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- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
and using 'money' facilitates the exchange of goods and services. So we are still capitalists " Barry Shere commented that "I do not see how profits are neutered as a result of the pressure on prices and margins per transaction....
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- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
marketing strategies (such as, say, the labels placing more emphasis on less popular music genres over time), that could also put a downward pressure on music revenues. This makes the estimated drop in revenues all the more dramatic. Q:...
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- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
problem when they first emerged but was ultimately overcome by changes in the innovation ecosystem. However, incumbents in the oil and power sector are different in two respects. First, they are producing a commodity and hence face little end-user View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
are less responsive to changes in investment opportunities, especially in industries in which stock prices are most sensitive to earnings news. These findings are consistent with the notion that short-termist pressures distort investment...
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Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
was highly susceptible to normative pressure and most evident among individuals concerned with self-presentational aspects of appearing biased (Study 1). However, this tendency was often counterproductive, as avoiding race during...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
suggesting that collective action may be an effective way for the industry to manage the private costs of disclosure and respond to public pressure to improve governance in resource rich countries. Download working paper:...
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- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
domestic purposes); g) having the first side work with the other side to tacitly coordinate outside pressure on the other side's Level II constituents to accept the deal that the first side prefers; and h) in extraordinary cases, by...
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
describe the characteristics of Roth contributions. Approximately one year after the Roth is introduced, 9% of 401(k) participants have positive Roth balances. Roth participation is more than twice as high among 401(k) participants who...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Lerner, Morten Sorensen, and Per Strömberg Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures of dispersed shareholders, or whether LBO funds...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
pressures in that environment, can influence creativity by influencing people's passion for their work. Managers can influence the level of creativity in their organizations by establishing work environments that support passion for the...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
the whistleblower laws we've been trying to support recently in Sarbanes-Oxley make a lot of sense. Many people say the press might be conflicted by pressures from advertisers. We see conflict a lot with analysts so people were expecting...
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- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
process. The paper explores how entrepreneurs and firms translated societal values into brands, globalized them, and changed societal perceptions of beauty as a result. It also shows the limitations of the homogenization achieved by firms even at its View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
Tatiana Sandino Abstract—Using retail chain data, we study the effects of a tournament incentive plan incorporating objective and subjective criteria. In principle, such plans could motivate employees to perform both at a high level,...
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by Sean Silverthorne