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- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
a successful transformation in your company. Spousal Control and Intra-Household Decision Making: An Experimental Study in the Philippines Author:Nava Ashraf Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Using an experimental design I elicit causal...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008
increases with organizational size, smaller adopters have such disproportionate influence because they allow observers better to infer that adoption will be profitable for their own organization. We elaborate the theory by predicting that...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007
understanding their life stories. Authentic leaders frame their stories in ways that allow them to see themselves not as passive observers but as individuals who learn from their experiences. These leaders make time to examine their...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
observe homophily in ethnicity and gender increases the probability of forming teams by 25%. Homophily in education and past working experience increases the probability of forming teams by 17% and 11 % respectively. Homophily in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016
potential adverse event once the test-statistic crosses a stopping boundary. We employ asymptotic analysis that assumes a large number of observations in a given window of time to show how to compute the stopping boundary by solving a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
their broader interests were at stake and that it would be profitable in the long run for them to be reasonable when Indonesia was in the middle of a crisis. Q: What are you working on now? A: I am writing papers that expand on some View Details
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
likely it was to end up in a press article early. The more people that are involved, the more people may be able to observe something funny going on as well. That shows when there's lower cost, the press is more likely to do this—which...
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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
observed about the resource allocation process in large, complex organizations applies when considering small, emerging firms. And related to that, I am exploring how resource allocation patterns shape strategy redirection efforts in new...
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by Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
the insights and observations that you have from discussing it with students, but maybe you could start just by telling us what led you to write this case. George: Well, the Guardian last year broke the story on Facebook being invaded by...
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- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
that exchange. Hand-collected data show that 80% of cross-listed firms opt out of at least one exchange governance rule, instead committing to observe the rules of their home country. Relative to firms that comply, firms that opt out have...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
Ariely Publication:Health Affairs 31 (February 2012) Abstract Policies that mandate calorie labeling in fast-food and chain restaurants have had little or no observable impact on calorie consumption to date. In three field experiments, we...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
711-104 By the summer of 2009, many observers concluded that a catastrophic financial collapse-which seemed all but imminent the previous fall and winter-had been averted. Although the recession had still yet to be declared over, and the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
you to raise money, and that would be a big deal." In modern terms, you can observe the same phenomenon in the basement programmer who designs open-source software as a calling card or the blogger who wants to establish herself as an...
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by Michael Blanding
- 29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29
distribution channels to alter customer interactions with the firm. Using a sample of retail banking customers observed over a 30-month period at a large U.S. bank, we test whether changes in service consumption, cost-to-serve, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
significant capital-market or product-market benefits from inclusion. Status incentives contributed to the observed performance improvement. Back-of-the-envelope estimates suggest that JPX400-inclusion incentives accounted for 16% (20%)...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
the response of U.S. multinational firms to the formation of the ASEAN free trade agreement. Observed patterns guide the development of a model in which heterogeneous firms from a source country decide how to serve two foreign markets....
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
strategies are without risk. Belonging to a platform is a way to quickly participate in a platform market. The challenge is to avoid the problem of “hold up” by the platform itself—that is, how do you prevent the platform from extracting most of the value? How do you...
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Press, 2009 Abstract New gastroenterologists participated in a labor market clearinghouse (a "match") from 1986 through the late 1990s, after which the match was abandoned. This provides an opportunity to study the effects of a match by View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
you need to think critically about what you are doing every 100 years or so, whether you need to or not," Dean Jay Light wryly observed in opening remarks to an unprecedented campus gathering last March of business school deans,...
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- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
that distance continues to be an important deterrent to trade between geographically separated buyers and sellers, though to a lesser extent than has been observed in studies of non-Internet commerce between business counterparties. We...
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Martha Lagace