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- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
transaction referred to as a "Happy Meal." The goal was to help convertible debt investors "hedge their respective investments through short sales." The challenge of the case is to understand why Molycorp used this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
characteristics, in particular age. In a second treatment we explicitly tell children not to cheat. This request has a dampening effect on their tendency to over-report the prize-winning outcome, especially in girls. Furthermore, while...
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- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
Abstract A new instrument (the Mutual Inheritance Fund or MIF) is proposed whose purpose is to help people carry their savings forward from the moment they retire into their old age. Like annuities, this instrument requires an up-front...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, resulting in unequal participation. We assigned 20,500 apartments to one control or six treatment groups that received canvassing visits providing either information about...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
officials. Distrust in the government increases the preferred tax rate on the top 1% only when business legitimacy is low. A model with multiple equilibria helps interpret these findings. In one of the equilibria, meetings are allowed,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
second election or, in rare cases, require the company to negotiate with the union as sole bargaining agent for the employees. Most companies will deny a union’s request to represent its employees on the basis of signed authorization...
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- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
identity network approach offers two advantages: first, it enables scholars to consider more than two identities simultaneously, and second, it helps scholars examine relationships among identities in greater detail. This is important...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
solving the problem was of critical importance for the firm, management decided to break from convention and the disclose the specifics of the problem to a large group of unknown "outside" scientists requesting a solution in...
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by Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
to this day what those words mean and still get a good laugh! 1989G used to have days celebrating our sectionmates’ quirks. There was Rita earring day when everyone wore crazy earrings to tease me, hanging floppy discs and even pumpkins from their ears (with maybe a...
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- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
now, the medical record resides with providers, and one provider can request the record from another. That is a very cumbersome and inefficient system, which creates delay and duplication. Health plans should also inform and advise...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
systemically dangerous part of the system, the commercial banks, and we exercised a much lighter touch elsewhere, leaving the rest of the financial system to innovate, be dynamic, and do everything that markets do so well.” This targeted approach, Moss believes, View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
industries in its preferred direction. We find that exogenous price shocks proved particularly helpful in this regard. The Impact of Relative Standards on the Propensity to Disclose Authors:Alessandro Acquisti, Leslie John, and George...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
Customer Intelligence (A)," HBS No. 107-055. These datasets are available upon request from the author. Purchase the note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=109052 DermaCare: Zapping Zits Directly Harvard...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
group?Fuller: We did about 125 face-to-face interviews across the three geographies we looked at, just to give ourselves a better sense of the life of these people and how they viewed it to help structure our questionnaire. Then we went...
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- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
continued her double duty as professor and expert witness. And the arguments dragged on. A stunning revelation of hidden documents In 2010, almost two years into the case, the judge made a stunning announcement: After multiple discovery View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
the parts of Africa that have a heavy disease incidence. MTV has developed a DNA of public service announcements that it claims are of central relevance to its high-risk customer base. How core is this to the strategy of a for-profit firm like MTV? What role can a...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
innovative and we introduced satellite based navigation into our flight management computers. We were landing in conditions that we couldn't land in before. [RNP, Required Navigation Performance helps aircraft glide on cruise control...
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- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
analysis and framework in this paper can help broaden the understanding of accounting's globalization. Read the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1875682 The Preference for Potential Authors:Zakary L. Tormala, Jayson Jia, and Michael I....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
demarcation. Now the workers are on the floor, delivering orders or helping customers with the new kiosks; Karavites has updated his employee training to include a focus on customer interaction. Average customer count is up at this...
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- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
and hence crowd out the motivation to volunteer? Since the strength of this greedy signal is normally unobserved, the answer is theoretically unclear, and corresponding empirical evidence is mixed. To help counter this ambiguity, this...
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Sean Silverthorne