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- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
estimates of real consumption across countries without the need for consumer price index extrapolations. We discuss advantages and limitations associated with the use of online prices for PPPs, including issues of representativeness and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index of pairwise-industry agglomeration and investigate the patterns and determinants underlying the global economic geography of multinational firms. Our...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
firms in comparison to the agglomeration of domestic firms? Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
a wonderful thing if the monarch is on your side, but there is little to prevent exploitation, opportunism, and corruption by the rulers. Bahrain has been steadily sliding down the Corruption Perception Index for years. Parliamentary...
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- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
own workers and consumers. Frontiers of Capital signals the wide-ranging role of anthropology in explaining the social and cultural contours of the New Economy. Purchase book: http://www.dukeupress.edu The Microeconomic Foundations of Prosperity: Findings from the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
airlines, discount retailers, and index mutual funds all created growth by offering overserved customers "good enough" functionality at lower prices. New-market disruptive innovations connect with nonconsumers by making it...
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- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
section of stock returns, also predicts excess bond returns. These relationships remain in place even when bonds and stocks become "decoupled" at the index level. They are driven by a combination of effects including...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule (see sidebar), the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant headlines ("Move Over,...
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Julia Hanna
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
Stock Returns: Evidence from Cross-sectional Variation in Nikkei 225 Weights Author:Robin Greenwood Periodical:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Relative to their weights in a value-weighted index, a number of stocks in Japan's Nikkei 225 stock View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
First, in the case of the core and largest sector, Advertising Agencies, firm-level concentration as measured by Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) increased slightly but remained relatively low from 1977-2002. All of the HHI estimates...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
promising directions for future research. Moving to a New Global Competitiveness Index Authors:Michael E. Porter, Mercedes Delgado-Garcia, Christian H.M. Ketels, and Scott Stern Publication:Chap. 1.2 in The Global Competitiveness Report...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
process of globalization and international trade. But we're putting our bets on our indexes that very clearly [show] a continuation of the now ten- to twenty-year process of intensive globalization. We believe that, particularly the...
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by Staff
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
funds and closed-end funds. The U.S. ETF industry had reached $36 billion in assets under management, growing rapidly over the past few years. Because ETFs were exclusively index-tracking products, Vanguard, the largest index mutual fund...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
predominant technology for index trading. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211006-PDF-ENG Batson International, S.A. (A) David F. HawkinsHarvard Business School Case 111-023 seeking to make up a shortfall in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
stocks and indexes without being detected for over a year. Although the case could be used to teach the basics of internal controls, it is likely to be more effective by eliciting a debate about how predictable the incident was, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
professional goals, she did not realize what made the company so special until after she resigned. Only then did she comprehend what being a true leader involved. The Index Revolution: Why Investors Should Join It Now by Charles D. Ellis...
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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
countries. Our results are close to those reported by the International Comparisons Program (ICP) in 2011 and the OECD in 2014 and can be used to obtain more up-to-date estimates of real consumption across countries without the need for consumer price View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
pricing power from the manufacturer to the retailer, (2) the infiltration of more private-label products into the market, and (3) the rise in commodity costs as a result of inflation (for example, the Producer Price Index (PPI) which...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
Israeli start-ups raised record-breaking amounts of venture capital, and exits for the year totaled over $8 billion. On the other hand, government expenditure on R&D had decreased and Israel’s position in the Global Innovation Index...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index of agglomeration and investigate the patterns and...
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Sean Silverthorne