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- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
beneficial for society. This theme was later replaced by preference for disciplinary knowledge, and finally by a market logic that regards business education as a marketable commodity rather than a professional education. It has been an...
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- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
prices determine organizational design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. Property rights theory asserts that firm boundaries are chosen by stakeholders to mediate organizational goals (e.g., profits) and private benefits (e.g., operating in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-114.pdf Platforms and Limits to Network Effects (revised) Authors:Hanna Halaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets would rationally View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
for anyone seeking insights into financial markets, A Crisis of Beliefs shows how even the smartest market participants and regulators did not fully appreciate the extent of economic risk and offers a new framework for understanding...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
in press Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others By: Rogers, T., R. Zeckhauser, F. Gino, M.I. Norton, and M. Schweitzer Abstract—Paltering is the...
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- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
"I believe 120 percent in what I'm doing," she said, well before the Boston site took shape. "If you didn't have that, you wouldn't have the energy to get up in the morning. You really enjoy the good days, because there are a lot of bad days right now....
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
Danielle Abstract—Evaluators with expertise in a particular field may have an informational advantage in separating good projects from bad. At the same time, they may also have personal preferences that impact their objectivity. This...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, such as ownership; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to incentives, dismissals, and promotions; and measurable outcomes, for the firm and for the...
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Anna Secino
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
reseller-mode is preferred depends on whether independent suppliers or the intermediary are better suited to optimally tailor marketing activities for each specific product. We show that this tradeoff is shifted towards the reseller-mode...
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Anna Secino
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
worker. For this purpose, we use a standard version of the neoclassical growth model augmented to incorporate monopolistic competition among heterogeneous firms. For our preferred calibration, the model explains 58% of the log variance of...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
unethical. In four experiments, participants wore purportedly fake or authentically branded sunglasses. Those wearing fake sunglasses cheated more across multiple tasks than did participants wearing authentic sunglasses, both when they believed they had a View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
confluence of supply and demand. But to function properly, they must be able to attract a sufficient number of buyers and sellers, induce participants to make their preferences clear, and overcome congestion by providing both enough time...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
cultural narratives around economic mobility, the Australian data closely replicated the United States findings. Misperceptions of wealth inequality as well as preferences for more equal distributions may be common across developed...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
2018 Northamption, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time By: Jones, G. Abstract—Published at a time of ever-increasing warnings that the pace of climate change and other environmental changes View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
Prevention-focused and older individuals—who engage in processing that shifts reference points to less extreme instances—show a decreased sensitivity to variance. We discuss the marketing implications of preferences for variance. Adding...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
806-148 Describes the sixth and final module of the Harvard Business School MBA second-year elective course Legal Aspects of Management. This module deals with the way firms should approach business risks in order to avoid legal liability...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
about entrepreneurship as an opportunity. As young faculty colleagues, he and Stevenson had become friends. “Howard was a curious, interesting, independent kind of guy,” says McArthur. “He preferred to pursue what interested him,...
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- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
are better designed to cope with scalability issues. Incentive schemes that reward users as a function of their contributions help improve sharing, but they introduce other distortions, and the legal risks of sharing limit their efficacy....
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- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
when cities can tolerate risk and when there is enough labor with low opportunity costs. We also report on an inexpensive Boston-based restaurant tournament, which yielded algorithms that proved reasonably accurate when tested...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
re-conceptualize its strategy to focus on system-level change. While there were numerous risks to pursuing the alternative strategy for Schramm and Segal, the possibility of helping redefine the purpose of secondary education might be too...
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Martha Lagace