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- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
Banning Big Box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers Research shows how regulations designed to protect independent retailers from big box competition may backfire. Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail Retailers... View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
economic activity? This paper exploits the federal preemption of national banks in 2004 from local laws against predatory lending to gauge the effect of the supply View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
Summing Up Respondents to the December column produced such a lengthy list of reasons why managers fail to act on their predictions that it is a wonder that organizations are ever able to respond with the foresight needed to avert... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
Publication:Quarterly Journal of Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
draws on theories of entrepreneurship and history to explore the ways in which historical processes play an integral role in entrepreneurship. It builds off the plea by Joseph Schumpeter for an active... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
PublicationsRecent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:,em>Annual Review of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
of Business Administration at HBS. “In the process, they jump-start investing in areas that might be important for the environment.” They examine the phenomenon in a new paper for the National Bureau of... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
narratives and frames that influence the perception of green building; and future directions for the theory and practice of sustainable construction. The essays offer uniquely... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
appear before you today to discuss the accounting and tax treatment of incentive compensation. I am an associate professor of finance at Harvard Business School and a faculty research fellow View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
PublicationsNew Perspectives on Regulation Authors:David Moss and John Cisternino, eds. Publication:Cambridge, Mass.: The Tobin Project, 2009 No abstract is available at this time. Book link:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
by investors and government regulators for hyping stocks and other questionable practices. The last CEO spent over one million dollars to redecorate his office and pushed through $3.6 billion in executive bonuses the day before he agreed... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
continued and expanded, with further empirical exploration of a distributed model of innovation that includes communities and platforms in a variety of contexts and with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
economically important, is driven by compensation consultants' tendencies and by firms' governance-related frictions, and is associated with lower ROA. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51919 Beyond... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 21
the business model. We describe how parallel play promotes efficient search by unpacking the mechanisms by which it leads to fast, inexpensive, and reliable problem solving. We offer a richer and more realistic view of search in nascent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Publications October 2014 Journal of International Economics The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen Abstract—The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 5
PublicationsTowards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting Authors:Abigail M. Allen and Karthik Ramanna Publication:Journal of Accounting &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
2011) Abstract In this paper, we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single-user individuals or firms and open... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
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April 12, 2016
Ivashina, Victoria, and Josh Lerner Abstract—The economics of partnerships have been of enduring interest to economists, but many issues regarding intergenerational conflicts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
Publications January 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Bank Regulation, Capital Structure, and the Low Risk Anomaly By: Baker,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne