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- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
any of these factors presents a tough puzzle for any researcher to crack. Silverthorne: You’ve just started at HBS. What does your research agenda look like for the next few years? Roche: And what an odd time to start!? Much of my... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
investigate a puzzling phenomenon in which firms make investment decisions that purposefully do not maximize expected profits. Using an extension to the newsvendor model, we focus on a relatively common scenario in which the firm's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
argue that the puzzling combination of high-frequency excess sensitivity and low-frequency decoupling between short- and long-term rates can be understood using a model in which (i) shocks to short-term interest rates lead to a rise in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
with was in fact corrupt, and he didn't know either." When discussing the case in the classroom, some students puzzled whether Jim didn't suffer from a "savior complex." Could he really have landed in Tanzania thinking it... View Details
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
minded people make financially unsound decisions. In one computer lab experiment, for example, Larkin and colleagues showed that participants would perform better on a word search puzzle if they were told that previous participants had... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 31 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies
economists, but it has not been tested much. Whether competition improves or reduces quality depends on whether it forces the raters to work harder to please the investors who are the ultimate users of ratings, or the issuers that pay the bills." This View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster By: Rahmandad, Hazhir, Rebecca Henderson, and Nelson P. Repenning Abstract—Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
research. For example, the puzzles raised by the Stanley Works case opened up the line of inquiry on the corporate governance role of taxation. The Czech Mate case series prompted an academic paper that frames the lessons from the case on... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
high rates of return on corporate political investment, but evidence for this puzzle is largely descriptive in nature. We exploit the setting of the American Jobs Creation Act's passage in 2004 to provide more robust estimates of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
would suggest. However, our analysis also presents some puzzles including, most significantly, evidence of strong employment growth following adoption of dismissal protections. In light of these puzzles, we read our findings as suggestive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
saying, "there had always been a noisy grandstand of friends and family to applaud success, or the appearance of it, or even boo in a friendly way at failure."7 Auchincloss shows us that despite all the busy, purposeful activity, Tony feels dead inside. This... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
firms to make certain enhancements public, creating an incentive for firms to free ride on the contributions of others. This practice raises a number of puzzling issues. First, why should a firm further develop a product if competitors... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
and management problems were carved up by function," he continues. "A typical manager would spend his entire career within one function—say marketing, finance, or accounting—and he would be given only a piece of a larger puzzle... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
are not large in magnitude and appear to be driven mainly by the increased security of tenure provided by the law, rather than by increased access to credit markets or greater land market participation. Getting Unusual Suspects to Solve R&D View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
responsibility for formulating the energy strategy-and thus the Russia policy-for essentially all of Europe? The resolutions of these two puzzles are, I show, interlinked; they also demand theoretical innovation. With several case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne