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- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
commanders practice a form of analytic triage by focusing on two negative possibilities, discarding almost everything else. The first element is anticipating the enemy's most likely course of action. The second is preparing for the biggest, most damaging View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
intermediary organizations. To test our theory, we examine every relationship between entrepreneurial firms and their venture capital investors in the minimally invasive surgical segment of the medical device industry over a 22-year period. The theory and evidence...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
reviews for their competitors. Such review fraud undermines the trustworthiness of consumer reviews and constitutes a major risk factor for review sites. In this paper, we investigate review fraud on the popular consumer review site Yelp....
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Anna Secino
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
and 350 supervisors, according to Last Mile Health’s 2017 annual report. Much of the model used for Ebola involved contactless testing for the community workers, so it eliminated some of the most dangerous risk with that virus. As a...
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- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
risk of adverse effects that arise from taking a single approach. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49334 Working Papers Selling to a Moving Target: Dynamic Marketing Effects in U.S. Presidential Elections...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 14
Working PapersIndustry Equilibrium with Open Source and Proprietary Firms Authors:Gastón Llanes and Ramiro de Elejalde Abstract We present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of Open Source (OS) and Proprietary (P) firms. Two View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12
control rights and cash-flow rights in the borrowing firms exacerbates potential tunneling and other moral hazard activities by large shareholders, thereby increasing credit risk and monitoring needs. Consequently, lenders form syndicates...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3
steps towards investigating this possibility by devising a novel 10-day field experiment to estimate the differences in behavior that are created by sorting workers into their preferred institutional regimes versus having them unsorted....
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
positive relationship between real rates and the contemporaneous valuation of volatile stocks, which we contend measures the economy’s risk appetite. Our novel proxy for risk...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Press) This novel tells the story of the residents of a small New England valley. The settlers and Native Americans trade with each other and live in peace until a love affair blossoms between a young Abenaki and the daughter of an elder...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
Of course it does. But it also depends on creative thinking as a skill that involves qualities such as the propensity to take risks and to turn a problem on its head to get a new perspective. That can be learned.” For example, in her...
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- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
duration function as large-scale shocks to the quantity of interest rate risk that must be borne by professional bond investors. I develop a simple model in which the risk tolerance of bond investors is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
in press Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful Statements to Mislead Others By: Rogers, T., R. Zeckhauser, F. Gino, M.I. Norton, and M. Schweitzer Abstract—Paltering is the...
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- 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20
pure e-tailer as well as two competing multichannel retailers. Even though self-matching is likely to reduce a retailer's profits, with some consumers paying the lower price, we uncover two novel mechanisms that can make self-matching...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 28
externally hired CEOs increase the likelihood of providing guidance. Complicated Firms Authors:Lauren Cohen and Dong Lou Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We exploit a novel setting in which the same piece...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
toward a single image, phrase, or movement for a period of time. You can even optimize your daydreaming with a few psychological tricks, such as thinking about yourself in the third person, as if you were a character in a novel or...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 12 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 12, 2006
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-021.pdf Coerced Confessions: Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Abstract As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
valuation of volatile stocks, which we contend measures the economy’s risk appetite. Our novel proxy for risk appetite explains 41% of the variation in the one-year real rate...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Listen to “Yes”
a series of meetings so as to surface and test a set of core strategic assumptions. Or they might assign someone to play the devil's advocate so as to ensure that a thorough critique and risk assessment of a proposal has been conducted...
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by Martha Lagace