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- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
measured terms familiar to a stock market analyst. Through an agreement, a social icon can define with its acquirer terms of accountability for its performance that may be much better suited to what it is trying to accomplish. For...
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- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
from the athenahealth practice management system and EHR task logs. Methods: We developed monthly measures of EHR use and delegation to support staff from task logs. Productivity was measured using work...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
to be taken for granted, regardless of their efficiency implications. However, the institutional perspective does not address the fundamental issue of business strategy necessary to explain the persistence of substantially different...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
the depth of problems in small business lending, and find and measure solutions. In the advent of another credit crisis this could prove disastrous. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is empowered within Section 1071 of...
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- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and endogeneity. Exploiting a new comprehensive industry-level data set of 29...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
sovereign default induced by legal rulings in the case of Republic of Argentina v. NML Capital. We find that a 10% increase in the probability of default causes a 6% decline in the value of Argentine equities and a 1% depreciation of a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409003 In-Vitro Fertilization: Outcomes Measurement Harvard Business School Case 709-403 As of 2007, there were very few examples of widespread measurement and reporting of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
instruments (including price-setting) to implement desired outcomes. Non-price instruments were very much at the core of MSP strategies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-061.pdf Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
other words, the more labor treaties a country signs, the more likely it will live up to its promises. Another factor that had a significant effect on factory performance was the degree of freedom of the press in the country. To measure...
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by Michael Blanding
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy CEO Behavior and Firm Performance By: Bandiera, Oriana, Stephen Hansen, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract— We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in six countries parsing granular CEO diary...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
health care has led her to study nurses, who, as direct care providers, are at the center of the web of supply chains of equipment, supplies, medications, and even physicians. Singer received a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to develop an...
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by Paul Guttry
- 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
By: Buell, Ryan W. Abstract—Conventional wisdom holds that the more contact an operation has with its customers, the less efficiently it will run. But when customers are partitioned away from the operation, they are less likely to fully...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010
CEOs are retained in a sample of mergers in the 1990s, we find greater retention of better-performing and higher-paid CEOs—both measures of valuable human capital. We also show that the performance-retention link is stronger when the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
Encourages readers to think about the impediments to energy efficiency in the buildings sector and the ways in which entrepreneurs can profitably surmount the obstacles. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
programs strengthened the relationship between firms’ historical innovative efficiency and subsequent subsidy awards and depressed the influence of their corruption-related expenditures. We also examine the impact of these changes:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
2015. Using web scraping, we collected daily prices for controlled and non-controlled goods and measured the differential effects on inflation, product availability, and price dispersion. We first show that, although price controls are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
IEEE Security & Privacy Accountable? The Problems and Solutions of Online Ad Optimization By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Online advertising might seem to be the most measurable form of marketing ever invented. Comprehensive records...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
advantage and market outcomes hence could be more efficient with stronger indirect network effects. We empirically examine the competition between the Xbox and PlayStation 2 consoles. We find that Xbox has a small quality advantage over...
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Martha Lagace