Comparability - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

traditional question of how the inflow of foreign workers affects native employment and earnings to explore effects on innovation and productivity, wage inequality across skill groups, the behavior of multinational firms, firm-level dynamics of entry and exit, and the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50177 The Globalization of Angel Investments: Evidence across Countries By: Lerner, Josh, Antoinette Schoar, Stanislav Sokolinski, and Karen Wilson Abstract—This paper examines investments made by 13 angel groups across 21... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

postadoption behavior varies depending on customer acquisition method and dynamic states. At the total usage level, in one context (an annotation and note-taking service), customers who heard about the service through search and mass-invite exhibited significantly... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

first establish that individuals expect leniency on their birthday. We then show that, compared to other days, transgressors are in fact penalized more severely for transgressing rules when it is their birthday, both by law enforcement... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

Compared with CEOs who work shorter hours overall, CEOs with longer workdays tend to devote more time meeting with other employees within the company and less time meeting with outsiders. The better the firm's governance structure, the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

17 Jan 2007
Op-Ed

Learning from Private-Equity Boards

to $3 billion revenue range, and $500,000 to $1 million in personal holdings for directors of large companies with more than $3 billion in revenues. The directors of professionally sponsored buyouts typically have comparable personal... View Details

Keywords: by Malcolm Salter; Financial Services

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

leading schools offering specialized programs in health care management and compared the curriculum to the recommendations from the field interviews by comparing the frequency of words in syllabi with the... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

half by hygiene scores (given by Yelp users), with the top half being clean and the bottom half dirty, then “they have a 50 percent chance of finding a dirty place.” In an effort to improve that percentage, Luca trained the computer to analyze Yelp reviews, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

28 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

most SBA lender and borrower fees and temporarily raised the guarantee on its largest loan program to 90 percent. The response was immediate. From February 2009 to September 2010, weekly SBA loan dollar volumes rose more than 90 percent View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking

15 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

A New Model for Business: The Museum

page, so that consumers can compare Progressive's quotes with estimated quotes from competitors. In doing so, Progressive informs some customers that Progressive's product may not be the best choice for them. Indeed, curators run the risk... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

How to Revive Health-Care Innovation

value network, compared to the reactive posture they have taken in the past. Finally, we have seen a pervasive pattern in every industry that has been transformed through disruption. This same pattern characterizes what has happened to... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. M.D. & Jason Hwang; Health

03 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

figures of COVID-19. These are simply statistical comparisons of a current readout compared to historic trends. The same techniques can be used to quantify healthy building performance and changes over time. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate

31 May 2016
HBS Case

Who Owns Space?

decision Blue Origin can afford to take lightly, given its founder’s respect for NASA and the future funding at stake. “Amazon is an amazing company and Bezos has changed the world with it,” Weinzierl says. “But it’s nothing compared to,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl; Aerospace

23 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Break the Expert’s Curse

Playing backwards proved to be an effective rediscovery technique for the experts. Compared with the control group, the rediscovery group reported feeling more empathy for the greenhorn. Next, Zhang hired 75 beginner guitarists to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

28 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections

Zhang compared the effectiveness of ads prepared by the candidate's own campaign with ads supporting the candidate prepared by outside political groups, including political action committees (PACs). “"I need to see a good ad about Obama... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

cover, hypothesizing that analysts gain comparatively good information if they attended the same college as a firm's top executives or board members. In short, the researchers found that the analysts outperformed on their stock... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

12 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 12

management practices and the company's stockholders, who were more likely to hold stock for short periods of time compared to other stocks. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/06/short-termism-dont-blame-investors/ar/1 Leadership Is a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22

we find the share of vertical FDI (subsidiaries that provide inputs to their parent firms) to be larger than commonly thought, even within developed countries. Most subsidiaries are not readily explained by the comparative advantage... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007

A. Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper examines how costly financial contracting and weak investor protection influence the cross-border operational, financing and investment decisions of firms. We develop a model in which product developers have a View Details