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- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
sales, profitability, and assets. Here we analyze firm characteristics shown by industry before and after liberalization and investigate how industrial concentration, the number, and size of firms of the ownership type evolved between...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
to exit? If Costolo didn't think so, would he be able to convince his co-founders who all had different personal risk profiles? This was going to be the biggest decision in the life of FeedBurner and its co-founders. Purchase this case:
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Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
firms will have a new CEO within the next four years; your company could very well be next. Senior executives know that a CEO transition means they're in for a round of firings, organizational reshuffles, and other unwelcome career changes. When your career suddenly...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
primary education in developed economies. We identify the former and the lack of the latter to be important in the context of BRIC, but we also outline how other factors such as factor endowments, colonialism, serfdom, and, especially, the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Aires exploiting a natural experiment that induced an allocation of property rights that is exogenous to the characteristics of the squatters. There are significant differences in the beliefs that squatters with and without land titles...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
impact by comparing warnings received after having safe personal experience with those received before people start making choices. A series of five experiments studies this question with a paradigm that combines both descriptive...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
order when should DVDs are rented before want DVDs. Specifically, a 1.3% increase in the probability of a reversal in preferences (from a baseline rate of 12%) ensues if the first of two sequentially rented movies has more should and fewer want View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
differentiate "quality FDI" in several different ways. First, we look at the possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
office-but at what cost? In "Sleeping with Your Smartphone," Leslie Perlow reveals how you can disconnect and become more productive in the process. In fact, she shows that you can devote more time to your personal life and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
literacy may slow adoption of these products. This article reports on a field experiment that offered an innovative new financial product, rainfall insurance, to 600 small-scale farmers in India. A customized financial literacy and insurance education module...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
forward-thinking companies that have adopted radical new approaches to talent, this book shows leaders how to bring the rigor they apply to financial capital to their human capital, elevating HR to the same level as finance in their organizations. The View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
prescriptively—from detailed historical case studies of "great negotiations," chosen more for their salience than their analytic characteristics or comparability? Taking a number of such cases compiled by Stanton (2010) as a...
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- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Authors:Michael I. Norton, Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, and Elizabeth W. Dunn Publication:Social Psychological and Personality Science (forthcoming) Abstract Three studies examine the extent to which laypeople endorse Thomas Hobbes' (1651)...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
technological advances in transportation, spatial characteristics of population distributions, and advances in farming technologies have led to a dominant economies-of-scale model of production, distribution, and retailing in fresh...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
respect to the characteristics of the institutional environments in which they are embedded. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53432 Fall 2017 Slavic Review Anti-imperialism: The Leninist Legacy and the Fate...
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Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
large due to either product characteristics or the distance between exporter and importer. Finally, we find that in countries with well-developed finance, total exports and the allocation of exports across importers are more sensitive to...
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Carmen Nobel
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how each individual rose to a position of prominence. We start by identifying the key personal characteristics that underpinned their success. Then, we introduce “building blocks” to understand how each...
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- 06 Dec 2018
- News
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ago with her former Palm and Handspring cofounder, scientist Jeff Hawkins. “They would understand it in a much deeper way than that ten-millionth example of the Google Images search does. They know that a dog might be dangerous, that a dog might bark—they understand...
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- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
networks of personal relationships: 1) Change agents who were central in the organization's informal network had a clear advantage, regardless of their position in the formal hierarchy. 2) People who bridged disconnected groups or...
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Anna Secino
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
characteristics of sustainable companies, and we develop a two-stage model that can help companies develop a culture of innovation, trust, and the ability for transformational change. Read the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne