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  • 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy MORE Behind IBM's High-Risk Decision to Put Watson on Jeopardy One day not long ago, a Japanese woman in her 60s walked into a hospital in Tokyo, worried she might have cancer. Doctors ran View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

allow testing for and predicting firm-specific coefficients, thereby distinguishing between effects that have a significant mean versus significant variance. RCMs may also be used to explore the sources of firm heterogeneous effects. We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

production shifts to the South, Northern resources will be reallocated to R&D, driving an increase in the global rate of innovation. We test the model's predictions by analyzing responses of U.S.-based multinationals and domestic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

swap into dollars to make up for the dollar shortfall, but this may lead to violations of covered interest parity (CIP) when there is limited capital to take the other side of the swap trade. In this case, synthetic dollar borrowing becomes expensive, which causes cuts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008

destructive behaviors such as cutting, excessive use of alcohol, taking drugs and suicide attempts. These patients are very difficult to treat and TBC has developed programs that make a noticeable difference to these patients. DBT... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

gives firms discretion to manage impairments. We test this argument in a sample of firms with market indications of impairment (firms with book goodwill and market-to-book ratio below one). We find that the frequency of non-impairment in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

work, we look at the gold standard era (1880-1914) as a "natural experiment" to test whether adoption of a rule-based monetary framework such as the gold standard increased policy credibility. On the basis of the largest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Prognosis

and hand sanitizer to every household in the city of Chelsea. We’re staffing a hotel that the cities of Chelsea and Revere have rented for people who need to be quarantined, and we’re providing medical and nursing care there. We are doing a lot of View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance
  • 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

experimental and field data to examine how those who transgress rules may elicit more stringent penalties from those with the authority to punish them if they appeal to relevant norms endorsing leniency. Specifically, we test how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

rated. We hypothesize that ratings are particularly likely to spur responses from firms that receive poor ratings, and especially those that face lower-cost opportunities to improve or that anticipate greater benefits from doing so. We View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Reaching Out

Nundy, who has a background in nonprofit service and worked as an analyst at Morgan Stanley before coming to HBS. "The fellowship gave me the confidence to try something completely different." "The summer internship program is a great way for students to View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance
  • 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

variation in average asset returns than aggregate or non-stockholder consumption risk and provides more plausible economic magnitudes. We find that risk aversion estimates around 10 can match observed risk premia for the wealthiest stockholders across sets of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

competence, transparency, and identification) will be relevant to which stakeholder type. We test the predictions of our framework using original survey data from 1,298 respondents across four stakeholder groups from four different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

from the crowd of more experienced users and are therefore able to better capture value from using the goods. Data on firm contributions to open source software (OSS), an important crowdsourced public good, is used to test the theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

foods, which had previously been colored with dyes extracted from natural plants and organic minerals, helping them to achieve mass production and mass marketing. Color was easier to control, reproduce, and commoditize than other sensory factors such as smell and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

Deep Dive

ship to launch and recover the submersible. He found a decommissioned US Navy ship laid up in a river in Washington State. The USNS Indomitable was originally built to hunt Soviet submarines at the end of the Cold War and was then used by the US Coast Guard for View Details
Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

architecture. In particular, we draw from modular systems theory to develop a series of hypotheses about how different types of coupling impact the ability to update, remove, or replace the software applications in a firm’s portfolio. We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Model Patient

care, plus some drug coverage — was rejected. It smacked of a “two-tiered” system, he says, and was unacceptable for political reasons. Costs have thus been significantly higher than expected because the standard plan — with a relatively... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance
  • 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22

nominal and inflation-indexed bond excess returns even after adjusting for liquidity, providing evidence for both time-varying real interest rate risk premia and time-varying inflation risk premia. Liquidity appears uncorrelated with real interest rate and inflation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

and financial outcomes. The study complements financial education with (1) financial incentives on a financial literacy test to affect participant motivation, (2) financial goal setting to provide a psychological nudge, and (3)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne