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- 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
- 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
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
among those who think they have nothing to lose. Western governments have also come to appreciate that the world's financial system, which came close to meltdown on several occasions in the 1990s, depends on political stability to sustain...
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by George C. Lodge
- 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
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
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
- Web
2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
studies of men and masculinity on offshore oil platforms, the impact of racial diversity on retail bank performance, and the design and delivery of women’s leadership development programs. For the past several years, Professor Ely has maintained an active faculty View Details
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
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
- 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
- Web
2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
university and system-wide initiatives. She is also affiliate faculty of the George Washington School of International Affairs in Leadership Studies and faculty emeritus for the RISE San Diego Urban Leadership Program that trains and...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
began with the Giants’ cross-bay rivals, the Oakland A’s. As a political science major at the University of California, Berkeley, Baer fed his passion for journalism and sports by serving as business manager and sports director of the...
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
masculinity on offshore oil platforms, the impact of racial diversity on retail bank performance, and the design and delivery of women’s leadership development programs. For the past several years, Professor Ely has maintained an active faculty View Details
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obscene, indecent or unlawful content; 6. Advertising or any form of commercial solicitation; 7. Content related to partisan political activities; and 8. Content that contains intentionally inaccurate information or that is posted with...
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- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
foreign countries, the model predicts growth in the number of source-country firms engaging in foreign direct investment, growth in the size of affiliates that are active in reforming countries both before and after the tariff reduction,...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Chile. I saw sort of the extremes in Latin America. And I thought that may not be, even though I knew Spanish, that may not be where my interest lies. I’d already had an introduction to the Soviet economy, to Soviet political...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
been met would substantially curtail illicit financial flows,” says Baker. “I believe in the power of the signature.” For its part, the World Bank cites five elements as key to reducing corruption: increasing political accountability;...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
Long-standing obsession: cricket. (He supports Pakistan’s national team.) Amyn helped organize the first trek to Pakistan and also participated in the Alpha Fund, a student-run hedge fund affiliated with the HBS Investment Club. What’s...
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leadership challenges that it has thrown up and examining what a new normal would look like. We will examine the impact that the current geo political conflicts will have on the continent. How will Africa thrive in a deglobalized world ,...
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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
and Sugata Roychowdhury 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 politically...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Innovation: Evidence from China By: Fang, Lily, Josh Lerner, Chaopeng Wu, and Qi Zhang Abstract—: Governments are important financiers of private sector innovation. While these public funds can ease capital constraints and information asymmetries, they can also...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
allocation decisions when they preside over multi-divisional firms. I find that, after CEO turnover, divisions not previously affiliated with the new CEO receive significantly more capital expenditures than divisions through which the new...
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Martha Lagace