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- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
survey by the Charities Aid Foundation of America. A staggering 97 percent of respondents expect their funding to decline during the next 12 months as the struggling economy and social distancing hurts fundraising efforts. What can...
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by Danielle Kost
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
that egalitarianism distance has a negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the prevailing legal and...
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
particularly within a tenth of a mile, of a house lowers the price at which it is sold. Our preferred estimate of this effect is that a foreclosure at a distance of 0.05 miles lowers the price of a house by about 1%. Download the paper...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
PatientsLikeMe: An Online Community of Patients Sunil Gupta and Jason RiisHarvard Business School Case 511-093 PatientsLikeMe (PLM) is an online community where patients share their personal experiences with a disease, find other patients like them, and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
particularly strongly and to construct risk indicators to predict taxpayers' responses. We show results from an application in Chile and describe lessons learned during the implementation. August 2013 JAMA Surgery Informal Peer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
themselves? They answer, "We're going to have an off-site at the Four Seasons sometime." So the amount of energy that has been expended in "getting different" is a small fraction of the amount they've expended in "getting better." Kotter:...
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by Staff
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
about what you are communicating. You also need to work hard to shrink the psychological distance through language. When you have disparity in terms of fluency levels in English, you have to make sure fluent speakers are dialing down to...
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by Michael Blanding
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
promotions to control the flow of shoppers inside stores to meet social distancing requirements. Many started offering Black Friday deals in early November. Discounts appear to be larger than ever this year, likely reflecting soft...
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- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
this effect drives advisor reactions to one of the most widely recommended advice-seeking strategies: seeking advice from multiple advisors to leverage the wisdom of crowds. Advisors negatively judge and interpersonally distance...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
alternative definitions of market-type dispersion and to other determinants of franchising such as the stores' geographic distance from headquarters and geographic dispersion. Additional analyses also suggest that chains that do not...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
Racial Asymmetries, and Team Learning Environment: Effects on Performance Authors:Robin J. Ely, Irene Padavic, and David A. Thomas Publication:Organization Studies (forthcoming) Abstract This paper argues that View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
throughout the performance of the task, acutely aware of the pain experienced by those on the receiving end of their actions. This finding was surprising to us in light of previous research, which has emphasized how people distance...
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by Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
both a lot of hope and a lot of rage and frustration and confusion intermixed. Yet the American people and the economy have come through those crises, more often than not, both stronger and sounder." The big question for us today, she continues, is whether we will...
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- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
controlling for investment size, stage, and industry. Geographic distance and technological inexperience by the VC increase the probability the investment is taken up by a partner and not the VC. This work contributes to an emerging...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
advisor reactions to one of the most widely recommended advice-seeking strategies: seeking advice from multiple advisors to leverage the wisdom of crowds. Advisors negatively judge and interpersonally distance themselves from seekers who...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
outlet store use. Consumers who shop at outlet stores also do not differ significantly from those who shop at regular stores in terms of income. I use a structural demand model to show that consumers are segmented according to their sensitivity to travel View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
large due to either product characteristics or the distance between exporter and importer. Finally, we find that in countries with well-developed finance, total exports and the allocation of exports across importers are more sensitive to...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
priorities?; (3) Do I give subordinates timely and direct feedback they can act on? Have I developed a succession roadmap?; and (4) Is my leadership style still effective, and does it reflect who I truly am? This highly readable and practical guide helps you View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
formation in which investors learn about the fundamental value of an asset and trade it. We study the interaction of diagnostic expectations with two well-known mechanisms: learning from prices and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
valuable information. Companies need to invest as much in learning from their start-ups as they do in making and overseeing deals. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2013/10/corporate-venturing/ar/1 August 2013 Harvard Business Review The...
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Sean Silverthorne