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- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
designed to make sure the executive office doesn’t have too much power.” Ep 15: Brainstorming the Affordable Housing Dilemma Desai: “There is a very real, genuine market failure. I think the answer is the government provides housing...
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- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
governments by oil and gas firms, and negative stock price reactions for affected firms at the announcement of regulations mandating disclosure. This suggests that sample firm managers and their investors perceive that there are private...
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- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
opinions that challenged what he viewed as the company’s politically liberal belief system. Reactions to both the memo’s content and Google’s decision to fire Damore were swift and varied. Some praised the company for signaling...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
forthcoming Journal of International Economics Corporate Debt, Firm Size and Financial Fragility in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract— The post-Global Financial Crisis period shows a...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
hope that this President will do the same. Christine Exley, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organization, & Marketing Unit: Donald Trump's recent executive order is indefensible. We must welcome the brightest students,...
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by Staff
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
think warrant further exploration? A: One issue that I would really like to understand better is the reaction of individual domestic firms that had been imitators prior to reforms. Do they disappear? Some anecdotes I have heard suggest...
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by Cynthia Churchwell
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
entrepreneurship in organizational sectors. Prior research suggests that firm foundings are driven by collective patterns of activity—that is, by patterns of prior foundings—including support from related markets as well as institutional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
314-087 Jurlique: Globalizing Beauty from Nature and Science Considers the marketing and strategic challenges faced by natural beauty brands using the case of Australian-based Jurlique, which was acquired by Pola of Japan in 2011. The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
reported feeling, to such an extent that receivers viewed regifting as similar in offensiveness to throwing gifts away (whereas givers clearly preferred the former). This asymmetry in emotional reactions to regifting was driven by an...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
designs for the key technologies required and had a working prototype, an understanding of the manufacturing processes to be used, and a list of the components required. They also had a design prototype that they had used to conduct customer tests and establish View Details
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Anna Secino
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
Seth Rockman, the issue is not whether slavery itself was or was not capitalist but, rather, the impossibility of understanding the nation's spectacular pattern of economic development without situating slavery front and center. American capitalism—renowned for its...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability Authors:Francois Brochet, Alan D. Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Abstract This study examines whether mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) leads to capital View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
vitality. The first reaction to globalization was often, "It's wonderful that we can relocate anywhere. If we have a skill shortage here in America, we can just go somewhere else. If we can get a better tax deal there, we'll go...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
1998 as part of its management of an apparently ongoing crisis. The reaction of the international financial community—and some of my students—was severe. The capital controls were labeled "unorthodox" and "heretical,"...
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by Ann Cullen
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
selected was the only candidate considered. Far too few companies conduct reference checks; far too many rely on gut reactions when judging qualifications and cultural fit. Hardly anyone considers whether candidates will be good team...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly from New York state to analyze market participants' efforts to legitimize commerce and resolve a jurisdictional dispute. Building on literature...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
years—developing a gut reaction that a particular candidate, while spectacular on paper, isn't a good fit for his portfolio company. At the end of the day, as Leonard and Swap argue in their new book, Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and...
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by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
several features of the data, including equilibrium dividend policies similar to a Lintner partial-adjustment model; modal dividend changes of zero, stronger market reactions to dividend cuts than increases,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
matter and investments are multidimensional, high levels of asset specificity can foster non-integration: a low level of specificity provides the most misdirected incentives when transacting in a market (because the outside option of...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008
mission, and meeting the expectations of a demanding capital market. Additionally, Compartamos' Co-CEOs must decide how to face the highly polarized reactions in the microfinance industry to its IPO. In the process, the case examines the...
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Martha Lagace