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- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
examine whether the open-content production model helps achieve a neutral point of view (NPOV) using data from Wikipedia's articles on U.S. politics. Our null hypothesis builds on Linus' Law, often expressed as "Given enough...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
strategic choices that affect both the expected profits of the firm and their riskiness. Even if competition at first pushes the manager towards profit maximization as commonly argued, I show that further increases in competitive forces...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
opportunities to cheat on tests are likely to engage in self-deception, inferring that their elevated performance is a sign of intelligence. This short-term psychological benefit of self-deception, however, can come with longer-term costs: when predicting future...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
all its emphasis on data and number crunching, conventional strategic planning is not actually scientific. It lacks the hypothesis generation and testing that's at the heart of the scientific method. To produce novel and successful...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
are consistent with the hypothesis that firms controlled by large shareholders with excess control rights choose public debt financing over bank debt as a way of avoiding scrutiny and insulating themselves from bank monitoring. Multivoxel...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
they also induced large spillovers of technical knowledge in prefectures adjacent to those with prizes, relative to distant control prefectures without prizes. Linking competition expenditures with the expected market value of patents...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
PublicationsBeing the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader Authors:Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
monitoring" and entirely absent in those with "tight monitoring." The results are consistent with an experimentation hypothesis in which tight monitoring of decisions leads to more control but less learning. Download the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12
to meet or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product, which can be easily stockpiled by...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-086.pdf Expectations, Network Effects and Platform Pricing Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract In markets with network effects, users must form expectations about the total number of users...
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Carmen Nobel
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
and that challenges mounted against a single firm and an industry can inspire both firm and field-level changes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-019.pdf Asset Specificity and Vertical Integration: Williamson's View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
with colleagues throughout the media industry, Fili-Krushel's decision rests on her own career aspirations and her expectations about the future of AOL Time Warner. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
Markov chain, we are able to combine these two models to characterize the putts-to-go for the field from any distance on the green for the PGA TOUR. The results of this Markov model match both the empirical expectation and variance of...
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- 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11
change is accommodation-helping individuals accommodate their work demands with no changes in the structure of work or cultural expectations of ideal workers. The purpose of this article is to derive a Work Redesign Model and compare it...
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Sean Silverthorne