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- 28 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 28
portfolio strategy that takes advantage of this straightforward vs. complicated information processing classification yields returns of 118 basis points per month. Consistent with processing complexity driving the return relation, we further View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
introduction of a very general class of unobserved heterogeneity on agents' preferences. Under minimal assumptions, we show existence and uniqueness of equilibrium. We provide two algorithms to compute the equilibria in our model. The...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
Business Administration and co-head of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Consider that between the 1950s and 1980s, Uncle Sam’s spending on research and development (R&D) rose fivefold from less than $20 billion to more...
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by Michael Blanding
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
invested in stocks or in a mutual fund, and as stock prices rose so did his or her account, and when they fell, so did his or her account. With hedge funds money is going to be made, and lost, in arcane positions trading with or against...
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
or because coworkers create an atmosphere that encourages theft. Nevertheless, the incremental losses observed when employees work in groups are absent in firms that pay higher wages. And what about the previous study that showed employee...
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- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
their attitudes and perceptions, and those of their husbands." The study’s findings showed a clear uptick in women working outside the home, with the strongest results seen for women who were more socially constrained (women who at...
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by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
prone to missing opportunities to form friendships or hire people by unfairly inferring [that] they are untrustworthy," she says. "There may be completely innocuous reasons someone may wish to keep personal information private." Full Disclosure While...
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by Michael Blanding
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
measured by the maximum Sharpe ratio achievable. We propose a model in which menu setters differ in their ability to preselect the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the menu size is sufficiently small, a lower-ability menu...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50923 May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Invention and Agglomeration in the Bay Area: Not Just ICT By: Forman, Chris, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein Abstract—We document that the Bay Area View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
bottle of Veuve Clicquot Rose Champagne, courtesy of Kay.) The winning teams distinguished themselves, Brown explained, not only by considering the aesthetic tastes and aspirations of their customer base, but also by coming up with truly...
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- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
percentage points. For some consumers, the bulbous bellies, protruding needles, and nasty teeth changed their habits; as soda sales dropped, bottled water sales rose from 24.9 percent to 28.1 percent. Graphic warnings worked by grabbing...
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- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
with Neeru Paharia, Jill Avery, and Juliet B. Schor. Says Keinan, "Through a series of experiments, we show that underdog brand biographies are effective in the marketplace because consumers identify with the disadvantaged position...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
located in a largely Black section of Miami-Dade County. After teaching at a public school in Harlem for two years, Rebecca Fishman Lipsey rose through the ranks at Teach for America, moving to Miami as the organization’s regional...
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by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29
charged to developers and to hold passive expectations. We show that platforms with more market power (monopoly) prefer facing more informed users. In contrast, platforms with less market power (i.e., facing more intense competition) have...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
bootstrapped the funds to launch a vocational training program for dental assistants. Revenue from the new business pushed them out of poverty and into the middle class. Olds, a budding economist, was intrigued. “The rate of new business births View Details
- 03 Jun 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is the Time Right for Self-Management?
company's vision." Charlie Efford added that "The key to self-management becoming embedded is changing the mindset of the management team. Most corporations haven't made this shift." Denis Collet suggested "it's all...
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- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
out the application in pencil to please an Army buddy when we were stationed in Europe, and my grade record at a little college in Iowa didn’t warrant admission anyway. Then I got his seat in the Stanford class. I’ve learned that this is called the “impostor...
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by James Heskett
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
Reserve's Tenth Annual Report of 1923. The three principles I focus on are 1) the discouraging of speculative lending by commercial banks, 2) the desire to meet the credit needs of business, and 3) the preference of a focus on credit over a focus on monetary...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
reported crimes against women went up: Kidnappings rose by 13 percent, rapes per capita increased by 23 percent, and the total number of crimes increased by an astonishing 44 percent. Empowered To Act Initially Iyer and her colleagues...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25
Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We collect data on operations, targets, and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management...
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Carmen Nobel