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- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and cash-flow, higher probabilities to engage in R&D, and export. We find no significant effects for firms from industrialized economies and negative effects for firms in other...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
had been referred to its site through the corresponding affiliate, when in fact the affiliate did nothing. In fact, the affiliate did less than nothing: The affiliate wasted some of your bandwidth making you load a site you hadn't requested. The affiliate View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
that will likely work with the same or similar clients, vendors, and industry standards. The biggest transition? Establishing a new Zoom account. Cultural integration probably hasn’t happened for many 2020 lift outs, whose teams likely...
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- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
scientific collaborators. We generated exogenous variation in search costs for pairs of potential collaborators by randomly assigning individuals to 90-minute structured information-sharing sessions as part of a grant funding opportunity. We estimate that the treatment...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
a mess. [S]he acknowledged: "I probably should have done more research. The core business wasn't making any money. The customer service was poor. In my first few weeks, three or four of the senior managers came in and said, 'Oh, we're...
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21
unable to tell whether each child was honest or not, we speculate about the proportion of reported white outcomes. Children report the prize-winning outcome at rates statistically above 50% but below 100%. Moreover, the probability of...
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- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
Ostrovsky, and Schwarz. We prove that convergence occurs with probability 1, and we compute the expected time until convergence. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-056.pdf Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients:...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
the presence of an alert for a low-score restaurant reduces its probability of getting a low score again. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54177 In the Shadows? Informal Enterprise in Non-Democracies...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
The founders wondered whether they should change the approach to growth: Should they slow it down temporarily or maintain the growth rate (and fix operational issues)? There was a high probability that BlackBuck's cash balances would fall...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
retailers’ margins and even increase conversion. We demonstrate using a simple theoretical framework that inducing consumers to inspect higher-priced items first may simultaneously increase the average price of items sold and the overall expected purchase View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
Through a working agreement with the PGA TOUR, we have obtained access to proprietary "ShotLink" data that pinpoints the location of every shot taken on the PGA TOUR. Using these data, we develop distance-based models for two components of putting...
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