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- 22 Jul 2019
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How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
strategies are without risk. Belonging to a platform is a way to quickly participate in a platform market. The challenge is to avoid the problem of “hold up” by the platform itself—that is, how do you prevent the platform from extracting most of the value? How do you...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W18242 When Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice? Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract We present a theory for why it might be rational for a platform to limit the number of applications available on it....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016
volatility. Using our model we quantify how capital injections impact the risk of financial institutions and estimate firm-specific precautionary capital needs. In addition, the longstanding observation that volatility is more responsive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
Incentives, and Explicit Incentives Authors:Romana L. Autrey, Shane S. Dikolli, and D. Paul Newman Publication:Journal of Management Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract We examine a setting in which managers have differential career concerns and firm performance...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 15
implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the diffusion of 15 technologies in 166 countries over the last two centuries. We evaluate the implications of our estimates for...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
and customer transparency, in which customers receive information about their own sustainability performance relative to other customers. Through three studies with 7,308 participants, we observe that revealing the levels of relative...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
WalkRoundsTM—Based Intervention Authors:Anita L. Tucker and Sara J. Singer Abstract Background: Leadership WalkRounds have been widely adopted as a technique for improving patient safety and safety climate. WalkRounds involve senior managers directly View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
most interesting one there is. And so the chance to write about him was an opportunity I didn't want to give up. Q: HBS is famous for field-based research where faculty members go out into the field and observe a company or workers or...
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- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
that distance continues to be an important deterrent to trade between geographically separated buyers and sellers, though to a lesser extent than has been observed in studies of non-Internet commerce between business counterparties. We...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
variation in average asset returns than aggregate or non-stockholder consumption risk and provides more plausible economic magnitudes. We find that risk aversion estimates around 10 can match observed risk premia for the wealthiest...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
account for secular changes in how payouts are made over the last 30 years, during which repurchases have replaced dividends as the prime vehicle for corporate payouts. Other payout motives such as changes in compensation practices and management incentives are better...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20
rational for a platform to limit the number of applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015
observe in order to satisfy and retain their clients. This paper discusses the most important factors that our research and the research of many others has shown can affect the integrity of third-party monitoring and highlights some...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007
which both empirical characteristics of bias are observed in equilibrium. The key assumptions are that the information contained in the facts about a news event may not always be fully verifiable, and consumers have heterogeneous prior...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital market benefits through enhanced financial statement comparability. UK domestic standards are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et al., 2008), suggesting any capital market benefits View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly from New York state to analyze market participants' efforts to legitimize commerce and resolve a jurisdictional dispute. Building on literature...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2021
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How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
solution identification. To help the hungry, he went to SNAP offices to observe and talk to people applying for food benefits. So, the practicalities involve customer discovery and even some prototyping, but with the public, not to them...
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by Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016
results. They advocate using alternative methods for estimating risk-adjusted returns and excluding some observations from our sample. Amihud and Stoyanov claim that making such changes renders our results not significant (though...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14
of ERM, identifying potential design parameters that can explain observable variation in the "ERM mix" adopted by organizations. We also add a new contingent variable: the type of risk that a specific ERM practice addresses. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
entrepreneurship and venture capital, the actions of any one group are likely to have positive spillovers—or, in the language of economics, "externalities"—for their peers. It is in these types of settings that the government can often play a very positive...
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