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- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
assumptions. The first is that people are more altruistic towards individuals that agree with them and the second is that people's well-being rises when other people share their personal opinions. The act of voting is then a source of...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
broadly consistent with theory. Quantitatively, the network-based propagation is larger than the direct effects of the shocks. We also show quantitatively large effects from the geographic network, capturing the fact that the local...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
same behaviors described as “random behaviors.” Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51401 Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern Banking System By: Begenau, Juliane, and Tim Landvoigt...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
effects and consumers' discount factor of future applications. In addition, contrary to the popular belief that indirect network effects protect incumbents and are the source of market inefficiency, we find that under certain conditions,...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
decoupling of the sources of value participants derive from any one experience—together open up the executive education industry to a radical restructuration. We argue that any consequential strategic action on the part of providers must...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
forthcoming Quantitative Marketing and Economics Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com By: Dai, Weijia, Ginger Jin, Jungmin Lee, and Michael Luca Abstract—Because consumer reviews leverage the wisdom of the crowd,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
the basis of management processes because they’re easily copied. Operational effectiveness is table stakes in the competitive universe, it is often assumed, and thus cannot serve as a sustainable source of competitive advantage. But data...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16
process with team-level prioritizing, updating, and helping, based on new-found accountability, overlapping representations of work, and belonging-despite the lack of stable team composition. Quantitative data revealed changes to the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
and vertical mergers. Our model highlights a collective action problem: what is good for an individual firm is often not good for the cluster. We speculate that this conflict may be a source of strategic tension in platform firms....
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
have a large impact on the dynamics of corporate investment and growth. Investment is "locked in" in profitable firms when payout is heavily taxed. Thus, apart from any level effects, payout taxes change the allocation of capital. Negotiation Processes as...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Examining the outcomes of these projects, we find no quantitative or qualitative differences between projects funded by the crowd alone and those that were selected by both the crowd and experts. Our findings suggest that the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
investment. Complex multinational business groups emerged controlling large investments in natural resources, processing, and services in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Nominal versus Indexed Debt: A Quantitative Horse Race...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15
in India and outline both quantitative and qualitative evidence from 42 Indian state-owned laboratories to support this argument. August 2013 Journal of Economic History Colonial Institutions, Commodity Booms, and the Diffusion of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
based on new-found accountability, overlapping representations of work, and belonging-despite the lack of stable team composition. Quantitative data revealed changes to the coordination patterns in the ED (captured through a two-mode...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
design integrity of a family of products, how far to extend a brand, how to manage creative employees, and where to source creative work. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607052 ...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
its effect was quantitatively dominated by inequality-raising effects of population growth. The land distribution program lowered landlessness, but this was partly offset by targeting failures and induced increases in immigration....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21
providing an additional source of revenue, but reduces consumer demand for the service. We characterize equilibrium information provision, disclosure levels, and prices and show that competition with privacy has several effects on the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
in the Rest to access knowledge and capital, including returning diaspora, business schools, and management consultancies. Smarter state capitalism was also a greater source of international competitive advantage than the state...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007
Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the behavioral processes associated with successful cross-functional and cross-firm alignment in supply/demand planning. We model...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
and Organizational Capabilities Authors:R. Gibbons and R. Henderson Abstract A large literature identifies unique organizational capabilities as a potent source of competitive advantage, yet our knowledge of why capabilities fail to...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel