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- 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008
suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some governments prepare well for...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 19, 2008
reflect the use of higher inventory levels by retailers to drive increased profits but with overall reduced gross profitability returns on the inventory investment. These results support the notion that the increased deployment of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
particular setting. This paper exploits a plausibly exogenous change in the liability structure offered by a microfinance program in India, which shifted from individual to group liability lending. We find evidence that the lending model...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006
Working PapersScale Without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics Authors:Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael Sorell, and Feng Zhu Abstract Since the mid-1990s, productivity growth has accelerated in the U.S....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20
to have higher academic achievement and experience greater acceptance by their peers in adolescence. Despite this positive influence on educational outcomes, it is still unclear why some children are more prosocial than others in school....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010
Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, and Kari L. Granger Abstract The sole objective of our ontological approach to creating leaders is to leave students actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
alternative collaborative modes should be driven by a number of factors including characteristics of the technology, the capabilities of the firm, and the distribution of competences in the environment. We develop a set of guidelines for...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
Publications August 2013 pub Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Concert Industry By: Bennett, Victor Manuel, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how reducing search frictions in secondary markets affects...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
(Studies 3 and 4), we find that dishonest behavior increased moral disengagement and motivated forgetting of moral rules. Such changes did not occur in the case of honest behavior or consideration of the behavior of others. In addition, increasing moral saliency View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007
retailer which opened four new stores; two openings occur in retail trading areas which had been previously served by direct channels alone and two openings occur in retail trading areas which had been served View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
Excerpt by Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo, and Serenity Lee Blacks have been integral to the economic foundation of the United States since its inception, yet that foundation was forged on an institutionalized inequality, which...
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- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product which can be easily stockpiled View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
M-Budget Card Initiative Michael L. Tushman, Sebastian Raisch, and Christian WellingHarvard Business School Case 410-052 The M-Budget Card case study is about mastering the challenges of an exploratory strategic initiative in a context...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14
somebody else's point of view and seeking out safe ways to allow themselves to become vulnerable. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/06/managing-yourself-the-paradox-of-excellence/ar/1 Segmenting the Base of the Pyramid Authors:V. Kasturi Rangan, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
Negative) Experiences: Risk-Seeking in the Domain of Gains? Authors:Jolie Mae Martin, Gregory M. Barron, and Michael I. Norton Abstract In contrast to research which has conflated losses with negative experiences and gains with positive...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22
Working PapersInternational Differences in the Size and Roles of Corporate Headquarters: An Empirical Examination Authors:David Collis, David Young, and Michael Goold Abstract This paper examines differences in the size and roles of...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007
caught his attention. First, he noticed that an industry suit to block the government's proposed system to rate tires on tread wear, traction, and temperature resistance had been rebuffed by a U.S. appeals court. Although the court found...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
style. Paul Marshall will address the issues of stimulating growth in companies that have been up and running for a while, because our participants are, by and large, running very large corporations or they are entrepreneurs who started a...
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- 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
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 29
contracts model of vertical integration choices into a standard perfectly-competitive international trade framework. Integration decisions are driven by a trade-off between the pecuniary benefits of coordinating production decisions and...
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Martha Lagace