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- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
Multinational Firms, FDI Flows and Imperfect Capital Markets Authors:Pol Antras, Mihir Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines how costly financial contracting and weak View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
US outbound FPI and FDI, this paper analyzes whether the composition of US outbound capital flows reflect efforts to bypass home country tax regimes and weak host country investor protections. The...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
innovations (for whom the price of failure tolerance is too high) can only be started by investors who are not failure tolerant. Since policies to stimulate innovation must often be set before specific investments in innovative projects...
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- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
to 2008. We find that the divergence between control rights and cash-flow rights of a borrowing firm's largest ultimate owner has a significant impact on the concentration and composition of the firm's loan syndicate. A...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
Summing Up Don't throw out alignment while fighting greed and ignorance in corporate governance Respondents to this month's column have spoken: The cause of investor mistrust of management is not the concept of alignment; it is, among...
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by James Heskett
- Web
Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
(IPO) in 1998, Omidyar became a billionaire and shortly thereafter, he and his fiancée Pam agreed they would use their newfound fortune in an altruistic fashion. Financial Inclusion at Omidyar Network goes behind the scenes of a pioneer and thought leader in impact...
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- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
exogenous variations in workers' origins and the well-documented social divide between urban resident workers and rural migrant workers in large urban Chinese firms. We analyze data on weekly output, individual characteristics, and co-worker View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2409251 Integrated Reporting and Investor Clientele By: Serafeim, George Abstract—In this paper, I examine the relation between Integrated Reporting (IR) and the composition of a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
the redirection of existing inventive activity. Read the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-118.pdf Finding the Right Mix: How the Composition of Self-managing Multicultural Teams' Cultural Value Orientation Influences Performance...
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
ultrasound use and bargaining power. I present evidence that village-level ultrasound is an exogenous source of variation for access to sex selection technology, demonstrate that parents are indeed considering the sex ratio of their unborn child’s future marriage...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
exploiting the well-documented social divide between urban resident workers and rural migrant workers in urban Chinese firms. We analyze data on weekly output, individual characteristics, and coworker composition for all weavers in an...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
http://www.people.hbs.edu/asunderam/mmmf_2013-12-24_with_names.pdf August 2013 Accountancy Futures The Investor Conundrum By: Eccles, Robert G. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
imposing costs on marginal ones. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52388 Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey By: Amel-Zadeh, Amir, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
In 1947, Professor Myles Mace, a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance, introduced a unique offering into the MBA curriculum called The Management of New Enterprises. Believed to be the first entrepreneurship course taught at any school in...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
measure of national competitiveness. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18249 Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance Authors:Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern Abstract This paper evaluates the role of regional cluster View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
(NBS) institutional framework (Whitley 1997, 1999), we theorize about and empirically investigate the impact of nation-level institutions on firms' corporate social performance (CSP). Using a sample of firms from 42 countries spanning seven years, we construct an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
provide indirect evidence as to why firm managers may cater to the demand for dividends from local seniors. Overall, these results suggest that the composition of a firm's investor base affects corporate...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
1999 to be UPromise's president and chief operating officer. Last March, almost precisely when the NASDAQ Composite Index peaked above 5,000, the company—a few months old, with a business plan and a few employees as its only...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume or number of projects completed by a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice, however, such stability is rare,...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
staggered boards can be beneficial for early-life-cycle firms, which exhibit greater information asymmetries between insiders and investors. These results are validated using a larger sample of firms from the Investor Responsibility...
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Sean Silverthorne