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- 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1
costs. But to realize those benefits, the acquirer needs to achieve economies of scale by absorbing the target's resources into its operations. CEOs, who are often unrealistic about the performance boost from such acquisitions, must be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
interrelationships between three distinct parties: payers, providers, and consumers. Each group has its own perspective accompanied by a set of unique incentives, which complicate the adoption of a value-based health care system. To... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
purchased by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. It argues that there will be a third tier of home mortgages created by the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act establishing special rules for qualified residential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015
We corroborate this evidence by showing that target difficulty is more effective for carbon reduction projects requiring more novel knowledge and in high-pollution industries. We discuss limitations and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010
trust. Building trust is crucial for successful negotiations between cultures, yet intercultural negotiations are often characterized by a lack of trust. We discuss what trust is, why it matters, and why it is so difficult to establish in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
the empirical facts we observe. Our results illustrate how financial innovation can mitigate investor behavioral biases. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53859 Intellectual Baggage of Ethnic Migrant... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4
government debt is financed by another sovereign and not by private lenders. Our results show that the failure to consider official flows as the main driver of uphill flows and global imbalances is an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016
variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of conditional and unconditional compensation. We account for salesperson heterogeneity View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16
organizations that have successfully tapped their data assets, diverse perspectives, and deep knowledge to build an organizational decision-making capability. The book introduces a model that utilizes the collective judgment of an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015
experienced customer transparency felt that their work was more appreciated and more impactful, and thus were more satisfied with their work and more willing to exert effort. We find that transparency, View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
experiments offer evidence that debates about the relative costs and benefits of self-deception are informed by adopting a temporal view that assesses the cumulative impact of self-deception over time. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007
Authors:Benjamin Chiao, Josh Lerner, and Jean Tirole Publication:The RAND Journal of Economics (forthcoming). (Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 11156.) Abstract This paper empirically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
period. Stock indexes can affect behavior by functioning as a source of prestige. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53030 Equity Concerns Are Narrowly Framed By: Exley,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
staff are well positioned to conceive improvement opportunities based on first-hand knowledge of what works and does not work. The innovation contest may be a relevant and useful vehicle to elicit staff... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21
and contracts in shaping the growth and influence of business enterprises. It presents entrepreneurs, executives, and the firms they controlled as driving actors in national economies and international growth. Alongside an original introduction, we have selected View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
experiences at work and at home are shaped by social class, heightening identification with gender for relatively upper class women and identification with class for relatively lower class women, potentially... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
Working PapersAn Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions Authors:Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Combining new, hand-collected data with a widely studied dataset, we examine how firms use... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008
Working PapersSome Neglected Axioms in Fair Division Author:John W. Pratt Abstract Conditions one might impose on fair allocation procedures are introduced. Nondiscrimination requires that agents share an item in proportion to their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18
NAS disclosures. Further, following the repeal of disclosure requirements we find no change in the earnings quality of client firms. In sum, data drawn from an earlier time period suggest that auditors' reputational incentives, possible synergies, and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007
Working PapersThe Rise of Business Forecasting Agencies in the United States Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract This paper analyzes the rise of business and economic forecasting agencies in the United States. The field was developed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace