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- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
years, business historians have often been fringe players in the study of globalization, while political historians, economists, sociologists, and political scientists have taken it forward in exciting ways...
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by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
does not seem to explain the higher level of firm diversification. However, we find that Chinese state-owned enterprises diversify their operations more aggressively than other Chinese firms. Research limitations/implications—Ownership data and business group View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors: Abigail M. Allen and Karthik Ramanna Abstract We investigate the idiosyncratic influence of standard setters in standard setting. In particular, we examine how FASB members' and SEC commissioners' length of tenure, past...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
Navalny the right figure for business leaders in Russia to organize around? What were the risks of getting involved with a politically volatile activist? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112033-PDF-ENG McKesson...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the accrual choices of outsourcing firms with links to U.S. congressional candidates during the 2004 elections, when corporate outsourcing was a major campaign issue. We find that View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
presidential races. They studied the number of votes cast in each county for the candidates and used registered party affiliation at the county level to look at how campaign effects differed depending on the level of voter partisanship....
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007
distribution company in its own right. On October 30, 2006, it relaunched its Website—and, in effect, its business. With its new, consumer-facing home page, and with new offerings for advertisers and affiliates as well as video...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
2018 New York: Cambridge University Press American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition', 1890–1940 By: Phillips Sawyer, Laura Abstract—American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
medical center. You don't have to be from Boston, Los Angeles, or Houston. You don't need to be affiliated with Harvard. A winning idea could be from anywhere." Ideas submitted so far include a tool for crowdsourcing medical diagnoses; a...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
Politics we observe firms working more closely with NGOs and other special interest groups to preempt unfavorable policy choices, react swiftly to crises, and proactively develop socially responsible strategies. In Public Politics, firms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
American multinational firms respond to politically risky environments by adjusting their capital structures abroad and at home. Foreign subsidiaries located in politically risky countries have significantly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Abstract Focusing empirically on how political and economic forces are always mediated and interpreted by agents, both in individual countries and in the international sphere, Constructing the International Economy sets out what such...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
"These social resources are acquired by mimicking the structures and activities of established firms, and by affiliating with high-status customers respectively," she wrote in the abstract to her recent paper, Great Oaks from...
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- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
advertising, and outside advertising—vary in their effectiveness for voters with different political predispositions. We compile a comprehensive dataset that includes voting outcomes, detailed campaign activities, and voters’ party View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
business group affiliates and when local institutions develop. Therefore, we shed light on the firm-level implications of minority state ownership, a topic that has received scant attention in the strategy literature. Cornell...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
reallocate capital from firms facing low tax rates to those facing high tax rates. Evidence from the worldwide operations of U.S. multinational firms indicates that affiliates in low-tax jurisdictions use trade credit to lend, whereas...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
affiliation with the Democratic Party is associated with proposing standards perceived as increasing accounting "reliability." Broadly, the evidence suggests that individuals on the FASB have a wider influence in the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
professional and political characteristics of FASB members and SEC commissioners predict the accounting "reliability" and "relevance" of proposed standards. Notably, we find FASB members with backgrounds in financial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
large informed trades, a significantly higher volume of other institutional investors execute similar trades through the same broker, allowing them to capture higher returns in the first few days after the initial trade. In contrast, we find that when the informed...
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Sean Silverthorne