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- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
really pay off when companies need that goodwill from the public? In a recent working paper, No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events, Oberholzer-Gee set out to test the insurance hypothesis using...
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- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
leaders on work, "it is extremely naive to expect that stereotypical ideas about what women in general are like will have any meaning for the behavior of women in senior management positions. Women who arrive in such positions will...
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by James Heskett
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
financial markets change the interaction between banks and corporations? This paper compares the importance of interlocking boards of directors between corporations and banks in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States circa 1909. The View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
marketers, who spent $1.42 billion on online video advertising last year in the United States, an investment expected to jump 52 percent to $2.16 billion in 2011, according to analytics firm eMarketer. Tracking Eyes And Faces To help...
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- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
person in need, which, in turn, increased intentions to help. Inflation-Indexed Bonds and the Expectations Hypothesis Authors:Carolin E. Pflueger and Luis M. Viceira Publication:Annual Review of Financial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
unconscious thought (UT), more so than after conscious thought (CT). We aimed to test the hypothesis that UT decreases intrusions and increases conceptual organization in memory. Methods. Participants were shown a stressful film and were...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
particularly useful for forecasting bond returns. We show that a significant decline in issuer quality is a more reliable signal of credit market overheating than rapid aggregate credit growth. We use these findings to investigate the forces driving time variation in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which assembles information from court records and other sources to create an aggregate data set of members of Congress involved in a scandal. Minor studied incidents occurring between 2005 to 2010. Minor View Details
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by Roberta Holland
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
hypothesis that if there were more women who were venture capitalists then there would be more points of intersection with women entrepreneurs. In our research using information from 1995 and 2000, we documented all the women in the...
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
Proceedings (forthcoming) Abstract When a skilled employee moves from one organization to another, the effects on the hiring organization can be substantive (i.e., changes in actual outcomes) and symbolic (i.e., changes in expectations or...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
indicate competence at the young firm — and the potential for firm-level success," she says. On a hunch that she might be witnessing an important phenomenon, Higgins began interviewing top managers from local biotech companies about their careers. When a trend...
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by Judith A. Ross
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
the employee onboarding process, Gino says. The researchers hypothesized that companies would see positive performance results by emphasizing employee individuality from day one, testing their hypothesis through a series of field and lab...
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- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
college system, and then you had the employer connection, with IBM. How did you structure the program and make it appeal to these different parties? Litow: To bring about change, you have to have a conscious change strategy. If you expect...
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by Kristen Senz
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
return predictability is due to segmentation between nominal and inflation-indexed bond markets but find no evidence in either the U.S. or in the U.K. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-094.pdf Inflation-Indexed Bonds and the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
standards represent a political-economic equilibrium, why is that equilibrium for some countries shifting over time in favor of IFRS? We develop and test the hypothesis that network effects from the extant worldwide adoption of IFRS...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA7), forthcoming Abstract Designers often seek modular architectures to better accommodate expected changes and to enable parallel development. However, we lack a formal theory and model...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
are identified by exploiting random assignment and a separate instrumental variables procedure. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1264038 Welfare Payments and Crime Author:C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper tests the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
development of host developing countries. A hypothesis is suggested that, given adequate domestic growth-supporting institutions and human capital development, developing countries achieve more sustained development from excluding...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
at the networks of interlocking boards of directors of major joint stock companies in Brazil and Mexico in 1909. We test whether in Mexico businessmen relied more on networks and other informal arrangements to do business than in Brazil. In Brazil, we View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two hypotheses. The "demand" hypothesis holds that earnings of public equity firms are of higher quality than earnings...
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Martha Lagace