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  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

documents/opim/seminars/Steffenson_McElheran_JMP_011408.pdf Highbrow Films Gather Dust: Time-inconsistent Preferences and Online DVD Rentals Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Management Science (in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

employment rolls in the form of reduced enforcement? To test his theory, Heese gathered 30 years of data on publicly traded companies, classifying them by "employment intensity"—that is, the number of a firm's employees relative to its size. He then View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 02 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 2, 2009

  Working PapersTruth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor Authors:Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

telecom business. The panelists responded that there is not much distinction between the types of value VCs add. They are, in general, quite cautious as a result of an obvious shakeout in service and the inevitable shakeout in equipment. While most of the panelists... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same in research and development (R&D) can have quite divergent, but predictably divergent, future paths. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

marketplace-mode) or by the intermediary (the reseller-mode). Whether the marketplace- or the reseller-mode is preferred depends on whether independent suppliers or the intermediary have more important information relevant to the optimal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

arbitrariness of the set. Drawing on Gestalt psychology, we develop a conceptual account that predicts what will—and will not—act as a pseudo-set and defines the psychological process through which these pseudo-sets affect behavior,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

measures of national political instability—Alesina and Perotti's (1996) well-known index of instability, a subsequent index derived from Banks' (2005) work, and two indices of managerial perceptions of nation-by-nation political instability—persistently View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

under Risk Authors:Eyal Ert and Ido Erev Abstract Five studies are presented that explore the assertion that losses loom larger than gains. The first two studies reveal equal sensitivity to gains and losses. For example, half of the participants View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

coefficients aggregate discrete choice model-which accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success-and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control for unobserved quality in athletics and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

W. Dunn, Dana R. Carney, and Dan Ariely Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract We predicted that able-bodied individuals and white Americans would have a difficult time saying no to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

trust, employee commitment, and "ownership" behaviors of both employees and clients-could explain and be used to predict up to half of the difference in operating income between agency offices of a global service provider. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

thought to the challenges the company will face in the years ahead. While it is impossible to completely predict the future business environment, boards should be looking for leaders who are visionary as well as adaptable to changing... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

studies the direct effects of managers' biases and nonstandard preferences on their decisions. We review relevant psychology, economic theory and predictions, empirical challenges, empirical evidence, new directions such as behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

preferences. The second algorithm is more efficient, but applies only in the case when random utilities are logit. We show that the log-likelihood of the model has a particularly simple expression and we compute its derivatives. As an application, we build a model of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

will have over a series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers over a... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25

consumers' technological skills and openness to new experiences, and that consumers' beliefs about the social utility of feature-rich products are predictive of their choices of such products. Further, we examine when impression... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

parties) have issued executive orders requiring federal agencies to use environmentally preferable products and services whenever possible, as has the European Commission. These procurement policies are specifically aimed to "spur private... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24

than predicted in equilibrium. Because talk is preference revealing, it may effectively frame bargaining around a logic of fairness or competition, moving parties on a path toward or away from equal-division... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences Authors:Zoë Chance and Michael I. Norton An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-018.pdf The Financing of R&D and Innovation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace