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- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
Abstract—The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
"In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions of the next seven generations." —from the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy "In our every...
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- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
there is a paradox inherent in the social imprinting of WISEs: although it directly enhances their social performance, it also indirectly weakens it by negatively affecting economic productivity. Results based on panel data of French WISEs between 2003 and 2007 are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
Abstract Modern global trends are changing the face of teams. But we believe that much of today's teams' research focuses us on the present and the past while barely acknowledging the future. Much more radical changes exist in what is already happening to teams and...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
years required to bring a drug to market—and the potential for failure looming every step of the way—the business of biotech is one of managing uncertainty over time. HBS professor Gary P. Pisano, a longtime observer of the industry,...
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- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
likelihood of turnover and promotion. Survival analyses reveal that higher proportions of same-sex and same-race superiors enhance junior professionals' career mobility. On the flip side, we observe mobility costs accruing to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
subsidiaries are only observable at the four-digit level because the inputs they are supplying are so proximate to their parent firms' final good that they appear identical at the two-digit level. We call these proximate subsidiaries...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
in engineering and infrastructure construction, its challenges in planning and innovation, and the special things that a firm must do to compete successfully in the Chinese market. We conclude with China's approach to the global economy and View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
experts in the selection and development of early-stage ideas. Our context is the movie industry, in which customer appeal is difficult to predict and investment costs are high. The Black List, an annual publication, View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
analysts, to consumers—need to know about how new products and services are expected to perform in the marketplace. The book develops a compelling framework that connects the rich academic knowledge on innovation diffusion with that on customer relationship management,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
displays) at the fiscal year-end. Firms also engage in similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. Furthermore, our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
types of NPEs. Survey evidence illustrates a number of ways in which NPEs can potentially act opportunistically and indicates at least some instances and consequences of observed NPE opportunism. Large-sample empirical work has recently...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
by Garry Emmons It's December, and outside the weather is frightful in many of America's 32 National Football League cities as teams gear up for the playoff season. But no matter how adverse conditions may get both on and off the field,...
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- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
before the system was introduced. Our findings shed light on those conditions in which information sharing systems affect employees’ creative work. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
Black students in our community have spent the last few weeks grappling with the weight of a devastating truth: that our country and society has undeniably and systemically failed Black communities – and the...
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- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
levels for consumer information, and consumers observe both before deciding which firm to patronize and how much information to provide it with. The provision and disclosure of information presents tradeoffs for all market participants....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
countries at different stages of development and institutional capacity is needed to surface the role of local conditions and absorptive capacities; micro-level work, that is firm-level data in developed as well as developing nations, to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
observe in order to satisfy and retain their clients. This paper discusses the most important factors that our research and the research of many others has shown can affect the integrity of third-party...
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
artificial worlds for hypothesis testing and theory building. Agent-based models (ABMs) offer unprecedented control and statistical power by allowing researchers to precisely specify the behavior of any number of agents and observe their...
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
influential, and industry less influential, than we commonly assume. How Early Adoption Has Increased Wealth—Until Now Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract Societies that are better at View Details
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Sean Silverthorne