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- 15 Oct 2015
- News
CEOs beware: Your astronomical salaries may soon cost you customers
- June 2004
- Article
A Catering Theory of Dividends
By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
We propose that the decision to pay dividends is driven by prevailing investor demand for dividend payers. Managers cater to investors by paying dividends when investors put a stock price premium on payers, and by not paying when investors prefer nonpayers. To test...
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Keywords:
Dividends;
Catering;
Financial Instruments;
Investment Return;
Business and Shareholder Relations
Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "A Catering Theory of Dividends." Journal of Finance 59, no. 3 (June 2004): 1125–1165.
- October 2013
- Article
Shattering the Myth of Separate Worlds: Negotiating Non-Work Identities at Work
By: Lakshmi Ramarajan and Erin M. Reid
How much of our self is defined by our work? Fundamental changes in the social organization of work are destabilizing the relationship between work and the self. As a result, parts of the self traditionally considered outside the domain of work, i.e., "non-work"...
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Ramarajan, Lakshmi, and Erin M. Reid. "Shattering the Myth of Separate Worlds: Negotiating Non-Work Identities at Work." Academy of Management Review 38, no. 4 (October 2013): 621–644.
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
The Long-Term Political Influence of Immigrants
- Research Summary
Inflation Uncertainty and the Wage Bargain
Joint work with Hans-Joachim Voth, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
Trade unions often seem to behave in a more militant fashion when inflation rises. We provide the first theory as to why this should be so. We argue that uncertainty about the rate of inflation... View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons
- 2015
- Working Paper
Auditor Lobbying on Accounting Standards
By: Abigail Allen, Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury
We examine how Big N auditors' changing incentives impact their comment-letter lobbying on U.S. GAAP over the first thirty-four years of the FASB (1973–2006). We examine the influence of auditors' lobbying incentives arising from three basic factors: managing expected...
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Allen, Abigail, Karthik Ramanna, and Sugata Roychowdhury. "Auditor Lobbying on Accounting Standards." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-055, December 2014. (Winner of the American Accounting Association Western Conference Best Paper Award.)
- July 1990 (Revised September 1995)
- Case
Singapore TradeNet: A Tale of One City
Describes the development of a new information technology-based trade document administration environment for the city-state of Singapore. A considerable effort, involving many governmental and private sector organizations, results in a new set of practices and...
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Keywords:
Leadership;
Information Technology;
Emerging Markets;
Policy;
Public Administration Industry;
Singapore
Konsynski, Benn R., and John L. King. "Singapore TradeNet: A Tale of One City." Harvard Business School Case 191-009, July 1990. (Revised September 1995.)
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
brain-tracking tools to determine why we prefer some products over others. "People are fairly good at expressing what they want, what they like, or even how much they will pay for an item," says...
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- 10 Aug 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Varieties of Outward Chinese Capital: Domestic Politics Status and Globalization of Chinese Firms
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by Meg Rithmire
- 2017
- Blitz Discussions
The Structured World and the Self
- November 2020
- Article
Taxation in Matching Markets
By: Arnaud Dupuy, Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe and Scott Duke Kominers
We analyze the effects of taxation in two-sided matching markets, i.e., markets in which all agents have heterogeneous preferences over potential partners. In matching markets, taxes can generate inefficiency on the allocative margin by changing who is matched to whom,...
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Dupuy, Arnaud, Alfred Galichon, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Taxation in Matching Markets." International Economic Review 61, no. 4 (November 2020): 1591–1634.
- 28 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)
system for local managers. "This research is really a starting point," says Campbell. "To our knowledge, no one has drawn this link between the complexity that is imposed by customers with divergent demand View Details
- 05 Dec 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
The Salary Taboo: Privacy Norms and the Diffusion of Information
- 01 Jul 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Social Interactions in Pandemics: Fear, Altruism, and Reciprocity
- 17 Jan 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Expectations, Network Effects and Platform Pricing
- March 2011
- Article
Zoom In, Zoom Out
Zoom buttons on digital devices let us examine images from many viewpoints. They also provide an apt metaphor for modes of strategic thinking. Some people prefer to see things up close, others from afar. Both perspectives have virtues. But they should not be fixed...
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Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Zoom In, Zoom Out." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011).
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
At the dawn of the digital music era, record labels went along with a pricing scheme devised by Apple that they are still paying for today. The idea to "unbundle" albums into separate tracks sold View Details
- September–October 2013
- Article
The Dynamic Advertising Effect of Collegiate Athletics
By: Doug J. Chung
I measure the spillover effect of intercollegiate athletics on the quantity and quality of applicants to institutions of higher education in the United States, popularly known as the "Flutie Effect." I treat athletic success as a stock of goodwill that decays over...
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Keywords:
Choice Modeling;
Entertainment Marketing;
Heterogeneity;
Panel Data;
Structural Modeling;
Rights;
Analytics and Data Science;
Higher Education;
Ethics;
Consumer Behavior;
Advertising;
Sports;
Advertising Industry;
Education Industry
Chung, Doug J. "The Dynamic Advertising Effect of Collegiate Athletics." Marketing Science 32, no. 5 (September–October 2013): 679–698. (Lead article. Featured in HBS Working Knowledge.)