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  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

marketmakers have come to the fore. Current counterparts to the free-standing enterprises of the early 20th century in the performance of administrative arbitrage can be found in national capital that camouflages itself as foreign capital... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

heavily dependent on trade, tumbling commodity prices brewed difficult times for Australia's trade deficit and its persistent large current account deficit. What was in hold for Australia's deficit, which had been in the red all but four... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

its members in several prolonged, tightly clustered sessions, or (2) path-clearing by helping a team address a persistent deficit via briefer, intermittent sessions throughout a project's life. We present a model theorizing these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

performance data, in their decisions. These decision-making patterns are associated with large and systematic differences in learning rates across business units. Learning is concentrated in business units with "loose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

about the popularity of songs and romantic matches (Experiments 1B and 1C). Yet, researchers predicted the opposite result (Experiment 1D). Algorithm appreciation persisted when advice appeared jointly or separately (Experiment 2).... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

induced by the promise of temporary sharing, sharers of uninhibited selfies come across as having worse judgment relative to those who share relatively discreet selfies (studies 1, 2, & 4–7)—an attributional pattern that is unanticipated by sharers (study 3), View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

the performance of mechanisms intended for human use. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-064.pdf   PublicationsBusiness Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements. 4th ed. Authors:Paul M. Healy and Krishna G.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 25, 2016

analysts, to consumers—need to know about how new products and services are expected to perform in the marketplace. The book develops a compelling framework that connects the rich academic knowledge on innovation diffusion with that on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

with moderately popular blogs and seem to persist after participants enroll in the program.   Working Papers Social Comparisons and Deception Across Workplace Hierarchies: Field and Experimental Evidence By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Ian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

increased their communication if teammates were also actively participating. Additionally, team performance is uniquely driven by the level of emergent interdependence, as indexed by the diversity of topics discussed and the temporal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

regularly explore together: (1) Who is your primary customer? Have you organized your company to deliver maximum value to that customer? (2) How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, and customers? Is everyone in your company committed to those... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

developed economies (N) tend to have large and persistent effects on developing countries (S). We study the transmission of business cycle fluctuations for developed to developing economies with a two-country asymmetric DSGE model with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008

adoption is surprisingly significant for today's national development outcomes. Our strong and robust results are for 1500 A.D. determining per capita income today. We find technological persistence across long epochs: from 1000 B.C. to 0... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

in performance that persisted for at least five years. This decline was most pronounced among star analysts who moved to firms with lesser capabilities and those who moved solo, without other team members.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 17, 2006

system, she would wind up significantly underpaying her other analysts, all of whom had performed well. Should she follow the compensation system or not? And what should be done about the underperforming analyst? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

businesses outperform both single-unit firms and multi-unit firms composed of unrelated businesses. Explanations for this relationship between focus and firm performance have largely centered on economies of scope achieved by sharing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

  PublicationsThe New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance Authors:Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2010 Abstract Retailers today are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

theoretical models emphasizing the role of managerial myopia. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1603484 The Impact of a Corporate Culture of Sustainability on Corporate Behavior and Performance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 8, 2016

choices. Evaluating a natural experiment in which different results were shown to users who performed similar searches, they find that Google's prominent placement of its Flight Search service increased the clicks on paid advertising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne