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- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
are due to attendance and are conditional on high levels of attendance and those holding leadership positions within the IETF. Surprisingly, standards endorsement is insignificant when controlling for simple physical attendance. These...
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- 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18
evidence. This paper analyzes the role of third-party information for VAT enforcement through two randomized experiments among over 400,000 Chilean firms. Announcing additional monitoring has less impact on transactions that are subject...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
Abstract—We explore how people balance their needs to belong and to be different from their friends by studying their choices of a virtual-house wall color on a leading Chinese social-networking site. The setting enables us to randomize...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
motivation. Should bonuses be tied to quotas or should they be given unconditionally? Is it better to use bonuses as a reward or as punishment? A randomized field experiment at a large Indian company investigated these questions, finding...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
2011, all 1,200 global Partners of McKinsey & Co. gathered at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center near Washington, DC for their annual Partners' conference. The atmosphere was tense as Partners, in addition to their normal agenda, discussed the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
hospitals and research centers to understand how colocation impacts the likelihood of scientific collaboration. We introduce exogenous colocation and face-to-face interactions for a random subset of biomedical researchers responding to an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
methods (decision trees, random forests, K-nearest neighbors, and neural networks) to reveal patterns in data that could be used for theory building. We also illustrate how ML methods can illuminate interactions and non-linear effects...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
committed to pioneering all avenues of technology and distributing them to wide audiences. The journey wasn't without its trials for both CEOs. Gates' antitrust lawsuit of the mid-90s and Jobs' separation from Apple in the late 80s...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
record of real-world achievement speaks for itself. Even a cursory summary of the accomplishments of entrepreneurial alumni since World War II suggests an extraordinary record of business enterprise. Among the postwar classes, consider, for example, a View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
whether politicians can use direct contact to reconnect with citizens, increase turnout, and win votes. During the 2014 Italian municipal elections, we randomly assigned 26,000 voters to receive visits from city council candidates, from canvassers supporting the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
independent predictor of mental and physical health-such as decreased depression and doctor's visits-over and above mean levels of positive and negative emotion. These results remained robust after controlling for gender, age, and the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
of forced dismissal for both CEOs and CFOs during the period 1993-2004. These results are obtained after controlling for several proxies for earnings and stock return performance suggesting that boards appear to penalize managers for...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
if we take on the responsibility, we'll work to control our own costs. Health care is 17 percent of our gross domestic product. If we can drive down costs while improving outcomes, that will be much more favorable to our economy and to...
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- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
foreclosure discounts appear to be related to the threat of vandalism in low-priced neighborhoods. After aggregating to the zip-code level and controlling for regional price trends, the prices of forced sales are mean-reverting, while the...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
causes of the gender gap in patenting among life scientists. Our regressions on a random sample of 4,227 life scientists over a 30-year period show that women faculty members patent at about 40% of the rate of men. We found that the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
controlling for investment size, stage, and industry. Geographic distance and technological inexperience by the VC increase the probability the investment is taken up by a partner and not the VC. This work contributes to an emerging...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
own childhood leads people to experience feelings of moral purity and to behave prosocially. In Experiment 1, participants instructed to recall memories from their childhood were more likely to help the experimenter with a supplementary task than were participants in a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
achieve success, have meaningful relationships, make a difference to society and secure a fulfilling and happy life. This book will help you discover how your paradigm is created, what factors impact it, and how you can take control of...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
the field of health care has evolved differently despite a decades-long scramble to control spending. HBS professor emeritus Bob Kaplan described the state of affairs in a 2011 interview with the Harvard Business Review: "When I encounter...
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- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
risks—including spending hours reading or watching the news. "This is such an impermanent state of affairs that we just have to do as best we can." Rather than ruminating on the virus and replaying possible future outcomes in our minds, it’s best to let go of the...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost