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- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
work, we look at the gold standard era (1880-1914) as a "natural experiment" to test whether adoption of a rule-based monetary framework such as the gold standard...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
services is much more widespread than has hitherto been appreciated. Drawing on concepts from research on scale economies and transaction costs, we develop a set of hypotheses about differences in the expected depth of internalization across industries. We View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
merchants? What should they know before signing a contract? A: The main insight in my paper is that default contract terms—obvious contract terms—are not the only possible terms. It may be that you pay most of your suppliers on standard...
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- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Yanhua, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract— Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and to conform their labor practices to the standards set forth in...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
Sandino Abstract—Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by Journal of Accounting Research, to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016
international equity markets, with a highly significant average slope coefficient of 1.05. In sharp contrast, standard factor-model-based proxies fail to exhibit predictive power internationally. We show analytically and empirically that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010
into our theoretical framework. The framework generates a simple test using patent citations that indicates that entrants and small firms have relatively higher growth spillover effects. Download the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
have important benefits in workplace settings. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55598 Diagnostic Bubbles By: Bordalo, Pedro, Nicola Gennaioli, Spencer Yongwook Kwon, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract— We introduce diagnostic expectations into...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
entrepreneurs from other candidates. To address that problem, Butler compared the psychological testing results of over 4,000 successful entrepreneurs and of approximately 1,800 business leaders who described themselves as general...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
in entrepreneurship despite earning low risk-adjusted returns. This has lead to attempts to provide explanations-using both standard economic theory and behavioral economics-for why certain individuals may be attracted to such an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
interviewed had not relaxed the standards, and in fact they said that, if anything, they had held women entrepreneurs to a higher standard because they did not want to be viewed as a weak link or an easy way into the firm. They did think...
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
standards (IAS) in 2005. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=106073 PublicationsStudying Creativity, Its Processes, and Its Antecedents: An Exploration of the Componential Theory of...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
for which content will be exclusive despite foreclosing itself from selling to a portion of the market. In addition, we show that contrary to standard results on double marginalization and pricing of complementary goods, a platform that...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
J. Terry Abstract—We experimentally test how effort responds to wages—randomly assigned to accrue to individuals or to a charity—in the presence of expectations-based reference points or targets. When individuals earn money for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
auctions when separate. When there is an insufficient improvement, such mergers can harm advertisers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-055.pdf Agency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure Authors:Sergey Chernenko, C. Fritz Foley, and Robin...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11
models and evaluating their efficacy in standalone fashion—just as engineers test new technologies or products. However, the success or failure of a company's business model depends largely on how it interacts with those of the other...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
practices have on the long-term stability of the economy and the interests of beneficiaries in financial, social, and environmental sustainability. This volume provides a global and multi-faceted commentary on the evolving standards...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
in setting current U.S. accounting standards for acquisitions and goodwill. Explores two Cisco acquisitions, one under pooling-of-interests accounting, the other under purchase method accounting. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace