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- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Cummings saw the potential of the city dwindling. The change was partially economic—the city’s credit rating, which had improved by the end of the 1990s, slipped again in the 2000s—and partially personal:...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
teams; the worst-performing franchises have the first picks in the league's annual draft of college players; and salary caps help ensure that wealthier teams can't just buy up all the best players. A congressional partial exemption from...
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- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
the assumed fraction of residues that can be sustainably removed from the field, and the potential of municipal solid waste as a feedstock depends on which components can be economically converted into liquid biofuels. Becoming the Lamp...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Publication:Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming) Abstract We take a decision theoretic approach to the classic social choice problem, using data on the frequency of choice problems to compute social choice functions. We define a family of social choice rules that...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
within these industries and show that whether or not a piece of content ends up exclusive to one platform depends crucially on whether or not the content provider maintains control over the pricing of its own good. If the content provider...
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- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
United States operates a mishmash of a system that taxes worldwide income, provides partial relief for foreign taxes paid, imposes those taxes only upon repatriation, and forces firms to allocate expenses on a worldwide basis. The major...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
evidence. NPEs on average behave as "patent trolls." Indeed, NPEs hold and frequently litigate patents that are likely to be at least partially invalidated; moreover, NPEs target cash irrespective of its relation to alleged...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
of the developed West compared to the rest of the world, which is only now partially closing. Publisher's link: http://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurship-Multinationals-Global-Business-Making/dp/1781951942 August 2013 The European Financial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
knowledge spillovers. The strategic value of these agglomeration economies may vary by firm, depending upon the relative value of each economy, and upon firm and agglomeration economy traits. To better determine when a firm will be...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
a platform-based market socially efficient? We analyze a dynamic model where an entrant with superior quality competes with an incumbent platform, and examine long-run market outcomes. We find that the answers to these questions depend...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
United States around 1900, and the initial "wow" factor that visitors experience when entering these buildings is often a partial reaction to the scope and beauty of their architecture. There is nothing like walking into the Field Museum...
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- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
PublicationsCapitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance Author:Bruce R. Scott Publication:Springer-Verlag, 2011 Abstract Two systems of governance, capitalism and democracy, prevail in the world today. Operating simultaneously in View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
model is defaultable bank liabilities that provide liquidity services to households. The quality of the liquidity services provided by bank liabilities depends on their safety in case of default. Commercial bank debt is fully insured and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
and the difficulty of gaining access to treatment appear to be the two chief failings of the reform. Says HBS professor Regina Herzlinger, “The rise in costs is partially caused by greater than expected enrollments; the number of...
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- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
to geographically limit the reach of the U.S. antifraud regime. The Court thus excluded the overwhelming majority of investors in U.S.-listed foreign firms from the protection of the U.S. civil liability regime and cast at least partial...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
other major cities. But China was changing fast, and Liu acknowledged that Jiamei's ongoing expansion depended on many factors beyond its control, notwithstanding government reform, Jiamei was also faced with pressures from its private...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
Exceptions By: Colfer, Lyra J., and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract—The mirroring hypothesis predicts that organizational ties within a project, firm, or group of firms (e.g., communication, collocation, employment) will correspond to the technical patterns of View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
associated with high used ship prices and heightened industry investment in new ships, but we forecast low future returns. We propose and estimate a behavioral model of industry cycles that can account for the evidence. In our model, firms over-extrapolate exogenous...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
that compensatory fit can only work when there is a powerful informal organization already in existence and when the gains from ambidexterity are substantial. Further, depending on the strength of the informal organization, breakdown in...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
differences, proposes a sequence of stratagems that may enable entrepreneurs to alter strategy while portraying faithfulness to enduring aims. Our theoretical framework posits that for ventures, reorientation without penalty may depend on...
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Dina Gerdeman