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- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
including the Federal Communication Commission in the United States, curtail the integration of media markets to promote "localism." To find the right balance between the private benefits of integrated markets and the public...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
they were back to doing visits in person and are much happier with the results." Several CEOs mentioned the salesforce as a category especially affected. “Sales were sharply down” because of the pandemic, and some salespeople faced “overwork with less rewards because...
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- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
broach the idea that regulators tackle the subject of price coherence—either by curbing regulations that support it, or by directly overseeing the fees that intermediaries charge to sellers. This already has happened to some extent in the credit card industry. The...
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- 26 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 26
Case 111-120 In 2011, the European Commission was deciding on how to best modify the existing European Union policy on corporate disclosure of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Previous directives had recommended...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
The largest issue is how to assign ratings tasks to firms. There are currently 10 nationally recognized statistical ratings organizations (NRSROs), which is the classification used by the Securities and Exchange Commission for a firm...
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- 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007
pro quo deals between agents and third parties, and to suggest how legal and institutional reforms might curb harms and enhance benefits. In this comprehensive Handbook, top scholars in the field provide specially commissioned essays,...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
different from large, traditional Madison Avenue agencies. Instead of having stable teams based around individual clients, this upstart agency used ad hoc teams that formed and disbanded with every project. Clients commissioned specific...
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by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
compete now as a full-service investment firm without charging the hefty commissions that 'full service' usually implies. Our online presence is just part of a larger operation designed to help customers achieve their long-term financial...
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- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
Exchange Commission Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) website, we show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent searches by the same individual are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In fact,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
illiquid hedge fund holdings that one of their clients had commissioned them to sell and had now to decide to whom they should sell the holdings, if they should split up the portfolio, or if they should postpone the sale. At the same...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract— Regulators have long been aware that differential access to information can undermine the efficiency and fairness of financial markets. In an effort to place investors on equal footing, the Securities and Exchange View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007
annulled the merger—which the European Commission had approved two years earlier—after a group of independent music labels complained about the merger's effect on competition. While Sony and BMG were defending the merger in court, EMI...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28
capital market participants like sell-side analysts, the media, auditors, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/113120-PDF-ENG
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
explores how it made the transformation and how it should proceed. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=805060 EU Verdict Against Microsoft Harvard Business School Case 706-503 In 2004, following an investigation that began...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
industry observers believed the growth and consolidation would continue, providing many opportunities for investors. However, few health club chains were publicly listed, and the leading listed company, Bally Total Fitness, was under U.S. Securities and Exchange View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5
a common non-linear incentive scheme at a leading enterprise software vendor. The empirical results demonstrate that salespeople are adept at gaming the timing of deal closure to take advantage of the vendor's accelerating commission...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20
commissioned his CFO Bonnie Tu to open the first all-women's bicycle store in Taipei and charged her not only with figuring out the needs of women customers, but also mandating that she turn a profit. "Because your only customers are...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
IASB is working closely with the FASB to converge the U.S. and IAS standards. The Securities and Exchange Commission has even considered letting foreign companies list on U.S. exchanges using IAS. Q: What position do you encourage the...
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- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). I find that large employers are less likely to be subject to an SEC enforcement action, after controlling for firm size, accounting quality, distance to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
Mobilization By: Marx, Benjamin, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri Abstract—Voter mobilization campaigns face trade-offs in young democracies. In a large-scale experiment implemented in 2013 with the Kenyan Electoral Commission (IEBC), text...
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Carmen Nobel