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- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
contribution to Asia's economic progress and the characteristics (and limitations) of a leading university, Professor Emeritus Daniel Quinn Mills lays out his recommendations for building a world-class university in Asia, including how to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
safety. “Surprisingly, income and housing prices had little correlation with improvement” Next, they obtained Street View images from the same streets captured in 2007 and 2014. After algorithmically removing image pairs containing... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
personal connections amongst U.S. politicians have a significant impact on Senate voting behavior. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians are consistent predictors of voting behavior. We estimate sharp measures that control for common View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
to express their feelings, exchange information, and act in ways that previously were unheard of. Several recent writings suggest that the next phase in the activation of customers will be putting them to work in the service of an organization. View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
parts. Implications for diversity research are discussed. Working PapersUnobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem Authors:Faisal Z. Ahmed and Eric Werker Abstract Autocrats experiencing a windfall in unearned income... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
real actions to boost earnings to meet different types of earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
hospital, we find support for our hypotheses. Our findings suggest that frontline workers' participation in problem solving is motivated by some inherent characteristics of the problems as well as by particular management practices.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
characteristics of the waste-to-energy operation, the market characteristics for waste disposal and energy, and the mechanisms regulators use to encourage production of renewable energy, we determine the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
using, respectively, pre-migration settlements and their interaction with MSA geographic characteristics that affect the cost of moving to the suburbs. I find that black in-migration imposed a strong, negative fiscal externality on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
technological characteristics of the innovation and at the potential business model by which the innovation might be brought to market. Overserved customers consume a product or service but don't need all its features or functionality. A... View Details
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
least a quarter of per capita income differences. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-093.pdf Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.? Authors:Diego A. Comin, Bill Easterly, and Erick Gong Publication:American... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
the national microfinance markets of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru within the context of global microfinance. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307060 Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
Authors:Mihir Desai and Li Jin Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper employs heterogeneity in institutional shareholder tax characteristics to identify the relation between firm payout policy and tax... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
consistent predictors of voting behavior. For the former, we estimate sharp measures that control for common characteristics of the network, as well as heterogeneous impacts of a common network View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
increased self-employment by 15%. Monte Carlo evidence suggests the technique significantly reduces bias and Type-1 Error. SCHIP increased incorporated ownership by 36% and business share of household income by 12%, implying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project characteristics which are often hard to measure. Hence, we differentiate "quality... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
contributions—regarding which greater team heterogeneity reduces the likelihood of equal splitting. Second, we show that these same founder characteristics also significantly affect the share premium in teams that split the equity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
types of earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the cost in the following... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
The Cost of Friendship By: Gompers, Paul A., Vladimir Mukharlyamov, and Yuhai Xuan Abstract—We investigate how personal characteristics affect people's desire to collaborate and whether this attraction enhances or detracts from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
populations. While we have considerable evidence that donors are more generous if they know their assistance benefits a preferred group, we know little about the demand for such information. To start closing this gap, we study transfers of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne