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- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
worldwide phenomenon. Sensing, analyzing, and developing appropriate responses to the complex new demands of the expanded, global marketplace is difficult, and the greatest challenge comes in developing the organizational capabilities and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
Returns Authors:Robin Greenwood and Samuel Hanson Abstract When investors overvalue a particular firm characteristic, corporations endowed with that characteristic can absorb some of the demand by issuing equity. We use time-series...
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Martha Lagace
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
estimated 90,000 people would die there before the end of the war. Commandant Franz Ziereis, who oversaw the brutality at the camp, supervised the beatings and interrogations of the OSS team personally. He interrupted one to View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
demand and the profitability to engage in exports and R&D, thereby relaxing borrowing constraints and enabling more firms to overcome the fixed-cost hurdle for financing R&D. We decompose the effects of RER changes on productivity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
of inflation increases demand for cost of living adjustments. Frames that highlight flexibility, control, and investment significantly reduce annuitization. A majority of respondents prefer to receive an extra "bonus" payment...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
of developing a formal model). What we had missed is that Microsoft's initial advantage (larger installed base) together with its pricing power allow the company to price strategically to control Linux's market share going forward. By lowering the price of Windows, the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
worker shortage, are these hidden workers still out in the cold? How can employers engage with this varied group estimated to number 27 million in the U.S.? Welcome to the Managing the Future of Work podcast from Harvard Business School....
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
access to some kind of electronic records system, only about half really use them. And backsliding into their old clipboard-and-paper ways of doing things leads to mistakes. For example, an estimated 30 percent of abnormal Pap smear...
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- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
forthcoming Abstract Capitalism, as defined in this book, is an indirect, three-level system of governance for economic relationships (i.e., economic, administrative, and political). Whereas economic markets can coordinate supply and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
have often proved highly productive in policy terms, delivering the best ideas from both sides. In the 1840s, for instance, state politicians who were deeply skeptical of government pushed hard for balanced budget amendments while politicians at the other end of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
store grew, the space became so crowded that at times the copier was rolled out onto the sidewalk and used for self-service customers. Today, some analysts estimate annual revenues from the privately held chain's 850 business services and...
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- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
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
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
managerial practices explain this variation in productivity? A randomized evaluation of the introduction of a mobile-phone based agricultural consulting service, "Avaaj Otalo (AO)" to cotton farmers in Gujarat, India, reveals the following: View Details
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Carmen Nobel
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
million kids that don’t have broadband at home, is the latest estimates that I’ve seen. Of that 16 million, there’s about 9 million of them that are a part of households where their parents are making about under $30,000 a year. Covid has...
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- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
of an estimated secular increase in the cross-country correlations of both stock and bond returns since the late 1990s. Increased correlations of inflation shocks are also an important source of the shift in bond correlations. By...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
assumptions about parents and kids valid to suggest the product would be in high demand once launched? Could she keep a premium price point in a consumer market that was trending downward in willingness to pay? Should she cut back on...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross-industry projects and the ways they must be managed. The authors analyze contemporary cases that expose the complex demands of cross-boundary collaboration...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Social Change By: Eesley, Charles, K.A. DeCelles, and Michael Lenox Abstract—We examine the variety of activist groups and their tactics in demanding firms’ social change. While extant work does not usually distinguish among activist...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
California By: Simcoe, Timothy, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—We study how government green procurement policies influence private-sector demand for similar products. Specifically, we measure the impact of municipal policies requiring...
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Sean Silverthorne