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- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
research has evaluated this alternative view and developed a theory based on the effect of past savings on growth through the adoption of new technologies (mostly through...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12
conducts one of the first large-scale, establishment-level empirical studies of delegation within firms. Recent contributions to a rapidly growing theory literature have...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016
well as theory and empirical research on the organizational outcomes of private political activism for social change. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51347 The Costs...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
challenge for the existing theories on upstream capital flows and global imbalances. August 2013 Journal of the European Economic Association The New Empirical Economics of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20
solve, the contributing factors that have caused this problem to remain unsolved until now, Madhav's theory of change, questions about whether these activities (inputs) will affect the outputs and have an...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
April 4, 2019 Palgrave Macmillan Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity By: Mills, Karen G. Abstract—Fintech, Small Business & the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
concern of firms financing biotechnology research is that the R&D firms might use the funding to subsidize other projects or substitute one project for another. We develop a model based on the property-rights View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017
powerful machine learning technique known as Thompson sampling to address the challenge of balancing the exploration-exploitation tradeoff under the presence of inventory...
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
Policy Experiment By: Alfaro, Laura, Anusha Chari, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Emerging-market governments adopted capital control taxes to manage the massive surge in foreign capital inflows in the aftermath of the global financial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
architecture and IT agility. In particular, we use modular systems theory to examine how different types of coupling impact the ability to maintain, retire, and commission new software applications. We test...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
calculators or big transaction-processing machines (for doing accounting or payroll, for example). And they looked around and asked themselves, "How many paychecks are there to process in the world?" Fortunately, there were...
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- 13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13
organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and internal monitoring View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6
empirical studies have investigated the effects of success and failure in organizational learning, to date the phenomenon has received little attention at the individual level. Drawing on attribution theory...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
ambiguity of profits and power, as well as the often-jealous interactions between different solutions to the problem of empire. The book presents a powerful mosaic of imperial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016
“good”—economic research indicates that people’s behavior often reflects such motives (Fehr and Schmidt 2006; Abeler, Becker, and Falk 2014). Perhaps this should not come as a surprise to economists, given that Adam Smith prominently highlighted such motivations in The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
positive theory of integrity that has no normative content and argue that there are large gains from putting integrity into finance-into both the theory and practice View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
bit of a crazy cycle.” But it’s also a bit of an understandable cycle. Space is one of these industries where typical venture capital models struggle with the deep levels View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
"Artful," because it derives from the theory and practice of collaborative art and requires an artist-like attitude from managers and team members. "Making," because it requires that you...
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by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 07 Dec 2011
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Are Creative People More Dishonest?
the researchers learned, the higher the creativity required for the job, the higher the level of self-reported dishonesty. Then, through a series of experimental studies, the researchers tested--and largely...
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- 12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12
implementation of firm strategy). Thus, agency theory predicts managers will, on average, use the discretion in SFAS 142 consistent with private incentives. We test these hypotheses in a sample View Details
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Carmen Nobel