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  • 02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

an array of implications that can be tested with our data. Our contribution is twofold. We disentangle the role of risk aversion and talent in determining how firms select and motivate managers. In particular, risk-averse managers are... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

Douglas S. Fearing Publication:Transportation Science (forthcoming) Abstract When air traffic demand is projected to exceed capacity, the FAA implements Traffic Flow Management programs. Independently, these programs maintain a first-scheduled, first-served invariant,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 11

and find that employees hired from low employment districts outperform their non-remote counterparts in standardized verbal and logical tests at the recruitment stage. To explain why the firm might be more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13

organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and internal monitoring of operations. We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

of miscommunication among experimenters and theorists about how to evaluate a theory that can be rejected by sufficient data, but may nevertheless be a useful approximation. A standard experimental design reports whether a general theory... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

vulnerable to serial correlation in the error structure. We discuss the associated biases and present a robust set of moment conditions for both lagged dependent and predetermined explanatory variables. Furthermore, we show that conventional View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 8, 2006

between and among experimenters and theorists, and psychologists and economists, about how to evaluate a theory that can be rejected by sufficient data, but may nevertheless be a useful approximation. A standard experimental design... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 13, 2007

students lagging behind in basic literacy and numeracy skills. It increased average test scores of all children in treatment schools by 0.28 standard deviation, mostly due to large gains experienced by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-032.pdf Network Effects in Countries' Adoption of IFRS Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten Abstract If a country's accounting standards represent a political-economic equilibrium, why is that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 15

of India's Public R&D Laboratories By: Khanna, Tarun, and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract—In this paper, we build on the standard resource dependence theory and its departure suggested by Vernon to offer a novel explanation for why... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

basic savings account with a standard 0.3 percent real interest rate, similar to the highest available alternative in the Chilean market; a basic account combined with meetings in a self-help peer group; and a high-interest account. The... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

political economy more generally), there is a danger that historical inferences from theory may infect historical tests of theory. It is imperative, therefore, that historical tests always involve a vigorous... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

Tech Standards By: Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6174/972.figures-only August 2013 Management Science Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

and quasi-formal structures. This leads us to expect to find a higher proportion of homophilous interactions within these organizational structures than across their boundaries. We test our theory in an analysis of the rate of dyadic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3

loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and standardization and internal monitoring of operations. We test our theory in the context of vehicle emissions testing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2015
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The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

with insurance provider UnitedHealthcare to test a fixed-payment structure for a select group of head and neck cancer patients. Rather than receiving separate charges for every test, treatment, and appointment, patients in the three-year... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 10 Dec 2012
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Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

basically sat down together and brainstormed creepy questions to ask," John says. The experiments tested the idea that downplaying privacy concerns would increase the likelihood of disclosure. For example, the researchers set up laptop... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 24 May 2004
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When Reputation Trumps Regulation

A recent study by HBS assistant professor Jordan Siegel tests whether foreign firms can leapfrog their countries' weak legal institutions by listing equities in New York and voluntarily abiding by U.S. securities law. The study, which... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

team's knowledge-integration capability. We test our theoretical framework using data on knowledge workers in professional services and discuss implications for research and practice. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

of principles for responsible investment, a standard that falls well short of integrating ESG considerations into their investment decisions. Myth Number 3: Companies cannot influence the kind of shareholders that buy their shares, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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