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- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
performance, most investors have found it easier to vote "with their feet" by selling shares, rather than making formal complaints. Large shareholders, however, have stronger incentives to monitor management. The conventional...
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- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
this ritualistic document filled with financial information, different types of narratives, and lots of pretty pictures. The amount of detail and the level of complexity in the financial section have grown considerably in response to the increasing onslaught of...
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by Staff
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
politicians only provide the services people vote for within the civil and property rights protections set forth in the constitution. Publisher's link:
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
rubber markets during the boom years of 1870-1910 shows that the government generated 1.3% of GDP through an export tax on rubber but that it could have generated 4.7% in total, had the government set the tariff at the optimal level....
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
offer their thoughts on the Greek economic crisis. Their answers were written before last week's referendum vote by the Greek people, but their insights remain valuable. The Need For Sustainable Growth Calling for a referendum asking the...
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- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest. China seemed without peer. Decline came fast. By 1900, China had been invaded,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
brand-name multinationals that contract out the work. “In a sense, global supply chains are serving a regulatory function, with companies imposing an additional layer of rules and investing resources to enforce them,” says Harvard...
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by Michael Blanding
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
default. Over the two years preceding default, we find that ratings grow increasingly pessimistic relative to a standard benchmark rating model prediction, while optimism remains for similar firms that do not default. Further, we find...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
consequence of these developments, these firms now face a wide variety of governmental regulations and institutional environments around the world. In short, tightly integrated global operations with a rising reliance on foreign operations are the View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
One need only look as far as the bookshelf to see the optimism attached to China's ascension as a world economic and political power. Titles like The Dragon Awakes; The Rise of China; and When China Rules...
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by Michael Blanding
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
2012 French presidential election. While existing experiments randomized door-to-door visits at the individual level, the scale of this campaign (five million doors knocked) enabled randomization by precinct, the level at which vote...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Publication:Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming) Abstract We take a decision theoretic approach to the classic social choice problem, using data on the frequency of choice problems to compute social choice functions. We define a family of social choice View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
Participation, and Economic Incentives By: Zhou, Yanhua, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Exploitive working conditions have spurred the development of formal organizational structures that deploy mechanisms including legalization—adherence to a set of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
actually enable the kind of economic growth that we generally measure and read about. It's reasonably obvious, for example, that growth in such things as the rule of law, so-called transparency, and ethical behavior foster trust in...
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by James Heskett
- 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015
illustrative example, we show that production subsidies of higher investment and production cost technologies (such as carbon capture and storage technologies) have no effect on the firm's optimal total capacity when firms own a portfolio...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
While this module is designed to be used alone, it is part of the Strategy Execution series. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117115-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-110 Strategy Execution Module 10: Using the Job Design View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
countries serving on the board are rewarded with an average $60 million "bonus" in IBRD loans. This is more likely driven by soft forces like boardroom culture rather than by the power of the vote itself. We find no significant...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor—who had done extensive research examining the benefits of clusters—to speak to the governor’s cabinet and the legislature in support of the idea. “That was the real reason the legislature View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
the United States and use this list to analyze the relationship between insider ownership and firm value. Our data have two useful features. First, since dual-class stock separates cash-flow rights from voting rights, we can separately...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
IEEE Security & Privacy Accountable? The Problems and Solutions of Online Ad Optimization By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Online advertising might seem to be the most measurable form of marketing ever invented. Comprehensive records...
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Sean Silverthorne