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  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

http://hbr.org/2014/01/the-new-patterns-of-innovation/ar/1 January 2014 Journal of Labor Economics Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms By: Pekkala Kerr, Sari, William R. Kerr, and William F. Lincoln Abstract—We study the impact of skilled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

retailer, we found 65% to be inaccurate. That is, the recorded inventory quantity of an item fails to match the quantity found in the store. We identify factors associated with this inaccuracy that are stock keeping unit- (SKU) and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal

think either we could hire more people to generate more ideas, or we could pursue auction deals. It takes time, though, to develop experience in this space, and I don't think we could hire enough people to develop ideas to invest all $4 billion. To View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
  • 19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016

the prevalence of cov-lite rises. Time patterns in cov-lite issuance closely match inflows to institutional lenders, and at a given time, cov-lite loans are, overwhelmingly, those with the highest ownership by structured products and/or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 16

affected by how similar (in both size and valence) those causes were to event consequences. Additional experiments further suggested that this "consequence-cause matching" arises because people are motivated to see the world as predictable, and because View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27

investment flow adjustment costs in the developing economy. We calibrate the model to match the Mexico-U.S. trade and FDI flows. The model is able to explain (1) why U.S. shocks have a larger effect on Mexico than in the U.S. and hence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2021 (Revised July 2021)
  • Case

StockX: The Stock Market of Things (Abridged)

By: Chiara Farronato, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2015 by Dan Gilbert, Josh Luber, and Greg Schwartz, StockX was an online platform where users could buy and sell unworn luxury and limited-edition sneakers. Sneaker resale prices often fluctuated over time based on supply and demand, creating a robust... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Analytics and Data Science; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Market Transactions; Marketplace Matching; Supply and Industry; Analysis; Price; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; North and Central America; United States; Michigan; Detroit
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  • 20 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

day or two a week at a major corporations, receive mentorship, and are matched with a "work buddy." The model should be scaled up to include the state's other 14 community colleges, she said. Gregory Bialecki, secretary for the... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
  • 27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

effects are often applied in settings where clustering may be important. We provide a general methodology for consistently estimating the variance of a large class of non-parametric estimators, including the simple matching estimator, in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

businesses or other enterprises during the period studied in book. Did this project influence or feed the book? Do you think these “on the ground” perspectives match up with what the scholars observe in the book? Jones: With the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

provide a system for idea developers and capital providers to find the appropriate matches and enable entrepreneurship to flourish even in these constrained times. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

sample of M&A deals from 2003 to 2015 to identify four such areas of evolution in current transactional practice: (1) termination fee "creep," which was pervasive in the 1980s and 1990s, seems to have gone away by the 2000s; (2) View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety change when employers adopt ISO 9001. We analyzed a matched sample of nearly 1,000 companies in California. ISO 9001 adopters subsequently had far lower organizational death... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

Cavallo, Alberto, W. Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and Marcel P. Timmer Abstract—We show that online prices can be used to construct quarterly purchasing power parities (PPPs) with a closely matched set of goods and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

variation in average asset returns than aggregate or non-stockholder consumption risk and provides more plausible economic magnitudes. We find that risk aversion estimates around 10 can match observed risk premia for the wealthiest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

The founders envisioned extending their matching solutions to help enterprises staff projects with a mix of current employees and external experts, hypothesizing that the “future of work” would involve more flexible employment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

data for companies in 14 industries. The specific task assigned to the student is to use the balance sheet data along with their basic knowledge of the operating conditions and characteristics of these 14 industries to match each industry... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

Under positive-sum competition, providers would not attempt to match competitors' every move. Instead, they would develop clear strategies around unique expertise and tailored facilities in those areas where they can become distinctive.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 28 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining
  • 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

phrases in content on U.S. political issues from two sources-Encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia. Our overall slant measure is less (more) than zero when an article leans towards Democrat (Republican) viewpoints, while bias is the absolute value of the slant. Using a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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