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- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
information today? Would you estimate that they have gotten more savvy and guarded over time? A: Consumers are becoming increasingly cautious with their personal information. In Western countries, surveys of consumer attitudes towards privacy View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
trend for social judgment. Research limitations/implications-Results confirm the importance of psychological hardiness, extroversion, and conscientiousness as factors influencing leader effectiveness and suggest that social judgment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16
opposed to increased levels of funding from the governments. Analyses of 2011 and 2012 state pension reforms confirm that states opposed to accounting reform are more likely to cut pension benefits. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
and Luis M. Viceira Abstract This paper empirically analyzes the Expectations Hypothesis (EH) in inflation-indexed (or real) bonds and in nominal bonds in the U.S. and in the U.K. We strongly reject the EH in inflation-indexed bonds and also View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
related bills that have both costs and benefits are combined. In our first laboratory study, we confirm across a set of four legislative domains that this bundling technique increases support for bills that have both costs and benefits.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
cross-sectional empirical evidence is most persuasive in favor of agency considerations. Studies centered on the May 2003 dividend tax cut confirm that differences in the taxation of dividends and capital gains have only a second-order... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9
participants were truthful and there was a strong truth bias, a high percentage of participants were able to detect when their partner was truthful, in confirmation of the veracity effect. Kidney Paired Donation Authors:C. Bradley Wallis,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
This confirmed the rationale back in 1970 for PARC's charter as a separate research center. As Robert Adams, then a Xerox senior vice president, recalled, "The laser printer alone paid for all of the other PARC research projects many... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17
facial tracking to explore how marketers can best use entertainment in ads to increase their effectiveness in increasing intent to purchase. The findings suggest that the optimal amount of entertainment differs by type of entertainment and target group, but not by... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
Business School Case 819-004 SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command James “Hondo” Geurts, the Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command, was in the middle of his Senate confirmation hearing in 2017 to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
sustainability issues do not significantly outperform firms with poor ratings on the same issues. These results are confirmed when we analyze future changes in accounting performance. The results have implications for asset managers who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
deterrence effect. This leads to strong enforcement spillovers up the VAT chain. These findings confirm that when taking evasion into account, significant differences emerge between otherwise equivalent forms of taxation. February 2015... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29
2013, Lance Armstrong admitted in a television interview with Oprah Winfrey that he "doped" in each of his record seven consecutive Tour de France victories, confirming the findings a few months earlier by the U.S. Anti-Doping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
correspondingly negative effect." Align employees with company goals. Anecdote and data alike confirm the adage that “People don’t leave jobs, they leave managers.” For most employees, their direct manager is the face of the organization.... View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17
the fiscal quarter end when they have greater incentive to boost earnings. Our results confirm managers' stated willingness to sacrifice long-term value in order to smooth earnings (Graham, Harvey, and Rajgopal, 2005) and their stated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
(EH) in inflation-indexed (or real) bonds and in nominal bonds in the U.S. and in the U.K. We strongly reject the EH in inflation-indexed bonds and also confirm and update the existing evidence rejecting the EH in nominal bonds. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
by colleagues here at HBS (Amanda Cowen, Boris Groysberg, and Paul Healy) and elsewhere (Brad M. Barber, Reuven Lehavy, and Brett Trueman) confirms that brokerages without investment banking operations are also optimistically biased. The... View Details
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
often grasp at an explanation that is incorrect. Afterward, though, you see only confirming data, not disconfirming data. That's exactly the kind of rote pattern that the Medici String Quartet's preparation was aimed at avoiding. It was... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11
suggests that the effect of distance should vanish over time, a hypothesis that we confirm in the data and that distinguishes technology from other flows like goods or investments. We then structurally estimate the model. The parameter... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
constraints. Moreover, we provide evidence that both of the hypothesized mechanisms, better stakeholder engagement and transparency around CSR performance, are important in reducing capital constraints. The results are further confirmed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne