accruals when financial markets are less certain about their future prospects. Stock-price responses to earnings surprises are moderated when firm-level uncertainty is high, consistent with performance being View Details
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Carmen Nobel