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- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
occupation or possession by grant/gift, and tributary or chieftaincy. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54766 Opportunistic Returns and Dynamic Pricing: Empirical Evidence...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
how other companies can begin to adopt it. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51074 Forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Does Aggregated Returns Disclosure Increase Portfolio Risk-Taking? By: Beshears,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
“lean-in." We use a laboratory experiment to examine the effect of leaning-in. Despite men and women achieving similar and positive returns when they are forced to negotiate, we find that women avoid negotiations more often than men....
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
firms evaluating the opportunity. SER focuses on being an opportunistic and early mover in investments tied to clean energy, industrial sustainability, and the environment. “We believe we can do this well because we don’t have any...
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Maureen Harmon
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
existing markets, providing vertical growth opportunities. Additionally, it could pursue an added-value approach by bringing new formats to existing markets. The last avenue of growth was more opportunistic and came from acquiring new...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—In the presence of managerial short-termism and asymmetric information about skill and effort provision, firms may opportunistically shift earnings from uncertain to more certain times. We document that firms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
American Economic Review The Costs of Sovereign Default: Evidence from Argentina By: Hébert, Benjamin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—We estimate the causal effect of sovereign default on the equity returns of Argentine firms. We identify...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
Case 308-073 After opening 60 schools in eight years through opportunistic growth, the national office of the KIPP schools network has designed a strategy dubbed "smart growth." Each KIPP school is a separately incorporated...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
stock performance of these offerings. RLBOs appear to consistently outperform other IPOs and the stock market as a whole, with economically and statistically meaningful positive returns. There is no evidence of a deterioration of returns...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
information-rich "opportunistic" trades that contains all the predictive power in the insider trading universe. A portfolio strategy that focuses solely on opportunistic insider trades yields value-weight abnormal View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
on average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic patent trolls. NPEs sue cash-rich firms—a one standard deviation increase in cash holdings roughly doubles a firm's chance of being targeted by NPE litigation. We find moreover that NPEs...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
how a common strategic decision aimed at increasing one's own power, i.e., investing in outside options, can lead to opportunistic behavior in exchange relationships. Across three laboratory studies, we show that the extent to which...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
the United States, the time, cost, and complications of patent suits provide openings for opportunistic assertions of infringement. This article proposes a way to address information problems that facilitate View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic “patent trolls.” NPEs sue cash-rich firms and target cash in business segments unrelated to alleged infringement at essentially the same frequency as they target cash in segments related to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
and $12 billion, which equates to between 1.3% and 8.7% of the stock of prepackaged software in private fixed investment in the United States and a very high rate of return to the original federal investment in the Internet. We argue that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
likelihood of detecting and reporting existing accounting irregularities. This suggests that for U.S. listed foreign firms, less frequent restatements can be a signal of opportunistic reporting rather than a lack of accounting errors and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic patent trolls. NPEs sue cash-rich firms-a one standard deviation increase in cash holdings increases a firm's chance of being targeted by NPE litigation more than fourfold. We find moreover that NPEs...
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
Statistics Trade Credit and Taxes By: Desai, Mihir, C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. Abstract—This paper analyzes the extent to which firms use trade credit to reallocate capital in response to tax incentives. Tax-induced differences in pretax View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
empirical analysis shows that on average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic “patent trolls." NPEs sue cash-rich firms—and target cash in business segments unrelated to alleged infringement at essentially the same frequency as...
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Disappearing Association Between Governance and Returns Authors: Lucian A. Bebchuk, Alma Cohen, and Charles C.Y. Wang Publication: Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract The correlation between governance indices and...
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Sean Silverthorne