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- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
increased service quality competition lead to customer defection, and which customers are most likely to defect? Our empirical analysis of 82,235 customers exploits the varying competitive dynamics in 644 geographically isolated markets...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
seen as best able to exploit technological innovations. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/04/celebrate-innovation-no-matter-where-it-occurs/ar/1 Inviting Consumers to Downsize Fast-Food Portions Significantly Reduces Calorie...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Moskowitz, and Annette Vissing-Jørgensen Abstract We provide new evidence on the success of long-run risks in asset pricing by focusing on the risks borne by stockholders. Exploiting micro-level household consumption data, we show that...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
management of variability often requires a company to influence customers' behavior. Managers attempting that kind of intervention can follow a three-step process: diagnosing the behavioral problem, designing an operating role for customers that creates new value for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
to parallel play by preschoolers, entrepreneurs engaged in parallel play interweave action, cognition, and timing to accelerate learning about a novel world. Specifically, they (1) borrow from peers and focus on established substitutes; (2) View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
injunction based on the Nuance engineers' noncompetes. The flip side of the coin is that employers can exploit these differences by locating in areas such as Silicon Valley where noncompetes do not block one's ability to recruit talent....
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
thus leading to capital market benefits by reducing insiders' ability to exploit private information. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-109.pdf Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach Authors:Werner...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
specifically express interest in a suitable product are more likely to receive an appropriate recommendation, though most still receive bad advice. Agents cater to the beliefs of uninformed consumers, even when those beliefs are wrong. We then View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and endogeneity. Exploiting a new comprehensive industry-level data set of 29...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) and 4-year-old children pay forward positive and negative outcomes in an identical testing paradigm. These results suggest that a cognitively simple mechanism present early in phylogeny and ontogeny leads...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
results translate to specific predictions on how the change in homogeneity will affect firm behavior. This paper's predictions can also serve more generally as a test for the theory of culture as shared beliefs. Download this paper:
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
use a new dataset on industry-level targeting to analyze quality FDI based on the subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and endogeneity. View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
prenatal screening for genetic diseases and DNA tests to determine lineage and paternity. In addition, the company launched a wholly-owned subsidiary, the Stem Cell Company. CEO Robert Jansen hoped to grow the Stem Cell Company but faced...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
actions characterized by rigidity and repetition. We propose that enacting ritualized actions can enhance subjective feelings of self-discipline, such that rituals can be harnessed to improve behavioral self-control. We test this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Based on the fact that stores prioritize carrying products for which local demand is high, we test the hypothesis that introducing the STS functionality increased the retailer’s overall sales dispersion. We find that, on average, the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
studying the impact of Craigslist, a website providing classified-advertising services, on local U.S. newspapers. We exploit temporal and geographical variation in Craigslist's entry to show that newspapers with greater reliance on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
Entrepreneurship Author:Ramana Nanda Abstract This paper examines the extent to which the positive relationship between personal wealth and entry into entrepreneurship is due to financing constraints. I exploit a tax reform and use unique...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
when the ratio of government debt to total debt is higher; and ii) by firms with stronger balance sheets. Our theory provides a new perspective on the apparent ability of firms to exploit bond-market return predictability with their...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Sandino Abstract—Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by Journal of Accounting Research, to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
between the real and digital worlds prevents us from fully exploiting the volumes of information now available to us. Augmented reality (AR), a set of technologies that superimposes digital data and images on physical objects and...
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Carmen Nobel