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  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

aggregate the "information" and "communication" components together. We show theoretically and empirically that this is problematic. Information and communication technologies have very different effects on the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

many valuable ways that one side can meet its own interests by helping the other side with the other's "internal," "behind-the-table," or "Level II" constituency challenges. Sebenius (2013) offered a moderately theoretical treatment of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007

  Working PapersDo Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States Authors:David H. Autor, William R. Kerr, and Adriana D. Kugler Abstract Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Labs Enable Large-scale Research

and Marco Iansiti (both HBS) will focus on the theory and practice of responsible AI for facilitating data-driven decision-making in organizations. They will explore how people use AI tools and machine learning (ML) models in their... View Details
  • 17 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 17

information content. The theory yields interesting results about the informational role of targeted advertising and its consequences. First, targeting can itself serve as a signal on product attributes. Second, the effectiveness of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-034.pdf Making the Gambler's Fallacy Disappear: The Role of Experience Authors:Gregory M. Barron and Stephen Leider Abstract Recent papers have demonstrated that the way people acquire information about a View Details
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

scholars to reintroduce entrepreneurship into the research agenda of business historians. We examine the value and limitations of adapting recent social scientific theories and methods on entrepreneurship to research on international... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

by differences in the information-processing activities associated with each function and apply this insight to refine and extend existing theories of centralization. We also discuss the implications of our results for organizational... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22

the modern theory and practice of contingent claims analysis (CCA), which is successfully used today at the level of individual banks by managers, investors, and regulators. The basic analytical tool is the risk-adjusted balance sheet,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006

and AIDS: The Macroeconomic Impact of a Health Crisis Authors:Eric D. Werker, Amrita Ahuja, and Brian Wendell Abstract Theories abound on the potential macroeconomic impact of AIDS in Africa, yet there have been surprisingly few empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

pricing theories. First, in an era when efficient portfolio diversification was not possible, the intrinsic risk of an equity security was an important input into investor decision making. Second, our evidence suggests that businesspeople... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

Abstract—Seven experiments explore people's decisions to share or withhold personal information and the wisdom of such decisions. When people choose not to reveal information—to be "hiders"—they are judged negatively by others... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

Departments. "The underlying logic of much of decision and control theory was similar to the underlying structure of how we at JPL would design trajectories and track and control a spacecraft,"... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education
  • 22 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Name Your Price. Really.

pricing—a phenomenon that admittedly makes no rational economic sense. When presented an opportunity for a freebie, "classical economic theory says you should pay nothing," says Santana. "Why buy something when you can get... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
  • 13 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

Sageworks, a financial information company based in Raleigh, North Carolina. When Sageworks decided to open up its nearly 250,000 private-firm database of detailed accounting information to academic researchers, Ljungqvist was one of the fortunate few the company... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

increasing or decreasing, depending on the magnitude of a manager's career incentives. Altruistic Utility Functions for Joint Decisions Authors:David E. Bell and Ralph L. Keeney Publication:In The Mathematics of Preference, Choice and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

essential research tools—Markov decision process, game theory and information economics, queueing games, econometric methods, and data science—by illustrating their uses and applicability on examples from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 19, 2006

  Working PapersAnomalies in Estimates of Cross-Price Elasticities for Marketing Mix Models: Theory and Empirical Test Authors:Andre Bonfrer, Ernest R. Berndt, and Alvin Silk Abstract We investigate the theoretical possibility and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious institutions, elites, and attachments,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

Das Narayandas, and Dongkyu Chang Abstract— This study investigates the comprehensive and multidimensional effects of quota frequency on sales force performance. We develop a theory of salespeople’s behavior with regard to the effect of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman