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- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
before the system was introduced. Our findings shed light on those conditions in which information sharing systems affect employees’ creative work. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53887 2018 Handbook of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
companies committed to making positive contributions to health and wellness. Focusing on four interconnected areas of corporate impact, it not only discusses the business imperative of promoting a healthier society and improved living View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
minority shareholders fare poorly after listing. Parent firms often repurchase subsidiaries at large discounts to valuations at the time of listing and experience positive abnormal returns when repurchases are announced. Download the...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10
regression techniques and identify mostly homogeneous effects throughout the conditional city growth distribution. August 2013 Harvard Business Review The Hidden Benefits of Keeping Teams Intact By: Huckman, Robert S., and Bradley Staats...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
Aetna, another covered by Blue Cross, and another self-insured. Payers could negotiate, but price changes would have to benefit all patients, not just their own. The cost of treating a medical condition has nothing to do with who the...
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- 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10
article theorizes and tests empirically the conditions under which organizations' internal compliance structures are particularly likely to shape their compliance practices and outcomes. We argue that the institutionalization of these...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
Crisis in Health Care Authors:Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 (September 2011) Abstract Existing health care costing systems have serious flaws that make it impossible to measure costs accurately at the individual...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
current fiscal policy is eroding competitiveness in several ways, and business conditions in the U.S. will deteriorate if there's no change in direction. The authors examine how fiscal policy relates to the three drivers of productivity:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
that their ex post performance is lower. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50032 Cheaper by the Dozen: Using Sibling Discounts at Catholic Schools to Estimate the Price Elasticity of Private School...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
findings contribute to the corporate strategy literature by shedding light on the roots of the diversification discount and by showing how analysts' research enables investors to overcome asymmetric information. Paper:
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010
First, despite claiming that they want to leave the world in good condition for future generations, people intuitively discount the future to a greater degree than can be rationally defended. Second,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009
that result in a failure to notice ethical erosion when it occurs slowly. Broadly, our studies provide evidence as to when and why people overlook cheating by others and examine the conditions under which the slippery slope effect occurs....
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 14
because external capital markets became more costly, but also because the efficiency of internal capital allocation increased significantly during the crisis. Our analysis provides new evidence on how the diversification discount and its...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
down from the semicircular banks of seats in Aldrich 9. Price tags (retailers wouldn't have to re-mark them for discounted sales). Billboards. Sheet music (self-turning scores). Eyeglasses with news headlines projected inside the lens...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17
each individual system as a loosely coupled, relatively self-contained subsystem with defined interfaces to coordinate interdependencies with other parts of the overall array. Establishing processes to maintain stability whilst responding dynamically to uncertain and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008
necessitate that professionals from different functions work together on development projects to create the highest-quality product in the shortest time. Understanding the conditions that facilitate teamwork has been a pursuit of...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
percent "thank you" discount offered on the total purchases at Tesco. The more a consumer spends in the store, the more information the store is collecting about consumer tastes and shopping habits, allowing it to direct more...
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- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
businesses have developed codes of conduct and monitoring systems to ensure that working conditions in their supply chain factories meet global labor standards. Many observers have questioned whether these codes of conduct have any impact...
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Carmen Nobel
- 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44797 The Rich Get Richer: Enabling Conditions for Knowledge Use in Organizational Work Teams By: Valentine, Melissa, Bradley R. Staats, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—Individuals benefit from accessing...
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Sean Silverthorne