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- 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015
morality and decrease people's ability to justify dishonesty. The second principle, Visibility, aims to restrict anonymity, prompt peer monitoring, and elicit responsible norms. The third principle, Self-Engagement, increases motivation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
capital ought to flow across country borders with minimal restriction and regulation. Freedom for capital movements became the new orthodoxy. In an intellectual, legal, and political history of financial globalization, Rawi Abdelal shows...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
The factors that paved the inside path to success in the twentieth century have shifted—education is far more important today. Going forward, a global perspective will be increasingly vital. Managing this level of complexity requires a broader view—one that is not...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
well. Clearly the man-of-action hero is a very important model for professional life for the upper middle class. However, for the purposes of this academic paper, we had to restrict the boundaries on our claims. Q: Are there people in...
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by Manda Salls
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
industry also grew as the means out of poverty for many women who worked as sales consultants and in salons. Winning beauty contests became the equivalent to winning a lottery. In this respect, the impact of the beauty industry was positive. However it also, as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
restrictions for the highly skilled in developed countries portend a future of increased human capital outflows from developing countries. The myriad consequences of these developments for developing countries include the direct loss of...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
fatalities. Second, mass shootings account for a small portion of all gun deaths but have an outsized influence relative to other homicides. Third, when looking at bills that were actually enacted into law, the impact of mass shootings depends on the party in power....
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/615069-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-068 Twine Health In late 2014, Dr. John Moore (CEO), Frank Moss (chairman), and Scott Gilroy (CTO) of Twine Health (Twine) had to resolve several challenges...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
and test its empirical implications using a novel data set from the market for original movie ideas. Consistent with the theoretical results, I find that buyers are reluctant to meet unproven sellers for early-stage ideas, which restricts...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
features a seller with private information and costly buyer participation. The empirical context of the study is the market for original movie ideas. Consistent with the theory, I find that inexperienced writers are excluded from selling early-stage ideas, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
challenged when politicians declaim microfinance as exploitation of the poor and severely restrict business practices. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212018-PDF-ENG Dow Chemical: Innovating for Sustainability...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
on it with no restrictions and without having to pay royalties? Who would produce consoles and under what arrangements? What features should the console include, and how would it be priced to consumers? The home videogame industry had...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
varies with the type of security being issued. For debt, the optimism is restricted to near-term earnings forecasts (i.e., the next two years); for equity, the optimism is concentrated in longer-term forecasts (i.e., growth forecasts,...
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- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
that pay. The increasing use of restricted stock is a sea change. It's really dramatic, and it has been happening since 2005 or so when the accounting rules on expensing options changed. Some people predicted that expensing stock options...
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by Roger Thompson
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
government sought to limit executive pay and excessive risk. The debate raged over what constituted excessive risk and how best to mitigate it. This case describes the government restrictions on executive pay for TARP recipients and...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
banking system. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-101.pdf Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency Authors:Alvin J. Silk Abstract What View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
Potentially restricting free speech is anathema to many of the users as well as many people inside the company. It is a wrenching problem. If you look at Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook, the three biggest platforms where this has become a...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
the original proofs of Ehlers and Klaus (2003) using his stronger independence condition, here we offer a short proof that uses the established result of Theorem 1 for the restricted domain R0. Download the working paper:...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
computationally light two-step estimator. Second, we illustrate how discount factors can be estimated in a dynamic structural model using field data through a combination of (1) an exclusions restriction separating current and future...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
trades or as free agents. The NFL instituted unrestricted free agency on March 1, 1993. Prior to this, under “Plan B,” a team could protect 37 of its players with the right of first refusal. The plan also restricted player compensation....
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