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- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
Individuals' voting preferences are modeled using a random-coefficient aggregate discrete-choice model, in which we incorporate both observed and unobserved individual heterogeneity. We find that different campaign activities have View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
Publication:Journal of Public Economics (forthcoming) Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable giving because they know little about the persons who receive their help. This concern is particularly acute when making contributions to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
also find substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
consumption, reviewing research in which people forgo positive physical consumption—and even choose negative physical consumption—in order to engage in conceptual consumption. Finally, we outline how conceptual consumption informs research examining both View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
what’s your view of the future of remote and hybrid work? Are we heading back into the office? Is it going to be a heterogeneous blend? Where’s Gallup coming out on this?Harter: Our data are showing pretty consistently that people have...
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- 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18
Authors:Mihir Desai and Li Jin Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper employs heterogeneity in institutional shareholder tax characteristics to identify the relation between firm payout policy and tax...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
goal is not to identify the "best" program, but rather to lay out the range of innovations to meet the needs of heterogeneous potential savers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-075.pdf Cases & Course...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
allocations for general, substitutable, and strongly substitutable preferences. Apart from obtaining "set inclusion results" on all three domains, we introduce weak setwise stability as a new stability concept and prove that for substitutable View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
whether, if business was a shaper of global capitalism, it was a force for good, or otherwise. I show that the heterogeneity of business enterprise renders this question challenging to answer, and perhaps misleading even to ask. In the...
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- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
externalities, two traditionally under-emphasized forces, exert consistently strong effects. Within each macro network, there is a large heterogeneity across subsidiaries. Subsidiaries with greater size and higher productivity attract...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
of such schemes is the heterogeneity of the customer base. Such heterogeneity of preferences leads customers to choose different pricing plans based on their expected demand....
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Vayanos Abstract We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in which clienteles with strong View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016
have preferences over relative outcomes, we derive predictions about the antecedents and consequences of dividing equity equally among all founders. Using proprietary survey data, we empirically test the predictions. Our central finding...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
first demonstrate that such a model is flexible enough to capture a wide range of heterogeneity structures (both linear and non-linear), thus being applicable to a variety of behaviors and contexts. We also demonstrate the model's ability...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
adopting a traditional business model. We show that the value of business model innovation may be so substantial that an incumbent may prefer to compete in a duopoly rather than to remain a monopolist. Download the paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
balances the four drives while avoiding negative leadership and leaders who are missing the drive to bond. Order the Book: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470623845.html Market Heterogeneity and Local Capacity...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
heterogeneous impacts of a common network characteristic across votes. We find that the effect of alumni networks is close to 60% as large as the effect of state-level considerations. The network effects we identify are stronger for more...
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Anna Secino
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
search results to show either exclusively Google reviews (Google’s current tying strategy) or reviews from multiple platforms determined to be the best-performing by Google’s own organic search algorithm. We find that users prefer the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
among the first empirical evidence characterizing heterogeneous responses by those mandated to disclose information. We find particularly rapid improvement among establishments located close to their headquarters and among establishments...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
institutional pressures. In this chapter, we present current research arguing that such firms adopt heterogeneous sets of environmental management practices despite facing common institutional pressures because organizational...
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Sean Silverthorne