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- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Abstract—We investigate how the scientific community's perception of a scientist's prior work changes when one of his articles is retracted. Relative to non-retracted control authors, faculty members who experience a retraction see the citation View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
and learning—programs that facilitate everything from admissions to housing to course delivery. As a result, the School’s I.T. investments, including both operating and capital expenses, have grown at a compound annual rate of nearly 15...
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- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
resisted the kind of currency appreciation to which West Germany and Japan consented. We conclude that Chimerica cannot persist for much longer in its present form. As in the 1970s, sizeable changes in exchange rates are needed to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
higher overall ratings than the "branch-wed" non-ATM customers did. However, the reverse was true when videoconferencing was added. It appeared that heavy ATM users actually disliked interacting with humans! Lesson 5: Build...
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Harvard Business School
program's alumnae to illustrate the range of career opportunities available to women. 051, 008, 007a "The Program aims to establish those basic understandings and analytical abilities which will help the graduate adjust quickly to the...
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- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
flows equal the forecasted cash flows plus an omitted downside. When the omitted downside is temporary, the adjustment is to deflate the forecasts and to set the discount rate equal to the cost of capital....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
policymakers with information that facilitates evaluation and adjustment of patent-system performance. This article uses multiple economic models to show the likely benefits of early stage administrative review. Nonetheless, because of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
well: the small, dynamic, stable economies of Mauritius, Tunisia, and Botswana were recently lauded in the Africa Competitiveness Report compiled by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard Institute for International Development. The leading countries in Africa now...
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
issue of Medtronic's performance standards, I found that goals and deadlines were routinely set, missed, and then simply adjusted. Poor performance was rationalized by excuses. Even incentive payments were adjusted upward to reflect these...
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by Bill George
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
we call entrepreneurial beacons. We argue that the actions or outcomes of salient organizations attract and motivate entrepreneurs, thus increasing the rate of foundings. To test this logic, we examine the impact of the Yale University...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
may increase the rate of individual learning from customer-specific experience for a focal task. Finally, we find that the level of experience with a customer for the entire outsourcing firm also yields learning and that the degree of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
contained in the mandatory transitional documents required by International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 1 (2005). We find significant negative abnormal returns for firms reporting negative earnings reconciliation. Although the informational content of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
outpaced the growth of the economy, and this disconnect increases as the difference between the corporate income tax rate of the U.S. and the other OECD countries increases. The underlying mechanism is fewer corporate profits being...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2020
21.4 % The utilization of a payout formula means that the annual payout rate is generally lower following years of relatively high investment returns, and higher following years of lower investment returns. View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
mid-August, the biggest currency adjustment in two decades. But continued trading volatility climaxed on Aug. 23 in what many have called China’s “Black Monday.” Shanghai stocks dropped by 8.5 percent overnight, their steepest single-day...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2019
upset me.” Machine dream: “There were companies that displayed different rates and prices. But none of them ever considered why people would want all that information on one screen, with it placed in charts and graphs that allowed users...
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- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
went into a downward spiral as nitrate prices collapsed. It became highly inward looking and had one of the slowest rates of growth in Latin America for decades. Argentina’s fall from grace was less immediate, but more prolonged. Populist...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
nominal and inflation-indexed bond excess returns even after adjusting for liquidity, providing evidence for both time-varying real interest rate risk premia and time-varying inflation risk premia. Liquidity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
There’s a lot of self-learning that goes on in the process of adjusting to a different environment. “Some students are better at reaching across cultures and being effective communicators in ambiguous situations,” continues Abrami, who...
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- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams
research team studied the expansion of a leading food delivery platform and the resulting rise in fast-food sales to observe how managers adjusted worker staffing to handle spikes in demand. The team analyzed personnel and productivity...
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