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  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

actions. Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

experienced.) The cognitive science shows us is that there are limits to how fast you can drive in the learning.— Dorothy Leonard Walt and I studied mostly companies on the West Coast. Brian studied the incubators here in Boston. Walt and I also went to Asia. So the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018

and consistent with experimentation to learn about earnings. This pattern motivates estimating the expected returns to entrepreneurship within a dynamic lifecycle model that allows for non-random selection and gradual learning about the entrepreneurial earnings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

Grant, F. Gino, and D. A. Hoffman Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010) Abstract The article discusses research that identified situations where introverts are more apt to be effective leaders than extroverts. Although it is View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

other distortions measured in the literature. The second uncertain policy we consider concerns marginal tax rates. We obtain similar results once we adjust for the impact of tax rates on income. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-083.pdf On The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

that exchange. Hand-collected data show that 80% of cross-listed firms opt out of at least one exchange governance rule, instead committing to observe the rules of their home country. Relative to firms that comply, firms that opt out have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017

were compliant (that is, 52.8% under treatment). Fifty-five (18%) had normal blood pressure readings (BP under control). The data also demonstrated higher prevalence (39%) of hypertension among tobacco users compared to non-users (28%)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

using data from the recent redesign of the NYC High School match, which places approximately 90,000 students per year, we document that the extent of potential efficiency loss is substantial. Over 6,800 student applicants in the main... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective, unverifiable, or controversial information. Using data from Encyclopædia Britannica, authored by experts, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

Your Customer Relationships By: Avery, Jill, Susan Fournier, and John Wittenbraker Abstract—Consumers have always had relationships with brands, but sophisticated tools for analyzing customer data are finally allowing marketing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

among those working closely with Japanese employees highlights intergroup contact as a factor in shaping the unearned status gain experience. Supplemental analysis of data gathered from 66 Japanese employees provided the broader... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

but be ready to change it. Arrive early for a speaking engagement in order to grasp the mood of your audience and tailor your speech accordingly. Let others own their space. Instead of assigning detailed tasks, present general priorities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 8

69, no. 4 (December 2010) Abstract How can people and organisations best respond to emergency events that are significantly beyond the boundaries of what they had generally anticipated, expected, prepared for—or even imagined? What forms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2012
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First Look: May 29

of strong ties to resistors accruing to the change agent are weaker and may yet turn into liabilities that reduce the likelihood of change adoption. Analyses of longitudinal data from 68 multi-method case studies of organizational change... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

the General Management Program at Harvard Business School. In the discussion, conducted last August in Mumbai, Kapur reflects on some 50 years in the advertising industry, starting in the “Mad Men” era of the 1960s, experiencing the dawn... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
  • 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008

Case 208-069 Delphi Corporation, operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, has filed a plan of reorganization with the court, under which a consortium of hedge funds led by Appaloosa Management will invest up to $2.6 billion in new equity. Also participating in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Aug 2005
  • HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

was still a low-cost producer. HBS professor emeritus Norm Berg, who developed the case along with research assistant Norman Fast (HBS DBA '77), was at the time course head of Business Policy, the School's required general management... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 23 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 23, 2015

and patenting data for 1,315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I exploit a natural experiment where the assignment of managers for newly hired college graduates is mandated by rigid HR rules and is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3

in bringing their products to market, yet we know very little about the kinds of strategies they can employ to influence regulatory actor decision making. In this paper, we highlight a firm's strategic use of symbolic signaling in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 10

Abstract—Can a business case be made for acting sustainably? This is a difficult question to answer precisely, largely because there is no generally accepted definition of the term "sustainability." Is it acting sustainably to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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