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- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
spending associated with the redemption of such a coupon is focused on "marginal" grocery items, or grocery items that a customer does not typically buy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-024.pdf The Causes and Consequences of Industry...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
defined as the extent to which an actor's network contacts are connected to one another, affects the initiation and adoption of change in organizations. Using longitudinal survey data supplemented with eight in-depth case studies, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
actions. Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency and...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
experienced.) The cognitive science shows us is that there are limits to how fast you can drive in the learning.— Dorothy Leonard Walt and I studied mostly companies on the West Coast. Brian studied the incubators here in Boston. Walt and I also went to Asia. So the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
It's a common problem: A work team tackles a high-pressure project for a client, but along the way something goes wrong with team dynamics and the client ends up feeling shortchanged. Even though team members initially recognize and value each other's potential...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
and in turn devote more effort to learning and improving. We test our hypotheses using data collected in field and laboratory settings. This multi-method approach supports our theoretical model and permits us to gain further insight into...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
impact of immigrants on natives tend to find limited consequences in the short run, while the results in the long run are more varied and much less certain. Immigrants in the United States aid business and technology exchanges with their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
critical purpose of allowing employees to recharge, but in the short term, translate to a loss of time that usually leads to reduced productivity. We evaluate the effects of two types of breaks (expected versus unexpected), and two...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency of marketing...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
School Case 716-462 A Note on Activist Investors and the Tech Sector This short note provides background and data on the growing role of corporate activists, especially in high-technology industries....
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
Self-Policing? (revised) Authors:Michael W. Toffel and Jodi L. Short Abstract Administrative agencies are increasingly establishing voluntary self-reporting programs, both as an investigative tool and as a way of encouraging regulated...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
among those working closely with Japanese employees highlights intergroup contact as a factor in shaping the unearned status gain experience. Supplemental analysis of data gathered from 66 Japanese employees provided the broader...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
promote complementarity across channels. We find that opening retail stores cannibalizes sales in the catalog and online channels in the short term but produces complementary effects in both channels in the long term; cannibalization is...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Through a working agreement with the PGA TOUR, we have obtained access to proprietary "ShotLink" data that pinpoints the location of every shot taken on the PGA TOUR. Using these data, we develop distance-based models for two...
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- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty, edited by Faulkner Robert and Susan Shell. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, forthcoming Abstract Chapter excerpt: "Most American occupations of foreign countries have been of relatively View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
often don’t take the vacation time they have coming to them, and many are feeling even more hesitant to ask for time off right now. But they are also feeling really burned out,” Whillans says. “We have all had to do a lot of adapting in a View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
of private equity buyouts. We welcome their interest in our work but think their criticisms are off the mark. Some of their claims reflect a misunderstanding of the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) and its underlying View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
practice related to AI in developing countries. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52296 December 2017 Journal of Advertising Research Rethinking the Profession Formerly Known as Advertising: How Data...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
suggests that the effect of distance should vanish over time, a hypothesis that we confirm in the data and that distinguishes technology from other flows like goods or investments. We then structurally estimate the model. The parameter...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
prior work in fairness, the studies show that this effect is driven by violations of norms and the perceived similarity between the inferior, degraded version of a product and the full-featured model offered by the brand. Fundamental Data...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel