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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
beneficiaries, even if the beneficiaries themselves might (had they been asked) have preferred more socially responsible investments. This quandary led one pension fund manager to respond to my question of whether she would invest in a...
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by Carla Tishler
- 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015
People Who Care About Others Cooperate More? Experimental Evidence from Relative Incentive Pay By: Hernandez, Pablo, Dylan B. Minor, and Dana Sisak Abstract—We experimentally study ways in which the social preferences of individuals and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
populations. While we have considerable evidence that donors are more generous if they know their assistance benefits a preferred group, we know little about the demand for such information. To start closing this gap, we study transfers...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
behavior and preferences into service cost and productivity standard metrics. Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios Authors:W. Jakub Jurkek and Luis M. Viceira Publication:Review of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
case has been interesting, Berg notes. Once, during an MBA class attended by Lincoln's president, a student declared that he had high regard for Lincoln but he preferred three-piece suits and executive dining halls to eating in a company...
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by Garry Emmons
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
officials. Distrust in the government increases the preferred tax rate on the top 1% only when business legitimacy is low. A model with multiple equilibria helps interpret these findings. In one of the equilibria, meetings are allowed,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
studies the direct effects of managers' biases and nonstandard preferences on their decisions. We review relevant psychology, economic theory and predictions, empirical challenges, empirical evidence, new directions such as behavioral...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
unknown but targeted wealthier districts when incomes were revealed. These results shed light on how income transparency shapes preferences for equity and redistribution. We discuss implications for policy makers. Publisher's link:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
search results to show either exclusively Google reviews (Google’s current tying strategy) or reviews from multiple platforms determined to be the best-performing by Google’s own organic search algorithm. We find that users prefer the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016
modified to incorporate quasi-hyperbolic preferences. For reasons of political economy or aggregation of citizens’ preferences, government preferences are present biased, resulting in an over-accumulation of debt. Calibrating this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
https://hbr.org/2015/03/starbucks-race-together-campaign-and-the-upside-of-ceo-activism April 2015 Strong Brands, Strong Relationships Framing the Game: How Brands' Relationships with Their Competitors Affect Consumer Preference By:...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
mutually exclusive beliefs or preferences with respect to the design form and 2) low "excludability" in the sense that the designed artifact must be shared. Our paper is based on an empirical study of a commons organization...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5
candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-114.pdf Platforms and Limits to Network Effects (revised) Authors:Hanna Halaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets would rationally View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
reward is a quiet life. But most companies must work at pricing. The confluence of particular customer preferences and producer economics establishes the "happy zone" POB by POB. But notice that the same forces causing...
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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
recommendations for stocks with larger market capitalizations and lower return volatility than their sell-side peers, consistent with their facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for liquid stocks. Tests with no...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
participants would win from a high of $1,000 to a low of $0. The extra money did have an effect—but not nearly as much as the preference sorting. Among higher-skilled workers, the number of engineers who worked a minimum number of hours...
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by Michael Blanding
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
implemented. The case also describes the draft used by the NBA to assign new players to teams. This allows for a discussion of whether a similar system may be preferable to lottery-based or bidding-based procedures to assign students to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
of countries has its own fascination. That's why we prefer to think about a cross section of countries and understand what is similar and different. We focus on many different emerging markets to develop a theory that spans all emerging...
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
developing countries. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708030 Opening Pandora's Box Harvard Business School Case 607-135 Pandora.com provided a highly customizable online radio service tailored to listeners' musical...
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Martha Lagace