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- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
market-listed and privately held firms in the United States using a rich new data source on private firms. Listed firms invest less and are less responsive to changes in investment opportunities compared to observably similar, matched... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
leadership, SBI had been losing market share for over two decades to private and foreign banks. Analysts and industry observers had predicted that at the prevailing growth rates ICICI Bank, a private bank launched in 1994, would overtake... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
press, one certainly gets the impression that there is a return of "state capitalism," as if state intervention in industrial activity actually went away for a significant period of time. Moreover, many observers of the recent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
herding behavior in anonymous risky environments. In an experiment similar to information cascade settings, but with no private information, we find no evidence for conformity. On the contrary, we observe a significant amount of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
and split their time between two countries, slowly mastering a new language and making friends with the locals over long meals. Van Sickle makes wry observations on France, like the power of cheese to sway elections, the right and wrong... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
myself. “I always assumed that my time off would be a brief interlude and that I would be ready to climb a new, yet-to-be-defined mountain,” observes Terrana. “I still haven’t purchased my climbing equipment, and I’m not itching to do... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
focus: patient experience, provider experience, population health, and value. “The knock-on effects of delayed surgeries, delayed treatments, and mental health issues will require a new level of care that will be just as important as with the current pandemic,” View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
resonated with several segments of the population. While many experts predicted a Clinton victory, Trump was ultimately elected president in November 2016. During his first 100 days in office, Trump tested the boundaries of the U.S. government, and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
comprises information on over 2,000 software applications observed over a four-year period. We find that applications with higher levels of coupling cost more to maintain, are less likely to be retired, and are less likely to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
facilitate innovation among its diverse subsidiaries. But when news reports surfaced revealing struggles within Alphabet companies including Nest, the smart thermostat maker, observers began to wonder if the reorganization made sense... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
is often ineffective unless backed by the power of the state, and that in some cases it serves rather to forestall government intervention or to reduce competition than as genuine self-regulation. Many observers doubt that accelerated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
that decays over time, similar to that of advertising. A major challenge is that privacy laws prevent us from observing information about the applicant pool. I overcome this challenge by using order statistic distribution to infer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
and probabilistic delayed observation of agents' types. I derive conditions in which an advertising principal can set its payment delay to deter rogue agents and to attract solely or primarily good-type agents. Through the savings from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
transformation. Through trial and error, observation and interpretation, the new managers learned what it took to become effective business leaders. The Business of Platforms by Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer, and David B. Yoffie,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
making business decisions," observes Lecturer Thomas J. Kosnik, who teaches Entrepreneurial Marketing. "Entrepreneurial Marketing encourages students to embrace analysis and logic while remaining open to the experience of creativity,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
outspending smaller-market clubs. These days, an MLB team has to spend at least $45 million in player payroll to have a chance to win; average team revenues are only $50 million." Indeed, as Steve Greyser observes of the Marlins and other... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
observe homophily in ethnicity and gender increases the probability of forming teams by 25%. Homophily in education and past working experience increases the probability of forming teams by 17% and 11 % respectively. Homophily in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
potential adverse event once the test-statistic crosses a stopping boundary. We employ asymptotic analysis that assumes a large number of observations in a given window of time to show how to compute the stopping boundary by solving a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
their broader interests were at stake and that it would be profitable in the long run for them to be reasonable when Indonesia was in the middle of a crisis. Q: What are you working on now? A: I am writing papers that expand on some View Details
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
likely it was to end up in a press article early. The more people that are involved, the more people may be able to observe something funny going on as well. That shows when there's lower cost, the press is more likely to do this—which... View Details