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- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
on compensation of talented people, then you stop this mechanism, and you run the risk of having your company be less profitable," Vallée says. "You're putting a friction on a competitive market that's doing what it's meant to do." He...
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- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
managers-firms with the greatest information frictions prior to the rule change. We report three changes related to compensation after 1992 for division managers. First, within firms with dispersed managers, division manager pay co-moves...
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Anna Secino
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
more sustainable world? In the short term, I’m committed to helping big companies decarbonize because we desperately need them to move today. Long term, I want to use my skills and experience to reduce the friction that tough-tech ideas...
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- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
Programs By: Hanson, Samuel G., David S. Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop a model of government portfolio choice in which a benevolent government chooses the scale of risky projects in the presence of market failures and tax distortions. These two...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Chinese imports are flooding the domestic market. China recorded a $124 billion trade surplus with the United States last year, the biggest bilateral trade imbalance in history. Trade friction escalated late last year when the U.S....
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- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
economies of scale are outweighed by frictions and inefficiencies that accompany bigness. This principle has served Nucor Steel well as it has risen to the premier place in US steel making. Similarly, Arkadi Kuhlmann, in putting together...
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- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring is nonverifiable and financial frictions exist. The mechanism generating MNC activity is not the risk of technological expropriation by local partners but the demands of...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
substantial variation exists across organizations with regard to management, suggesting frictions in the broader diffusion of management knowledge. We argue that peer networks may allow for the diffusion of productive management across...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
projects on time with limited computing resources while also limiting friction among the forces. The crazy solution: Brandeau asked Disney Animation (Disney bought Pixar in 2006) if the studio could borrow 250 computers, an idea someone...
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by Kim Girard
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
located upstream versus downstream from that stage, as well as by the firm's productivity. Our results suggest that contractual frictions play an important role in shaping the integration choices of firms around the world. Publisher's...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
models predict that the division of stock returns into dividends and capital appreciation does not affect investor consumption patterns, while mental accounting and other economic frictions predict that investors have a higher propensity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
frictions play a first-order role in determining market prices. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49425 Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-Based...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
contractual frictions play an important role in shaping the integration choices of firms around the world. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49090 How Best-Self Activation Influences Emotions,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
would not be achieved even if the product offered a payout ratio comparable to U.S. insurance contracts. We present evidence suggesting that lack of trust, liquidity constraints, and limited salience are significant non-price frictions...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
a given stage of the value chain is shaped by the relative contractibility of the stages located upstream versus downstream from that stage, as well as by the firm's productivity. Our results suggest that contractual frictions play an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
Publications August 2013 pub Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Concert Industry By: Bennett, Victor Manuel, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how reducing search View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
developing more molecularly novel drug compounds, as opposed to more so-called "me-too" drugs. This pattern suggests that, on the margin, firms perceive novel drugs to be more valuable ex-ante investments but that financial View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
environments. Further, this effect is larger when (i) there are greater cross-border frictions between the parent and subsidiary and (ii) the parents are relatively more involved in their subsidiaries' investment decision-making process....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
governance, human capital, and informational frictions help account for the variation in management. Publisher's link: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20102 August 2013 Review of Economics and Statistics Does Planning Regulation Protect...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
Frictions in Shadow Banking: Evidence from the Lending Behavior of Money Market Funds By: Chernenko, Sergey, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We document the consequences of money market fund risk taking during the European sovereign debt...
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Sean Silverthorne