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- March 2019
- Article
Open Source Software and Firm Productivity
By: Frank Nagle
As open source software (OSS) is increasingly used as a key input by firms, understanding its impact on productivity becomes critical. This study measures the firm-level productivity impact of nonpecuniary (free) OSS and finds a positive and significant value-added...
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Keywords:
Applications and Software;
Open Source Distribution;
Performance Productivity;
Information Technology;
Strategy
Nagle, Frank. "Open Source Software and Firm Productivity." Management Science 65, no. 3 (March 2019): 1191–1215.
- Spring 2013
- Article
Does Mandatory IFRS Adoption Improve the Information Environment?
By: Joanne Horton, George Serafeim and Ioanna Serafeim
We examine the effect of mandatory International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption on firms' information environment. We find that after mandatory IFRS adoption, consensus forecast errors decrease for firms that mandatorily adopt IFRS relative to forecast...
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Keywords:
International Accounting;
Financial Reporting;
Standards;
Information;
Quality;
Earnings Management
Horton, Joanne, George Serafeim, and Ioanna Serafeim. "Does Mandatory IFRS Adoption Improve the Information Environment?" Contemporary Accounting Research 30, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 388–423.
- May 2024
- Article
Production Complementarity and Information Transmission Across Industries
By: Charles M.C. Lee, Terrence Tianshuo Shi, Stephen Teng Sun and Ran Zhang
Economic theory suggests that production complementarity is an important driver of sectoral co-movements and business cycle fluctuations. We operationalize this concept using a measure of production complementarity proximity (COMPL) between any two companies. We show...
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Lee, Charles M.C., Terrence Tianshuo Shi, Stephen Teng Sun, and Ran Zhang. "Production Complementarity and Information Transmission Across Industries." Art. 103812. Journal of Financial Economics 155 (May 2024).
- 2014
- Chapter
Mergers and Acquisitions and Innovation
By: Gautam Ahuja and Elena Novelli
This article (a) identifies the different theoretical perspectives and abstractions used to conceptualize the M&A–Innovation relationship; (b) reviews the literature on antecedents, consequences, and integration of M&A in the context of innovation; and (c) identifies...
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Keywords:
Mergers;
Acquisitions;
Innovation;
Knowledge-bases;
Knowledge;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Innovation and Invention
Ahuja, Gautam, and Elena Novelli. "Mergers and Acquisitions and Innovation." Chap. 29 in The Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management, edited by Mark Dodgson, David Gann, and Nelson Phillips, 579–599. Oxford University Press, 2014.
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
focuses mainly on work related to developing countries. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53305 November 2017 Research Policy The Career Effects of Scandal: Evidence from Scientific Retractions By: Azoulay,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2022
- Working Paper
Turning Away From the State: Trade Shocks and Informal Insurance in Brazil
By: Paula Rettl
How does economic globalization affect vote choices? Conventional wisdom holds that voters who lose from economic integration support parties that propose to expand the welfare state. I argue that a key scope condition of this causal relationship is expectations about...
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Keywords:
Economic Globalization;
Globalized Economies;
Government Administration;
Economics;
Globalization;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Voting;
Brazil;
Latin America
Rettl, Paula. "Turning Away From the State: Trade Shocks and Informal Insurance in Brazil." Working Paper, August 2022.
- 22 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention
departments, intensive care units, and medical/surgical units. We collected survey data from nurses in those work areas. Measures: To measure the program's impact, we collected pre and post survey data on perceptions of improvement in...
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- 2024
- Working Paper
Platform Information Provision and Consumer Search: A Field Experiment
By: Lu Fang, Yanyou Chen, Chiara Farronato, Zhe Yuan and Yitong Wang
Despite substantial efforts to help consumers search in more intuitive ways, text search remains the predominant tool for product discovery online. In this paper, we explore the effects of visual and textual cues for search refinement on consumer search and purchasing...
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Keywords:
Consumer Behavior;
E-commerce;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Learning;
Internet and the Web
Fang, Lu, Yanyou Chen, Chiara Farronato, Zhe Yuan, and Yitong Wang. "Platform Information Provision and Consumer Search: A Field Experiment." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32099, February 2024.
- 11 Aug 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Structural GARCH: The Volatility-Leverage Connection
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by Robert F. Engle & Emil N. Siriwardane
- Article
The Impact of the 'Open' Workspace on Human Collaboration
By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephen Turban
Organizations’ pursuit of increased workplace collaboration has led managers to transform traditional office spaces into “open,” transparency-enhancing architectures with fewer walls, doors, and other spatial boundaries, yet there is scant direct empirical research on...
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Keywords:
Open Office;
Transparency;
Collaboration;
Collective Intelligence;
Workspace;
Workspace Design;
Architecture;
Cubicles;
Boundaries;
Spatial Boundaries;
Human Behavior;
Propinquity;
Co-location;
Interaction;
Sociometers;
People Analytics;
Buildings and Facilities;
Communication;
Design;
Human Resources;
Leadership;
Management;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Networks;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Technology;
United States
Bernstein, Ethan, and Stephen Turban. "The Impact of the 'Open' Workspace on Human Collaboration." Art. 239. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences 373, no. 1753 (August 19, 2018).
- Research Summary
The Strategic and Performance Consequences of CEO Succession
By: Rakesh Khurana
The argument of this paper (with Nitin Nohria) is that research on executive turnover treats the departures of predecessors and the origin of successors as independent events. This approach has led to mixed empirical findings with respect to measuring the effects of...
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De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution
By: Benjamin B Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl
The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption relative to leisure rises, in terms of...
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Keywords:
Motivation and Incentives;
Income;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Consumer Behavior;
Taxation;
Microeconomics;
Macroeconomics
Lockwood, Benjamin B., and Matthew Weinzierl. "De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution." Journal of Public Economics 124 (April 2015): 74–80. (Also NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17784, September 2014 and Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-063, January 2012.)
- August 2013
- Article
Corporate Ownership Structure and the Choice Between Bank Debt and Public Debt
By: Chen Lin, Yue Ma, Paul Malatesta and Yuhai Xuan
This paper examines the relation between a borrowing firm's ownership structure and its choice of debt source using a novel, hand-collected data set on corporate ownership, control, and debt structures for 9,831 firms in 20 countries from 2001 to 2010. We find that the...
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Lin, Chen, Yue Ma, Paul Malatesta, and Yuhai Xuan. "Corporate Ownership Structure and the Choice Between Bank Debt and Public Debt." Journal of Financial Economics 109, no. 2 (August 2013): 517–534.
- February 2018
- Article
Financial Repression in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
By the end of 2013, the share of government debt held by the domestic banking sectors of Eurozone countries was more than twice its 2007 level. We show that this type of increasing reliance on the domestic banking sector for absorbing government bonds generates a...
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Keywords:
Credit Cycles;
Sovereign Debt;
Financial Repression;
Sovereign Finance;
Borrowing and Debt;
Credit;
Europe
Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina. "Financial Repression in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis." Review of Finance 22, no. 1 (February 2018): 83–115.
- 2014
- Working Paper
Financial Repression in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
By the end of 2013, the share of government debt held by the domestic banking sectors of Eurozone countries was more than twice its 2007 level. We show that this type of increasing reliance on the domestic banking sector for absorbing government bonds generates a...
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Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina. "Financial Repression in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis." Working Paper, April 2014.
- May 2010
- Article
Modern Management: Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air?
By: Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Ralf Martin and Raffaella Sadun
We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the U.K. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better...
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Keywords:
Energy Conservation;
Management Practices and Processes;
Performance Productivity;
Environmental Sustainability;
Pollutants;
Manufacturing Industry;
United Kingdom
Bloom, Nicholas, Christos Genakos, Ralf Martin, and Raffaella Sadun. "Modern Management: Good for the Environment or Just Hot Air?" Economic Journal 120, no. 544 (May 2010): 551–572.
- 2014
- Working Paper
De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution
By: Benjamin B Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl
The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption relative to leisure rises, in terms of...
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Lockwood, Benjamin B., and Matthew Weinzierl. "De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-063, January 2012. (Updated September 2014. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17784. Published in Journal of Public Economics.)
- February 1998
- Case
Lyondell Petrochemical Company
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Daniel P. Erikson
In August 1994, Lyondell Petrochemical Co.'s corporate parent and largest single shareholder effectively shed its stock, resulting in the resignation of 5 of its 11 directors. The remaining outside directors immediately acted to overhaul the executive compensation plan...
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Executive Compensation;
Design;
Business or Company Management;
Management Teams;
Mining Industry
Lorsch, Jay W., and Daniel P. Erikson. "Lyondell Petrochemical Company." Harvard Business School Case 498-028, February 1998.
- January 2022
- Background Note
Residual Income Valuation Model
By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Albert Shin
This note explains the residual income valuation model (RIM), how it relates to "traditional" valuation models, the intuition behind its use, and empirical research related to its value relevance. RIM is theoretically equivalent to the dividend discount model and the...
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Keywords:
Residual Income Valuation;
Valuation;
Research;
Theory;
Measurement and Metrics;
Performance;
Financial Management;
Business Strategy
Wang, Charles C.Y., and Albert Shin. "Residual Income Valuation Model." Harvard Business School Background Note 122-070, January 2022.
Strict ID Laws Don't Stop Voters: Evidence form a U.S. Nationwide Panel, 2008-2018
U.S. states increasingly require identification to vote—an ostensible attempt to deter fraud that prompts complaints of selective disenfranchisement. Using a difference-in-differences design on a panel data set with 1.6 billion observations, 2008–2018, we find that... View Details