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- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
CEO and his team. Q: What caused the failure of Alpha's first attempt at a customer service initiative in the early 1990s? A: Initially, the first CSE [Customer Service Enhancements] initiative was not a failure. It did lead to some short-term improvements in...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
avoidance (Slemrod, 2004; Crocker and Slemrod, 2005; Chen and Chu, 2005) by showing that increases in institutional ownership are associated with increases in tax avoidance. Using the Russell index reconstitution setting to isolate exogenous shocks to institutional...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
transactions. The analyst used the Cox regression model—an approach originally used to determine which patients would die and which would live over certain time periods-of "survival analysis." The analysis discovered that the...
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- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
national male circumcision rates for African countries are both a strong predictor of HIV/AIDS prevalence and uncorrelated with other determinants of economic outcomes. Two-stage least squares regressions do not support the hypotheses...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210026-PDF-ENG Using Regression Analysis to Estimate Time Equations F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and Ariel Andres BlumenkrancHarvard Business School Note 111-001 This note presents a simple way to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
regression techniques and identify mostly homogeneous effects throughout the conditional city growth distribution. August 2013 Harvard Business Review The Hidden Benefits of Keeping Teams Intact By: Huckman, Robert S., and Bradley Staats...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
dependent variables, and regression to the mean, results show that mandatory nonfinancial performance information measurement and peer disclosure improves overall performance (information effect) with larger improvements for poorly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
these hypotheses using network analysis and a simple multivariate regression that explains bank connections. I use comparable business directories to create databases with names of directors and financial information for all major...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
firm-level expected returns and expected profitability are time-varying but highly persistent; 2) forecasts of holding period returns strongly predict the cross section of future returns up to three years ahead. We document a highly significant predictive pooled View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
investments. Using both calendar-time portfolio stock return regressions and firm-level panel regressions we find that firms with good ratings on material sustainability issues significantly outperform firms...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119025-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-026 Predicting Purchasing Behavior at PriceMart (B) Supplements the (A) case. In this case, Wehunt and Morse are concerned about the logistic regression...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
fosters a process of personalization of management learning. This process allows management education to provide the foundations for leaders' development by transforming potentially regressive MBA experiences into rich material for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
"song-sales" equation estimated using the seemingly unrelated regression method, explicitly accounts for the interaction between sales for the bundle and its components. I find that revenues decrease significantly as digital...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
are highly correlated across countries. Firm-level regressions demonstrate that rates of return and investment rates of affiliates are highly correlated with the rates of return and investment of the affiliate's parent and other...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
are not directly related to mining, such as trade, finance and services. We use quantile instrumental variable regression techniques and identify mostly homogeneous effects throughout the conditional city growth distribution. Download the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
patents granted by the USPTO in 2001-2003. We show that examiner citations account for 63% of all citations on the average patent and that 40% of patents have all citations added by examiners. We use multivariate regression and analysis...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
of them can account for a quantitatively relevant fraction of our results. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54796 Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
inequality. This result is robust to using regression and matching approaches, and to controlling for a host of potential confounders. Contrary to the effects of tax cuts, we find no effects of tax increases on income inequality at the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
frontier technology and therefore do not need to attract foreign investment to innovate, so domestic saving does not matter for growth. A cross-country regression shows that lagged savings is positively associated with productivity growth...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
persistent but can also be associated with firms' risk or growth characteristics, implying that ICC regressions are likely confounded by spurious correlations. Moreover, I document that biases in GLS' measurement errors are driven not...
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Sean Silverthorne