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- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
seven years, large teams of affiliated WMS analysts have interviewed managers at some 10,000 organizations in 20 countries, setting out to determine how and why management practices differ vastly in style and quality. Best Practices The...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments By: Kuziemko, Ilyana, Michael I. Norton, Emmanuel Saez, and Stefanie Stantcheva Abstract—We analyze randomized online survey experiments providing interactive, customized information on U.S. income inequality, the link...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
we call entrepreneurial beacons. We argue that the actions or outcomes of salient organizations attract and motivate entrepreneurs, thus increasing the rate of foundings. To test this logic, we examine the impact of the Yale University...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49606 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Can Analysts Assess Fundamental Risk and Valuation Uncertainty? An Empirical Analysis of Scenario-Based Value Estimates By: Joos, Peter R.,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
powerful.” While savvy negotiators and analysts generally avoid these pitfalls, the less sophisticated can go astray. Robust correctives to these misimpressions are offered and related to three different kinds of “no” in negotiation: a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/gray ward norton.pdf What Makes Analysts Say 'Buy'? Authors:Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy, Nitin Nohria, and George Serafeim Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 11 (November 2012) Abstract An...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
Paul M. Healy, and Yang Gui Periodical:Journal of Financial Transformation (forthcoming) Abstract Since 1949 Lehman Brothers has used an investment committee to select the top ten recommendations made by its analysts each year. We examine...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Working PapersSell Side School Ties Authors:Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract We study the impact of social networks on agents' ability to gather superior information about firms. Exploiting novel data on the educational backgrounds...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
use of things like drones [for monitoring energy production], how could you possibly not think your industry is going to be disrupted?” he asks. In fact, with the rapid rate of societal and technological change today, no industry is...
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by Michael Blanding
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
testing this relationship in the field. We analyze a field experiment at the supplier Hugo Boss to determine how the supplier’s inventory service level affects demand from its retailer customers. We find increases in historical fill rate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
that customers defect at a higher rate from the incumbent following increased service competition only when the incumbent offers high quality service relative to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that this result...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
this lending increase is associated with a 3.3% rise in annual house price growth rate and a 2.2% expansion of employment in the non-tradable sectors. These effects are followed by a decline in loan origination, house prices, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
rates for 2,159 infant patients, but only after two years. In the shorter term, using these activities is associated with worse performance. By the third year, the positive impact of using deliberate learning activities is similar to the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
prior industries: photography, consumer electronics, and computers. By 2004, several features had emerged as a dominant design; however, the timing and rate of adoption varied by prior industry. This study extends previous research on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
including the yield rates at various schools; how many applicants they accept of those who apply; of those who accept, how many actually attend; and what is happening to the total enrollments. It was a big surprise to see a hollowing out...
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- 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007
another EMR company offered eCW the chance to grow quickly in an industry that is estimated to take in more than $40 billion in overall revenues in 2007. But this acquisition would require outside financing of some sort. Was this the moment to accelerate the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
carefully analyzed their incentives but that we know little about the broader strategic dimensions of this market. The paper explores three related strategic dimensions of the certification market: the publicity given to applications, the coarseness of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24
Publications August 2013 Financial Analysts Journal The Low Beta Anomaly: A Decomposition into Micro and Macro Effects By: Baker, Malcolm, Brendan Bradley, and Ryan Taliaferro Abstract—Low beta stocks have offered a combination of low...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
policymakers from developed countries have tended to dominate these debates. That may be changing in several interesting ways. Many policymakers in the developing world, as well as officials in the IMF and analysts at the View Details
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by Ann Cullen
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
and quasi-formal structures. This leads us to expect to find a higher proportion of homophilous interactions within these organizational structures than across their boundaries. We test our theory in an analysis of the rate of dyadic...
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Carmen Nobel