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- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
had lower average returns during our sample period, but the difference in average returns is smaller than would be implied by the global CAPM given the historical equity premium. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
Negative) Experiences: Risk-Seeking in the Domain of Gains? Authors:Jolie Mae Martin, Gregory M. Barron, and Michael I. Norton Abstract In contrast to research which has conflated losses with negative experiences and gains with positive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
style. Paul Marshall will address the issues of stimulating growth in companies that have been up and running for a while, because our participants are, by and large, running very large corporations or they are entrepreneurs who started a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
behavioral finance. Predictable Surprises Authors:Max Bazerman and Michael D. Watkins Publication:Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming, paperback edition Abstract Most events that catch us by surprise... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008
suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some governments prepare well for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
particular setting. This paper exploits a plausibly exogenous change in the liability structure offered by a microfinance program in India, which shifted from individual to group liability lending. We find evidence that the lending model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010
using different methods (two experiments and a survey) indicate an inverted-U shaped relationship between degree of decision latitude and leadership effectiveness perceptions. The increase in leadership effectiveness perception between low and moderate decision... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008
Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-099WP.pdf Evaluating the Impact of SA 8000 Certification Authors:Michael J. Hiscox, Claire Schwartz, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract SA 8000, along with other types of certification... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29
contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly-competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the pecuniary benefits of coordinating production decisions and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 26, 2008
Working PapersDiffusing Management Practices within the Firm: The Role of Information Provision Authors:Michael J. Lenox and Michael W. Toffel Abstract A key role of corporate managers is to encourage subsidiaries to adopt innovative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 27
oneself and to engage in moral compensation by behaving prosocially. We established the role that impurity played in these effects through mediation and moderation. We found that inauthenticity-induced cleansing and compensatory helping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006
Working PapersScale Without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics Authors:Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael Sorell, and Feng Zhu Abstract Since the mid-1990s, productivity growth has accelerated in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26
business manager. Publisher's Link: http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/Management-Accounting-Information-for-DecisionMaking-and-Strategy-Execution/9780137024971.page Who Benefits from Religion? Authors:Daniel Mochon, Michael... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20
to have higher academic achievement and experience greater acceptance by their peers in adolescence. Despite this positive influence on educational outcomes, it is still unclear why some children are more prosocial than others in school.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9
has been little empirical evidence on the propensity with which core-periphery structures are observed in practice, the factors that explain differences in the design of such structures, or the manner in which these structures evolve over time. We address this gap... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
alternative collaborative modes should be driven by a number of factors including characteristics of the technology, the capabilities of the firm, and the distribution of competences in the environment. We develop a set of guidelines for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
(Studies 3 and 4), we find that dishonest behavior increased moral disengagement and motivated forgetting of moral rules. Such changes did not occur in the case of honest behavior or consideration of the behavior of others. In addition, increasing moral saliency View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-057.pdf Optimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007
media content. Raises issues of how technology interacts with creative processes and outcome possibilities, and also invites discussion of strategic and organizational questions raised by the very different business models of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace