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- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
Claudine, Andrea Prat, and George Serafeim Abstract—We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of U.S. companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
of Corruption Scandals Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Ignacio Franceschelli Abstract We construct measures of the extent to which the four main newspapers in Argentina report government corruption on their front pages during the period...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009
Abstract This paper constructs an index of financial sophistication that, in comprehensive data on Swedish households, best explains a set of three investment mistakes: underdiversification, risky share inertia, and the tendency to sell...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
information-rich "opportunistic" trades that contains all the predictive power in the insider trading universe. A portfolio strategy that focuses solely on opportunistic insider trades yields value-weight abnormal returns of 82...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
construct narratives explaining the dynamics of three nascent technical systems: early aircraft, high-speed steel in machine tools, and container shipping. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55140...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14
the premise that organizational errors merit study in their own right as an organizational-level phenomenon of growing theoretical and managerial significance. We delineate organizational errors as a construct that is distinct from but...
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
that sales representatives, who were responsible for a large portfolio of imaging products, were not giving enough attention to Ultrasound. He was wondering if change in the size and compensation structure of the sales force would solve...
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Carmen Nobel
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010
data and then thinking about the potential complementarities of strategies from a portfolio construction context. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211025-PDF-ENG News in the Digital...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007
joint decision of holding sovereign debt and reserves, we construct a stochastic dynamic equilibrium model calibrated to a sample of emerging markets. We obtain that the reserve accumulation does not play a quantitative important role in...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
recipients’ motivation (Study 3c). We identify two constructs useful in determining the general effectiveness of ingratiation: excessive concern with image drives negative perceptions of backhanded compliment givers, while perceptions of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
increased five-fold between 1997 and 2007. We construct and analyze a panel of Mexican bank financial data covering this period and find no evidence that foreign entry increases the availability of credit. We also find that switching from...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
a unique aspect of our research setting allows us to test who is responsible for the earnings management. While firms appear unable to increase the frequency of display promotions in the short run, they can reallocate these promotions within their View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008
footnotes. Our study is motivated by standard-setting interest in performance reporting and financial statement presentation, as well as prior research investigating managers' presentation choices in other contexts. Using different View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4
revenue benefit exceeds the cost. Trade policy provides a source of exogenous price variation to assess the validity of this prediction: higher tariffs should lead to higher prices and therefore to more integration. We construct...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
this paper we theorize effects of using the knowledge stored in an organizational repository on performance for teams working in dynamic and challenging conditions. We first examine performance effects of team use, a construct assessed by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12
their portfolio of brands. Results show firms shifting display promotions away from smaller revenue brands toward larger ones following periods of poor financial performance. This indicates the behavior is determined by parties above...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
primarily occurred for firms covered by financial analysts. Where Do Transactions Come From? Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Periodical:Industrial and Corporate Change 17 (February 2008): 155-195 Abstract This article...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
explores many issues in the construction of large-scale buildings: how to envision such a project, how to manage the architects, how different designs add value, and what criteria matter in resolving a dispute between designers. The case...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1
have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their investments. Conditional on ratings, insurance portfolios are systematically biased toward higher yield, higher CDS bonds. This behavior appears to be related to the business...
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Sean Silverthorne