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- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
foreign markets. Following a reduction in tariffs on trade between the two foreign countries, the model predicts growth in the number of source-country firms engaging in foreign direct investment, growth in the size of affiliates that are...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
moved from relative isolation to center stage. Thirty-six of the world’s leading China experts—all affiliates of the renowned Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University—answer key questions about where this new superpower...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
while offering increased payments to good-type agents. I estimate that a leading affiliate network could have invoked an optimal payment delay to eliminate 71% of fraud without decreasing profit. Download the paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
definition comprising people whose primary affiliation is with one of the social sciences or management, but who are extremely interested in the historical development of business, sometimes doing original research themselves, sometimes...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007
does not seem to explain the higher level of firm diversification. However, we find that Chinese state-owned enterprises diversify their operations more aggressively than other Chinese firms. Research limitations/implications—Ownership data and business group View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
medical center. You don't have to be from Boston, Los Angeles, or Houston. You don't need to be affiliated with Harvard. A winning idea could be from anywhere." Ideas submitted so far include a tool for crowdsourcing medical diagnoses; a...
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- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
for Chemistry, Medicine, Economics, and Physics awarded to faculty at American institutions. Some of these were refugees, like Albert Einstein. To understand our “trade balance” in this area, note that only 4 Americans have been View Details
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- 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8
to divert search for an information intermediary who enables buyers (consumers) to search affiliated sellers (stores). We identify two original motives for diverting search (i.e., inducing consumers to search more than they would like):...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
employees in anticipation of signaling benefits, which include the accrual of visibility and the projection of quality-based identities. We validate our perspective on publicizing affiliation information by analyzing how a sample of...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales
assistant professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School and an affiliate of Harvard’s Center for Brain Sciences, who studies the neural and psychological factors that underlie consumer decision-making. “The more similar the...
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- 23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007
misconceptions distort the popular understanding of U.S. multinationals in China. In this paper, we seek to correct four common misunderstandings by providing a statistical portrait of several aspects of U.S. affiliate activity in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
virtually the same: on average Republicans kept $3.72 and Democrats kept $3.67. The next three questions added party affiliation into the mix for most players. They were told whether their anonymous partners were Democrats or Republicans,...
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- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
presidential races. They studied the number of votes cast in each county for the candidates and used registered party affiliation at the county level to look at how campaign effects differed depending on the level of voter partisanship....
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
foreign countries, the model predicts growth in the number of source-country firms engaging in foreign direct investment, growth in the size of affiliates that are active in reforming countries both before and after the tariff reduction,...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
seven years, large teams of affiliated WMS analysts have interviewed managers at some 10,000 organizations in 20 countries, setting out to determine how and why management practices differ vastly in style and quality. Best Practices The...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5
"reliability" and increase "relevance," partly due to their tendency to propose fair-value methods. We find opposite results for FASB members affiliated with the Democratic Party, although only when excluding a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
approach, turning to Harvard Medical School for an analogy. "The Medical School has 17 affiliated teaching hospitals, so when it offers small-group teaching and tutorials, the school draws on doctors in the View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
consumers large discounts when they prepay for participating firms' goods and services. Within a model of repeat experience good purchase, we examine two mechanisms by which a discount voucher service can benefit affiliated firms: price...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 5, 2006
American multinational firms respond to politically risky environments by adjusting their capital structures abroad and at home. Foreign subsidiaries located in politically risky countries have significantly more debt than do other foreign View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
companies are already starting to find ways to combine incentives for performance with measures to create more loyalty and employee affiliation with the company. Japanese companies created a very extreme version of such affiliation. The...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer