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- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
financially and operationally ready to support our communities.” United States With jobless rates at Depression-era levels, hunger is a serious issue for many Americans. Feeding America, a nationwide non-profit network of more than 200...
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- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
find turnover increases for the most productive workers. We detect limited effort responses and find no evidence of different effects based on workers’ expectations of fairness or future promotion. The findings suggest that adjustment...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
simplifies the retirement savings plan participation decision. Individuals received an opportunity to enroll in a retirement savings plan at a pre-selected contribution rate and asset allocation, allowing them to collapse a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
contained in the mandatory transitional documents required by International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) 1 (2005). We find significant negative abnormal returns for firms reporting negative earnings reconciliation. Although the informational content of the...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
average in the period 1953-2005, it was particularly high in the early 1980s and negative in the early 2000s. This paper specifies and estimates a model in which the nominal term structure of interest rates is driven by five state...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
interest rates is driven by four state variables: the real interest rate, temporary and permanent components of expected inflation, the "nominal-real covariance" of inflation, and the real interest rate with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
nominal and inflation-indexed bond excess returns even after adjusting for liquidity, providing evidence for both time-varying real interest rate risk premia and time-varying inflation risk premia. Liquidity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
There’s a lot of self-learning that goes on in the process of adjusting to a different environment. “Some students are better at reaching across cultures and being effective communicators in ambiguous situations,” continues Abrami, who...
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- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
his noncompete and avoid similar entanglements. Q: How did you frame and carry out this study, and why in Michigan? A: Other studies had looked at rates of firm foundings, but we wanted to track the mobility of individual scientists,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
markets allow the backward linkages between foreign and domestic firms to turn into FDI spillovers. Our calibration exercises indicate that a) holding the extent of foreign presence constant, financially well-developed economies experience growth View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
Boosting psychological safety could be a game-changer, improving health care workers’ emotional wellbeing and reducing burnout, which could boost an organization’s retention rates and lower recruitment costs, Edmondson says. Edmondson and...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
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average cardholder owned 4.6 credit cards. On some of these cards, interest rates were as high as 30 percent. The use of consumer credit, while by no means new, reached unprecedented levels in the early twenty-first century ....
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- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
prices for future consumption volatility but implies much greater predictive power of stock prices for future stock return volatility than is found in the data. Neither calibration can explain why movements in real interest rates do not...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Schargrodsky, 175-204. National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago Press, 2010 Abstract The study of how crime affects different income groups faces the difficulty that crime-avoiding activities vary across these groups. Thus, a lower victimization...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
students' self-assessment and to the instructor's assessment of class participation performance, based on five years of data (n=7,025) across ten sections. The article demonstrates that crowdsourced peer-to-peer assessment (unlike self-assessment) offers View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
factor of about 2 to 1. Even after adjusting for differences in internal labor cost rates, the hospital at the 90th percentile of cost spent about twice as much as the one at the 10th percentile of cost. The large variation in costs among...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
awareness. Strategy 2: Don't let time pressure affect your decisions. As we have noted, intuitive System 1 thought often takes over when negotiators are facing intense time pressure. Awareness of this tendency should lead you to make key View Details
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by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
magnified in the online channel. Customer analysis suggests that opening retail stores paves the way for higher rates of customer acquisition and higher rates of repeat purchasing among existing customers in...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216015-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 416-036 Difficult Conversations and Dealing with Challenging Situations at Work: Adjusting as a CEO No abstract available. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
continues to evolve. We believe that achieving systemic impact is a dynamic process requiring continuous adjustments in strategy. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53822 Harvard Business School Case...
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Sean Silverthorne