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- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
about the outcome of wrongdoing influence both ethical judgments and decisions to punish wrongdoers. Our studies show that people judge behavior as more unethical when (1) identifiable versus statistical victims are involved and (2) the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
focus.” Wilson switched his course of study from physics to philosophy to math. But he found some direction through Howard Raiffa, a statistics professor who was moving over to HBS to develop a program in what would come to be known as...
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- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
Based on theory and field interviews, we develop hypotheses regarding how scientists' productivity, co-authorship networks, and institutional affiliations have different effects on whether male and female faculty become "academic entrepreneurs." We then View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
vulnerability indicators prior to the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate financial roots provide a benchmark for comparison. The firm-level data suggest that emerging markets post-GFC have lower leverage ratios than the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
it to shareholders, especially in the face of shareholder pressure. In the process, students are asked to undertake fundamental financial analyses, including ratio analysis, a financial forecast, and a cash distribution analysis. Purchase...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
affiliated might have "won the race" by just a nose, with their observed level of optimism being only slightly higher than that of the other competitors. Indeed, many previously documented significant differences between affiliated and unaffiliated analysts'...
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- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
and unpublished data on unconscious thought were included. Our aims were to provide a statistically robust estimate of the effect size of the UTE, to identify significant moderators, and to discuss possible underlying processes of the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
longer—to reach gender equity.” That one, daunting statistic became the impetus for Stark and the HBS Club of Toronto to present a virtual panel discussion, “The Impact of the Pandemic on Gender Equity: Can We Regain the Lost Ground?”...
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Margie Kelley
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
sellers' product spaces. We find evidence consistent with the former explanation: the likelihood of Amazon's entry is positively correlated with the popularity and customer ratings of third-party sellers' products. We also find that...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
mark fifty years after the event, the statistics that marked extreme achievement on Everest were blown away as new records for the oldest, most often, and fastest climbs were logged in over a one-week period. Excelsior! It's an...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
find that increases in demand for entrepreneurial capital—as proxied for by patenting, IPOs, and stock market valuations—led to a higher likelihood of the introduction of second-tier exchanges. We find no evidence that new second-tier...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
a commercial to concentrate consumers' visual attention reduced avoidance significantly. Second, the likelihood that viewers will zap can be decreased with a "pulsing strategy" in which brand images are shown more frequently for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
significantly decreases the likelihood of bankruptcy by up to 2.7 times (270%) four years after funding application. Selection also increases the average level of employment by 9.8 to 14.2 more employees for chosen firms, respectively two...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
"truth in giving" policies are highly responsive to recipient heterogeneity and biased against more generous giving. Traveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani Publication:The Review of Economics...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
Accounting Review Rethinking Measurement of Pay Disparity and Its Relation to Firm Performance By: Rouen, Ethan Abstract—I develop measures of firm-level pay disparity and examine their relation to firm performance. Using comprehensive compensation data for a large...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
order to reduce the technological and market risks, where reducing technological risk is of paramount importance. As a reward, pioneers ultimately realize a higher likelihood of acquisition, but among acquired firms, early entrants wait...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
pre-HRRP readmission rates across samples, we found that declines for targeted conditions at general acute care hospitals were statistically indistinguishable from declines in two control samples. Either the HRRP had no effect on...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
in our data set by non-negotiation organizational research reveals that more open systems assumptions increase the likelihood that a negotiation article will be cited in organizational studies, after controlling for other, previously...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
We implement a variety of machine learning methods to forecast daily sales. We find that using social media information results in statistically significant improvements in the out-of-sample accuracy of the forecasts, with relative...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
which had historically been very manual in nature. CEO Juan Villarzu's initial turnaround attempts introduced a customer-centric corporate culture to his ranks, but he was still challenged by how to create an outsourcing strategy given his location and the...
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Martha Lagace