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- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
data from a large law firm, we examine the influence of demographic match with workgroup superiors and workgroup peers on attorneys' likelihood of turnover and promotion. Survival analyses reveal that higher proportions of same-sex and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-060.pdf Manipulability in Matching Markets: Conflict and Coincidence of Interests Authors:Itai Ashlagi and Flip Klijn Abstract We study comparative statics of manipulations by women in the men-proposing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life
his company through their active language and ERG, but also through a generous employee donation match program. “As LGBTQ organizations were at the top of my list (of organizations he supports), I felt that [they] supported me even in a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Working PapersConsistency and Monotonicity in One-Sided Assignment Problems Authors:Bettina Klaus and Alexandru Nichifor Abstract One-sided assignment problems combine important features of two well-known matching models. First, as in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
through three examples: the design of medical residency matching programs, a scrip system to allocate food donations to food banks, and the recent "Incentive Auction" that reallocated wireless spectrum from television broadcasters to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
special committees can use to level the playing field: for example, contractual commitments from management that allow the board to run the process; pre-signing rather than post-signing market checks; information rights rather than match... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Design (LEED) standard. Using matching methods, panel data, and instrumental variables, we find that government procurement rules produce spillover effects that stimulate both private-sector adoption of the LEED standard and supplier... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
purchase low market-to-book targets. Instead, mergers pair together firms with similar ratios. We then build a continuous-time model of investment and merger activity combining search, scarcity, and asset complementarity to explain this like-buys-like result. We test... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
founded by a young venture capitalist and a university professor to exploit recombinant DNA technology. Thirty years and more than $300 billion in investments later, only a handful of biotech firms have matched Genentech's success or even... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
time, and expensive because it used diesel, which costs a whole lot and was hard for him to get. Morrell: A visiting dignitary flipped a switch to turn on the local grid. Poindexter: So we get to the chief's house, the soccer match is... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
Scientific Collaborations By: Lakhani, Karim R., Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, and Anthony Hollenberg Abstract—We present the results of a field experiment conducted at Harvard Medical School to understand the extent to which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
retailers struggle to match supply with demand. Many e-retailers are urging consumers to “buy early” this holiday season, citing concerns about postal services and shipping. Given capacity constraints placed upon retail stores by many... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
empirical regularities, and we quantify our framework by matching Census Bureau operating data with patent data for U.S. firms. We observe that internal innovation scales moderately faster with firm size than external innovation. Download... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
develop relationships — skills and capabilities that were not about to be matched by a mere commercial-paper salesman. Like other traditional investment bankers, Weinberg believed that only the banker who would actually execute the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
in defined-contribution pension plans, such as stable value funds, balanced funds, and life-cycle (or target date) funds. We find that life-cycle funds designed to match the risk tolerance and investment horizon of investors have small... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
timing of the national college entrance exam and introduced early admissions, and we propose a game-theoretic model that matches those facts. When applications reveal information about students that is of common interest to all colleges,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006
network tool, which closely matched the executives' view of their industry and firm, proved useful in making a significant decision for the company. In particular, value network analysis channeled attention to the composition of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
potential to supercharge innovation, because we can prototype more ideas and share them with each other much more rapidly. That's on the supply side of the economy. On the demand or marketing side, the new technology may allow us to match... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
right-stuff attributes, the first step specifies the circumstances in which the new team will be asked to manage. The second step matches those circumstances against the challenges with which the managers of the new venture need already... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
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Research in Black and White | Baker Library
quit.” (14) Matching Land’s drive and energy, she kept long working hours. Morse apologized to Land for her handwritten reports, noting she only got to “summarizing the days experiments at 5:30–6:30 and do not like to keep a secretary... View Details